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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.

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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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Healthy Recipes: Walnut-Stuffed Turkey Breast with Cider Gravy

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.

Nov 3, 2009

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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.

Oct 31, 2009

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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.

Oct 31, 2009

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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.

Oct 27, 2009

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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.

Oct 25, 2009

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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.

Oct 25, 2009

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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.

Oct 22, 2009

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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.

Oct 22, 2009

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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.

Oct 22, 2009

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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.

Oct 20, 2009

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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.

Oct 17, 2009

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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.

Oct 17, 2009

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