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POINTS® Value: 2 Servings: 2 Preparation Time: 5 min Cooking Time: 5 min Level of Difficulty: Easy Course: main meals Huevos rancheros means eggs ranch-style or eggs country-style in Spanish. The dish traditionally was served at the large mid-morning breakfast, or almuerzo, on rural farms where workers had a much smaller meal at dawn. I make this [...]
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My brother David sent this to me: “I modified this recipe to include the mushrooms and using No Salt tomatoes and Sodium Free bouillon.” And I made the bullion fat free, sodium broth, and the penne pasta, I made whole wheat penne pasta.
I love polenta. It’s kind of like northern Italian grits. Only better. There really is so much you can do with polenta that you probably could have it with just about any meal … and I do. I like this one because it have all the great flavors of roasted red peppers, sundried tomatoes and [...]
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Italian turkey sausage gives the broth just the right spice. Serve this with polenta with roasted pepper and sun dried tomato and you have a great supper on a cool evening. I call for Turkey Italian Sausage, but three patties of the Turkey Breakfast Sausage Pattie works well, too.
Yesterday, I kind of joked around and posted a really bad for you but delicious breakfast like what I would have have “back in the day.” That is back when I was fat and killing myself with food. Toady, in honor of the end of National Breakfast Month, I will post what is a more [...]
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I love diner fare for breakfast. It’s bad for my heart. It doesn’t really fit into my new Weight Watchers’ lifestyle, but, hey, I still like it. Don’t eat it any more, but I do have a recurring dream … One of my old favorites from before I realized that I was killing myself with [...]
This is my favorite omelet. It’s an egg white omelet stuffed with, over stuffed with spinach, tomatoes, onion, mushroom, and fat free feta cheese. When all is said and done, it comes to about 2 points. Add in a little grilled polenta, a couple of slices of crispy-cooked turkey “bacon,” and a glass of milk [...]
I was given a reproduction of the 1896 Fanny Farmer cookbook. Some of it is quite amusing, even quaint. Here’s how you start up your stove (page 20): HOW TO BUILD A FIRE Before starting to build a fire, free the grate from ashes. To do this, put on covers, close front and back dampers, [...]
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I was looking around for something healthier than Jimmy Dean’s for my Sausage Griddlie sandwiches. Even with the Jimmy Dean rolls I was reshaping them with a hamburger press so they fit the griddle cake or an English muffin. So I thought, why not make my own sausages? And if I do that, why not [...]
In Sweden, Shrove Tuesday is marked by eating a traditional pastry, called semla or fastlagsbulle, a sweet bun filled with almond paste and whipped cream. Originally, the pastry was only eaten on this day sometimes served in a bowl of hot milk. Eventually the tradition evolved to eat the bun on every Tuesday leading up [...]
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