This hearty soup is a great 'warm you upper' for a cold winter night! Served with fresh grated Romano cheese and oven warm Italian bread, it's a hit any night of the week. Mangia!

A quick and easy dinner for one - salsa smothered steak baked with chopped potatoes, carrots, and onions.

This is my interpretation of the green beans from my favorite Japanese restaurant. Serve with a grilled steak! You can omit the miso paste if you choose.

Whipped topping is combined with condensed milk and fruit juices in this quick dessert.

Man-sized chunks of vegetables are cooked in a heap of butter, then combined with potatoes, beef and broth for a mountainous stew.

Mashed silken tofu lends itself perfectly to an easy morning scramble made with tomatoes and green onions, and sprinkled with Cheddar cheese!

In this recipe which has been adapted for the microwave, potatoes, carrots and broccoli are combined with milk and processed cheese food in a broth seasoned with dry mustard and black pepper.

Rice is slowly simmered with fresh dill, parsley and cilantro, along with fava beans and spices.

This pureed soup is made with red lentils, dried apricots and tomatoes cooked in chicken broth with cumin and thyme. The addition of fresh lemon juice prior to serving intensifies the flavors.

In this recipe serving two, dried lentils are cooked with garlic and stewed tomatoes in curry seasoned broth with onions and celery.

I make this hummus all the time. It only takes a few minutes to prepare, and it's healthier without the oil. Increase or decrease the ingredients as desired, especially the jalapenos! Serve with pita chips or fresh veggie slices. Add more of the reserved bean liquid for a smoother dip.

A delicious and easy to prepare marinade consisting of ingredients that can be easily found at a Chinese grocery store, including hoisin sauce, black bean sauce, and fresh ginger. Don't let the ingredients fool you, this is a meal that even the less adventurous will enjoy.

A nice side dish with practically no fat or calories that will go with any meal except a tomato-based one. If you like, you can add diced bell peppers to this dish too. Serve hot in a small cruel dish.

Radishes add flavor and crunch to this macaroni salad. This would be the perfect stuffer for plump ripe, hollowed out tomatoes. You may adjust the amount of mayonnaise to suit your taste.

Chicken is marinated in a simple lemon-lime soda mixture, then smoked all day. This makes delicious, moist, smoked chicken.

This is an unusual and tasty high-protein grain salad. Quinoa is a grain that has almost no flavor, but the spices add zest. It's well worth trying, I make it often since discovering quinoa at my health food store.

This is a delicious and lighter version of a type of oat bran muffin. You could vary the fruit - blueberries, strawberries, canned peaches, etc. They are incredibly delicious served with fresh strawberries. Yum!

Step by step how to make and can your own sauerkraut.

Chinese wheat noodles are double cooked, first in water until al dente and then mounded in a frying pan until crisp and brown. Then its smothered with a delicious sauce made from rice wine, soy sauce and wilted spinach. Next comes asparagus simmered in garlic and ginger.

Sugar substitute goes into this creamy pumpkin pie -and it still comes out nice and sweet. Pumpkin puree, milk, egg, sugar substitute, cinnamon and cloves are combined and poured into a pie shell. It bakes for about 30 minutes.