Banana Chocolate Roundup by Homemade & Yummy

A tasty and healthy snack/dessert alternative. Using all natural ingredients. NO sugar, NO cook.

Baked Stuffed Clams by B Innes

These make a great appetizer, or serving a couple they make a nice dinner, and occasionally to make them truly elegant I top them with Hollandaise sauce for a decadent treat. You can get fresh clams and open them yourself and save the shells to reuse, or use large scallop shells which are easier to find, or even place in ramekins,…

Oven Dried Cherry Tomatoes by Gretchen Wasniewski

A perfect way to use up your cherry tomato explosion. These tomatoes are the perfect topping for a salad or a broiled chicken breast.

Quick Radish Refrigerator Pickle by Denise C.

The perfectly pink ume plum quick pickle. The perfect combination of sweet, tangy, and crispy. Great on their own, or over a salad, on a cheese & meat board, or replacing anything that would be perfect with a pickle.

Tahini courgettes by Easy Cook - Laka kuharica

Easy and delicious appetizer or a side dish.

Mitch's Cheese Fondue by Micheline

Fondue is a fun and informal way to gather family and friends around a table. Serve this cheese fondue with French baguette bread, mushrooms, carrots, cauliflower, brocoli, green or red peppers.

Grilled Avocado Jalapeno Corn by Beth Bybee

Fruit & Vegetable Protein Smoothie by Alisha

This post workout smoothie is also a great way to sneak fiber and healthy spinach into the anti veggie eater's diet. Note: The protein amount may be over 20 grams depending on the brand of protein.

Flavorful Grilled Shrimp by John Spottiswood

This is a classic grilled shrimp recipe originally from Craig Clairborne's NYT cookbook, then adapted by Ina Garten, and then finally perfected by me. :-) Seriously, this is a wonderful staple to have in your pantry of recipes. You can serve this over pasta (which we did the other night), as an appetizer with a variety of dipping…

Shrimp & Crab Egg Rolls by jason kim

The kids got a nice surprise last weekend when they were allowed to help me make some seafood egg rolls. It's a major high for them since we rarely let them help out cook despite their incessant pleas and begging. And to our surprise, they did a pretty good job........full story and recipe at http://www.oliviajasonkim.com

CEVICHE! ~ Costa Rican Style by Amos Miller

My buddy, Ed, of Puerto Rican descent, spent his time in the Air Force in Central and South America. Ed's favorite dish: ceviche! He tells endless tales of trying ceviche, which is seafoods 'cooked' in nothing but citrus juice. Ed always said that the ceviche he would eat by the gallon, if he could get it, was that he had in Costa…

Better Than Takeout, Fabulous Lean Steak Stir-Fry by Skinny Kitchen with Nancy Fox

Make this amazing stir-fry to kick off the Chinese New Year. You won’t find this fabulous dish at your local Chinese takeout! The homemade sauce is bursting with flavor and so easy to make. I’m stir-frying with just 1 teaspoon oil and using healthy ingredients such as a lean steak, red pepper, edamame, pineapple and serving over…

Rice and Crab salad fast and easy! by Helenscooking

This salad recipe is good with crab meat and shrimps (or you can use both), corn adds sweetness to the salad, rice works as the base of this salad. You can cook it without rice if you wish, but I prefer it with rice, and herbs (dill and parsley, or just dill) are important. This recipe appeared in my cookbook, when we lived in…

guacamole by A.C.

this guacamole is fairly mild, but goes great with blue corn chips it is a perfect dip.

Reunion Dinner - Bountiful Goldfish Salad (年年有余) by Blackswan

This is my 1st attempt creating this Bountiful Goldfish Salad. Nian Nian You Yu (年年有余) symbolizes abundance though the year. The character 余 (Yu) is the homophone of 鱼 (Yu). Hence, fish was used to highlight this Chinese New Year dish.