Apple Cinnamon Raisin Bread

While I was at the grocery store I noticed organic apple sauce on sale! I bought 4 jars. Apple sauce is a good healthy snack if you run out of fresh fruit, as well I use it for baking too. A couple of days ago I decide to enjoy a 1/2 cup of apple sauce as a snack, when I realize that I bought sweetened! I don't understand why you would put sugar in apple sauce? It tastes so much better with out it. So to use up these jars, I will be using them for baking. If you make this recipe you may want to add a little bit of sweetener(honey, maple syrup, organic sugar) if you are using regular apple sauce.  Apple Cinnamon Raisin Bread ...

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Veggie Might: Top 5 Reasons I Love New York + A Recipe

Written by the fabulous Leigh, Veggie Might is a weekly Thursday column about all things Vegetarian.Today, my Fair Readers, is the 15th anniversary of the day my pal JBF dropped me, my two milk crates of books, and my dreams in front 201 W. 91st, New York, NY. Our journey originated in Orlando, took side trips to our respective familial homes in North Carolina and Virgina, and ended with JBF settling in Princeton, NJ and me in the Big City. Fifteen years, three apartments, and 17 roommates later, I’m still here and loving New York.Top 5 Reasons I Love New York1. Each neighborhood is like its own little city. Residents get to know their neighbors,...

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Creating a Global Pantry

Exploring a new cuisine can be exciting and intimidating. Flavors and ingredients are sometimes unfamiliar, and the techniques can be tricky. But trying new food is an adventure, and it’s less stressful when you realize that the strange is not so strange at all.American food is a mishmash of influences, primarily western European: English, French, German, and Italian. We use lots of parsley, oregano, garlic, and onions in our everyday cooking, with a little sage thrown in at Thanksgiving. So do many other cultures.When I first started cooking Indian food, I was worried that I would blow a week’s pay on spices just to learn a few dishes. Not...

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Watch My Weight Wednesday!

Healthy tips for eating out!Order water instead of soda.Ask for your salad dressings and sauces to be served separately. So you can be in control.Ask for your vegetables to be steamed. Avoid buffets.   Do not eat the bread that is on the table, ask the waiter to take it away so that you are not tempted. Have a starter instead of a main course. These are usually much smaller portions. Skip dessert Skip the mints. Mints are very high in sugar and calories which you do not need!What are your healthy tips for eating out? ________________________________________________________________________________  This is a blog hop!  Post your recipes, tips, and your weight loss stories!  It can be a new post or an older one that you would like to share.Would...

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Green Kitchen: Chunky Spiced Unsweetened Applesauce

Green Kitchen is a bi-weekly column about nutritious, inexpensive, and ethical food and cooking. It’s penned by the lovely Jaime Green.I'd like to take a moment to think on the lessons of zucchini.I greet the first greenmarket zucchini with excitement – just like every vegetable's first seasonal appearance, this is a momentous occasion. Fresh and bright and less than $2 a pound, I take them home in big bundles, sauteeing them simply for the sweet zucchini flavor.Fast-forward to August and we're like, Uggh, please, no more zucchini! I know you are cheap, summer squash, but I am sick of you.Friends, let us not let the apple fall prey to the same...

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Ask the Internet: How Do You Organize Your Recipes?

Sweet Angela, Bea, and Rosalind, readers! Ask and ye shall receive. Last week, I threw myself at your feet and you lifted me up with more slow cooker tips and recipes than I can use in this lifetime. I am heartily grateful.This week’s multi-part question is born out two-parts need for decluttering solutions and one-part sheer curiosity:Q: Readers, I gotta know, 1) how do you keep track of your recipes and 2) what’s your favorite method for reading a recipe while cooking? Dog-earred cookbooks? An index card file? Are you going digital? 3)What are your favorite recipe organization tools/applications?A: My 1-ft by 1-ft countertop makes using cookbooks...

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Healthy Green Cleaning Tips

Cleaning green is so much easier and healthier than buying toxic household cleaners!  Common house hold cleaner are poisonous, carcinogenic, flammable, and also contribute to poor indoor air quality which causes asthma.  Do you ever wonder why so many house pets are getting cancer?  The labels on these toxic cleaners do have warnings but still people buy these products! It is so easy to clean green all you need is some baking soda, vinegar, and soap and water.And an even greater added bonus, now you will not have to worry about your kids assisting with the all the scrubbing, because all these recipes are non-toxic, and green!  Which makes a busy moms job easier and teaches kids it is fun and easy to clean green! How to Clean Green Cleaning Kitchen and Bathrooms Fill...

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Mental Illness in School: No Child Left Behind?

By Molly McVoy, M.D.How much do I tell my child’s teacher about her depression? About his bipolar disorder? About her ADHD? Will he fall behind if the teacher doesn’t know? Will she be judged if I tell the school? When do I get testing, an IEP, special Ed? What do those mean?Parents of children with psychiatric illness struggle with these questions and many others. Often, there are no easy answers. A child’s success at school may be one of the best predictors of future success. Giving a child and his/her family the best tools to succeed in school is one of my top priorities as a child psychiatrist.When deciding how much to tell your child’s school...

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Posted in: ADHD,children,family,Molly McVoy MD,stigma

Lavash Wraps!

When I saw these at the store I just had to have them!  They are gigantic!  Similar to a tortilla but thinner and bigger.  We filled ours with our favorite things!  Including...avocadotomatolettucecheesemayoradishgrilled peppers, onion, and mushrooms!BBQ saucecooked chickenEveryone made there own to their own liking.  A fun easy dinner when you just don't feel like cooki...

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Broccoli Quiche

Please welcome Michele Laikowski, actress, voiceover artist, mom to the cutest boy in the Tri-State, and forever friend of CHG. And today on Serious Eats: Shredded Beet, Apple, and Currant Salad with Apple Vinaigrette. I made, ate, and loved dried fruit in a salad. Is that a horseman, I see? Hi CHG readers! The last time I was here, my son was 7 months old and I was discovering ways to make baby food. Actually, I discussed making pureed peas and lamented the lack of space in my Brooklyn apartment.Well, now, we’re at the stage in his life where he eats big-people food, and he wants to eat it NOW. That leaves a working mom, who picks up her kid...

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Posted in: Eggs,Mains,Vegetarian

What You Are Not Hearing About GMO Franken-Fish

Are Genetically Engineered Foods (Including Salmon) More Allergenic?By Kiera Butler | Mon Sep. 27, 2010 ScienceDaily (2010-09-25) -- An expert comments on potential FDA approval of the first genetically engineered animal for use as food.http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100925105209.htmYou've probably heard that the FDA is considering whether to approve the first-ever genetically-engineered fish [1]. Developed by a Massachusetts-based company called AquaBounty Technologies [2], this new supersalmon is basically an Atlantic salmon with genes from Chinook salmon and a fish called the ocean pout [3]. In theory, this could...

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Short Video about BPA

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Saturday Throwback: Weekly Menu Planning for Singles, Couples, and Working People

Every Saturday, we post a piece from the CHG archives. This one is from March 2009.Spend an afternoon perusing family-oriented frugality blogs, you’ll discover there are a few recurring themes. Among them: yard sales, thrift store shopping, a widespread love of free shampoo, and of course, weekly menu planning.Menu planning, it’s argued, will streamline evenings in the home. Ma and Pa are saved money, time, and mounds of frustration because they know what the brood’s having for dinner days ahead of time. There’s no scrambling in the kitchen or supermarket, since both shopping and cooking are refined to a science. Kids (sometimes) get to have a say in what they eat, too, which makes the whole thing a family activity rather than merely a parental chore.All in all, it’s a fantastic strategy....

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Posted in: Buying Food,Cooking,Frugality,Organization

Top Ten Links of the Week: 9/17/10 - 9/23/10

1) BBC: UN Holds Key Meeting on Food PricesToday in Rome, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is gathering, “sparked by global fears about high food prices.” Among their concerns: the Russian export ban due to recent drought, riots in Mozambique over high grain prices, and the continually rising price of grain-currently at a two-year high.2) Food Politics: A Decent Food Safety System: Will we ever get one?Marion Nestle explains how politics shapes and hinders U.S. food policy, and wonders if we will ever get it right.3) MOMA: Counter Space: Design + the Modern KitchenA new exhibit at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art explores how...

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Strong Legs Critical to Health

Strength, Endurance, BalanceNEW: February 2011 -While traditional Chinese exercise for toning legs requires no weights or exercise equipment, there are many excellent Chinese-style exercises that can tone, firm and strengthen your legs from your thighs to your ankles. SOURCECirque du Soleil   NEW: 24 September 2010 - from Matthew Scott, Chinese Health ExercisesAccording to traditional Chinese medical wisdom you are only as old as your legs.Chinese medical wisdom also says if you strengthen your legs you can slow down the affects of aging and stop certain health problems.Naturally, there are many traditional Chinese exercises...

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Posted in: exercise,prevent hip fracture,strong legs

Veggie Might: Easy Tomato Sauce

Penned by the effervescent Leigh, Veggie Might is a weekly Thursday column about the wide world of Vegetarianism.For years I avoided making my own tomato pasta sauce based on several misconceptions:1) Jarred sauce is fine2) Making homemade tomato sauce is hard3) You have to be Italian with instinctual sauce know-howLet’s debunk these one at a time.1) Jarred sauce is fine if you like bland sauce and don’t mind spending just as much time and effort “perking up” what comes out of the jar as you would making a batch from scratch. Plus, jarred sauces are high in sodium and preservatives that keep the smiling at you on the shelf for a good long time....

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Posted in: Dips and Sauces,Vegan,Vegetarian,Veggie Might