light meal
Ideas for light meals, either lunch or supper.
Chicken roll up
Great to prepare the night before and pack in lunches for the next day. You can keep to your low fat diet when having lunch out.
Rice and tuna salad
Add rice to a traditional tuna salad and it becomes a balanced meal on a plate. Simple, nutritious and delicious solution for packed lunches or busy days.
Oriental salad
This Oriental salad makes a light meal on a single plate. It has brown rice, vegetables and marinated pork meat with a tamari flavor dressing.
Baked crab cakes (Maryland)
There are many ways to cook a crab in Maryland. Soups, salads, breakfast dishes and tasty main courses are made with crab, and probably the best known dish of all Maryland is crab cakes. The problem is choosing a recipe. There are nearly as many baked craba cakes recipes in Maryland as people. OK, may be not that many, but there are a lot. Here, we have baked crab cakes. Baking is easier than frying for a family dinner.
Creamed ground beef on toast
This recipe won the Best Ground Beef Recipes contest from All Foods Natural December 2008.
Simple deviled crab
Deviled crabs are very easy to make from canned crab meat. Calories are very much reduced in this recipe because white sauce is not used.
Crab stuffed tomatoes
Make this recipe with cherry or very small tomatoes, and you will have an excellent finger food for a party. Use freshly cooked crab or canned crab meat.
Warm crab tartare
Warm tartar sauce is a rich white sauce enriched with egg yolk and cream, and with finely chopped parsley, capers and pickled cucumbers added.
Sole with leeks and wild rice
This sole with leeks can be an appetizer, part of a three course plus dessert dinner or a main course on its own right.
Herb terrines
This terrine with herbs is just one example of cream cheese cuisine. Use it as an elegant appetizer for any celebration meal.