Dana Jacobi layers Greek yogurt and fresh berries with a homemade lemon curd made looser and more tart than the classic, using less butter and sugar. She advises stirring the curd up to 10 minutes and refrigerating it at least 12 hours to set.
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Recipes & Dining
Healthy recipes, cooking advice and dining, including recipes from the American Institute for Cancer Research.
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Healthy Recipes from AICR
Healthy Recipes: Tomato Soup with Chickpeas and Lemon
Dana Jacobi's tomato soup for AICR combines canned tomatoes, chickpeas, onion, celery, carrot and leek with vegetable broth, lemon juice and a seared lemon slice whose caramelised sugars add a bittersweet note. She calls the vegetable mix flexible and pantry-friendly.
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Healthy Recipes: Strawberry and Cheese Refrigerator Pie
A recipe for a refrigerator pie: a baked whole-wheat graham crust spread with reduced-fat cream cheese, sour cream, lemon zest and vanilla, chilled until set, then topped with fresh strawberries glazed in melted strawberry fruit spread.
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Healthy recipes: Moroccan Chicken Salad
Dana Jacobi deconstructs Moroccan bistilla, the layered pigeon-or-chicken and almond pie, into a chicken salad built on store-bought roasted chicken. Serve it in romaine leaf boats, on whole-wheat toast, or chopped fine for tea sandwiches.
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Healthy Recipes: Salmon and Vegetable Oven Kebabs Marinade
Wild salmon cubes marinate in lemon juice, olive oil, garlic and Italian seasoning, then go on skewers with plum tomatoes, mushrooms, green pepper and yellow squash for the oven. The recipe suggests bulgur tabouli or hummus and whole-wheat pita alongside.
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Healthy Recipes: Greek Lentil Stew
Dana Jacobi reworks Greek moussaka into a one-pot weeknight skillet supper, swapping lentils for lamb or beef and adding pomegranate juice to the usual tomato, oregano and cinnamon. Diced zucchini and sweet peppers round it out, with crumbled feta on top.
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Healthy Recipes: Mediterranean Bean Salad Salad
AICR's bean salad combines garbanzo, butter and kidney beans with onion, celery, tomato, herbs and an olive oil, vinegar and lemon dressing. The note explains butter beans: the flat green lima and the lighter sieva, the one Southern cooks mean by the name.
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Healthy Recipes: Fish Tacos with Cabbage Slaw
Tilapia fillets rubbed with garlic, cumin and cilantro go into warm corn tortillas with a slaw of red and white cabbage, tomato, green and red onion dressed in lime. Grill the fish and serve with black beans or avocado salad.
Dining
Starbucks starts to run juice bars
Citing Natural News, the piece reports Starbucks is opening juice bars serving mixed fruit and vegetable juices, thicker smoothies and vegetarian and vegan options. The juices are pasteurized without heat; the first has opened in Washington, with more due mid-2012.
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Grilling Vegetables To Bring Out Their Best
An AICR column on grilling vegetables over medium-high heat, with timings for each: asparagus blanched a minute and pinned on toothpicks, thick broccoli stems sliced and blanched, carrots cut lengthwise, all brushed with olive oil and finished with herbs, lemon or vinegar.
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Healthy Recipes: Zesty Asian Turkey and Mango Stir-fry
A stir-fry pairing turkey fillets and broccoli with mango, fish sauce, lime, ginger, garlic and fresh cilantro, basil and mint. Mango supplies vitamins A, C and B6 plus dietary fiber, and eating a variety of fruits is linked to lower risk of several cancers.
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Healthy Recipes: Baci di Dama or Hazelnut Meringue Kisses
Dana Jacobi offers a Mother's Day recipe for baci di dama, crisp Italian hazelnut meringue cookies made with egg whites, a little sugar and cinnamon. Bake them on a dry day, rest them in the oven up to four hours, and they keep for days in an airtight box.
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Healthy Recipes: Papaya Salsa with Jicama "Chips"
A fresh salsa of diced papaya, plum tomato, cucumber, red onion and chile dressed with lime juice and cumin, served with thinly sliced jicama in place of chips. Papaya supplies vitamin C, folate, potassium, fiber and carotenoids.
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Healthy Recipes: Lemony Honey Glazed Roasted Chicken
A whole roasting chicken marinates in lemon juice for two hours, then roasts at high heat with dried oregano and basil, fresh thyme in the cavity and a warmed honey glaze. The AICR suggests serving it with brown or wild rice, steamed carrots and a green salad.
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Healthy Recipes: Tilapia with Curry and Orange Rice
Tilapia filets get brushed with a curry-oil paste and baked, then served over brown rice cooked in orange juice with scallions and toasted almonds. AICR offers it in place of red meat, which it links to higher colorectal cancer risk and advises limiting to under 18 ounces a week.
Conner's Column
For healthy green tea, brew your own
Bottled tea drinks carry about two tablespoons of sugar per 8-ounce glass and have 10 to 100 times less polyphenol and antioxidant activity than brewed tea, and plastic bottles and can linings may add bisphenol-A exposure. For cancer prevention, the author says brew your own.
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Healthy Recipes: Red Velvet Cupcakes
Dana Jacobi colours her cupcakes with canned beets rather than artificial red dye, adding cinnamon to deepen the hue, and combines cold egg with oil for a moist crumb under cream cheese frosting. She notes other natural approaches have failed to give the expected red.
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Healthy Recipes: Mediterranean Vegetable Stew
A one-pot stew of butternut squash, carrots, zucchini, garbanzos, raisins and olives simmered in vegetable broth with chili powder, cumin, cinnamon, turmeric and cardamom, served over brown rice. Each serving runs 300 calories and 6 grams of fat.
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