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10-minute gourmet: Make a healthier sausage that is low-fat and preservative-free. Get variations ranging from breakfast sausages to hot Italian. Plus, four recipes to make good use of them

Here's how to make a breakfast sausage, honey-garlic sausage, hot Italian sausage, Cuban-spcie sausage and ways to use them: Vietnamese sandwiches, pasta sauce, sweet and spicy snack bites, kale and sausage stuffing

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Recipes

Try this recipe for homemade Creamy ricotta cheese at Chatelaine.com.

Creamy ricotta recipe

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10-minute gourmet: Four ways to use this fresh Italian cheese in weeknight dinners or a light dessert and four variations to suit your taste buds

Recipes for low-fat ricotta, olive oil ricotta, herbed ricotta and lemon ricotta. Plus ways to use ricotta in dinner, appetizer and dessert recipes such as roasted-tomato crostini, ricotta dumplings, creamy olive and herb pasta and honey-berry tartlets

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Bring a little Mediterranean verve to a drop-in party


Prosciutto and arugula pizzette recipe and a fizzy orange wine cocktail

Party appetizers and delicious Mediterranean-inspired recipes

Instant party

Try this Britt-style steak sauce recipe and then switch it up to create three other steak sauce varieties. Find the recipes at Chatelaine.com.

Brit-style steak sauce recipe

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10-minute gourmet

Homemade sausage recipe in 10 minutes

Creamy ricotta

Easy homemade ricotta

Prosciutto and arugula pizzette recipe and a fizzy orange wine cocktail

Brit-style steak sauce