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Green Beans tossed with Shallots, Tomatoes and Mushrooms. An easy side for nearly any main dish.

Simple ingredients create this sophisticated side dish. The bacon performs double-duty creating a silky coating for toasting the Israeli couscous as well as garnish. The couscous and peas produce a very pleasing texture while the bacon and lemon contribute tang and a silky mouth-feel.

Very nice, just finished making (and eating this recipe). Worth the trouble to make your own hollandaise sauce. The presentation is very nice and not too hard.

The combination of cashews, lentils, brown rice and other spices was delicious. Right balance of the flavor and the texture, we used cherry tomatoes instead, that's what we had on hand. It's a tasty yet nutritious meal.

Light pumpkin pie sweetened with brown sugar, honey, and low-calorie sweetener, blended with non-fat milk for a creamy custard that skips the heavy cream without losing the warm ginger-cinnamon-nutmeg punch.

Oatmeal raisin drop cookies with steam-plumped raisins, oat bran, buttermilk, and walnuts. Soft, chewy, and warm with cinnamon and nutmeg. The technique that keeps raisins from going hard.

Curried pumpkin-apple soup blended into a silky autumn puree with sauteed onion, garlic, curry powder, and a splash of milk. Sweet, savory, and warmly spiced for cool-weather dinners.

Daiquiri pie with lime Jello, lemon pudding, light rum, and whipped topping in a graham cracker crust. A no-bake cocktail-inspired icebox dessert that tastes like a frozen daiquiri in pie form.

Sour cream coffee cake with cinnamon-pecan ribbon: a tender bundt cake with a hidden middle layer of cinnamon-sugar-nut crunch. The brunch table classic that tastes even better the next day.

Glazed honey spice cookies with cinnamon, cloves, mace, and allspice, finished with a thin vanilla sugar glaze. Old-world cookies that bake up firm, keep beautifully, and taste better the day after baking.

Frozen Black Irish is a boozy mocha milkshake blended with Kahlua, Irish cream, vodka, and chocolate ice cream. A rich, frozen cocktail that tastes like a coffee shop treat with a serious kick.

Chunky sweet potato soup loaded with carrots, celery, peas, and herbs, finished with nonfat sour cream and skim milk. A big-batch comfort soup that serves 16 and feels lighter than it tastes.

Half-whole-wheat apple nut cookies with diced fresh apples, walnuts, raisins, and warm spices. Cake-like, soft-textured drop cookies that taste like apple pie filling baked into a cookie. Makes 48.

Easy mocha fudge cake doctors a butter fudge cake mix with hot fudge topping and instant coffee folded into whipped cream. A 4-ingredient layer cake that tastes like a fancy bakery special.

Mock apple pie made with crackers instead of apples, boiled in sugar syrup with cream of tartar. A Depression-era trick pie that tastes surprisingly like real apple pie without a single apple.

Homemade lemonade made with fresh-squeezed juice and a quick simple syrup so the sugar dissolves smooth, never gritty. Tart, sweet, and easy to adjust to taste, served over ice with lemon slices.