A slow-cooker St. Patrick's Day dish: layer sliced potatoes, carrots and celery, set a 3-pound corned beef brisket on top, tuck cabbage wedges around it, add pepper and water, and cook on low for 7 to 8 hours. Salt only after cooking, then rest the meat 10 minutes. Serves eight.
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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: Delicious Avocado-Inspired Recipes (PR)
A press release marking the spring-to-early-fall peak for California avocados profiles growers among the state's 6,000-plus avocado farmers, among them Jaime Serrato, who started out picking fruit as a young man and now heads a company managing 10 groves across Southern California.
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Healthy Recipes: Split Pea Soup with Winter Pesto
Dana Jacobi offers a St. Patrick's Day split pea soup, simmering split peas with leek, onion, celery and broth in 30 to 40 minutes for a hefty 14 grams of fiber, finished with a basil-and-spinach pesto that swaps raw cashews for costly pine nuts.
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Healthy Recipes: Penne with Vegetables
An American Institute for Cancer Research recipe pairs whole-wheat penne with zucchini, broccoli, bell peppers, mushrooms, spinach and tomatoes, delivering more than a cup of vegetables per serving, seasoned with dried basil, oregano, rosemary, thyme, sage and marjoram.
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Mamie’s Million Dollar Fudge - Recipes from Famous Americans
A fudge recipe from the National Archives: boil sugar, salt, butter and evaporated milk six minutes, then pour the syrup over chocolate, marshmallow cream and nuts and beat until melted. Let it stand a few hours before cutting, and note that it tastes better the second day.
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Healthy Recipes: Baked Pasta with Butternut Squash
This recipe bakes whole-grain rigatoni with butternut squash cooked down with shallots, garlic, sage, vegetable broth, low-fat milk and nutmeg, then topped with Parmesan and whole-wheat bread crumbs. It is described as a one-pot meal and an excellent source of vitamins A and C.
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Black Angus Steakhouse
Stuart Anderson of Seattle founded the chain in 1964 to serve a complete steak dinner at an affordable price. It runs 46 steakhouses across six western states, each with about 75 employees, serving roughly 3,000 customers a week.
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Eat Like a Caveman
Washington lawyer Robert Keeling credits CrossFit workouts and two years on the paleo diet, lean meat, fish, nuts, fruit and vegetables with no starch, sugar, dairy or beans, for sleeping better and rarely getting sick. Coaches describe it as eating like a Paleolithic human.
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What is chocolate bobka?
Bobka, or babka, is a sweet yeast cake with two traditions: an East European spongy Easter cake usually filled with fruit and glazed, and a Jewish version of twisted dough baked in a tall loaf with cinnamon or chocolate and streusel, now popular in Montreal, New York, Miami and Toronto.
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American Recipes
A directory of recipe links: dishes from famous Americans such as Mamie Eisenhower's fudge and Senate bean soup, plus heart-healthy and diabetes collections, kids' recipes, regional and wild game recipes, and guides to cooking for crowds.
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Healthy Recipes: Hearty Baked Oatmeal
Rolled oats baked with low-fat milk, dried apricots, raisins, shredded apple, brown sugar and walnuts in two 15-minute stretches. Four servings at 280 calories and 4 g fiber each; AICR notes oat fiber lowers cholesterol and colorectal cancer risk.
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Pancake recipe
Pegged to IHOP's free-pancake day, a from-scratch recipe using flour, baking powder, salt, sugar, milk, egg and melted butter, with asides recommending organic flour, aluminum-free baking powder and sea salt.
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Healthy Recipes: Mediterranean Chickpea Stew with Polenta
A 25-minute entree for four, simmering eggplant, zucchini, onion and red pepper with tomatoes and chickpeas and serving it over seared polenta slices. The note calls chickpeas a source of fiber and protein and says high-fiber diets may lower colorectal cancer risk.
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Hoki fish
Hoki, also called blue grenadier or New Zealand whiptail, lives at 10 to 1,000 m off southern Australia and New Zealand and fills McDonald's Filet-O-Fish. A 2009 New York Times article questioned the sustainability of New Zealand's 100,000-ton annual quota, which the industry disputes.
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Healthy Recipes: White Bean Soup with Spinach, Leeks and Couscous
An American Institute for Cancer Research soup built on cannellini beans, spinach, leeks, carrots and whole-wheat couscous, seasoned with garlic, cumin, mint and lemon. Swapping vegetable broth for the chicken broth makes it vegetarian.
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Cookware Chemical Linked to Thyroid Disease
Among nearly 4,000 adults whose blood was sampled between 1999 and 2006, those with the highest PFOA levels were more than twice as likely to report current thyroid disease. PFOA coats most nonstick cookware and stain-resistant fabrics.
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Healthy Recipes: Fennel and Red Grapefruit Salad with Asiago Cheese
Grapefruit sections, fennel wedges and shards of Asiago dressed with a drizzle of olive oil and black pepper. AICR notes citrus adds vitamin C and lycopene gives red grapefruit its color, and the recipe walks through trimming the fennel and cutting the fruit free of its membrane.
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Buffalo chicken dip recipe
A buffalo chicken dip adapted from allrecipes.com: heat canned chicken with hot pepper sauce, stir in cream cheese and ranch dressing, add cheddar, then finish in a slow cooker for 30 to 40 minutes and serve hot with celery sticks and crackers.
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