We feel a little torn about these silly food holidays. On the one hand, who needs an entire month commemorating frozen food? And in the other palm is a deep appreciation for nationally sanctioned encouragement to consume our favorite foods. Thank you, National Meatball Day. We're thinking outside the pasta box with ten recipes that will speak to your meatball mood, whether you're longing for "Lady and the Tramp"-style tradition or the recipe that will keep you from calling Szechuan Delight (again).
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By The Editors of EatingWell Magazine | Shine Food – Thu, Mar 7, 2013 4:58 PM EST
By Wendy Ruopp, Managing Editor of EatingWell
A few years ago we asked some of our favorite EatingWell contributors to share healthy breakfast recipes from their part of the world. Darina Allen--chef, cookbook author and director of the legendary Irish cooking school Ballymaloe in County Cork--sent us her recipe for Irish Soda Bread, with this letter:
"On Sunday morning I love to cook a huge Irish breakfast--rashers and sausage and some lovely fresh eggs from the "Palais de Poulets," our swanky sounding but rather ordinary hen house here at Ballymaloe…. Perhaps best of all, the meal is completed with fresh-baked Irish soda bread.
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"While the kettle of spring water on our ancient Aga cooker is coming to the boil, I start by measuring out some flour for the soda bread, then go to the pantry for the jug of thick buttermilk from our Jersey cow. The bread is mixed in seconds in the beamy plastic washing-up bowl we keep for the purpose.
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Skip the mall or the airport and make these buttery baked treats at home insteadWhat's your favorite thing about going to the mall? If you're like the Cook editors at The Daily Meal, it's probably not the stores, but that sweet, baked, buttery aroma wafting through the air that can only come from one place: Auntie Anne's Pretzels.
There's no mistaking that smell, and many can agree that there's nothing better… except maybe the taste of an Auntie Anne's pretzel. These pretzels have been charming their way into Americans' hearts since 1988, when founders Anne and Jonas Beiler developed the recipe for a farmers' market they purchased in Lancaster, Pa. Today, the same recipe is used at all Auntie Anne's locations, ensuring that the unique and popular taste that made it such a hit more than 20 years ago will be in every bite of your pretzel.
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Beware of bacon. Photo: Getty Images/Flickr/Cara SlifkaYou know in your gut (and your gut knows it, too) that bacon is bad for you. And yet you can’t resist. But a new study might make it easier. It found that consuming high amounts of the breakfast favorite and other processed meats can raise your risk of premature death by 44 percent.
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The research, conducted by scientists across 10 European countries, included tracking the health of more than 450,000 participants over the course of a decade or more. Of the 26,000-plus who died during those years, the ones who ate the most processed meats—5.5 ounces or more every day of bacon (so, five strips), sausage, hotdogs, salami, ham and the like—were 44 percent more likely to have died than those who ate little or none. In other terms, the meats were to blame in about 1 in 30 deaths, the main causes of which were cancer and heart disease.
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