Take a culinary tour
of the Far East with these authentic stir-fry
creations
Want to get more global flavors into your everyday meals?
Stir-fries are an ideal place to start. Recruiting a wok or large
skillet and the right combination of ingredients can take your
taste buds on a trip to any country on the eastern Pacific Rim.
With the following recipes as your passport, let the authentic
seasonings and fragrant aromas whisk you away.
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Simple tips and smokin’
hot recipes to get you all fired up about grilling
For a long time, barbecue was considered a meat eater’s domain. “At
best, vegetarian grilling was an afterthought,” says Andrea
Chesman, author of The New Vegetarian Grill: 250 Flame-Kissed
Recipes for Fresh, Inspired Meals. “People threw a couple of
veggies on a skewer and that was all you got as a vegetarian
option.”
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"Sex is good, but
not as good as fresh, sweet corn."
—Garrison Keillor
Golden yellow, silver-white, bicolor, red, or blue—choosing the
perfect ear of sweet summer corn has more to do with personal
preferences and regional availability than with the quality of one
variety over another. “Bicolor corn seems to be the most popular
with our customers these days, but some other varieties are just as
good,” affirms Tonya Martisko, owner of Gaeddert Farms in Buhler,
Kan.
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The beneficial
properties of this medicinal plant go more than skin deep.
If you’ve ever squeezed the gel from an aloe vera leaf onto a burn
or bought a cosmetic with aloe as one of the main ingredients, then
you’ve experienced the topical benefits of this common house and… Read More »
Delectable spring delicacy or
fun finger food? Asparagus is both.
Asparagus is a study in contradictions. A snap to prepare, it was
such a delicacy in Victorian times that individual tongs were used
to allow diners to eat it without messing up their hands.
Patience and speed are required to grow asparagus: crowns take
three years to produce the first spears, but at peak season, stalks
can shoot up so fast that they have to be harvested every 24 hours.
And while fresh asparagus need no embellishment, they hold their
own when shaved, blended, grilled, baked, or slathered in a spicy
marinade.
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The root that lends its flavor to everything from ginger ale to
exotic curries is one of the world’s oldest
medicines
If you thought the ginger ale your mom packed for car
rides was just a folk remedy, consider this: In a 2003 study
published in the American Journal of Physiology—Gastrointestinal
and Liver Physiology, volunteers with a history of motion sickness
took 1,000 and 2,000 milligrams of ginger before undergoing
simulated rotation. Ginger not only reduced nausea episodes, but
also quickened recovery time. Ginger was more effective than
Dramamine, a popular motion sickness medicine, in a similar study
published in 1982.
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Move over, berries and
bananas! These power-packed veggie smoothies deliver pure
satisfaction
Vegetarian Times put in a tall
order when we asked chef Elliott Prag to come up with four
vegetable-centric smoothies that met the following requirements:
they could be made without a heavy-duty blender or juicer; they
came in multiple colors (not just green); and they pleased the
demanding palates of our staff.
To our delight, he nailed the assignment. The results were
refreshments we’d blend up for an energizing breakfast or a cool
snack on a hot afternoon. And for all you readers with a juicer,
the recipes can also be made raw—just purée the ingredients and
skip the cooking steps.
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