Steamed butternut squash and chickpeas pulse with egg, scallions, garlic, sage and spices into fritters that are lightly sautéed rather than deep-fried, served on field greens with a yogurt-dill sauce. AICR notes the chickpeas bring protein and folate, the squash carotenoids.
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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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Dining
Healing Cuisines Challenge: The Future of Food & Health
Rich Goldstein of the Natural Epicurean Academy of Culinary Arts is opening his healing cuisines course to the public: macrobiotics, vegetarianism, veganism, Ayurveda and raw foods. He suggests living by each for two weeks, tracking mood, then keeping whichever ones fit.
Healthy Recipes from AICR
Healthy Recipes: Celery Root and Parsnip Soup
Dana Jacobi makes the case for two overlooked roots: celery root, which tastes between celery and parsley and peels easily despite its gnarled surface, and parsnips, which turn sweet on cooking. She advises firm, medium-sized parsnips and saving spare celery root for remoulade.
Healthy Recipes from AICR
Healthy Recipes: Breakfast Energy Drink
A breakfast smoothie for Cancer Prevention Month, blending kale, spinach, fruit, canned pumpkin, nuts, seeds, chia and cinnamon with soy or dairy milk. Two servings at 231 calories, 13 g protein and 8 g fiber each.
Healthy Recipes from AICR
Healthy Recipes: Ginger and Turmeric Hot Cider
A single-serving winter drink from AICR: steep grated fresh ginger, fresh turmeric and a strip of lemon peel in hot apple cider, then strain. 120 calories and no fat.
Healthy Recipes from AICR
Healthy Recipes: Celery Root and Parsnip Soup
Dana Jacobi champions two overlooked root vegetables for cool-weather soup: celery root, which tastes like celery crossed with parsley under a pitted brown skin, and parsnips, which turn sweet when cooked. She explains how to pick, peel and use the leftovers.
Healthy Recipes from AICR
Healthy Recipes: Chipotle Black Bean and Rice Burger
Dana Jacobi describes building a black bean burger without breadcrumbs or egg, using sticky cooked rice, almond meal and melted cheese as binders, and finds that letting the patties sit four to 24 hours improves their texture.
Healthy Recipes from AICR
Healthy Recipes: Breakfast Energy Drink
AICR's blender drink starts with kale and spinach for vitamins C and A, then adds your choice of fruit, canned pumpkin for beta-carotene and fiber, chia seeds for protein and omega-3s, and nuts or seeds. Those make it grittier than a typical smoothie, so use a straw if you prefer.
Cooking
29 recipes from Dr. Mark Hyman, M.D.
A fundraising appeal from Dr. Mark Hyman urging readers to use the Environmental Working Group's Food Scores database and to donate $140 or more to receive EWG's 2014 Holiday Gift Bag.
Dining
Even Without Kids, Couples Eat Frequent Family Meals
Analyzing more than 14,000 Ohio adults, researchers found households of adults with no one under 19 ate meals together six or seven days a week about as often as households with children - roughly half in both groups. It is the first large study of adult-only family meal patterns.
Heart Healthy Recipes
Back to School Ideas and Easy Family Dinners
A seasonal newsletter pointing readers to the Million Hearts Healthy Eating and Lifestyle Resource Center, which offers heart-healthy recipes, grocery shopping tips for parents, a 28-day calorie-controlled meal plan with printable shopping list, and quick weeknight family meals.
Healthy Recipes from AICR
Healthy Recipes: Red Chard with Shallots
Dana Jacobi explains that chard is now sold by stem color, tastes like a more mineral version of spinach, and shrinks so much that 1.5 pounds feeds four. She recommends braising the leaves and cooking white stems separately; stems of other varieties she finds too tough.
Dining
Parents Overwhelmingly Support Fruits and Vegetables in School Meals
United Fresh CEO Tom Stenzel points to a Pew, Robert Wood Johnson and American Heart Association poll in which 91 percent of parents back requiring fruits and vegetables with every school meal and over 72 percent back national nutrition standards. He urges Congress not to weaken the rules.
Healthy Recipes from AICR
Healthy Recipes: Granola Fruit Squares
Oats, almonds, walnuts and flax seeds supply fiber, protein and alpha-linolenic acid, with fresh blueberries and dried fruit for sweetness. The recipe yields about 16 squares at 198 calories, 10 g total fat and 3 g fiber each.
Healthy Recipes from AICR
Healthy Recipes: Pear and Jicama Salsa
Dana Jacobi explains how to handle pears for the AICR: picked mature but unripe, they need two or three days at room temperature and are ready when the stem end yields to gentle pressure. She runs through the Bartlett, Bosc and other varieties supermarkets carry.
Healthy Recipes from AICR
Healthy Recipes: Grilled Pizza with Grilled Vegetables
Whole-wheat pizza dough divided into four rounds, topped with grilled crimini mushrooms, plum tomatoes, bell pepper, zucchini, red onion and garlic plus low-fat mozzarella and basil, then finished on the grill. Four pizzas at 370 calories and 7 g fiber each.
Healthy Recipes from AICR
Healthy Recipes: Sweet and Sour Beets and Beet Greens
Halved beets roast rather than boil, which caramelizes their sugars, then take a sauce of vinegar, brown sugar and whole-wheat flour. The greens are sauteed briefly to keep folate and vitamin C. AICR suggests buying beets 2 to 3 inches across with firm stems and fresh leaves.
Dining
World Beer Festival Coming to Durham
The World Beer Festival returns to Durham Bulls Athletic Park on October 11 for its nineteenth year, and becomes one of the first events sanctioned by the North Carolina Craft Brewers Guild, which cited the festival's focus on education and moderation.
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