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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 Thanksgiving appetizer alternatives

Holiday appetizers often carry as many calories as the rest of the meal. Trade fried mushrooms, cheese sticks and heavy dips for crudites with herb vinaigrette, low-fat guacamole, hummus with pita or crackers, or bruschetta topped with tomato or roast vegetables.

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One Turkey Brine Recipe

A turkey brine starts with water as the carrier, plus optional protein for browning and taste, sugar to drive the Maillard reaction that builds roast flavour and colour, spices such as peppercorns, allspice and ginger, and above all salt, which delivers saltiness and aids browning.

Nov 24, 2009

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Roast turkey safely for thanksgiving day

Food safety guidance for turkey: buy a fresh bird one or two days ahead, keep it on a tray so juices cannot leak, skip fresh pre-stuffed birds, and thaw a frozen turkey in the refrigerator, cold water or the microwave, allowing 24 hours for every 4 to 5 pounds.

Nov 24, 2009

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Healthy Recipes: Three-Bean Chili with Corn and Turkey

Leftover turkey goes into a one-pot chili with three kinds of beans, corn, crushed tomatoes, chili powder and cumin, simmered 45 minutes and served over brown rice. Eight servings, each 435 calories with 29 g protein and 13 g fiber.

Nov 24, 2009

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Healthy Recipes: Brown and Wild Rice Medley with Vegetables

An American Institute for Cancer Research recipe pairs brown and wild rice, with a primer on how rice is classified and why leaving the bran and germ on, as brown rice does, keeps the fiber and nutrients that milling removes.

Nov 22, 2009

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Healthy Recipes: Southwestern Gluten-Free Cornbread Dressing

Dana Jacobi of the American Institute for Cancer Research offers a Southwestern cornbread dressing for gluten-free holiday guests, noting that gluten hides in products like chicken broth and mayonnaise and that gluten-free mixes are now widely sold. The dressing can be made a day ahead.

Nov 21, 2009

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Healthy Recipes: Pesto Toastini

An hors d'oeuvre recipe: a pesto of basil, baby spinach, parsley, almonds, garlic and Parmesan thinned with chicken broth and olive oil, spread on diagonal slices of whole-wheat Italian bread and warmed in a toaster oven. Eight servings at 190 calories each.

Nov 17, 2009

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Healthy Recipes: Mexican Hot Chocolate

Dana Jacobi explains that most US “cinnamon” is cassia, reddish and pungent with bark that rolls in from both sides, while true Ceylon cinnamon is pale, sweet and thin-barked. Mexican recipes call for canela, the Ceylon bark that grinds easily into Mexican chocolate.

Nov 15, 2009

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Healthy Recipes: Chicken with Orange and Honey Sauce

The American Institute for Cancer Research dresses chicken with navel orange, golden raisins, honey and cinnamon, ladling the sauce over the dish and topping it with almonds. The notes trace every navel orange back to a single 1820 Brazilian mutation.

Nov 15, 2009

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Alcohol should not be used in caffeine-laced energy drinks

The FDA wrote to about 30 makers of caffeinated alcoholic drinks, giving them 30 days to show that adding caffeine is generally recognised as safe or prior sanctioned, or face action to pull the products. Caffeine is approved in soft drinks up to 200 ppm but not in alcohol.

Nov 15, 2009

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What to eat to look like a beauty queen?

No reports describe what Carrie Prejean ate to win Miss California, so the advice comes from Miss USA 2009 Kristen Dalton, who suggests small meals and not banning foods you love, and dietitian Tanya Zuckerbrot, who credits phytochemicals, antioxidants and certain fats.

Nov 15, 2009

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Healthy Recipes: Winter Caponata

Broccoli, Swiss chard, onion, Asian eggplant and celery simmer with raisins, pine nuts and capers in a sweet-sour tomato sauce. Makes ten half-cup servings and keeps five days, tightly covered in the refrigerator.

Nov 10, 2009

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Pyrex Cookware May Explode and Injure You

Snopes confirms reports of Pyrex dishes shattering in a hot oven or shortly after coming out of one. One proposed explanation: the North American line moved from borosilicate glass to cheaper tempered soda-lime glass.

Nov 10, 2009

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Healthy Recipes: Baked Moroccan Chicken

Dana Jacobi recounts learning in Morocco to cook with cumin, coriander, paprika, turmeric, ginger and cinnamon by the teaspoon while keeping fiery harissa as a table condiment, then offers a baked chicken that uses spices liberally with little fuss.

Nov 8, 2009

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Healthy Recipes: Black Bean Soup with Israeli Couscous

An American Institute for Cancer Research soup pairing black beans, high in fiber, folate, iron and antioxidants, with Israeli couscous, which absorbs broth without turning mushy, plus garlic. Research suggests beans may play a role in cancer prevention, the group says.

Nov 8, 2009

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Healthy Recipes Just for Kids: Honey–Roasted Parsnips with Sweet Potatoes and Apples

Parsnip, sweet potato and apple chunks tossed with canola oil, honey and balsamic vinegar, then roasted about an hour: six servings at 116 calories. A second recipe sautés shredded sweet potato and apple with orange juice, cinnamon and ginger.

Nov 4, 2009

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Getting Your Kids Into A Vegetable Habit

Parents tend to give up after three to five rejections, but experts recommend at least 8 to 15 tries. Serve small portions, work chopped or pureed vegetables into pasta and soup, and let children see you enjoy them: a review of 60 studies found that persuades 6- to 11-year-olds best.

Nov 4, 2009

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Turkey, Tryptophan and Other Thanksgiving Tales

Two Thanksgiving beliefs get tested: turkey's tryptophan competes with the other amino acids and mostly never reaches the brain, so post-meal drowsiness more likely comes from the size of the meal and any alcohol. White meat is leaner, but dark meat carries more of several minerals.

Nov 4, 2009

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