Some recipes are so quick, easy, healthy, and delicious they become staples you turn to again and again. This recipe for lemon pepper chicken breasts is a perfect example.

skinny lemon pepper chicken breasts

Skinny Lemon Pepper Chicken Breasts

It’s from Ellie Krieger’s book,  Small Changes, Big Results: A 12-Week Action Plan to a Better Life. In it, she explains how she got the recipe from cookbook author and New York Times columnist, Mark Bittman, when he appeared on her TV show.  Isn’t it cool how good recipes get shared? So, here it is from Mark, to Ellie, to me, to you.

This is great served with rice and broccoli or spinach or sliced atop a big green salad.

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Slim & Healthy Easy Slow Cooker Company Beef

Slim & Healthy Easy Slow Cooker Company Beef

Lean stewing beef and mushrooms cooked in slow cooker until tender. This is a great dinner for the meat lovers in your home. It’s easy enough for a weeknight and tasty enough for company.

I’m not a huge steak fan, but I love hearty beef vegetable soups, stews and braised dishes, like this slow cooker beef and mushrooms. And a simple meat and potatoes meal always pleases my mid-western raised husband.

This recipe is loosely based on one from one of my most recent cookbook purchases, Fix-It and Forget-It Lightly: 600 Healthy Low-Fat Recipes for Your Slow Cooker, by Phyllis Pellman Good. I made several changes, including substituting fresh mushrooms for jarred, but kept the fat-free cream of mushroom soup and dry onion soup mix.

The recipe instructs you to just combine everything together in the slow cooker and let it cook on low for 5 to 6 hours, which would be fine when you are really pressed for time. But, I took a few extra minutes to season the beef with salt and pepper and then brown it in a skillet and also cooked the mushrooms, in two batches, before tossing everything into the cooker.

(I’m not sure who taught me the correct way to saute mushrooms; Was it Jacques Pepin or Julia Child? What a revelation it has been to cook mushrooms without overcrowding the pan. They cook up golden and delicious.)

Serve over noodles, rice, pasta or mashed potatoes. And don’t forget a green vegetable like broccoli or green beans :-)

Simple home cooking that’s satisfying and just plain good. Enjoy!

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Light and Healthy Creamy One-Pot Pasta

January 24, 2012
Creamy One Pot Pasta

This Pampered Chef recipe for Creamy One-Pot Pasta has been on my radar for months. I finally made a half batch for dinner last weekend and am so glad I did. It’s definitely a keeper – quick, easy, healthy and delicious – perfect for a busy weeknight or weekend dinner. What’s not to love?  ”This [...]

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Skinny Cranberry Apple Oatmeal Cookies Recipe

January 23, 2012
Skinny Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies

Oatmeal cookies are my absolute favorite, so I’m always on the lookout for oatmeal cookie recipes. I’ve made applesauce oatmeal cookies, and banana oatmeal cookies, and incredible oatmeal chocolate chip cookie bars, but never any exactly like this –  with shredded apples and dried cranberries. Since I was in a mood for cookies and am [...]

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Italian Sesame Seed Cookies Recipe

January 21, 2012
Italian Sesame Seed Cookies

I first made these little sesame seed cookies back in 2006, while on a Vermont Culinary Vacation with my sister and had completely forgotten about them until recently, when I saw a similar recipe for Toasted Sesame Seed Cookies on my favorite cookie recipe website. Easy to make cookies are one of my favorite skinny & delicious [...]

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Celebrate National Granola Bar Day – Free Granola Bars Recipe E-Book

January 20, 2012
Granola Bars

According to The Nibble, today, 1/20, is National Granola Bar Day. There’s certainly no shortage of packaged granola bars lining the grocery store shelves with which you could celebrate. Granola bars make a great snack and can be a better alternative for breakfast than high calorie muffins or doughnuts. Here’s a great article with reviews of [...]

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Skinny & Delicious Southwestern Slow Cooker Chicken

January 20, 2012
Slim Southwestern Slow Cookier Chicken

Are you looking for easy healthy chicken recipes for the slow cooker? Here’s one for your files. I made this Southwestern chicken with corn, black beans and salsa dish earlier this week for dinner and everyone loved it. I loved how easy it was to prepare. This light and healthy recipe jumped out at me, [...]

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Favorite Skinny & Delicious Black Bean Soup Recipes

January 18, 2012
Skinny and Delicious Black Bean Soup

Black beans, also known as turtle beans, are high in protein and fiber, low in fat, inexpensive and nutritious. They also make delicious soup. Black bean soup is hearty, satisfying and super easy to make. It also freezes well so you can keep a stash of portion controlled containers in the freezer for those nights [...]

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