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5-Minute Kale
With this delicious, easy-to-prepare recipe you can include kale as part of your Healthiest Way of Eating in a matter of minutes. Kale is one of the healthiest vegetables around with one serving providing you with an excellent source of vitamins A and E. Enjoy!
Prep and Cook Time: 15 minutes
Ingredients:
* 1 pound kale
* Mediterranean Dressing
* 2 tsp lemon juice
* 1 medium clove garlic, pressed
* 1 TBs extra virgin olive oil
* salt & black pepper to taste
* 1/4 cup sunflower seeds
Directions:
1. Chop garlic and let sit for 5 minutes to enhance its health-promoting properties.
2. Fill bottom of steamer with 2 inches of water and bring to boil.
3. While water is coming to a boil, slice kale leaves into 1/2-inch slices, and cut again crosswise. Cut stems into 1/4-inch slices. Let kale sit for at least 5 minutes to bring out it health-promoting properties.
4. When water comes to a boil add kale to steamer basket and cover. Steam for 5 minutes.
5. Transfer to a bowl and toss with Mediterranean Dressing ingredients. Mediterranean Dressing does not have to be made separately. For the best flavor it is best to toss with dressing while kale is still hot.
6. Top with sunflower seeds. Serves 2
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Lotza Flavor Marinated Vegetable Salad
If you like vegetables with a lot of flavor, this marinated vegetable dish is a basic recipe you can make and have in the refrigerator for up to 4 days. It is a nutritious accompaniment to many chicken and fish dishes.
Lotza Flavor Marinated Vegetable Salad Prep and Cook Time: 25 minutes
Ingredients:
* 6 medium sized Brussels sprouts, tough outer leaves, and excess stem removed
* 1 large carrot peeled and cut in 1 inch chunks
* 1 cup large size broccoli florets
* 1 cup green beans, cut in 1 inch lengths
* 2 cups medium crimini mushrooms, cut in half
* 1 medium red bell pepper cut in 1” chunks
* 1 medium green bell pepper cut in 1” chunks
* 1 medium onion sliced thick
* marinade:
* 3 TBS honey
* 4 TBS fresh lemon juice
* 2 TBS extra virgin olive oil
* 1 TBS minced fresh oregano
* 3 medium cloves garlic, pressed
* salt and cracked black pepper to taste
* pinch red pepper flakes
Directions:
1. Bring salted water to a boil in large pan. Place colander in sink, and set up a bowl of ice water.
2. Cut vegetables to appropriate sizes and have ready. (For this salad it is important to cut vegetables in fairly large pieces. They will hold up better and last longer.)
3. When water is boiling, add carrots, whole Brussels sprouts, and cook for 4 minutes. Then add broccoli, pepper, green beans, mushrooms and onion.. Cook for another 4 minutes.
4. Drain through colander and immediately put into ice water. Let chill for about 10 minutes and drain well. It is important to drain well, so flavor is not diluted. If possible lay vegetables out on paper towels and pat dry.
5. Make marinade by whisking together ingredients adding olive oil a little at a time.
6. Put into glass container or bowl, add marinade, cover and put into refrigerator for at least 1 hour
Serves 4
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Spicy Cabbage Soup
The unusual combination of vegetables in this healthy soup are brought together beautifully with the spices. The Healthy Sauté cooking method makes it light and healthier without heating oils or compromising flavor.
Spicy Cabbage Soup Prep and Cook Time: 45 minutes
Ingredients:
* 1 medium onion, quartered and sliced thin
* 3 medium cloves garlic, chopped
* 1-2 tsp minced fresh chili pepper (serrano, or jalapeno)
* 2 tsp ground coriander
* 1 TBS dry mustard
* 5 cups + 1 TBS chicken or vegetable broth
* 2 TBS fresh lemon juice
* 2 medium sized red potatoes cut in ½ inch cubes, about two cups
* 1 15oz can diced tomatoes
* 3 cups thinly sliced Savoy or green cabbage,
* salt and black pepper to taste
Directions:
1. Heat 1 TBS broth in a medium soup pot. Healthy Saute sliced onion over medium heat for about 5 minutes. Stir in garlic and minced chili pepper. Continue to saute for another minute.
2. Stir in dried coriander and mustard, and add broth, and rest of ingredients except cabbage, salt and pepper. Simmer for about 20 minutes, uncovered, or until potatoes are tender.
3. Add cabbage, and cook for another 5 minutes. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
Serves 4
Healthy Cooking Tips:
Add more spices and chili pepper if you would like it spicier.
Let soup simmer for a little longer for a richer taste.
How to Make Roasted Dandelion Root Tea (aka. Dandelion Root Coffee)
by mcdaniej
How to Make Roasted Dandelion Root Tea (aka. Dandelion Root Coffee)
How to Make Roasted Dandelion Root Tea (aka. Dandelion Root Coffee)
Introduction
Roasted dandelion root tea has positive health benefits for your liver. It is also a coffee substitute sometimes called dandelion root coffee. It is also a diuretic.
Instructions
Difficulty: Moderate
Things You’ll Need
* Dandelion roots not contaminated by lawn chemicals and fertilizers (so most suburban lawn dandelions should be avoided - try looking in wild areas or on organic farms, or in areas that you know are fr
* small shovel
* scisors or small knife
* oven
* metal baking sheet
* spatula
* oven mits
Steps
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Step One
First, you must find some dandelions and their roots. There are a few other plants that look like dandelions, but are actually not. To make sure you have a true dandelion look at its leaves. They should extend from the base of the plant and should be teeth like (like the teeth of a lion - where the plant gets its name). The stem of a true dandelion will be hollow like a vein. Make sure you find dandelions that are not in areas sprayed with pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers, or other chemicals.
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Step Two
To get to the root, dig around the base of the flower until you can pull it up fully. Young dandelions will have smaller roots, but a dandelion that has been undisturbed for a few years can have longer finger sized roots, which are perfect for this recipe.
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Step Three
Next after you have harvested a good number of roots (depending on how much tea you’d like to make), you must separate the root from the plant (I recommend using scissor or a small knife). You can keep the leaves of the plant if you like, as they can be used in a similar way as spinach and are very good stir fired (The leaves have a high amount of vitamin A, vitamin C, and iron - even more iron and calcium than spinach!)
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Step Four
Next, once you have the roots all separate, you need to give them a good wash. Wash them thoroughly several times with hot and cold water to make sure you get all the dirt off. Let them air dry for a while (30 minutes to an hour), or pat them dry with a cloth.
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Step Five
Now you can either cut them up into small bits (I like to do these using a large cleaver and cutting board), or you can process them in a food processor until they are similar in side to ground coffee.
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Step Six
Next, spread them evenly over your metal baking sheet. Bake for about two hours on 300 to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Be careful to make sure they do not overcook. They will have a strong roasted aroma when finished and will feel dry and crispy. (You might want to turn them over once during the process to make sure they roast evenly)
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Step Seven
After roasting is complete, carefully remove the baking sheet from oven and let the roots cool. Some like to blend the roots one more time to make the grains more like coffee. I prefer to keep them larger so that they can be used in tea colanders or tea bags. After cooling, you can store them in a tight glass jar or metal container. Its best to drink them sooner (within a few months), as they will begin to loose that good roasted flavor and will have less health benefits over time.
Tips & Warnings
* Share with friends and family! (Be proud that you have harvested, processed, and consumed a product all on your own, the old fashioned way - like our great grandmothers used to do!)
* Be SURE you know what kind of plants you are digging up, don’t mistake a dandelion for something else.
* As always consult your health physician before taking any type of herbal medicines (especially if you are taking prescription drugs)
* Don’t drink if you are pregnant or nursing
* Avoid dandelions that have been sprayed with any kinds of chemicals!
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How to make Macaroni’s Italian Herb Bread, recipe for bread machine
by LorilynFarms
dough in bread machine
dough in bread machine
Introduction
Italian Herb Bread is a fantastically warm and aromatic bread sure to greet any visitors or family members that wander into your home with a scent so heavenly it makes you want to stay for dinner. An excellent herb bread to be cooking right before you have a real estate person bringing clients!
The restaurant, Macaroni’s, was the first to bring this delicious bread to my attention. The recipe below will give you the exact flavor for the Italian Herb Bread served at that at that restaurant with a dish of olive oil and freshly ground pepper.
I use the Zojirushi bread machine. It is usually grouped under Welbilt and Dak bread machines in many recipes, that call for an extra tbsp of liquid. I have done it both ways and notice no difference.
Instructions
Difficulty: Moderately Easy
Things You’ll Need
* DRY INGREDIENTS
* 3 c- flour
* 1/2 c chopped onion
* 1 1/4 tsp salt
* 1 1/2 tbsp sugar
* 2 tbsp Italian herbs
* 1 tsp Rosemary
* 2 tsp yeast
* WET INGREDIENTS
* 1 c milk
* 2 tbsp olive oil
Steps
1
Step One
In a small skillet, add olive oil and chopped onion and set to low heat. You want to soften the onions, but not brown them. (the longer they cook, the sweeter they get)
2
Step Two
Liquids go in first + salt. In most bread makers, liquids are in the bottom with the dry ingredients up top, except for the salt. Salt and yeast don’t like each other and may prevent rising.
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Step Three
Add your softened onions and the rest of the dry ingredients, yeast at the top.
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Step Four
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Set the machine to CRUST; LIGHT OR
BAKE; LIGHT. That’s it! The machine does the rest!
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Step Five
After baking is done, remove the loaf from the basket and let it cool an hour before cutting.
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Step Six
Serve the Italian Herb Bread warm for best effect. Eat plain, or add butter, or like the restaurant does, pour Olive Oil in a saucer and grind fresh pepper and dip as you go, or create your own dipping sauce.
Tips & Warnings
* NEVER place salt next to yeast!
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How to make Cozonac
by Trena Gologan
Cozanac
Cozanac
Introduction
No more being a slave in the kitchen to make the perfect holiday bread! This is a traditional Romanian Holiday bread that Romanian women spend all day in the kitchen making...well, no more! Buy a breadmaker and follow this recipe.
Instructions
Difficulty: Easy
Things You’ll Need
* 4 cups flour
* 1 cup milk, heated ( I have used Almond Milk that was vanilla flavored, found in the organic section or the Lactose Free Milk)
* 3 eggs, beated lightly ( I have used Egg Beaters)
* 1 indiv package of yeast or 2 1/4 tsp
* 1/2 cup butter, melted
* 3 tablespoons sugar, plus ( I have used Fructose to cut down on the GI)
* 2 teaspoons sugar
* 1 teaspoon salt
* 1 teaspoon of vanilla and rum flavoring each
Steps
1
Step One
Romanian Cozonac or Colac - a Christmas Bread
Ingredients
4 cups flour
1 cup milk, heated ( I have used Almond Milk that was vanilla flavored, found in the organic section or the Lactose Free Milk)
3 eggs, beaten lightly ( I have used Egg Beaters)
1 indiv package of yeast or 2 1/4 tsp
1/2 cup butter, melted
3 tablespoons sugar, plus ( I have used Fructose to cut down on the GI)
2 teaspoons sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon of vanilla and rum flavoring each
Place items in bread machine in order. Put on dough setting. It will rise and then select dough setting again. Once it has gone through the dough setting 2x take the dough out and roll it on a floured surface. Then slather the filling up to the edges of the dough. Roll the dough up with the filling on the inside and place back into the bread machine and select bake.
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Step Two
There are several options for the filling, below are a couple of different options:
Cheese Filling
1/2 pint sour cream
1 teaspoon cornstarch
4 tablespoons sugar
1 cup cream cheese
3 egg yolks
1 teaspoon of vanilla and run flavoring each
1 Small bag of slivered almonds or walnuts
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Step Three
Second Option:
3 TBSP Cocoa
4 TBSP Sugar ( I have used Fructose)
1-2 TBSP Milk (Once again I have used the Almond Milk or Lactose Free Milk)
Small bag of slivered Almonds or crushed Walnuts
Mix the three together to make a paste.
Tips & Warnings
* Use flour for bread machines
* Plan to spend 4 hours total, however you can walk away while the bread machine is working, so you can get other stuff done and not have to spend 8+ hours just on the bread.
* Do not use Organic substitutions for the flour, I tried this and it just doesn’t turn out right. TO cut back on glycemic index use fructose instead or egg beaters to cut back on cholesterol, etc.
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How to Bake Greek Olive Bread
by e-Rambler
Pickled olives
Introduction
Some local bakeries make these extraordinary olive bread that I think some of you bread eaters have attempted to steal their recipe. Well, after some research on the internet, this is the closest and the best I can find, in my opinion. It is a very nice copy, if not as great as the pro-shop’s. And you know, the premium ingredients make the best bread (or of every thing, for that matter), so use the best olives you can find. Follow the instructions.
Instructions
Difficulty: Moderately Easy
Things You’ll Need
* 4 cups of white bread flour
* 2 cups of warm water
* 1-1/2 teaspoon sugar
* 1-1/2 teaspoon salt
* 0.4 oz dried yeast
* 2 tablespoons olive oil
* 1 cup olive
* 2 tablespoons sliced onion
* 1/2 teaspoon oregano
* 2 cloves of mashed garlic
* 1 teaspoon tomato paste
* Pinch of black pepper
* Bread machine
Steps
1
Step One
Pit the olives, chop them roughly.
2
Step Two
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Wash, peel and slice the onion; you need two tablespoons of it. Sprinkle salt on the onion slices. Let it sit for 8 minutes, then rinse under running water. Squeeze as much water out as possible. The onion slices will be softer and less sharp tasting. Chop into fine pieces.
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Step Three
Add and mix well the olives, chopped onion, garlic, tomato paste and oregano. Add some black pepper to taste.
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Step Four
Set the bread machine around 3 hours; equivalent to the basic cycle.
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Step Five
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Add the mixture made in Step 3, olive oil, water, sugar, yeast and the flour into the bread machine. Read the order for putting in the ingredients recommended by the manufacturer. Water is normally the first to go in. Olive oil is usually the last to add into; an extra. Wait for the machine to ask for adding “extras”.
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Step Six
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Bake with a medium crust. You can bake it a dark crust if that’s what you prefer. Yields one loaf and serves 7-8 people.
Tips & Warnings
* This bread is good with cream-based soup or a salad.
* Great for vegans/vegetarians.
O.C. drought might come to brief end
February 22nd, 2009, 3:00 am · 3 Comments · posted by Gary Robbins, science writer-editor
The areas of Southern California classified as being in moderate drought have been shrinking due to the winter rains and Orange County’s status could soon by downgraded to abnormally dry. But it would probably take another significant storm for that to happen, rather than the smattering of rain some places got overnight. And the reclassification would be temporary; the southern part of the state is almost always categoried in some level of drought during the summer because of the lack of rain.
It’s also important to note that most of California has gone more than two years with below average rain, drawing down reservoirs everywhere. So a brief end of the drought in Orange County doesn’t mean that the state’s water supply is back to normal. As the New York Times reported Saturday, the Central Valley is in severe drought. (Story).
A coalition of federal and academic scientists evaluate conditions nationally, producing the ever-changing US Drought Monitor. Those conditions are turned into a map. (The latest version is shown above.) Yellow means an area is abnormally dry. Flesh-colored zones are in moderate drought. Orange denotes severe drought and red means exceptional drought. Click here for a simple description of each category.
Orange County is faring far better than last year — the driest rainy season since the late 1940s. Fullerton Airport has gotten 9.67” of rain since July 1. But there’s been striking variation in rainfall regionally. John Wayne Airport has recorded 7.62”, more than an inch below average. Ontario Airport is at 8.98”, about a half inch below average. But San Diego’S Lindbergh Field – which averages a lot less rain than Orange County — is at 8.68”, almost 2 inches above normal.
The latest forecast says that Orange County is likely to get less than one-quarter of an inch of rain for the final six days of February, causing John Wayne to fall even further behind San Diego.
What’s going to happen in March? No one knows.
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70 sick in China after eating tainted pig organs
Mon Feb 23, 2:47 am ET
BEIJING – Pig organs contaminated by a banned animal feed additive have been blamed for sickening at least 70 people in southern China, state media said Monday.
The cases underscore a continuing battle with food safety in a country where supply chains are murky and the rising cost of labor, land and fuel sometimes force producers to cut corners in order to make a profit.
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Clenbuterol helps to build muscle and is frequently used as an illegal performance enhancing drug by track and field athletes. China has banned its use as a pig feed additive.
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In 2006, more than 300 people in Shanghai were hospitalized after eating pork and pig organs tainted with clenbuterol.
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No individual blame in UK’s tainted blood scandal
By GREGORY KATZ, Associated Press Writer Gregory Katz, Associated Press Writer 48 mins ago
LONDON – The first extensive report into Britain’s tainted blood scandal stopped short Monday of blaming individual doctors or companies for what is widely viewed as the National Health Service’s worst treatment disaster.
House of Lords member Peter Archer’s report called the scandal a “horrific human tragedy” but did not name any specific medical workers or pharmaceutical companies as being responsible for the deaths of around 2,000 hemophiliacs since the 1970s.
Archer’s commission did say that U.S. companies which provided unsafe blood plasma products bore a heavy responsibility for infecting roughly 5,700 hemophiliacs with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, or Hepatitis C.
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Australians flee again as new wildfires flare up
By RICK RYCROFT, Associated Press Writer Rick Rycroft, Associated Press Writer 1 hr 23 mins ago
MELBOURNE, Australia – With terrifying memories of Australia’s deadliest wildfires still fresh, residents chose to flee rather than protect their homes Monday when new blazes broke containment lines and threatened the fringes of the country’s second-largest city.
Many victims of the Feb. 7 disaster that officials call “Black Saturday” died in their cars or in the open, and police said they tried, too late, to escape. Since then, officials have urged residents to choose quickly and stick with their decision: leave early when a blaze is near, or stay and fight.
One house was destroyed in the Melbourne suburb of Belgrave South before the fire threat eased Monday, but the panic showed how jittery Australians remained 16 days after the disaster killed at least 209 people.
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* Video: Allergic Girl Uses Peanut Sniffing Dog
Allergic Girl Uses Peanut-Sniffing Dog
Rock’O’s Training May Save Riley’s Life
POSTED: 11:26 am MST February 17, 2009
UPDATED: 6:17 am MST February 23, 2009
Allergic Girl Uses Peanut-Sniffing Dog
MONUMENT, Colo. — A dog trained to detect the presence of peanuts may help save an 8-year-old girl’s life in Monument.
Riley Mers has such a strong allergy to peanuts that stepping on a shell once burned her foot.
“I’m use to it by now,” said Mers
Now the Monument girl is getting some help in avoiding peanuts: a dog named Rock’O.
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Sherry Mers has been so inspired by what Rock’O has done for her daughter that she started the group Angel Service Dogs. It helps match other children with allergies and epilepsy with service dogs.