Veggies

Filled with lots of veggies and baked instead of fried, these Supper-Size Eggrolls are good and good for you! Swap out the pork for chopped shrimp, tofu or ground chicken to mix it up. Try serving with a green salad tossed with oranges, such as Mandarin Salad.

Serve with Super-sized Eggrolls.

Another take on Peter Brady’s favorite…

Rachael says, "The original recipe for Pretzel-Crusted Chicken, published in 365: No Repeats, remains one of the most popular in the literally thousands of meals I’ve written in the last decade. Here, it becomes a kid favorite, too, because I slice up the chicken breasts into the kid crowd pleaser: chicken fingers! I added zucchini sticks to the meal as well, swapped pretzels for whole wheat pretzels and cut back on the milk in the sauce by half and added chicken stock in its place."

…because you just cannot have enough chicken finger recipes.

Rachael says, “Yup, here’s another recipe for chicken fingers. This one is a riff on everything bagels (my favorite). The chicken fingers are coated in everything crust (seeds, garlic and onion) then baked, not fried. Then they get dipped in a vegetable cream cheese sauce. High protein, low-carb fun!”

Rachael says, “Like chicken fingers and Buffalo-style anything, you can’t have too many nacho recipes! These nachos are topped with lots of veggies and are super satisfying. When it comes to cheese for my nachos or the use of cheese in general, I use less of good quality, strong flavor cheeses rather than more of reduced fat, flat-flavored cheeses.”

Rachael says, “This one is an updated version of shake and bake style chicken. The ranch dressing is made with buttermilk, which I always thought of as rich and fattening – not so! Buttermilk is very low in fat, as it is made from skim milk. This is one feel-good-about-it down-home supper.” Serve with Rachael’s Peeler Salad, included in the recipe below.

This menu is based on the back-in-the-day idea of a good, square meal: meat, vegetable and starch. The flavors have all gotten an update, though!

Rachael says, "Soba are buckwheat noodles used in Japanese cooking. Not every grocery store has them on the shelves, so I use whole wheat spaghetti for this easy Japanese inspired noodle-veggie-shrimp stir fry."

Rachael says, “I made this when Wayne Brady came by the show. He was so funny I could not speak! I do not think one person heard the recipe, so here it is, written down. He loved the Joes. Maybe we should call ‘em Sloppy Waynes. Nah. He dresses too spiffy for that name to stick!”

This pork stew comes out equally tasty made with boneless, skinless chicken thighs. Its savory-sweetness will appeal to everyone at the table.

Rachael says, "One sunny afternoon at the Central Park Zoo, I went head-to-head with a zoologist in a polar bear cook off. The bears loved my meal and I won the throw down! If the polar bears like it, I bet the kids will, too! I did modify it a bit. Their fish was whole – head and all. Otherwise, the ingredients are pretty much the same: watermelon, peppers, cereal and fish. Sounds weird, but it’s YUM-O!" This recipe is featured in the 40th Anniversary edition of Sesame Street’s C is for Cooking cookbook!

Rachael says, "Stoup is a made-up term that I use for a recipe that is thicker than soup and thinner than stew in its consistency. Slow-cooked Cacciatore Stoup, originally a hunter’s stew of rabbit and wild mushrooms, then a spicy on-the-bone chicken dish with vegetable and tomato sauce in mainstream restaurants, today gets a fast, fun update with this winning recipe that the whole family will love! Plus, it’s easy cleanup for whomever gets stuck with the dishes!"