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Blackberries and Soy Yogurt with Blackberry Sauce

Tue, 31/08/2010 - 14:48 — Healthy Flavors Source: Vegalicious Recipes

Blackberry season has arrived. We enjoyed this simple treat today and look forward to having it again soon.

Ingredients:

3-4 cups fresh blackberries (total for the recipe)
2 cups soy yogurt (plain or vanilla)
1 cup blackberry sauce (recipe below)
1 teaspoon vanilla (optional)
1-2 tablespoons powdered sugar (optional)

for the sauce:

Farmer's Market Salad: Fresh Field Peas & Corn with Basil, Scallions & a Garlic Tarragon Aioli

Sun, 29/08/2010 - 21:56 — Healthy Flavors Source: TASTY TRIX

Little bowl, big flavor

Believe it or not, until recently I had never tasted a fresh field pea. Can you imagine? It's enough to make my Southern great grandma roll over in her grave. But thanks to my local farmers market, that sad state of affairs has ended and I am now acquainted - and madly in love - with all things fresh pea.

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Baked Potato with Toppings

Fri, 27/08/2010 - 16:05 — Healthy Flavors Source: Vegalicious Recipes

Our red potatoes have matured. We harvested them yesterday and enjoyed lovely baked potatoes for diner last night. Here’s what we did.

Serving Size: 4

Ingredients:

1 large baking potato per person
1 & 1/2 cups soy yogurt
2 tablespoons lemon juice or vinegar
1 cup crumbled spicy tofu
1-2 tablespoons soy sauce
Cajun seasoning
1 tablespoon oil
handful chives
salt and pepper to taste
1/4 cup vegan parmesan

for the vegan parmesan:

Drinking Diet Soda While Pregnant Could Lead To Premature Delivery

Thu, 26/08/2010 - 02:52 — Healthy Flavors Source: Healthy Reader

According to Denmark scientists, pregnant women should stay away from daily diet soda intake, because it could cause premature births.

The soda-drinking patterns of almost 60,000 Danish women were followed by researchers for six years. Results suggest a link between diet carbonated and noncarbonated drinks and premature births. In the study, the researchers found that 4.6 percent of study participants delivered babies early and one-third of those premature births were medically induced.

One or more drinks a day was associated with a 38 percent increased risk of premature delivery.

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Red on Red Salad – Tomato and Strawberries

Wed, 25/08/2010 - 21:06 — Healthy Flavors Source: Vegalicious Recipes

This salad offers a really tasty combination, it was a surprise to us. Using strawberries and tomatoes together, but the dressing really brought it altogether nicely.

Ingredients:

1 pound cherry tomatoes, halved
1 pound strawberries, hulled and sliced
for the dressing
2 tablespoons walnut oil
2 tablespoons strawberry vinegar
1 tablespoon maple syrup
1 teaspoon poppy seeds
1 teaspoon vegetable bouillon powder
optional herbs

Directions:

Top Bedbug-Infested Cities in U.S.

Wed, 25/08/2010 - 16:24 — Healthy Flavors Source: Healthy Reader

Here’s a story that will make you cringe and itch. Using its own data, Terminix has ranked the top bedbug-infested cities in the U.S. and New York City topped the list. Terminix compiled its top 15 list anecdotally by analyzing call volume about bedbugs to the 350 Terminix service centers throughout the country.

1. New York
2. Philadelphia
3. Detroit
4. Cincinnati
5. Chicago
6. Denver
7. Columbus, Ohio
8. Dayton, Ohio
9. Washington, D.C.
10. Los Angeles
11. Boston
12. Indianapolis
13. Louisville, Ky.
14. Cleveland
15. Minneapolis, Minn.

Are you itchy? Are any of those your cities? Hopefully we can eradicate them soon.

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380,000 Lbs. of Deli Meat Recalled

Wed, 25/08/2010 - 16:16 — Healthy Flavors Source: Healthy Reader

Roast beef and ham that was distributed to Walmart delicatessens nationwide and sold in sandwiches has been recalled because it might be tainted with potentially harmful bacteria. No illnesses have been reported yet from the 380,000 pounds of meat that was made by Zemco Industries in Buffalo and may contain Listeria.

It’s not clear how many stores sold the meat products. A retail sample collected in Georgia tested positive for Listeria, which can cause serious and sometimes even fatal infections in the young, frail or elderly, or those with weakened immune systems.

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Spicy Thai Basil Chicken

Tue, 24/08/2010 - 19:48 — Healthy Flavors Source: Chow Bella

The Thai basil plants in our garden are starting to go crazy, so I thought it high time to find a way to use some. For dinner tonight I did a quick version of one of my Thai recipes, basil chicken. This recipe uses mainly cupboard staples with ingredients that are becoming more common in the international section of our market, mainly the fish sauce and sweet chili sauce. Sweet chili sauce is becomming one of my favorite ingredients---I use it for more than just Thai food. It's a great dipping sauce to be used in place of sweet-and-sour sauce, so it's a great staple to have on hand. For more traditional basil chicken, you would use sweet soy sauce, but I haven't been able to acquire that ingredient so I just used soy sauce and a bit of sugar. Feel free to use sweet soy sauce instead if you have it.

Average: 5 (1 vote)

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Review: Crispy Pickled Zucchini

Mon, 23/08/2010 - 20:31 — Healthy Flavors Source: Vegalicious Recipes

These pickled zucchini are great. We have really been enjoying them along with our meals.

We cut a bit thinker than the 1/8 inch in the instructions. Otherwise we did follow the instructions and were very happy to have firm pickled zucchini. They are lightly sweet sour.

Do use lots of ice cubes as that is the big trick, as well as pouring the warm brine over the zucchini, and not cooking them. I hope you give this easy recipe a try and enjoy.