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Silk Soy Nog Cheesecake
Ah, cheesecake for the holidays. Great taste, great holiday tradition, and lots of calories. Guess again! This new version of an eggnog cheesecake is made with silk soy nog with about one quarter of the fat and calories. Combine that with a reduced fat crust and the result is a dessert that is still full of taste but lighter on the calories.
Sweet Scalloped Potatoes
Holiday meals are a wonderful tradition, but the calories add up fast. Backus Registered Dietitian Shannon Haynes shows how to make delicious and low-fat scalloped potatoes using a combination of red and Yukon Gold potatoes along with sweet potatoes which add a lot of vitamins to this dish. By using low-fat milk and low-fat cheddar cheese in the recipe, Shannon shows how to cut back on the calories.
Healthy Roasted Nuts
This recipe features a variety of nuts mixed with seasonings and baked to a golden brown. The result is a healthier snack or gift for our friends and families instead of the traditional cookies and sweets.
Cathy's Pumpkin Bread
This modified recipe for pumpkin bread will help you watch the calories but still have great taste. The video contains good advice on how to make this happen as we wind down from all of the hefty holiday meals and start to plan ways to watch our weight in the new year.
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Quinoa and Black Bean Salad
Here is a tasty main or side dish recipe using quinoa that I adapted from Gourmet Magazine. Quinoa (pronounced keen-wah) is a fast-cooking, protein packed whole grain; it is a complete protein, meaning it has all nine essential amino acids in it.
Quinoa and Black Bean Salad
2 tsp. grated lime zest
2 Tbsp. lime juice
1 Tbsp. melted butter
2 Tbsp. olive oil
1 tsp. sugar
1 cup uncooked quinoa
1 14-ounce can black beans, rinsed and drained
2-3 tomatoes, diced
4 scallions chopped
1/3 cup chopped cilantro
To make dressing, whisk together lime juice, lime zest, oil, butter, sugar, ¼ tsp.salt and 1/8 tsp. pepper in a small bowl. Cook quinoa per package directions. Place quinoa in a large bowl, toss in dressing, then stir in remaining ingredients.
Provided by Sarah Hospod, RD