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Recipe Redux: Homemade Honey Beef Jerky
By Megan Kian
This past January I spent a few days with some close friends in Arizona. As we trekked through the beautiful “red rocks” that comprise Sedona, we scrounged up energy for a three-hour hike from the jerky we had bought in a town nearby. Beef jerky is easy to make, a great source of protein, and low in fat. This month’s Recipe ReDux focused on the use of maple syrup and honey, a great excuse to make some delicious homemade honey beef jerky!
Ingredients:
½ lb. flank steak
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon… read more »
Myths and Truths About Sweeteners
While I was at the ADA conference, I attended a session entitled “10 Sweetener Myths” presented by registered dietitians Carolyn O’Neil, MS, RD (you may recognize her as the “Lady of the Refrigerator” on Alton Brown’s Good Eats) and Kristine Clark, PhD, RD, FACSM, Director of Sports Nutrition at Penn State. Sweeteners always seem to be a hot topic for people — I get many questions about the safety of them, which are the best to use, do they make you crave more sw… read more »
Real Maple Syrup
I don’t use syrup that often, but when it comes to breakfast foods like pancakes, waffles, and french toast, I can’t resist. Unfortunately, the type of syrup you find in many diners and restaurants, the kind most advertised on TV and in supermarket circulars, and the easiest to find on supermarket shelves, is not real maple syrup. Instead, it’s artificial syrup made from not very nutritious ingredients.
The first few ingredients in those “pancake syrup” and com… read more »
It’s Greek To Me
Earlier this week I told you about the benefits of honey and promised you a great recipe using the nutritioulicious™, nutritious and delicious, sweetener. So here it is: Yogurt Cake with Honey Syrup. The inspiration for this Greek recipe was my honeymoon to Greece in July, and last week Andy and I made a Greek dinner with Greek salad, spanakopita (aka spinach pie), Psari Plaki (baked fish with tomatoes, red peppers, onions, and garlic), and this cake, which was my first baking experience!
Yogurt Cak… read more »
Oh Honey!
During the Jewish New Year in September, honey is used in cooking, added to the traditional challah bread, and spread on the new fruit we eat, all to symbolize a sweet new year. But is honey better for you than plain ole sugar?
The short answer is no — honey is not nutritionally better for you than sugar. In fact, honey is a form of sugar. Both honey and table sugar are simple carbohydrates made up of two sugar molecules, fructose and glucose. Honey contains a greater proportion of fructose than table sugar… read more »
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