Fresh Pintos by Groomsie

My grandmother Manuela taught me how to make these. She used to serve them in her restaurant in Mexico. A simple recipe which can be served as a side dish or even as an entree! Great to have your kids or grandchildren sort through the beans the night before. Remove broken beans, dirt and rocks before soaking.

Homemade Chocolate Syrup by Jennifer Sikora

Save money at the grocery by making your version of Hershey's chocolate syrup. Everything needed to make this is usual pantry ingredients and tastes SO good!

Homemade Noodles Snack by stella dias

Tasty and yummy snack.This recipe is great for the kids or adults

Cheddar Burger Appetizers by Jennifer Bass

Herbed Dip by Micheline

This is my favourite low calorie, fat free, savoury, all purpose dip. You can use it on baked potatoes or as a chip dip or as a dip for fresh vegetables.

Bernice's Vegetable Dip by Micheline

An excellent, creamy, tangy, zippy dip to serve with fresh vegetables.

Colourful Slaw by Micheline

An eye catching slaw using green and red cabbages, yellow and red peppers and orange carrot for colourful salad to bring to a BBQ or a potluck.

Kiwi Salsa by Jennifer Sikora

Instead if using tomatoes to make a salsa, try something new. In this recipe, kiwi becomes the main ingredient! It is delicious!

Multivitamin Salad by Gourmandelle LifestyleBlog

Two weeks ago I kept a raw week diet in order to cleanse my body because I felt terribly guilty after eating a lot of crap (meat free though) in the mini-vacation at the seaside. It was a great week during which I filled my body with a bundle of vitamins and minerals, although it was a bit annoying that I didn’t have much time for…

Cranberries Jam by Gourmandelle LifestyleBlog

I don’t eat any jams made with sugar. Sugar is another thing on my forbidden list. It is toxic! I only use natural and unrefined sweeteners, honey for example. All the jams that I make are made from dehydrated – rehydrated fruits, combined with delicious honey and amazing spices. The inconvenient is that they won’t last too long in…

Crepe Rolls with Chocolate Cream, Chestnut Puree and Plum Jam by Gourmandelle LifestyleBlog

The great thing about it is that you can use any filling you like. I used homemade chocolate cream, chestnut puree and plum jam. All these fillings are very healthy and sugar-free. I’ll post their recipes in the near future.

Soft & Chewy Cranberry Walnut Cookies by Catherine Pappas

Fat Free Sweet Potato Souffle by Carolinaheartstrings

If you live in the Carolinas you are pretty much required to love sweet potatoes. And generally they’re pretty healthy but to make them really tasty traditional cooking adds lots of sugar and butter. I wanted to keep the yum factor but reduce the unhealthy factor. Try this version below using a few substitutions including pureed…

Cabbage Rolls by Carolinaheartstrings

Cabbage rolls, cabbage burgers, bierocks, there are likely as many names as there are recipes for one of my childhood favorites. Alessa and I decided to celebrate our different heritages this month with food. This particular recipe is from my German/Russian grandmother who was a wonderful cook. She never used a recipe or a measuring…

Peanut Butter Cookies by Carolina Create

Easy, delicious peanut butter cookies. The kids love them and can make them on their own, they're so easy.