Recipe Sifter

I used a whole wheat blend of pasta/spaghetti. I cut back some on the olive oil and used smart balance blend instead of butter. I also only used 1 tsp of the crushed red pepper for my children's palate and it seemed fine.

Christmas Ginger Cookies with Almond Frosting recipe.

A simple yet tasty and healthy beet salad. thinly sliced onions are tempered in boiling water then marinated with the beets in extra virgin olive oil and vinegar.

Mom's best oatmeal cookies bake up chewy in 8 minutes or crisp in 10, with three cups of oats, brown sugar warmth, and a whisper of cinnamon and nutmeg. The classic everyday cookie jar bake.

With blueberries in season, try these moist and delicious muffins that are easy to make!

The flesh of spaghetti squash, when cooked, comes out like strands of cooked spaghetti and makes a great light stand-in for pasta lovers.

A Moroccan-style carrot salad of tender cooked carrots tossed warm in a zesty dressing of lemon, garlic, cumin, and cayenne. Vegan, make-ahead, and even better after a few hours in the fridge.

Quick, easy and delicious. Serve it as a side dish or a vegetarian main dish by using vegetable broth.

Ginger-pear cake: a low-fat bundt cake with shredded pears, crystallized ginger, and whole wheat flour, topped with a ginger yogurt dollop. A healthier dessert for 12 with a surprisingly tender crumb.

Mushroom focaccia tops plain focaccia bread with sauteed portobello slices, salty anchovy strips, fresh rosemary, and melted mozzarella. A 20-minute upgrade from store-bought bread to bistro-worthy starter.

This soup is great, hot or even cold. Creamy and delicious, even better topped with some cheddar cheese! A great way to use up broccoli stems and save the florets for another use.

It's a simple dish but has lots of delicious flavors. Garlic and lemon zests are cooked in butter-olive oil mixture with additional fresh lemon juice really make this dish heavenly tasty and refreshing. You can sprinkle whatever nuts you have on hand or you prefer on top.

Grilled portobello mushrooms are juicy, tender and flavorful, it's a delicious ingredient that can be used to make a salad, with the slightly bitter peppery arugula, and mild gruyere cheese, a tasty, quick and easy salad ready to enjoy!

Use different colored fruit roll-ups and get creative with other additions to the top of these delightful little treats.

Palak paneer is a classic North Indian curry with golden-fried paneer cubes simmered in a spiced spinach gravy built on garam masala, ginger, garlic, and tomatoes. Creamy, green, and deeply warming.

When you want to take a wonderful cake to any social event, make a pig pickin cake.