28 your recipes

Enjoy a healthy, low-fat penne pasta recipe packed with sundried tomatoes, spinach, mushrooms, and turkey bacon. Packed with veggies and ready in about 30 minutes!

What to do when your brother gives you a courgette but you only like potatos.

Five-second banana breakfast smoothie with skim milk, nonfat yogurt, and optional protein powder or chocolate syrup. Blend it, grab it, and get out the door. Morning fuel that actually tastes good.

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.

Buttery pecan snowball cookies rolled in powdered sugar. No eggs, no leavening, just six ingredients for a crumbly, melt-in-your-mouth shortbread-style cookie.

Vegan eggplant and rice one-pot meal simmered in vegetable broth with crushed tomatoes, garlic, thyme, and cayenne. Low-fat, filling, and oil-free.

Canned apple pie filling made with tart sliced apples, cinnamon, nutmeg, and a cornstarch sugar syrup. Water bath canning recipe yields 6 quarts, each jar fills a two-crust pie.

Create-your-own one-bowl soup: a flexible single-serving formula that turns leftover meat, rice or pasta, and vegetables into a quick homemade soup, with a fresh lettuce leaf simmered on top for brightness.

Low-fat vegetarian chili with kidney beans, bulgur wheat, and jalapeno ready in 30 minutes. Braised in vegetable stock instead of oil for a lighter, healthier bowl.

Four-bean casserole with pork and beans, pinto, kidney, and green beans baked in chili sauce and brown sugar. A dump-and-bake potluck side dish for a crowd.

Herb bread machine recipe loaded with marjoram, basil, thyme, and dill for a fragrant, tender loaf with subtle buttermilk tang. Simple dump-and-go baking.

Four-fruit pie with rhubarb, apple, blueberries, and raspberries in a double-crust shell. A tart-sweet summer pie that showcases the season's best.

Low-fat four-spice bundt cake with cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, cloves, plump golden raisins, and buttermilk. An egg-white-lightened tube cake finished with orange syrup and fresh orange slices.

Rugelach four ways: a single cream cheese pastry dough turned into raspberry-almond crescents, layered chocolate-pecan squares, apricot pockets and honey-pecan triangles. Holiday cookie tray showstopper.

30-minute vegetarian chili with kidney beans, jalapeño, and bulgur for a meaty texture without meat. Ready in 30 minutes, served with yogurt, scallions, and cilantro.

Four-day vegetable soup that evolves with new ingredients each day. Start with cabbage, carrots, turnip, and rosemary, then build on it with beets, spinach, and chickpeas.