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Stuffed Acorn Squash

With only a few more days before Thanksgiving, try out this delicious recipe that combines stuffing and acorn squash into a personal feast! You also cannot tell that my stuffing was made healthier with secret substitutions like minimizing oils and butter. Adding tart, fresh cranberries gives it that special Thanksgiving Day flavor! This also is […]

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Dinner

Instant Pot Chicken with an Apricot-Ginger Glaze

Healthy turmeric gives this dish a golden glow to make any child want to eat their dinner. My daughter calls it Golden Chicken – it’s like she’s hit the jackpot of dinners. After a long afternoon arguing a case before the Appellate Division, and then rushing to get the kids to the tutor, I threw […]

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Dessert

Turkish Delight – on a Moonlight Night

What do you make for your uncle whose turning 75 and says “no presents”? You making homemade Loukoumi otherwise known as Turkish Delight. A delicious candy treat that has a softer consistency than taffy but a flavorful fruity flavor – that comes from real fruit, not artificial flavorings. My uncle appreciated the call back to his […]

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Dessert

Pumpkin Bread Pudding

It’s pumpkin season! Pumpkin lattes! Pumpkin pie! So now it’s time for Pumpkin Bread Pudding. Leftover Italian bread plus a few pantry staples later, and you have a delicious, “go to” dessert. My husband went to the Italian market and, of course, overbought on the Italian bread. I put the extra loaf in the fridge […]

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Easy Italian Sausage and Peppers featuring Turkey-Sausage Meatballs in Homemade Sauce

Sweet Italian sausage has a distinctive, delicious flavor in large part due to the fennel seeds that are used. Given store-bought sausage is not very heart-healthy, I modified it by taking the same seasoning base and adding it to low-fat ground turkey meat (or you can use ground chicken). I made them into “meat balls”, […]

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