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Recipes & Dining

Healthy recipes, cooking advice and dining, including recipes from the American Institute for Cancer Research.

Healthy Recipes from AICR

Healthy Recipes: White Bean Pasta

An American Institute for Cancer Research recipe pairing whole-wheat ditalini with cannellini beans, thin-sliced onion, rosemary and basil. It suggests rounding the dish out with roasted chicken and garlicky sauteed spinach.

Dining

Colorful plates boost a picky eater's appetite (PR)

A Cornell study showed 23 preteens and 46 adults photos of 48 plate combinations and found children preferred seven items in six colors, while adults leaned toward three items and three colors. Children also favored entrees placed at the front of the plate and figurative designs.

Jan 6, 2012

Conner's Column

How to avoid the junk food trap

A nutritionist describes failing her own advice: after a day at a cancer conference with little food, no daylight and little sleep beforehand, she ransacked her host's cupboards for biscuits and chips and found only almonds, nut butter, seeds, dried apricots, oats and whole grains.

Jan 5, 2012

Healthy Recipes from AICR

Healthy Recipes: Mediterranean Chicken Breasts Stuffed with Spinach

Chicken breasts get a pocket cut into them, stuffed with spinach, sun-dried tomatoes, goat cheese and reduced-fat cream cheese, and baked at 400 degrees. AICR notes spinach supplies fiber, folate, iron and carotenoids.

Jan 3, 2012

Healthy Recipes from AICR

Healthy Recipes: New Year's Salad

Dana Jacobi describes her own plan to fill two-thirds of every plate with vegetables and fruit and to control portions, following the American Institute for Cancer Research's New American Plate, and lists seven small habits, among them a salad of arugula and fennel.

Jan 1, 2012

Healthy Recipes from AICR

Healthy Recipes: Roasted Red Pepper and Eggplant Spread

A spread of roasted sweet bell peppers and eggplant pureed with garlic, olive oil and red wine vinegar, at 50 calories per quarter-cup serving with 3 grams of fiber. Serve it with whole-grain crackers, pita wedges or vegetables, or use it on sandwiches in place of mayonnaise.

Dec 27, 2011

Healthy Recipes from AICR

Healthy Recipes: Elegant Cheesy Spinach Cakes

Baked spinach-and-cheese cakes from the American Institute for Cancer Research, made with ricotta and Romano and bound with eggs. The piece advises stripping tough stems from mature spinach and letting the cakes set after baking so they do not break apart.

Dec 25, 2011

Healthy Recipes from AICR

Healthy Recipes: Feast of Seven Fishes

Dana Jacobi replaces the seven separate courses of the Italian Christmas Eve tradition with one stew holding seven kinds of fish and seafood. She uses chicken broth rather than clam for a less fishy base and adds ingredients in stages so scallops and calamari do not turn rubbery.

Dec 18, 2011

Healthy Recipes from AICR

Healthy Recipes: Sparkling Apple Crumple

A crustless crumple heaping apples, cranberries, raisins and walnuts into a pie plate under a puff of crumpled phyllo, dusted with confectioners' sugar. It makes eight servings at 170 calories each.

Dec 13, 2011

Cooking

Safe Minimum Cooking Temperatures

A foodsafety.gov chart of safe minimum internal temperatures: 160 degrees for ground meats, 165 for poultry, stuffing, leftovers and casseroles, and 145 with a three-minute rest for beef, veal, lamb and pork. Color is no guide -- cooked pork and red meat can stay pink.

Dec 12, 2011

Healthy Recipes from AICR

Healthy Recipes: Italian Vegetable Soup with Orzo and Pesto

An American Institute for Cancer Research recipe: a soup of leeks, carrots, potato, orzo and cannellini beans finished with a pesto of spinach, basil, pine nuts, tomato and garlic. With crusty whole-wheat bread it makes a lunch or light dinner.

Dec 11, 2011

Healthy Recipes from AICR

Healthy Recipes: Walnut Chai Tea Loaf

Dana Jacobi's tea loaf for AICR steeps three chai teabags in boiling water and folds the brew into unbleached and whole-wheat pastry flour with applesauce, canola oil, egg whites, sugar and walnuts. She says the light sweetening keeps it from causing a sugar rush.

Dec 11, 2011

Dining

The Worst Possible Place to Eat if You Want to Stay Healthy

Dr. Mercola argues against fast food after McDonald's and Target dropped Sparboe Farms, cited for at least 13 violations of salmonella prevention rules. He points to a study in which 23% of caged-hen farms tested positive for salmonella against just over 4% of organic flocks.

Dec 9, 2011

Healthy Recipes from AICR

Healthy Recipes: Chunky Chicken Soup with Buckwheat

An AICR chicken soup built on buckwheat, a gluten-free whole grain that supplies fiber and magnesium, with carrot, celery, pearl onions, roasted chicken breast and reduced-sodium broth.

Dec 6, 2011

Dining

AgriLife Extension experts offer yuletide wellness tips

Texas AgriLife Extension specialists offer holiday advice: don't skip meals before a feast, since eating too little can trigger overeating; take smaller portions; and cut back on chips, dips, gravies and sugary drinks while following the 2010 Dietary Guidelines.

Dec 6, 2011

Dining

Dip May Encourage Children to Eat More Vegetables

Offered broccoli with low-fat or regular dip at snack time over seven weeks, 152 preschoolers ate 80 percent more of it. Researcher Jennifer Orlet Fisher says dip gives parents another tool for children who are sensitive to bitterness.

Dec 5, 2011

Healthy Recipes from AICR

Healthy Recipes: Turkey Curry over Brown Rice

A use for leftover turkey: onion, garlic, ginger and curry spices simmered with potatoes, winter squash and broth, finished with yogurt, lemon juice and cilantro over brown rice. Makes four servings at about 410 calories.

Nov 29, 2011

Healthy Recipes from AICR

Healthy Recipes: Salmon and Potato Coriander Fish Cakes

Wild salmon flakes bind with potato, onion, red pepper flakes and coriander into fish cakes that pair with sauteed kale or collard greens, chilled whole-grain pasta salad, or wild or brown rice.

Nov 27, 2011

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