Recipe Rewind: Lighter Chicken Parmesan

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Instead of frying chicken cutlets in lots of oil, they’re baked so they’re crispy and cheesy, but also healthy and delicious..

Today’s post is my second recipe rewind post. Each month I’ll feature a terrific recipe I posted when I first started blogging that you may have missed. This Lighter Chicken Parmesan recipe is one my daughter makes often and she commented that it needed an update. It’s one of her husband’s favorites.

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Cardamom-Orange Coffee Cake Loaf

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Moist, delicious cardamom-orange coffee cake topped with an almond cinnamon sugar topping, baked in cute mini loaf pans so they’re easy to share and sturdy enough to mail to far away friends. 

The Flying Brownie by Shirley Fan is an adorable cookbook with 100 recipes for homemade treats that are perfect for packing and shipping to friends and family. Each recipe includes tips on shipping and there’s a Care Packages 101 section to help you get your treats to your loved ones in just baked condition.

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Quick Triple Berry Compote

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A quick cooking berry compote made with red raspberries, blackberries and blueberries. A sweet sauce for your favorite breakfast or dessert.

Sustainable Cooking For One is my Secret Recipe Club blog this month. Eating sustainably is an important element of Stephanie’s kitchen, so her recipes are healthy, low or no meat, and focus on in-season and local foods. Her cookbook One Bowl: Simple Healthy Recipes for One has tips and recipes for cooking healthy meals for one.

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Lemon Ricotta Crepes

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Tender crepes filled with a rich, lemon ricotta filling and topped with a quick berry compote.

Today’s recipe is from Lauren’s Latest new eCookbook, Everyday Ingredients Extraordinary Food. It’s available as a downloadable PDF that you can read on your computer, iPad or iPhone.

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Strawberry Cheesecake with an Oreo Cookie Crust

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Luscious, creamy New York style cheesecake with a crumbly Oreo cookie crust and topped with fresh strawberries drizzled with a strawberry glaze.

Cheesecake is my son-in-law’s favorite dessert. For his birthday my daughter asked me to help her bake a fantastic cheesecake. We brainstormed ideas and decided since gorgeous, sweet California strawberries are now at the market, to make strawberry cheesecake. However, we didn’t want just an ordinary strawberry cheesecake, we wanted it to look spectacular. So we paired it with an Oreo cookie crust, left the berries whole, arranged them artfully on top of the cake, then drizzle the berries with a fresh strawberry glaze.

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Recipe Rewind: Perfecting Snickerdoodle Bread

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If you like a Snickerdoodle cookie, you’re going to love Snickerdoodle bread. It has a crispy cinnamon sugar topping with a sweet, buttery, tangy interior. I’ve also added another layer of cinnamony goodness by loading it with luscious cinnamon chips.

Some of my family’s most loved recipes were recipes I posted when I first started blogging. I didn’t have very many followers. I only had a point and shoot camera, and I didn’t have any experience taking food photos. When I redesigned my site recently, I updated every post with the new Ziplist recipe format which makes it easy to print and save recipes. It was fun to look back at posts I’d written years ago, but the pictures really need updating too.

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