Healthy baked fish with a zingy mango-avocado salsa
Chris Stevenson, 56, a registered nurse, invented this delectable fish dish--entered in the "healthy pleasures" category--when her husband, Jim, brought home some tilapia.
A Tex-Mex favorite uses prepared foods to pare down time
Bobbi Wiley, 34, of Ona, W.Va., loves to go out for Mexican food but often finds dishes "too spicy and not as crispy as I would like." So the middle school language arts teacher decided to submit her chicken chimichangas for the "super quick" category.
Sweet-sour-spicy fish steaks that'll bite you back
As a personal chef for a supermarket chain, Tim Peterson, 44, of Sarasota, Fla., helps customers plan meals, suggests recipes, and conducts wine tastings and in-store cooking classes. "It's all about the food," says the "international" category winner.
Kid-pleasing corn "dogs" that are baked, not fried
Athena Russell, 33, of Florence, S.C., doesn't have kids. But her three nieces and four nephews--and her own memories of growing up in Decherd, Tenn.--give her plenty of clues about what youngsters like to eat. "They seem to universally love hot dogs," says Russell, who made up her recipe specifically to enter our contest in the "kid pleasers" category.
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