Recipe Sifter

Beef and bacon chili browns ground beef in rendered bacon fat with pinto beans, picante sauce, and tomatoes for a smoky weeknight chili. The bacon is the magic. Ready in an hour.

Quick and easy to make. The spinach and cheddar cheese made a delicious filling for the quesadillas. A quick, tasty and nutrition packed breakfast, lunch or dinner.

Layers of colors and textures in this 6 layer dip that's built in the shape of a pyramid.

If you like key lime pie, you will definitely like this key lime cake, instead of using whipping cream, we use meringue, it is much lower fat and calories, and the flavour is absolutely delicious!

Use some whole wheat flour to replace all-purpose flour; use canola oil and applesauce to replace some of butter. Give these date pinwheel cookies a healthy twist. They not only deliver all the yumminess, but also lots of goodness.

This is a recipe I made for a food styling course from a cookbook. The assignment was to duplicate the look and feel of a recipe from a magazine or cookbook. This is a modified recipe that came from the book Healthy Appetite by Gordon Ramsay.

These oven baked zucchini sticks are very crispy, but we use less oil. Enjoy these yummy treats with your favorite tomato sauce.

A hearty bread machine loaf blending triticale flour, bread flour, and soy flour with fennel seeds and barley malt syrup. Nutty, slightly sweet, and packed with whole grain flavor.

These parmesan and olive oil crackers are so delicious and packed with goodness. Make sure to bake enough, because everyone can't get the hands off these yummy crackers.

Mandarin orange cake layers a fluffy box cake with crushed mandarins and juice, then frosts it with a no-cook whipped topping, vanilla pudding, and crushed pineapple filling. Easy retro potluck favorite.

Crispy peanut butter cookies creamed with real peanut butter and butter, rolled, cut, and finished with the classic crisscross fork pattern. A sweet, nutty, crunchy cookie the whole family reaches for.

This tasty yet refreshing spinach salad is a classic Korean side dish that you can pretty much find in every Korean restaurant. It's quick, easy to make at home, it goes well with most of the BBQ, any meat dish, or just simply serve it with some steamed rice.

This easy yet tasty recipe is a great way to maintain the texture of asparagus. Tender but still crispy. The Chinese seasoning including soy sauce, sichuan oil, garlic, ginger and rice vinegar really brings tons of flavour into the dish. Serve it with cooked brown rice to make a wholesome meal.

A quick and easy vegetarian pasta main dish with pizzazz. Fun farfalle pasta tossed with nutty almonds and asparagus in tangy buttery sauce.

Rosemary-crusted chicken thighs braised with red potatoes, caramelized onions, olives, and wilted spinach in one skillet. A complete Mediterranean-style dinner in about an hour.

Made this dish with chicken breasts, some of the fresh vegetables I had on hand. Used Asian staple ingredients for sauce and seasonings, it came out very flavorful. Served it over a bed of warm rice to make a complete and delicious meal.