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Recipe: Healthy Salad Dressings

Most commercial salad dressings are full of saturated fats, hydrogenated oils and preservatives. It is quick and easy to make up several batches of your own healthy salad dressings to keep handy. I even use a miniature bottle to keep some in my purse if I want to eat salad out and don’t like the choices for dressing the restaurant offers.

Save your old jam jars or small pickle jars and store your dressings in them. They are perfect to give the dressing a quick shake, then serve over favorite greens.

Salad Photo, healthy salad dressing

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Recipe: Tofu Scramble With Veggies And Dulse

Dulse is a red algae (seaweed) that grows on the northern coasts of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It is a well-known snack food, and in Iceland and has been an important source of fiber through the centuries. Dulse is a good source of minerals and vitamins compared with other vegetables and it contains all trace elements needed for humans with a high protein content. This tofu scamble with veggies and dulse can be eaten as a substitute for scrambled eggs.

tofu scramble with veggies and dulse

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Recipe: Roasted Asparagus and Red Bell Peppers With Sesame Seeds

Asparagus has been used from very early times as a culinary vegetable, owing to its delicate flavour and diuretic properties. There is a recipe for cooking asparagus in the oldest surviving book of recipes, Apicius’s 3rd century AD De re coquinaria, Book III (from Wikipedia).

Asparagus rhizomes and roots are used in Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda to treat urinary tract infections, as well as kidney and bladder stones.

roasted asparagus and red pepper recipe

Asparagus – layout it out on a baking pan, drizzle with a bit of sesame oil and roast for 10 minutes or so at 350.
Test for doneness. Put on a serving plate, add sesame seeds (toast them too if you want) and a dash of lime or lemon juice (fresh squeezed if you have it).

Red peppers – cut in half, take out white bits, place face down on a roasting pan and roast for 20 minutes or so, until the skin starts to blister and turn dark brown/black. Don’t roast too high, 300 or so.

These were delicious the next day cold as a salad too!

Asparagus is low in calories, contains no fat or cholesterol, and is very low in sodium. It is good source of folic acid, potassium, fiber, and rutin. The amino acid asparagine gets its name from asparagus, the asparagus plant being rich in this compound.

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