Notes about Recipes in this book

• Lowfat ranch dressing

  • TrishaCP on September 19, 2021

    Bland and using dehydrated onions rather than onion powder was not a good choice.

• Samosas

  • eliza on January 02, 2014

    I love the filling recipe. Very adaptable, for example you can use powdered ginger if you don't have fresh. I don't use the dough recipe, instead I use kittencal's from the Internet.

• Gingery marinated chick peas

  • michalow on April 07, 2013

    Easy and delicious. Cooked chickpeas with sage, bay leaf, and black pepper before marinating.

• Pita bread (Arabic pocket bread)

  • michalow on January 03, 2013

    Variation = optional sesame seeds?

• Curried squash & mushroom soup

  • rwoods18 on October 16, 2011

    I double the spices and add lemon juice, cider vinegar, and a bay leaf.

• Focaccia

  • Hellyloves2cook on October 13, 2013

    Great easy recipe!

• Spanakopita

  • Hellyloves2cook on October 13, 2013

    Love this recipe- made many many times.

• Apple strudel

  • debnharold on November 13, 2013

    use this filling but deep dish style (see crescent dragonwagon)

• Roasted green beans with garlic & pine nuts

  • Nancith on January 20, 2014

    Very yummy, used the red wine vinegar instead of balsamic. This was good at room temp, as well as hot.

• Broccoli strudel

  • dinnermints on December 19, 2015

    Yum! This took longer to make than I'd initially thought, since my filo dough was a bit aged and the sheets had broken into strips. The strudel looked a bit mummy-like, but the flavor was good. I sprayed olive oil on with a pump spray instead of brushing with oil, worked great. All chopped up, used about 1 1/4 lb broccoli, 6oz whole wheat bread for the crumbs, and 8oz cheddar.

• Greek pilaf

  • joeljkp on November 06, 2022

    Really tasty, festive dish that's also easy to make. It's not the classic pilaf preparation that sautes the rice first, more like cooked rice tossed with mix-ins, but it worked out great. A contender when we want some kind of Greek-type rice side. This time I used white basmati rice and sunflower seeds.

• Cardamon coffee cake

  • jdub1371 on May 07, 2019

    Nice enough coffee cake if you need to unload some eggs and sour cream. Needs more salt and vanilla. The cinnamon in the streusel pretty much drowns out the cardamom in the cake. I made this in two 8x8" pans (since I didn't have a 10x4" tube pan) with a single layer of streusel in the middle of each. The batter rose to the top of the pans in the oven but did not spill over. Two 9x9s would have worked a bit better. No one at the office complained! :) Note: this recipe calls for the walnuts to be minced, but I find it much easier to just give them a bash in my big mortar and pestle.

• Vegetable chowder

  • bwhip on April 27, 2021

    This was excellent. Nice and light, remarkably flavorful. I needed to add some milk to help with the liquid ratio, and added more salt and pepper until it tasted just right. Delicious soup, we'll have this one again.

• Caramelized onion sauce

  • dprostrollo on January 07, 2019

    Really good! Also very oniony do not for the faint of heart.

• Lasagne

  • dprostrollo on January 07, 2019

    This was lovely. Used cottage cheese in place of ricotta as per recipe. It’s shorter than some other lasagnes.