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Fruity Couscous Recipe

Ingredients
  • 1 cup water
  • 2 tablespoons natural butter flavor sprinkles
  • 1/2 cup uncooked whole wheat couscous
  • 1 teaspoon Mrs. Dash Original Blend
  • 1/2 cup dried apricots, chopped
  • 1/2 cup dried cranberries
  • 1/4 cup slivered almonds, toasted
Preparation
  1. Combine water and natural butter flavor sprinkles in small saucepan; bring to a boil. Remove from heat. Stir in couscous and seasoning blend. Cover and let stand 15 minutes. Fluff couscous with a fork. Stir in apricots, cranberries and almonds just before serving.
Serves Serves 4
Compliments Of: Mrs. Dash


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Sweet Potato Waffles Recipe

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Fresh Brunch Ideas

Ingredients
  • 1 1/2 cups buttermilk or plain yogurt
  • 4 large eggs
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 2 1/2 cups flour
  • 3/4 tablespoon baking powder
  • 3 tablespoons melted butter
  • 3/4 cup cooked sweet potato puree (canned or fresh)
  • 2 peaches, sliced
  • 2 plums, sliced
  • 1 cup grapes, halved
  • 1/4 cup pecans
  • Maple syrup
Preparation
  1. Blend the first 7 ingredients well and let rest for 20 minutes.
  2. Make waffles in a waffle maker.
  3. Top with fruits and toasted pecans.
  4. Add maple syrup to taste.
Serves Serves 8
Compliments Of: Chilean Fresh Fruit Association


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Grilled Asparagus with Citrus Gremolata Recipe

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Grilled Asparagus with Citrus Gremolata Recipe

Ingredients
  • 1/2 cup Hellmann's or Best Foods Mayonnaise Dressing with Olive Oil
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 1 teaspoon finely chopped garlic
  • 2 tablespoons minced shallot
  • Grated peel of 1 lemon
  • 1/4 cup white wine
  • 1/4 cup lemon juice
  • 1 cup bread crumbs
  • 12 medium asparagus spears, trimmed
  • 2 tablespoons peanut oil
  • Kosher salt and cracked black pepper to taste
Preparation
  1. Preheat grill to 450°F. Heat olive oil in a small sauté pan on the grill. Just before the oil smokes add garlic, shallot, and lemon peel. Sauté slightly.
  2. Add white wine and lemon juice and simmer for 1 minute. Add bread crumbs and dressing and sauté until golden brown. Mix asparagus, peanut oil, salt and pepper. Grill for 3 minutes, turning fairly frequently. Place asparagus on a serving platter. Sprinkle bread crumb mixture over the grilled asparagus and serve.
Notes, Tips & Suggestions
A Chef Tim Love recipe
compliments of: Hellmann's

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Carrot Salad Recipe

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Carrot Salad Recipe

Ingredients
  • 1 pound carrots, grated
  • 1/2 cup raisins
  • 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
  • 1 cup low-fat fruit-flavored yogurt (pineapple or lemon)
  • 2 tablespoons Mrs. Dash Onion & Herb Seasoning Blend
  • 1 tablespoon packed brown sugar
Preparation
  1. Combine carrots, raisins and walnuts in a medium bowl.
  2. Stir yogurt, seasoning blend and brown sugar in small bowl until smooth and well combined. Stir into carrot mixture. Cover and refrigerate until chilled and ready to serve.
Serves
Servings: 6
compliments of: Mrs. Dash


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Wheatgrass Benefits

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Powerful Friend

step-ups the red blood-cell count and brings down blood pressure. It likewise cleans the blood, organs and GI tract of debris. Wheatgrass juice taken in each day has been demonstrated to energize metabolism and the body’s enzyme systems by enriching the blood. It likewise aids in bringing down blood pressure by dilating the blood pathways throughout the body. Regular ingestion of wheatgrass juice (the most popular way to acquire your daily wheatgrass nutrition boost) energizes the thyroid gland, serving to correct health problems like obesity, indigestion, and a horde of additional complaints.

Wheatgrass juice likewise aids in restoring alkalinity to the blood. The juice’s abundance of alkaline minerals helps cut down over-acidity in the blood. It may be utilized to relieve a lot of internal pains, and has been utilized successfully to care for peptic ulcers, ulcerative inflammatory bowel disease, constipation, diarrhea, and additional complaints of the GI tract.

For a lot of people, perhaps the most crucial advantage of wheatgrass is its reputation as a potent detoxifier, offering crucial protection for the liver and blood. The enzymes and amino acids encountered in wheatgrass may protect us from carcinogens like no other food or medicine. It beefs up our cells, detoxifies the liver and bloodstream, and chemically counteracts environmental pollutants.
Wheatgrass in your diet will help to battle tumors and counteract toxins in the body. New studies demonstrate that wheatgrass juice has a potent ability to battle tumors without the common toxicity of drugs that likewise subdue cell-destroying agents. The many active compounds detected in wheat grass juice clean the blood and counteract and digest toxins in our cells.Scientists have likewise demonstrated that wheatgrass juice holds beneficial enzymes. Whether you've a cut finger you wish to heal or you want to lose some weight…enzymes must do the real work.

The life and powers of the enzymes found naturally in our bodies may be broadened if we help them from the outside by putting in exogenous enzymes, like the ones detected in wheatgrass juice. Don’t cook your wheatgrass. We may only garner the advantages of the many enzymes detected in grass by eating it uncooked. Cooking demolishes 100 percent of the enzymes in food.

The nutritive profile of freshly juiced wheatgrass carries remarkable similarity to our own blood. The 2nd important nutritional facet of chlorophyll is its noteworthy similarity to hemoglobin, the compound that transports oxygen in the blood.

Many people are using grass as food and medicine. The reasoning is that since chlorophyll is soluble in fat particles, and fat particles are soaked up directly into the blood via the lymphatic system, that chlorophyll may likewise be soaked up in this way. Put differently, when the “blood” of plants is soaked up in humans it's transformed into human blood, which channels nutrients to every cell of the body.



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Hummus Garlic Bread Recipe

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Simple Party Spread Makes for Easy Entertaining

Ingredients
  • 1 loaf French bread, about 12-14 inches long
  • 1 container Sabra Roasted Garlic Hummus
  • 8 green onions, diced
  • 1 - 2 tablespoons chopped garlic
  • 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
Preparation
  1. Preheat broiler. Slice French bread in half length-wise. Set aside.
  2. Mix Sabra Roasted Garlic Hummus and garlic together in small mixing bowl. Spread hummus mixture on French bread halves. Place bread on baking sheet. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese.
  3. Broil bread on wire baking rack located in the middle of the oven, not too close to the broiler. Broil 2-5 minutes or until edges are crispy and cheese is browning. Watch bread closely as broilers vary greatly in their timing.
  4. Cut each half of bread into quarters. Serve warm.
Serves
Servings: 4
compliments of: Sabra


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How Black Beans Helps in wight loss

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As more and more people become aware of this particular food called the black bean the interest in it has also become heightened. Originating from Mexico and very much a part of the South American diet, these black beans have been proven to be quite a nutritionally pack food group indeed. Today it is popularly found in most restaurants and homes in various forms such as salads, staples and other delicious dishes.


Black Beans

The black beans consists of high protein and fiber contents and is considered very nourishing as both these essential elements are present within one food item. Fiber and proteins are considered very important to the wholesome function of a healthy body. Besides this it also has flavonoid anti oxidants content which assist the body avoid oxygen related damage. Black beans also consists of omega 3 fatty acids and has a high nutritional value. Black beans are also very easy to incorporate into most meals as it has a basic flavor of rich smokiness, which gives added character to any dish. The velvet texture, shape and color hold well during cooking and makes for a very interesting looking ingredient indeed.


Black Bean Salad Recipe

Ingredients
The Salad Recipe

  • 2 lbs. black beans cooked or use 2 15 oz. cans of black beans, well-rinsed.
  • 2 lbs. cooked sweet corn, cut from the cob or 2 15 oz. cans of whole kernel corn well-rinsed or 2 lbs. of frozen corn, drained
  • 8 green onions, diced
  • 2 cloves garlic, large, minced
  • 2-3 jalapeno peppers, cleaned, diced (more if you like)
  • 1 green Bell pepper, cleaned, diced (you can also add a small sweet red pepper, for both sweetness & color)
  • 1 ripe avocado, large, pitted, peeled and diced
  • 1 jar (4 oz) pimentos, drained
  • 3 tomatoes, seeded & diced
  • 1 Cup fresh cilantro, chopped
  • Sea salt & fresh cracked black pepper to taste

  • The Dressing
  • 3 Table spoon fresh lime juice
  • 2 Table spoon fresh orange juice
  • 2-1/2 tsp lime zest
  • 1/2 tsp ground cumin
  • Sea salt & fresh cracked black pepper to taste
Preparation
  1. Combine all the salad ingredients in a large bowl. Season with the salt & pepper.
  2. Whisk the dressing vigorously to incorporate. Add the dressing to the salad and gently toss to combine everything
  3. Chill until ready to serve. Lightly toss again prior to serving.
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Grape Goodness

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Bulgur Salad with Grapes and Kale Recipe

Eating a variety of grapes may contribute to heart health by:
  • Promoting healthy blood flow
  • Reducing oxidative stress
  • Improving blood lipids
  • Decreasing inflammation


Ingredients
  • 2 cups water
  • 1 cup bulgur
  • Kosher salt
  • 1 cup pecan halves, toasted and roughly chopped
  • 2 cups seedless grapes, halved
  • 2 cups packed kale or Swiss chard leaves, finely slivered
  • 1/2 cup Italian parsley, chopped
  • 1/4 cup scallions, thinly sliced
  • 1/4 cup lemon juice
  • 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
  • 2 teaspoons lemon zest, finely grated
  • Pinch cayenne
  • Black pepper
Preparation
  1. Bring 2 cups of water to a boil in a medium saucepan. Stir in bulgur and 1/2 teaspoon salt and remove from heat. Cover and let stand 20 minutes or until most of water is absorbed. Drain well and press to extract any excess water. Let cool and stir in the remaining ingredients. Season well with salt and black pepper. Serve room temperature or chilled.
Serves Yield 6 servings
Compliments Of:California Table Grapes
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American Classic Potato Salad

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Loaded Baked Potato Salad Recipe

Ingredients
  • 4 pounds Idaho potatoes, peeled
  • 4 ounces unsalted butter, softened
  • 1/2 cup chopped green onions
  • 2 cups grated or shredded cheddar cheese
  • 1 1/2 cups sour cream (regular or low-fat)
  • 1 tablespoon black pepper
  • 1 teaspoon salt
Preparation
  1. Cook whole potatoes in boiling, unsalted water until tender. Refrigerate until chilled, then chop into 1-inch pieces. Transfer potatoes to a large bowl along with the remaining ingredients and thoroughly combine. Chill at least 2 hours before serving. Adjust seasoning prior to serving.
Serves Yield 6 to 7 servings
Compliments Of:The Idaho Potato Commission

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