A recipe for walnut-stuffed turkey breast with cider gravy: a walnut, thyme and sage paste goes under the skin, apple and shallots fill the cavity, and the breast roasts at 425 then 350 degrees until it reaches 160. Skipping the brine keeps the salt down.
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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: Smoky Kale Soup
Dana Jacobi notes smoked foods carry potentially carcinogenic compounds such as PAHs, and suggests four ingredients that add smoky flavor in small amounts: chipotle chiles, Spanish pimenton, smoked sea salt and lapsang souchong tea. She uses pimenton in a kale, potato and tomato soup.
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Healthy Recipes: Fabulous Flaxseed and Blueberry Pancakes
These pancakes combine buckwheat and whole-wheat flour, ground flaxseed, blueberries and honey. The column explains that buckwheat is a broad-leaved plant crop rather than a grass, and that flaxseed's omega-3-rich oil may help reduce the risk of cancer and heart disease.
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Healthy Recipes: Sweet and Salty Crunchy Mix
Whole-grain cereal, pretzels, nuts, pumpkin seeds, turmeric and dried fruit bind together with warmed honey, then bake until lightly browned. Slower baking at 300 degrees deepens the flavor. Makes 15 half-cup servings at 148 calories each.
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Is There a Way to Quit Drinking Without Quitting Drinking?
A first-person account of trading alcohol for herbal substitutes: kava kava worked until the writer wanted two bottles a day and it drew a liver-damage warning, while hops proved cheap, safe and fast-acting but wore off quickly.
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Healthy Recipes: Mushroom Goulash
Dana Jacobi answers a vegan mother cooking for an omnivore family: make soups and stews that split two ways. Cook a bold meatless base such as mushroom goulash, set aside your portion, then add meat, dairy or egg to the rest. Sauteed tofu raises the protein in the vegan version.
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Healthy Recipes: Lemon Broiled Tempeh
Tempeh, a fermented soybean cake high in fiber and containing isoflavones and soy saponins, is broiled here with zucchini, red bell pepper and mushrooms in sesame oil, soy or tamari and lemon. Look for solid cakes with a whitish bloom; colors other than black flecks suggest it has gone bad.
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Healthy Recipes: Tropical Coconut and Lime Turkey Soup
An AICR recipe turning turkey into a tropical soup with coconut milk, lemongrass, mushrooms and lime. The notes explain that coconut milk comes from grated coconut flesh steeped in hot water, and that it is high in saturated fat, so use it sparingly or choose the light version.
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Healthy Recipes: Rice-Crust Pizza
Dana Jacobi explains for AICR why she built a pizza on a rice crust: gluten-free doughs are a chore to make and rarely satisfy, while rice is a grain nearly everyone can eat, and sticky-starch Arborio presses into a crust.
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Chef Curtis Stone offers game day recipes for football fans to enjoy (Press release)
A Hass avocado release in which chef Curtis Stone offers two game day recipes, Fresh Crab and Hass Avocado Dip and Chipotle Chicken Tacos with Hass Avocado and Cucumber Relish, and notes that avocados contribute nearly 20 vitamins and minerals.
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School lunches to offer fresher, healthier choices
The Institute of Medicine recommended larger vegetable servings, more greens, beans and fruit, fewer starchy foods and less sodium in school meals, aiming to cut a typical high school lunch from about 1,600 mg of sodium to 740 mg over the next decade.
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Healthy Recipes: Winter Butternut Squash and Sweet Pepper Soup
Leeks, orange bell pepper and butternut squash simmer in reduced-sodium chicken broth, then blend with orange juice into a puree seasoned with garlic and Hungarian paprika. Crushed toasted pumpkin seeds garnish four servings of 250 calories each.
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Healthy Recipes: Rice Meets Pizza
Dana Jacobi offers a pizza built on a crust of Arborio rice, Parmesan and egg for gluten-free eaters, noting that about 1 percent of Americans have celiac disease and that from-scratch gluten-free doughs rarely satisfy anyone not obliged to eat them.
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Healthy Recipes: Tropical Coconut and Lime Turkey Soup
The American Institute for Cancer Research sends turkey to the tropics in a coconut-lime soup, explaining that coconut milk comes from grated coconut flesh rather than the liquid inside, that its saturated fat argues for light versions, and what lemongrass and mushrooms add.
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Healthy Recipes: Picking the Right Apple
Locally grown apples picked ripe between August and December taste best, and heirloom varieties like the Golden Russet reward the adventurous. Most apples excel at only a couple of uses: Honeycrisp raw or in salads, Cortland for applesauce, Fuji for cooked dishes.
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Healthy Recipes: Spiced Chicken with Apples
An American Institute for Cancer Research recipe pairing chicken with golden delicious apples and curry powder, the apples' sweetness balancing the heat. The piece explains curry powder blends up to 20 spices and advises choosing firm, riper goldens for the dish.
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Healthy Recipes:Buffalo Chicken Salad
A game-day alternative to fried wings: roast chicken breast with potatoes, celery, red onion and cucumber, tossed in a buttermilk and hot sauce dressing over romaine and topped with blue cheese. Four servings, each 250 calories with 8 g fat and 31 g protein.
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More Frying, Less Fat with New Cooking Batter
USDA's Agricultural Research Service developed and patented a long-grain rice flour batter that absorbs up to 50 percent less oil than wheat batters. CrispTek of Columbia, Md. now sells it as ChoiceBatter, which is cholesterol- and gluten-free and works for frying, grilling and baking.
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