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Menu du jour light dishes : 79 Recipes


  • Recipe File Gumbo Light
    File Gumbo Light
    In our family, gumbo was chicken, shrimp, sausage, crab bodies and file, period.  No okra. Light on the rice.   There was really no big brouhaha about the roux.   You made a gravy base; no big deal, gravy was made all the time.   Now I know[...]
  • Recipe Garlicky Sauteed Shrimps In Sizzled Light Soy Sauce
    Garlicky Sauteed Shrimps In Sizzled Light Soy Sauce
    Garlic and light soy sauce plays an important part in this cooking.  Instead of cooking them in curry or tomyam style like I normally do, I cooked them in this simple sauce and it turned out  flavorful with the shrimps[...]
  • Recipe Lemony Orzo Salad - Cooking Light Virtual Supper Club
    Lemony Orzo Salad - Cooking Light Virtual Supper Club
    Our Cooking Light Virtual Supper Club chose to make something light for lunch for the month of September. If you are like me, a turkey sandwich just doesn't always cut it in the lunch department. It's nice to change things up a bit,[...]
  • Recipe Cooking Light Week - Day One: Turkey Burgers with Peanut Sauce
    Cooking Light Week - Day One: Turkey Burgers with Peanut Sauce
    Are there any Cooking Light fans out there? Well, you are in store for a treat. My sister in law Jamie and I are hosting a week of Cooking Light recipes this week! Jamie just started her very own food blog this month, Mom's Cooking Club ,[...]
  • Recipe Cooking Light Week - Day 3: Chicken with Cashew Cream and Mushrooms
    Cooking Light Week - Day 3: Chicken with Cashew Cream and Mushrooms
    I really stepped out of my comfort zone with this recipe. It caught my eye the other day when I was browsing the MyRecipes site looking for something to make with the fresh baby bella mushrooms and chicken I had defrosting in my fridge. The[...]
  • Recipe Vegan Fresh Green Bean and Peach Salad with Tempeh "Bacon" and Cashews in a Light Vegan Asian Dressing
    Vegan Fresh Green Bean and Peach Salad with Tempeh "Bacon" and Cashews in a Light Vegan Asian Dressing
    I love those vegetable side dish recipes that, with the addition of a tasty protein, become a full meal, though, in this case, a very light summery one. Essentially I added cooked tempeh "bacon" pieces and lightly salted and roasted cashews to[...]
  • Recipe El Salvador: Curtido
    El Salvador: Curtido (1 vote)
    This weekend, as a side dish to something super-top-secret that I will post about on Friday, I made Curtido. Curtido is from El Salvador, and traditionally accompanies the national dish, Pupusas. No, my super-top-secret post is not about Pupusas.[...]
  • Recipe Lentil Dal
    Lentil Dal
    I was working an etiquette dinner for college girls last year, and the soup du jour was lentil. Inwardly, I clapped my hands with glee. Lentils, yay! When I tucked in, the soup was hearty, comforting, thick with lentils and minced veggies. I[...]
  • Recipe Turkey Bolognese
    Turkey Bolognese
    In case you haven't figured it out by now, I am a big fan of pasta. And why shouldn't I be? It's the perfect palette upon which to create a wide variety of tasty meals. I eat pasta probably too many times per week to be totally healthy, but I[...]
  • Recipe Eggplant Parmesan
    Eggplant Parmesan
    For someone who loves eating vegetarian food, I sure am not a fan of eggplant. I think it stems from when I was 19 and threw a dinner party for which I made ratatouille. I'd never made or eaten ratatouille before, but I was under the impression[...]