These luscious squares are perfect at the holidays when time is tight but you need to bake for guests. They’ll never guess you started with a cookie mix!
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Luscious Shortbread Caramel Chocolate Pecan Squares
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Make-Ahead Creamy Baked Penne with Italian Sausage
Three types of cheese and San Marzano tomatoes meld into a fabulous home-style Italian meal the whole family will enjoy. The pasta will cook further in the oven, so undercook it stove-top. Use spicy Italian sausage if you prefer.
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Manhattan-Style Fish Chowder
Manhattan chowder always has tomato in it. This makes a great first course soup, or to serve it as a main meal round it out with whole grain bread and a green salad. You can buy clam juice in the seafood area of the store.
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Margherita Pizza
Exceptional ingredients deserve to be showcased, as in this simply adorned homemade pizza topped with our fresh buffalo milk cheese and with peperoncini peppers in oil. While this dough makes enough for four, freeze extras until next time. Or, quadruple the toppings and throw a pizza party!
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Mashed Cauliflower with Goat Cheese
Cauliflower is high in Vitamin C and contains iron. Cruciferous vegetables such as cauliflower have been shown to protect against some forms of cancer. Adding some potato to cauliflower helps it mash to a nicer consistency.
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Mini Meat Loaves
Mini meat loaves cook up faster than one big loaf baked in a loaf pan. More fun for the kids too, who love mini anything. Shredding the vegetables and mixing them right into the meatloaf just might defeat the kids who hate veggies!
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Mixed Veggie Grill Basket
You’ll need a grill basket for this easy vegetable side dish. You use the same bowl for all the prep so there is minimal clean up.
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Montreal Smoked Turkey Club
Here’s a double decker sandwich sure to satisfy the hungriest appetite. Due to its sodium content, it’s a once-in-a-while treat. It can easily serve four smaller appetites.
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Pasta Carbonara
We gave normally evil pasta carbonara a healthy remake, by substituting turkey bacon, omitting the cream and using omega eggs and pasta. Still indulgent, but an indulgence you can afford on a regular basis!
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Pasta e Fagioli
Pasta e fagioli or pasta and beans is pure comfort, and inexpensive to boot. The pasta in this hearty vegetarian soup continues to absorb liquid as it sits, so you may have to thin leftovers with some more water or stock.
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Peach Clafouti
Part-cake and part-pudding, clafouti is a French country-style dessert. You can use almost any thawed frozen or fresh tender fruit- try raspberries or cherries.
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Peanut Butter Cookies
Using ground flax seed instead of whole makes the omega-3 more available. Sneaking it into baking, such as these peanut butter cookies, is a great way to increase your family’s omega consumption, especially if they won’t eat fish.
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Penne with Eggplant Sauce
A classic Italian eggplant sauce gets a healthy makeover! Eggplant can soak up a lot of oil; we’ve reduced the amount here, and added a healthier pasta choice than the standard white pasta. Feel free to increase the hot pepper flakes.
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Quinoa Stuffed Zucchini
The table will be delighted when you serve these zucchini “boats” filled with a savoury stuffing. A mouth-watering change from your regular vegetable side dishes.
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Roasted Spiced Pears With Red Wine
Tender, juicy and exotically spiced, these roasted pears glazed with red wine, star anise and vanilla syrup, and topped with dollops of sweetened whipped cream, are astonishingly luscious.
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Sausage & Bean Vegetable Soup
A stick-to-the-ribs meal-in-a-bowl. If you’d like, stir in a couple of spoonfuls of freshly chopped herbs, such as parsley, coriander or dill, just before serving.
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Sausage and Bean Skillet Dinner
This hearty cold-weather meal comes together in one skillet, a plus for busy families. Lots of veggies and herbs keep it fresh and light-tasting, despite the amount of meat.
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Sausages Italiano
Sautéed peppers and onions on sausage is a classic Italian sandwich combination . Use any colour pepper you prefer.
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Smart Cookie
This is the winning recipe from Recipe to Riches within the Snack Category, which was developed by Sonya Walos.
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Spicy and Cool Roasted Cauliflower
A delicious contrast between the spicy cauliflower and the cooling yogurt makes this a fabulous vegetable side dish to serve with your favourite curry.
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Tangy Raspberry Semifreddo
Sure to dazzle guests, this gorgeous raspberry dessert gets its subtle tang from our Greek yogurt.
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Thumbprint Cookies
Thumbprint cookies are a classic holiday cookie that you can enjoy year-round. Often made with almonds or walnuts, we’ve used pistachios in this easy version that uses our cookie mix as a base. Get the kids to help by making indentations in the cookie dough. Store baked cookies in an airtight container; fill with jam just before serving.
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Tofu Breakfast Scramble with Baked Tomatoes
Reduce the cholesterol in your usual breakfast eggs by forgoing the eggs altogether! Drained and crumbled tofu makes a healthful substitute. Serve with toasted PC Blue Menu Thins Multigrain Bagels, if desired.
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Tomato Fennel Mussels with Sausage
Mussels are an economical seafood choice. Serve with spoons to get up all the delicious cooking liquid, and don’t forget an empty bowl for the shells.
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Trio of Mini Stuffed French Toast
Our mini top-sliced hot dog buns make the most adorable French Toast, and are easy to stuff with three delicious fillings. Everyone gets one of each flavour.
