Creole Style Butter Beans by John Spottiswood

Butter beans (another name for Lima beans) are super healthy and flavorful. I've been looking for a simple and flavorful way to cook these, and after a lot of research I found and adapted this delicious recipe. This is flavorful and hearty enough to make a full meal out of, probably accompanied by a salad or green vegetable and some…

Homemade Cranberry-Apple Sauce by Skinny Kitchen with Nancy Fox

If some people at your Thanksgiving dinner like cranberry sauce and others prefer applesauce this recipe just might work for you... We decided to take these two wonderful sauce flavors and combine them into one delicious sauce. Weight Watchers POINTS value 1 Skinny Facts: for a ¼ cup serving 80 calories, 0g fat, 0g protein,…

Chili Sauce by Salad Foodie

Chili sauce is one answer to that bumper tomato harvest. The perky piquant sauce can compliment many classic recipes like meatballs, meatloaf, cutlets, chops, tenders, eggs, potatoes, etc. This recipe is from Ball Blue Book of Canning (2010) and is what I’d deem a standard chili sauce for a wide variety of family uses. It is not…

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…

In-a-Pinch Cranberry Sauce made from Dried Cranberries by Salad Foodie

I serve turkey year round but forget to keep canned cranberry sauce on hand; even when I do it's hard to use up the whole can because not everone eats it. Recently the craving for cranberries with roast turkey breast was too strong. I grabbed the Craisin bag from the pantry and experimented making a small amount of cranberry sauce.…

Plum Pineapple Jam by Salad Foodie

I devised this recipe when I wanted a variation of plum jam and thought why not use canned crushed pineapple? The result was beautiful jewel-tone jam with a pleasing fruit combo of flavors and textures. No added commercial pectin here, so if the thought of standing and stirring, oh about a half hour, scares you away, go with the…

Broccoli Rabe with Lemon! by Catherine Pappas

This is a perfect side dish. Enjoy with Love, Catherine xo

SKILLET CABBAGE by JUDY B

Baked Acorn Squash with Pine Nuts and Garlic by Sheryl

Delicious and beautiful side dish. Pile it up and serve it for company! (Or eat it with your hands in front of the baseball game, like me.) It is easier to slice the squash if you microwave it on high for a few minutes - just stick the whole thing in the microwave as is. I played with all the measurements to fit the size of my…

Baked Green Tomatoes by patricia m. smith

Quick and tasty adjunct for spaghetti.

Baked Green Tomatoes by patricia smith

Quick, baked green tomatoes

Berry Compote by Chef Smith

Canning Applesauce by Jennifer

Applesauce is good all by itself. You can also use it as an ingredient in recipes or use it as a topping or side dish.

Freezing Green Tomatoes by Jennifer

When the tomatoes freeze in the fall, there are still a lot of good green tomatoes on the vine. You can add these frozen green tomatoes to many recipes.

Freezing Zucchini by Jennifer

It only takes a few zucchini plants to give you all the zucchini you can eat.