6,310 lowfat recipes

Pickled baby corn on the cob in a sweet-sour brine with turmeric, celery seed, and garlic. Refrigerator pickle that turns sunshine yellow and lasts a week.

Italian-style stuffing with crispy pancetta, lentils, arborio rice, and fresh sage simmered in broth. Built for breast of veal but works beautifully in chicken, pork, or as a hearty side dish.

Pickled hard boiled eggs made by reusing leftover pickle juice. Two-ingredient bar snack and salad topper that turns the dregs of the pickle jar into something useful.

Halloween Penicillin Pizza: English muffin pizzas topped with green-dyed Parmesan that looks like mold. A fun, spooky kid-friendly party snack ready in 20 minutes.

Whole sea bass baked in a slow-simmered Creole tomato sauce with bell pepper, onions, wine, and a kick of Tabasco. Southern comfort from the sea, y'all.

Jolly Jumbuck is an Aussie classic: a minced lamb and mint patty wrapped around a cutlet bone, sealed in puff pastry, and baked golden. Served with madeira sauce for a proper bush-inspired feast.

Maple taffy apples coated in a boiled maple syrup and brown sugar candy shell that snaps when you bite through. An ice water dip sets the coating smooth and glossy. Real maple flavor, not just caramel.

Grandma's chicken noodle soup with bone-in thighs, turnips, carrots, celery, and egg noodles. Simmered from scratch in water with thyme and poultry seasoning. Honest, old-fashioned comfort.

Easy cranberry party punch mixing lemonade, cranberry juice, and concentrated orange juice with bubbly ginger ale. Makes a gallon of fizzy, fruity punch in 10 minutes.

Flowerpot baked Alaska bakes individual servings of ice cream, yellow cake, and meringue inside real flowerpots with a fresh bloom poking out the top. A showstopping vintage dinner-party dessert.

Provencal vegetable stew with fennel, potatoes, tomatoes, saffron, orange zest, olives, and white wine. A fragrant, hearty vegetarian one-pot meal served with garlic mayo.

Lighter sweet potato casserole made with egg whites, skim milk, and chopped dates, topped with a drizzle of maple syrup. Naturally sweet, low-fat, and ready in 45 minutes.

Chewy drop cookies loaded with chocolate-covered raisins and toasted almonds. Makes 5 dozen in just 25 minutes. A fun, crunchy cookie that kids love to help bake.

Delicate almond-scented cookies sandwiched with honey-sweetened apricot filling, shaped like little pillows and sealed with fork tines.

Homemade Kahlua: a five-ingredient DIY coffee liqueur with instant coffee, sugar, water, vodka, and vanilla. Simmered and bottled for cocktails, coffee drinks, and gift-giving.

Sweet and salty banana bites rolled in a tangy vinegar-egg sauce, then coated with crushed salted peanuts for a unique retro treat.