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Sesame Chicken and Snow Peas in Apricot Sauce
Sesame Chicken and Snow Peas in Apricot Sauce #ratingval# from #reviews# reviews Print Recipe Type: Main Author: Jane Fonda Prep time: 10 mins Cook time: 20 mins Total time: 30 mins Serves: 4 “Apricots are an excellent source of beta carotene, one of the antioxidants I encourage you to consumer regularly for overall good health. Keep dried apricots on hand for snacks, especially in winter when the fresh ones are out of season. This sauce is so delicious that you’ll want to try it without the chicken, sponed over steamed vegetables and rice.” Ingredients 2 teaspoons dark sesame oil 3 cloves garlic, minced 1 pound boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut into thin strips 1 tablespoon sesame seeds 1/3 cup sliced dried apricots cup water cup apricot preserves 1 tablespoon reduced-sodium soy sauce 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard teaspoon grated fresh ginger 8 ounces snow peas, ends trimmed Instructions In a large nonstick frying pan, heat the sesame oil over medium heat and sauté the garlic for one minute. Add the chicken to the pan and sauté until browned on the outside and no longer pink in the center, about 5 minutes. Add the sesame seeds to the pan and sauté, stirring frequently, until browned, about 2 minutes. Add the apricots, water, apricot preserves, soy sauce, mustard, and giner and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to low, and simmer for 5 minutes. Add the snow peas and simmer until tender but still somewhat crisp, about 5 minutes. Divide into 4 portions and serve. Calories: 311 Fat: 5g Saturated fat: 1g Carbohydrates: 38g Fiber: 3g Protein: 29g Cholestrol: 66mg Google Recipe View Microformatting by Easy Recipe 1.2.4
Tip of the Week
I eat a healthy breakfast of high fiber, low fat cereals and fruit. I don’t snack much but carry apples and string cheese with me in case I get hungry so I won’t reach for something sugary. I eat something dark green, dark blue or purple, red, yellow, orange every day…each color has different vitamins. I eat lean meat, skinless chicken, fish that’s not endangered . I don’t eat desserts or candy or chips. I drink no sodas of any kind but lots of water.
Phenomenal Talk About Our Food Supply
Robyn shares her personal story and how it inspired her current path as a “Real Food” evangelist. Grounded in a successful Wall Street career that was more interested in food as good business than good-for-you, this mother of four was shaken awake by the dangerous allergic reaction of one of her children to a “typical” breakfast. Her mission to unearth the cause revealed more about the food industry than she could stomach, and impelled her to share her findings with others. Informative and inspiring. About this speaker Robyn authored “The Unhealthy Truth: How Our Food Is Making Us Sick and What We Can Do About It.” A former Wall Street food industry analyst, Robyn brings insight, compassion and detailed analysis to her research into the impact that the global food system is having on the health of our children. She founded allergykidsfoundation.org and was named by Forbes as one of “20 Inspiring Women to Follow on Twitter.” The New York Times has passionately described her as “Food’s Erin Brockovich.” http://allergykidsfoundation.org http://twitter.com/unhealthytruth Before we released our speaker’s names, we featured a series of Speaker Teasers. Here, Robyn’s: Real food, is that too much to ask; Big industry, I take to task; It’s time that we reclaim our plates; from food forced into altered states.
HEADING FOR MY RANCH
July 8th Last night I met up with son Troy for his surprise birthday dinner. He’s not often surprised but his wife, Simone, did a good job of pulling it off. Right now, I am in my car with my daughter and grandchildren and we’re going to spend a week at my ranch in New Mexico. I am thrilled. It’s been too long for all of us. Malcolm’s been saying how much he’s missed the ranch. My friends from South Georgia, Sharon and Howell Ferguson, will join us tomorrow. They, too, are avid fisherpersons and I have a Guide lined up for them. One of my favorite horses, a black and white Tennessee Walker named Geronimo, died last week and was buried in the horse pasture…the second horse burial this year. This has brought home the finiteness of things, including moi. I feel confident that my dog Tulea will live for another decade since she’s small. This week, I intend to ride, hike, fish, write, play with my grandkids. This will be my last blog for a week. I’m taking time off to update my site in order to better service you, my blog family. I am really excited about it and look forward to hearing what you think. Till then, adios.
Holiday in Big Sur
I have long had a relationship with Big Sur. When I was 22 years old, and had a week-long break from filming “Sunday In New York,” I learned to drive so that I could go to Big Sur to find Henry Miller. I had just read a pamphlet he wrote called, “To Paint is to Love Again” (Miller once gave me a painting he did and signed it, “To Miss Jane herself.”) and felt I had to meet him and talk to him. I didn’t find him that first trip. He’d gone to L.A. Later, I saw him on several occasions. He wrote a poem for me, about me, comparing me to a fish (he meant it as a compliment) but I lost it. I drove all day until I got to Big Sur and was exhausted. When I saw a sign saying Big Sur Hot Springs Lodge, I pulled down the steep driveway and spent 6 days there. This was my first encounter with hippies. I was tempted to stay forever, so awed was I by the natural beauty, the inaccessibility of the place, the unusualness of the people. I became close with the man who ran the place, Dick Price. The Hot Springs Lodge became the Esalen Institute and Dick ran that as well until his death in the 80s. I frequently returned to Big Sur to stay with Dick till I moved to France and married my first husband. My second husband, Tom Hayden, and I went there from time to time. We would visit Dick, take him to dinner at the newly built Ventana “hotel.” My 3rd husband, Ted Turner, has a lovely cabin there where we spent many a happy weekend. And now, I went back with Richard and new friends of mine, the Somers , and stayed at Post Ranch which is relatively new and stupendous. So many memories and emotions kept flooding back over the 5 days. Happiness and also sadness. I think the latter was due to the unavoidable sense of time passing, things from the past that will be no more. But happiness prevailed. I took my first Tai Chi class and enjoyed it enough to want to do it more and regularly. Enjoy the photos.
New York Times: Really? The Claim: Pets Can Raise a Child’s Risk of Developing Allergies
THE FACTS Many parents worry that keeping a dog or cat in the house may make a child more likely to develop pet allergies. But the scientific evidence suggests otherwise. Instead, Fido and Whiskers seem to have the reverse effect. Most studies now show that children who are exposed to a pet during their first year have a lower likelihood of developing dog or cat allergies later on in life. In the latest study, appearing this month in the journal Clinical & Experimental Allergy, researchers at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit followed 566 boys and girls from birth until age 18, regularly collecting data from the children’s families about exposure to indoor pets. At the end of the study, the researchers took blood samples and tested the subjects for their allergic sensitization to dogs and cats. The children who had shared a home with a cat in their first year of life were about half as likely to be allergic to cats as those who had not. A decreased risk also was found in boys who lived with a dog as infants, though for some reason the effect was not as strong in girls. The researchers also concluded that exposure at later ages did not make much of a difference — it was exposure in infancy that mattered. “The first year of life is the critical period during childhood when indoor exposure to dogs or cats influences sensitization to these animals,” the study’s authors concluded. click here to read more / complete article
Watch Jane Fonda on Marlo Thomas’ Show “Mondays with Marlo”
Jane Fonda joined me on Mondays with Marlo to talk about her career, activism, fitness programs, and more! click here to watch the video