23 cornish recipes

Broiled Cornish game hens in a teriyaki-lemon-garlic marinade, showered with fresh cilantro. A simple Thai-inspired main that looks like a restaurant plate.

Sugar beets and carrots covered a sweet, tangy, warmly spiced coating. West Indian spices and ginger.

Cornish game hens rubbed with Chinese five spice and a hoisin-plum-sherry marinade overnight, then roasted to a lacquered mahogany finish glazed with soy and maple syrup.

Two-ingredient cranberry apple sorbet made with Golden Delicious apples simmered in cranberry juice. No ice cream maker needed. Fat-free, dairy-free, and naturally refreshing.

Classic low-fat bread stuffing with sage, thyme, and marjoram. No butter needed in this diabetic-friendly dressing that's ready in 12 minutes for a 10-pound turkey or Cornish hens.

I used Cornish Game Hens, but you could also use a cut up chicken. If you can't get winter melon, watermelon will work. Winter melon is white, very mild tasting and a tad denser than watermelon. I think you could get away using something like Honeydew too.

Based on Dean Ornish's Eat More Weigh less. I give this as Christmas presents each year and get rave reviews.