Brining the Turkey
To properly brine a turkey you need to start the night before you plan to cook. You will need at least 10 to 12 hours (plan on 1 hour per pound of turkey), a container large enough to hold your turkey and enough brine to cover it. You’ll...
Timing on Thanksgiving Day
If you choose to stuff your turkey, stuff loosely. The stuffing should be moist, not dry, since heat destroys bacteria more rapidly in a moist environment. Place stuffed turkey in oven immediately. You may also cook the stuffing outside the bird in a casserole. Judging cooking time for your...
Milk and Melamine
The U.S. FDA is blocking the import of all milk products from China. Not just milk, but “milk-derived ingredients and finished food products containing milk from China due to the presence of melamine and/or melamine analogs”. In September 2008, several companies were implicated in a scandal involving milk and...
Smelling Flavor
Unilever Food and Health Research Institute wants to put chemical odorants in your food, so you will perceive it as a healthy food option. Here’s the article.Their researchers picked commercially available odorants that corresponded to 15 salty food tastes. These included:sardine, bacon, anchovy, peanuts, tuna, Roquefort cheese, ham, chicken,...
Schedule troubles
I was teaching a group on the Path program a couple of nights ago. One of the participants, who is really doing well, nevertheless has a wicked schedule. She’s always moving from one asdpect of her job to another, with only a 10 minute break — where she can...
Genetically Modified ANIMALS for Food
You’re never going to believe this (here’s the article). You know how genetic engineers can take recombinant DNA of one plant, and splice it into another, and give us GMO corn? And, weirder still, they can even put fish genes into our corn (and do!!). Now there are hopes...
Diet and Fat
We have to confront one of our must cherished notions about weight and health — regarding the dietary demon of fat. This article, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (reviewed in this article), helps to unlinking fat in the diet from fat on your hips. Researchers followed...
Dose-up the Children
Our culture of health seems to adopt a “give pills first, ask questions later” mentality. In other words, treat with a product (drugs), rather than with a process (behavioral therapy). I know, I know, this is not universally true. However, it is alarmingly common. For example, this article reports...
Concert Waif
I'm at the idina Menzel concert. The person selling the T-shirts for the warmup act is a waif. Nice girl, but a complete bird, with wrists like pencils. you just hope that she's that way because of the genetic cards she was dealt, and not because she's trying. Sent...
Foods To Help Lower Blood Pressure
High blood pressure is not just about the sodium anymore. The factor you can increase … to decrease … your blood pressure, turns out to be foods with Potassium. Blood pressure is increased by eating more Sodium (please note: the principle source of Sodium in the U.S. diet comes...
Rum-Glazed Sweet Potato Pudding
This is a jazzed up sweet potato dish. A fun and yummy complement to the holiday meal. You’ll Need: 1/3 cup sweet or dry sherry or Madeira 2/3 cup raisins 2 pounds sweet potatoes, baked, boiled or steamed until tender ½ cup unsalted butter, melted 4 large eggs 2...