Recipes
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Smoky Butternut Squash Soup
This creamy soup gets a little smoky heat from canned chipotle chiles in adobo sauce, but then gets cooled down with a swirl of crème fraîche.
It is make-ahead and staff-favorite.
Persimmon-Goat Cheese Wedges
“In late fall there are almost as many persimmons in Napa Valley as grapes,” says Maria Helm Sinskey. Among the creative ways she uses them: these wedges of sweet persimmon layered with goat cheese.
It is easy, fast, healthy, make-ahead and vegetarian.
Judith’s Dungeness Crab Cioppino
For Christmas Eve dinner, Judith Tirado, Michael Mina’s late mother-in-law, always prepared cioppino—the San Francisco seafood stew that owes its origins to fishermen from Italy’s Ligurian coast. “She’d spend a whole day infusing the broth with basil and tomatoes,” Mina recalls. Now he carries on the tradition by making her hearty, briny recipe, full of crab, shrimp and clams.
Homemade Pudding Pops
Homemade Pudding Pops is easy and simple to make all kind of your favorite tasty Ice Pudding Pops. It is a big entertainment for kids during the summer gathering. The most important is that you can control to put all healthy foods to make it. And keep out the unhealthy food from the recipe.
Cook time: 15 minutes
Total time: 6 hours (including freezing time)
Makes 6-8 popsicles
3-Day Detox Drinks
Eliminate harmful toxins and reset your body with this detox cleanse from Dr. Oz. All you need is 3 days, a blender and detox healthy foods!
Breakfast
Start your day off by eliminating harmful toxins, restoring your system and resetting your body with this detox breakfast smoothie from Dr. Oz.
Super Energy Smoothie
If you want to start off your day with a big boost of energy, try starting with this smoothie. It’s loaded with healthy fruits and veggies like watermelon, which helps dilate blood vessels to promote blood flow. Also, it has coconut water – one of the most hydrating liquids out there. The best part is this recipe yields a big batch, so you can make it once, freeze it, and drink it all week long.
Thai Chicken Salad
Banana Buckwheat Muffins
Ditch your coffee store muffin and start your morning with this gluten-free option!
Lentil-Quinoa-Stuffed Peppers
Getting your daily intake of fiber doesn’t need to be boring. This fun recipe uses two fiber-rich ingredients that will keep you full all day long. Feel free to use other lentils (green, yellow, red) instead of the black. You can also vary the herbs with parsley, cilantro and so on. The same goes for the topping; try putting some avocado slices, sour cream or cheese on the peppers before serving. Remember, recipes should always be looked at as an inspiration to expand on. Be adventurous and have fun cooking and eating.
Cod and Kale
Greek-Yogurt Substitution Recipes
Greek yogurt is good for breakfast, but did you know you can use it to swap out unhealthy ingredients? Use it in place of heavy cream, butter or oil with these recipes from viewer Utokia.
Grilled Chicken Over Creamy Fettuccini Alfredo
Substituting a cup of Greek yogurt for every cup of heavy cream in sauces can save you about 165 calories and add 6 grams of protein.
Freekeh Breakfast Bowl
For a fiber and protein kick, try this twist on breakfast with a new super grain: freekeh!
Healthy Meatloaf Recipes
Homemade No-Sugar Mayonnaise
This sandwich spread is made from natural ingredients but leaves out the added sweet stuff.
Homemade No-Sugar Mayonnaise
Chile-Steamed Mussels with Green Olive Crostini
Anchovy and Roasted-Pepper Salad with Goat Cheese
For Eataly’s seafood dishes, Mario Batali enlisted the help of Dave Pasternack, chef-partner at his outstanding restaurant Esca. “This gives Dave another place to play with fish,” Batali says. “Plus, I don’t go to the Olympics without bringing my MVPs.” Together they created this earthy salad with chopped cured anchovies in the dressing.
Cheesy Kale Chips – The World Healthiest Chips
Kale’s dark leafy greens hold important vitamins and minerals that offer incredible health benefits: prevent heart disease, fights cancer, promotes bone health, aids in weight loss and protects the eyes.
4 Creative Kale Recipes to Try Right Now
Nutrient-packed and extremely versatile, kale is definitely having a moment. If you haven’t embraced this delicious cruciferous veggie, try these kale recipes from the new cookbook Fifty Shades of Kale.
It’s Time to Bond with Kale
It has more vitamin C than an orange and more than 600 percent of your vitamin K need per serving. One tiny cup has almost three times as much calcium as a school lunch milk carton. No wonder some nutrition experts consider kale a goddess—especially psychiatrist/farmer Drew Ramsey, MD and chef/recipe developer Jennifer Iserloh, authors of the new cookbook Fifty Shades of Kale, who proclaim kale as attractive as she is nutritious. After all, “nothing is sexier than a sharp, happy mind atop a lean, healthy body,” they write. “Few foods are able to deliver this promise like kale.”
The vegetable, they continue, “possesses a veritable medicine chest of healthy molecules known as phytonutrients.” Kale’s sulforaphane may protect against diseases like diabetes and cancer. Her flavonoids may boost your heart and immune system.
Think kale is just for salads or a simple side dish with dinner? Not so. Ramsey and Iserloh have found unbelievably tasty, fun ways to cook with kale—from Blood Marys to chocolate chip cookies to risotto. Here are a few of their kale recipes we can’t wait to try.
Portuguese Kale Soup With Beans
Vitamin-rich kale tastes great teamed with sausage, potatoes, and kidney beans. Traditional Portuguese soups include linguiça, a hard-to-find smoked sausage flavored with paprika. Ours uses a mixture of Italian sausage and pepperoni available in any supermarket.
