Recipes
Having regular and reliable meals is a great way of providing good nutrition for health and wellness. Planning for enjoyable food makes meals or snacks pleasurable and trying a new recipe can help add variety to repetitive meals.
Check out our recipe collections featuring MSU chefs and health promotion staff members to help spice up your routine!
Please feel free to use these recipes and to share with family and friends. If you share them on-line or publish them in any way, please follow these guidelines:
- If you’re adapting someone else’s recipe, begin with a short note of the goal and what you looked for, perhaps something you changed and why. Then give credit to the person who you got it from: "Recipe adapted from ___________" and give a link to the original source.
- If you used someone else’s recipe for inspiration, but changed it substantially and the product is somewhat similar to the published recipe, give credit to the original by saying, " This recipe by (me) was inspired by ____________. The original recipe can be found here." and give a link to the original recipe.
- If you change the ingredients substantially or completely came up with the product on your own; and you write directions in your own words for how you prepared it, the recipe is your own and you should claim it.
Summer Grilled Chicken Salad
Michigan is a large producer of chicken. Summer grilling is a seasonal way to use this local food. Enjoy Kellogg Catering Chef Rob Trufant’s take on Grilled Chicken with a tangy salad dressing!
Grilled Peach & Blueberry Tart
Blueberries and summer go together in Michigan. This tiny fruit can be used in a variety of ways. Enjoy Kellogg Catering Chef Rob Trufant’s take on a summer dessert!
Shrimp Kinilaw
Chef Rob Trufant created this recipe to share as part of an international cooking demonstration. Enjoy this fresh recipe form the Philippines!
Chicken Biryani
Chef Rob Trufant created this recipe to share as part of an international cooking demonstration. Enjoy his take on this traditional dish from India!
Ayesh al Saraya
Chef Rob Trufant created this recipe to share as part of an international cooking demonstration. Enjoy this Lebanese inspired sweet dessert!
Grilled Sweet Potato Starter
Michigan provides an abundance of local produce. Summer grilling is a seasonal way to use those locally grown items. Enjoy Kellogg Catering Chef Rob Trufant’s take on Grilled Sweet Potatoes!
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Classic Beef Stew
Chef John's Hearthy Beef Stew is a simple recipe to make wtih a lot of flavor.
Creamy Chicken & Wild Rice Soup
Enjoy this creamy chicken soup on a cold winter's day.
Jon Novello’s Pumpkin Dip
"Super easy and makes for an amazing pre- and post-meal treat. We usually make it early and then refrigerate it, and then bring it out when we are all in the kitchen cooking the big meal. It’s just yummy and fun to snack on while everyone is together."
Annie Grieg’s Holiday Crab Dip
“I’m a sucker for a super creamy dip at the holidays (and appetizers in general!) Crab makes me feel like it’s a special occasion, lol.”
