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Healthy Recipes for the New Year

Friday, January 7th, 2011
Easy, Healthy Dinners

Easy, Healthy Dinners

It’s the same old cycle every year – the holidays roll around and we gorge ourselves on rich meals, baked goods and endless sweets and chocolates. Luckily, the New Year always promises a fresh start, including healthy recipes to get us back on track.

Easy, Healthy Recipes

While we may want to get back in shape and start eating healthier food, most of us don’t have the time to spend on elaborate weekday meals. Take a look at these easy, healthy recipes:

Healthy Dinner Recipes
A great way to incorporate more vegetables into your diet is by preparing healthy dinner recipes, like chopped salad. You can use whatever you have on hand, but to make it a complete meal, add in some sort of protein. Using a sharp Chef’s knife, thinly slice a cooked chicken breast, egg or even tofu and place it on top of your salad. Homemade dressings will make your dinner even healthier. Use vegetables that have a bit more substance and nutrients, like broccoli, yams or cabbage, in place of a regular head of lettuce. And don’t forget to be creative. The more you personalize a healthy recipe, the more likely you’ll be to continue along a path of healthy eating!

Cold Fall Weather Encourages Cooking with Apples

Sunday, November 7th, 2010
Apples for Applesauce

Apples for Applesauce

As fall weather settles in around us, we can’t help but turn to the kitchen to whip up all of our favorite comfort foods. For many of us, that includes baking up a storm. This fall, why not take advantage of the abundance of apples at your local farmers market or grocery store? Great for pie, cake, breads and best of all, homemade applesauce - which can be enjoyed on its own or in other recipes!

Apple Recipes
When looking for a great apple recipes, you’ll notice that cooking with apples requires a lot of chopping and peeling. It may seem like a lot of work at first, but when you dig into the final product, slicing and peeling apples will be the last thing on your mind. There’s nothing like a slice of fresh apple pie right out of the oven, or a bowlful of smooth, buttery applesauce. The best thing about most apple recipes is that the apples need to be peeled, cored and sliced, which means you can purchase apples that aren’t perfect, and are probably a lot cheaper.

Cooking Apples

Many varieties make for suitable cooking apples, but only a few will result in the best flavour and texture. When picking a cooking apple for applesauce, be sure to choose a sweet variety like Pink Lady, Gala, Fuji or Delicious. There are number of other cooking apple varieties that will make great applesauce, but Gala and Fuji are often the best.



Ingredients

  • 3 to 4 lbs of peeled, cored, and quartered apples
  • 3-4 Tbsp lemon juice
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
  • 1/4 cup of dark brown sugar
  • 1/4 cup of white sugar
  • 1 cup of water
  • 1/2 teaspoon of salt

Directions

  1. Put all ingredients into a large pot. Cover. Bring to boil. Lower heat and simmer for 20-30 minutes.
  2. Remove from heat. Mash with potato masher or for a smoother applesauce, put through food mill or potato ricer.

Applesauce can be stored in the fridge or freezer.


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