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AROUND THE KITCHEN TABLE
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Welcome to another issue of Around the Kitchen Table! This issue includes a sugar-free cocoa mix, chocolate fudge, ciders, some low carbohydrate recipes, and cranberry recipes. Several of these recipes make fabulous homemade gifts for the holidays! Tell me your Christmas wish to enter this month's contest. Remember to get some exercise during the holidays and the cold winter months. Take a brisk walk, make a snowman or have a snowball fight with the kids, go to the gym, walk around the mall several times, park your car at the far end of the parking lot when you go shopping, or rake leaves. Moderate exercise is one of the best gifts you can give yourself! Did your Thanksgiving dinner taste delicious and turn out the way you'd planned? Need help with holiday dinners? This issue has more helpline phone numbers - turkey, yeast, chocolate, cranberries, butter! Place your Watkins orders by December 14 to receive them in time for Christmas. If you are looking for that last minute gift for the special cook on your list, send them a Watkins gift certificate. Gift certificates come in one dollar increments from $10 to $100. Each gift certificate arrives with a beautiful Watkins mainline catalog and there is no shipping fee! Call 1-800-WATKINS to order gift certificates or place product orders. If you have any cooking or recipe questions just send me an email. I'll be happy to answer them or ask our readers for help. If you are interested in starting your own Watkins Home Business get all the details at: Watkins Business Details For a few highlights about the Watkins business Business Highlights Build your own home business so you can stay home with your family, retire early, pay off bills, or save for retirement. With consistent effort you can build a thriving business! Let me help you.
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Staving Off Diabetes Diabetes has increased tenfold in the United States in the past 30 years and so has pre-diabetes, previously called borderline diabetes. Dietary changes are important in helping obese and other at-risk people avoid diabetes, but physical exercise may be even more important. "Exercise improves your insulin sensitivity, helps the body better metabolize glucose and keeps people at risk of diabetes out of the danger zone," says University of Alabama at Birmingham endocrinologist Richard Rosenthal, MD. Exercise that builds lean body mass, such as weight training, yoga or Pilates, can further improve insulin sensitivity, making it a helpful complement to aerobic exercise such as walking or running. He emphasizes that people with pre-diabetes should try to exercise for a minimum of 20 to 30 minutes every day. Winter Foods That Boost Health Take advantage of seasonal vegetables to boost your potassium intake. Winter squashes such as acorn squash and butternut squash are high in potassium, a mineral your body needs to support cardiovascular, bone, and kidney health. Add cubed or mashed squash to soups, stews, casseroles, and stir-frys for extra flavor and nutrition. One cup of cubed squash contains almost 900 milligrams of potassium. Winter squash varieties include acorn, spaghetti, butternut, turnip, hubbard, banana, and carnival. These potassium-rich gourds can be baked, boiled, or steamed until the flesh is tender. Serve up squash as a side dish by pureeing butternut squash with a bit of olive oil, lime juice, and nutmeg. Or, serve it up as the main course by making a savory soup out of butternut squash, carrots, apples, sweet potatoes, olive oil, chives, and spices. Other good sources of potassium include dried peaches and apricots, potatoes, bananas, watermelon, tomato paste, and yogurt. RealAge - 11/30/2005 Fighting the Flu When you get hit with the rapid onset of achy muscles, extreme fatigue, and a temperature, there's little doubt you've got the flu. A cold, in contrast, causes symptoms like a runny nose, sore throat, and cough — symptoms that are not characteristic of the flu. As the temperature drops and winter inches closer, the flu becomes a very real threat. But with forethought and awareness (and a little luck), you may be able to fend off the flu this year. We're more susceptible to illness when we're run down, so whether you get a cold or the flu or stay healthy this winter, be sure to drink plenty of fluids and get lots of rest. Take Watkins Rezist Plus to stay healthy through the holidays and winter months. Rezist Plus boosts the immune system and enhances the body's natural defenses to help ease allergy symptoms and hedaches. It also works to ease lactose intolerance and gas and bloating while helping to maintain normal cholesterol levels. 02270 Rezist Plus (30 day supply) $17.99
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Holiday Cooking Helplines Do you need cooking help? These helpful phone numbers will connect you to a live person. You can call any of the following help lines during the fall and winter holiday months to find information on turkey roasting and other holiday food preparations. If you call after hours, you'll be able to choose from an automated menu of topics.
Butterball Turkey Talk-Line: 1-800-BUTTERBALL
Cook's illustrated Help Site
Honeysuckle White Help Line:1-800-810-6325
Perdue Farms: 1-800-473-7383
USDA Meat and Poultry Hotline: 1-888-674-6854
Reynolds Turkey Line: 1-800-745-4000
Fleischmann's Yeast Baker's Help Line:1-800-777-4959
Land O'Lakes Holiday Bake Line: 1-800-782-9606
Hershey's Consumer Hot Line: 1-800-468-1714
Betty Crocker Hotline:1-888-ASK-BETTY or 1-888-275-2388
Libby Consumer Hot Line: 1-800-854-0374
Ocean Spray Consumer Helpline:1-800-662-3263 Source: http://busycooks.about.com/library/archive/blhelplines.htm
Sugar-Free Cocoa Mix
2 cups Nonfat Dry Milk Powder Combine dry ingredients. Place in a zip baggie or air tight container and store up to three months.
To use mix For a holiday gift: Place mix in a jar or decorative container. Print instructions on a decorative card and attach to mix. Cover jar lid with holiday fabric and ribbon. If you do counted cross stitch you can cross stitch a holiday design to place on the jar lid for those very special gifts. Per Serving 115 Calories; 1g Fat (6.4% calories from fat); 7g Protein; 22g Carbohydrate; 2g Dietary Fiber; 3mg Cholesterol; 95mg Sodium. Exchanges: 0 Grain(Starch); 0 Lean Meat; 1/2 Non-Fat Milk; 0 Fat; 1/2 Other Carbohydrates. Cinnamon Sippin' Cider
3 cups apple cider or apple juice In a medium saucepan combine apple cider or apple juice, cranberry juice cocktail, and stick cinnamon. Bring to boiling; reduce heat. Simmer, uncovered, for 5 minutes. Remove stick cinnamon before serving. Makes 4 servings.
Nutrition facts per serving Mulled Cranberry Cider
1 small orange
Nutrition facts per serving Apple-Berry Cider
8 cups apple cider or apple juice In a large saucepan combine the apple cider or juice, raspberries or strawberries, the 4 inches stick cinnamon, and the cloves. Bring to boiling and reduce heat. Cover and simmer for 10 minutes. Strain through a sieve lined with 100-percent-cotton cheesecloth. To serve, pour the cider into heat-proof glasses or cups. If desired, garnish each serving with a cinnamon stick and apple wedge. Makes 11 (6-ounce) servings.
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Winter Fruits Cranberries Cranberries are good for more than just a tasty holiday side dish. In addition to being a rich source of cancer-fighting phytochemicals, cranberries can also prevent urinary tract infections. In fact, this age-old folk cure is backed by solid scientific evidence; studies show a group of phytochemicals unique to cranberries prevents harmful bacteria from sticking to the lining of the urinary tract, thereby preventing these painful infections.
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1 cup frozen cranberry juice cocktail concentrate, thawed Combine cranberry juice concentrate and sugar in medium saucepan. Bring to boil over high heat, stirring until sugar dissolves. Add fresh and dried cranberries and cook until dried berries begin to soften and fresh berries begin to pop, stirring often, about 7 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in orange marmalade, orange juice, orange peel and allspice. Cool completely. Cover; chill until cold, about 2 hours. Can be made 3 days ahead. Keep refrigerated. Makes about 2 1/2 cups. Classic Cranberry Nut Bread
2 cups flour Preheat oven to 350°. Grease 9x5-inch loaf pan. Mix together flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and baking soda in a medium mixing bowl. Stir in orange juice, orange peel, shortening, egg, and extract. Mix until well blended. Stir in cranberries and nuts. Spread evenly in loaf pan. Bake for 55 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool on a rack for 15 minutes. Remove from pan; cool completely. Wrap and store overnight. Makes 1 loaf. If you prefer not to add nuts to the recipe, the vanilla nut extract adds a delicious nutty flavor. Cranberry Apple Crisp
5 cups sliced tart apples (about 6 medium apples) Preheat oven to 375°. Lightly grease a 9-inch square baking pan. Pare and core apples. Layer apples and cranberries in pan sprinkling with sugar as you layer. Mix flour, brown sugar, and cinnamon. Work in butter until light and crumbly. Sprinkle topping evenly over apples and cranberries. Bake 45 minutes or until apples are tender. Makes 9 servings. Brown Butter Creamy Apple Pie
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Autumn Pumpkin Soup
1 pound onions, chopped Saute the onions and mushrooms in 1/4 cup of the butter in a large saucepan until the onions are tender. Transfer the undrained onion mixture to a bowl. Heat the remaining 1/4 cup butter in the same saucepan until melted. Add the flour and mix well. Whisk in the stock gradually. Cook until thickened, stirring constantly. Stir in the onion mixture, pumpkin, curry powder, salt and pepper. Add the half-and-half and honey and mix well. Cook just until heated through, stirring frequently. Ladle into soup bowls. Garnish each serving with a dollop of sour cream and minced fresh parsley. Serve with hot crusty French bread. Serves 10 - 12 . Chocolate Fudge
2-1/2 cups/625 mL sugar Line a 9-inch/23-cm square baking dish with foil so foil extends over sides of pan; spray with Watkins Cooking Spray. In large saucepan, combine sugar, butter and milk. Bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring constantly. Continue boiling 5 minutes, stirring constantly; remove from heat. Add marshmallow creme and chocolate chips; blend until smooth. Stir in walnuts and extracts. Pour into prepared pan; cool to room temperature. Score fudge into 48 squares. Refrigerate until firm. Remove fudge from pan by lifting foil; carefully peel off foil. Cut with knife through scored lines. Store in airtight container in refrigerator with waxed paper between layers. Makes 48 pieces.
Variation Butterscotch Fudge: Substitute 12 oz/340 g butterscotch chips for chocolate chips, pecans for walnuts, and Watkins Caramel Extract for Vanilla Nut Extract. If you prefer not to add nuts to this recipe, add one of Watkins nut extracts for a rich nutty flavor. Watkins nut extracts include Almond, Black Walnut, Butternut, Butter Pecan, or Vanilla Nut. Low Carb Recipes I don't know about you but I tend to add a few pounds during the winter months. I eat more when I'm cold. The following are low carbohydrate recipes to help you keep the weight off. Cranberry Apple Oat Bar
3 cups rolled oats Blend first 4 ingredients; set aside. Beat brown sugar, applesauce and margarine, in large bowl, on high until smooth. Stir-in flour mixture until crumbly. Press half into bottom of greased pan; reserve other half. Bake in preheated 350-degree F oven 15 minutes. Place cranberries, apple juice, apples and cinnamon in small saucepan; soak 20 minutes. Boil over medium-high heat 5 minutes until tender, stirring occasionally. Spread hot fruit over crust; crumble remaining crust mixture over fruit. Bake at 350 degrees F 20 to 25 minutes until light brown. Makes 48 bars. Per serving (1 bar): 70 Calories; 13g Carbohydrates; 1g Dietary Fiber; 1.5g Fat (0g Saturated Fat); 1g Protein; 0mg Cholesterol; 115mg Sodium; Apricot and Almond Cream Cake
1 cup butter (at room temperature) Butter and line two 8-inch round baking pans with baking paper. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Mix the first eight ingredients together in a food processor until smooth. Divide the mixture between the two baking pans, level the tops and bake for about 30 minutes until firm in the center. Remove from the oven and leave on a cooling rack for five minutes before loosening with a knife and turning out onto the racks. Peel off the baking paper and leave to cool completely. When cooled, whip the cream until fairly thick and "spreadable." Drain the apricots and chop into small chunks, then mix them into the whipped cream. Turn one of the cakes upside down and spread the cream mixture over it (like buttering a piece of bread!) Place the other cake on top of the cream and press lightly to sandwich the cakes together. Serve cut into wedges. Serves 10. You could use any fruit or low calorie fruit jam for the filling for this cake. Per serving (one slice): 6.2g carbohydrates; 2.4g fiber; 7.3g protein; 34.7g fat; 355 calories One-Bowl Peanut Butter Cookies
1 cup natural peanut butter Cream peanut butter, butter, and Splenda. Stir in oat flour and baking powder. Beat in the egg. Chill dough in refrigerator for 30 minutes. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Shape dough into one-inch diameter balls. Place 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet. Flatten by pressing with the tines of a fork in alternate directions. Bake for 12-15 minutes. Makes two dozen. Per serving: 3.2g carbohydrates; 0.7g fiber; 3.1g protein; 6.9g fat; 12.8mg cholesterol; 67.4mg sodium; 82.3 calories
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