10,000 low cholesterol recipes

Low-fat no-bake cheesecake built on cottage cheese and gelatin, topped with fresh strawberries and raspberries. Heart-shaped Valentine's-ready dessert that skips the cream cheese and the oven.

Rotisserie baby back ribs slow-cooked over coals and basted with a homemade tomato-brown sugar BBQ sauce, finished with hickory smoke. Spit-roasted for an hour until fall-off-the-bone tender.

Next time when you crave something sweet but not too rich, try this recipe. Within 10 minutes you will enjoy a creamy, chocolaty yet light treat.

How Chinese cooks tame a whole duck, layering methods like steaming, smoking, and frying to render the fat and turn the skin succulently crisp. A guide to Peking, Cantonese, and Sichuan crispy-skin duck techniques.

A gluten-free steamed bread made with amaranth flour, brown rice flour, oats, dried apricots, and ground almonds, sweetened with molasses. Dense, moist, and naturally wheat-free.

Ground cherry pie with a golden, sweet-tart filling thickened with tapioca and lemon juice in a flaky double crust. A rare, old-fashioned treat worth growing your own husk tomatoes for.

Stovetop bean tamale pie with a spiced kidney bean and corn filling under a thick cornmeal crust. No oven needed, serves two, and comes together in one skillet.

Honey lemonade sweetened with a honey-water syrup instead of sugar. Make the syrup ahead and mix individual glasses all week for a naturally sweetened summer drink.

This is an elegant looking, although time consuming dish. You'll need an equal amount, (by weight), of the three vegetables, after trimming. Figure on four to six ounces per person.

Easy and quick recipe, tastes good. Tofu is a healthy food.

A quick pressure cooker soup with fresh beets, beet greens, and sweet potatoes brightened by ginger and orange zest. Root vegetable comfort in 30 minutes flat.

Slow cooker pork loin roast braised in a sweet cranberry glaze with mustard and cloves, finished with a thickened cranberry pan gravy. Set it and forget it for 6 to 8 hours.

A surprising vintage side dish: sliced cucumbers and Spanish onions layered with chili sauce and butter, baked until meltingly tender. Prove that cucumbers aren't just for salads.

Italian herb bread machine recipe with whole wheat flour, oregano, basil, garlic, and applesauce for moisture. A hands-off one-pound loaf with no oil or butter.

Irish scallop pie with sweet sea scallops, mushrooms, and a sherry-laced cream sauce blanketed under golden mashed potatoes. A pubby seafood twist on cottage pie that bakes up bubbling and rich.

Grape marmalade made the old-fashioned way with just grapes and sugar, no added pectin. Slip the skins, simmer the pulp, then cook it down until the syrup sheets off the spoon and sets.