602 water recipes

Thai pork with basil stir fries thinly sliced pork loin with garlic, chilies, and a full bunch of fresh basil in a soupy fish sauce broth. Ready in 25 minutes over rice or noodles.

Fruit sparkles are a fizzy sugar-free jello dessert made with sparkling water or club soda and fresh fruit. A light, low-calorie summer treat.

Green smoothies are a wonderful easy way of increasing your leafy green intake - if you are new to green smoothies, start slowly and over time add more greens. The pineapple in the smoothie contains powerful digestive enzymes, while the spinach is loaded with iron. Coconut water is a wonderful way to quench your thirst while replenishing electrolytes - did you know that it was used by doctors during World War II to do transfusions when donor plasma was not available?

Sparkling fruit smoothies blend yogurt, fresh fruit, and a pinch of nutmeg, topped with champagne, sparkling water, or ginger ale. A fizzy brunch drink ready in minutes.

I like this sour flavor. The best over buckwheat, but all is fine when over rice, potatoes, noodles, or just with lettuce mix. You may use pickled grilled red pepper.

Scrumptious sandwiches made with chicken breasts, mayonnaise and smoked almonds.

Silky poached eggs nestle into garlicky sautéed mushrooms, spinach, and tomatoes for a 15-minute breakfast that's elegant enough for brunch but easy enough for a Tuesday morning.

This quick and easy Chinese stir-fry is another popular recipe in China, and you can find it in almost every Chinese restaurant. Shiitake mushrooms cooked with bok choy, stirring in some soy sauce, sugar and garlic in the end. The whole dish is fresh and tasty.

Boneless skinless chicken breast stuffed with an herbed goat cheese sun-dried tomato mixture, breaded and finished in the oven to crispy perfection with a sweet red pepper sauce.

Whole chickens stuffed with sausage dressing and smoked over charcoal for 5 hours with a wine-herb water pan. Louisiana-style backyard smoking at its finest. Serves 8.

Another dish from my childhood memories, and it's my all-time favorite dish that my mom used to make very often. All the ingredients are inexpensive, but the salad tastes so refreshing and flavorful.

Pretty basic, but delicious. I serve with rice pilaf and homemade cole slaw.

Super easy marinated shrimp, skewered then grilled to perfection. Great as a warm weather main dish or as an appetizer/hors d'oevres.

Pan-seared scallops with fennel over soba noodles plates golden-crusted scallops on Japanese buckwheat noodles in a Pernod and orange pan sauce. East-meets-West restaurant plating at home.

Much better than the take-out meal, and the best is that I can control what go into my dish. Quite easy to make, and it tasted delicious.

This kung pao tofu was very tasty. I used two green bell peppers and 1 red bell peppers. Didn't have oyster sauce, so I used housin sauce, and it worked deliciously well.