16 chicken drumsticks (about 4 pounds), skinned, if desired
116 ounce bottle buffalo wing hot sauce (2 cups)
1/4cup tomato paste
2tablespoons white or cider vinegar
2tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
18 ounce carton dairy sour cream
1/2cup mayonnaise
1/2cup crumbled blue cheese (2 ounces)
1/4 – 1/2teaspoon cayenne pepper or bottled hot pepper sauce
Celery sticks
Directions
Place drumsticks in a 4- or 5-quart slow cooker. In a medium bowl, combine hot sauce, tomato paste, vinegar, and Worcestershire sauce. Pour over chicken in cooker.
Cover and cook on low-heat setting for 6 to 8 hours or on high-heat setting for 3 to 4 hours.
Meanwhile, in a small bowl, combine sour cream, mayonnaise, blue cheese, and cayenne pepper. Reserve half of the blue cheese dip (3/4 cup); store as directed below. Cover and chill the remaining dip until ready to serve.
Using a slotted spoon, remove drumsticks from cooker. Skim fat from cooking juices. Reserve eight of the drumsticks and 1 cup of the cooking juices; store as directed below. Serve remaining drumsticks with some of the remaining cooking juices, the remaining blue cheese dip, and celery sticks. Makes 4 servings and reserves.
From the Test Kitchen
TO STORE RESERVES:
Place blue cheese dip in an airtight container. Remove skin and meat from drumsticks, discarding bones. Using two forks, shred chicken (2-1/2 to 3 cups). Place shredded chicken and the 1 cup cooking juices in a second airtight container. Seal and chill for up to 3 days.
Breaking News: drinking Red Bull will not give you wings. That, despite all the advertisements you may have seen on television or heard on radio claiming that drinking the popular energy drink “gives you wings.”
Between the years of January 1st 2002 October 3rd 2014, the advertising catch phrase “Red Bull gives you wings,” apparently had people buying the drinks looking to capitalize on a world of energy and wings. Some of these people took the phrase and claims by Red Bull so seriously, that they took the company to court and eventually received a $13 million settlement.
So if you are one of these people that got duped into buying the drink, you too are entitled to collect on this settlement and you don’t even need a receipt.
In his lawsuit, one of the consumers wrote that “such deceptive conduct and practices mean that [Red Bull’s] advertising and marketing is not just ‘puffery’ but is instead deceptive and fraudulent and is therefore actionable.”
In a statement, the company maintains its position that it was not trying to mislead the buyer.
“Red Bull settled the lawsuit to avaid the cost and distraction of litigation. However, Red Bull maintains that its marketing and labeling have always been truthful and accurate, and denies any and all wrongdoing or liability.”
According to terms of the lawsuit, each Red Bull consumer will get either $10 cash payment or $15 worth of Red Bull products.
Is soda really bad for you? Yes. Very bad. All of it: Pepsi, Coke, Sprite, Seven Up, Mountain Dew, Root Beer. It’s all bad for you. How do you know? Pick up a can or bottle and read the ingredients. 2-methylimidazole. Do you know what that is? You’re not supposed to know. You’re not supposed to read the ingredients.
Let’s start with how much sugar there is in soda. Except they don’t say sugar. Aspartame, cyclamate, saccharine, acesulfame-k, sucralose, by any other name it’s sugar and it’s all nutritionally empty and it all contributes to obesity and diabetes. And it’s addicting. Those soda execs are no dummies.
Consider also that all colas contain phosphates or phosphoric acid. Too much of these can lead to heart or kidney problems and trigger accelerated aging.
The artificial sweeteners don’t break down in our bodies. They end up in waste treatment facilities and then in our waterways. The bromated vegetable oil in Mountain Dew (called BVO) is an industrial chemical known to cause memory loss and nerve disorder.
Aspartame raises blood glucose levels and when your liver has too much glucose, the excess becomes body fat. Non diet sodas can cause fat build up around your liver and your skeletal muscles.
Aluminum cans are lined with a resin called bisphenol. It’s known to interfere with hormones and linked to obesity, diabetes and some kinds of reproductive cancer.
The caramel coloring in brown colas contains 2-methylimidozole and 4-methylimidazole. They have been found to cause cancer in animals.
There are so many other things you can drink besides soda. Is the health risk worth it? Read the ingredients on your next can of soda. Do you know what they are? Do you know what effect they have on your body? Do you trust the big soda companies to have your best interests in mind?
Spread out your morning calories for better fat-burning and faster weight loss.
Eating frequently throughout the day is nothing new. “Grazing” and “mini meals” were once all the rage for those who wanted to control hunger, lose weight, or simply eat healthier. Recently, health gurus have been encouraging a slightly different take on this approach. Now, it’s all about breakfast.
We all know breakfast is supposed to be the most important meal of the day. Drummed into our heads since we were kids, eating in the morning will jump start our metabolism and provide some much needed nourishment after a night of “fasting.” For dieters, it can be doubly important. Two breakfasts could be the key to better fat-burning and weight loss. Here’s why:
Breakfast # 1: Begin Burning Calories
Contrary to popular belief among coffee lovers, it’s carbohydrates, not caffeine, that your body needs in the morning.* Not a lot, but just enough to get you going. A small bowl of high-fiber cereal (healthy carbs) with low-fat milk (lean protein) is enough to start your engines and begin burning calories. Anything too heavy in the carb department, like a stack of pancakes, will have the opposite effect — you’ll be sent back to sleepy land once your insulin levels plummet.
Breakfast # 2: Crush the Cravings
Mid-morning food cravings are typical for everyone, especially dieters, and can lead to poor choices like a dip into the office kitchen’s donut box. The ideal second breakfast is a combination of healthy protein and high fiber to quell any hunger and encourage continued weight-loss. A turkey sausage patty on a whole grain English muffin is perfect. A smear of spicy mustard, which research suggests might increase metabolism, will boost to your body’s ability to burn fat.
Get Lean for Lunch
Eating two small healthy breakfasts will keep you happy until lunch. Too many dieters live for their lunch break, eat too quickly, and still end up unsatisfied. But if you’ve got two excellent breakfasts under your belt, your diet lunch will be a breeze to stick to and you’ll be set up for an alert and energized afternoon.
Sources:
*Pasman W et al. “Effect of two breakfasts, different in carbohydrate composition, on hunger and satiety and mood in healthy men”
Karl Franz Williams shows off drink ingredients at his Harlem bar.
Harlem barman Karl Franz Williams hopes to open an establishment in New Haven—with the New Haven crowd as not just customers, but seed donors, as well.That was the message the 38-year old self-described “mixologist” and Yale grad sent to New Haveners in an hour-long conversation Sunday at his Harlem bar, 67 Orange Street at at 2082 Frederick Douglass Blvd. He is hoping to raise the starting funds for his new New Haven bar through “crowdfunding,” a method of gathering individual donations online from community members rather than traditional investors.
He plans to call the “Bar Philosophi” as a tribute to the city’s intellectual footprint. The bar will have drinks “inspired by conversation-inducing writers and philosophers” that will have a story, and each story a historical figure – “a writer of note,” as well as a dinner menu of “elevated food.”
He declined to give the new bar’s address since he has not yet officially signed a lease. He did say that he is looking at space in the Chapel West neighborhood.
He chose Upper Chapel, he said, because it is nearby the high-scale New Haven hotel The Study at Yale, as well as the African American Cultural Center at Yale, where he spent a good deal of time as a student.
As of Monday, Williams had raised 2 percent of his $150,000 goal from 18 donors. Williams said he prefers to start with the crowdfunding method, as it will ensure that, from the start, his bar has a connection with the New Haven community that he will serve.
And now this. Something we’ve all been doing since the beginning of time is now bad for us. We’ve all been told to thoroughly wash our food before cooking or eating, but according to a new study conducted by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) in the United Kingdom, washing raw chicken before cooking could potentially kill you!
When washed, campylobacter from raw chicken can be transferred into water droplets, which may splash onto neighboring surfaces, hands, clothing, and cooking utensils. If the campylobacter bacteria are ingested directly or via unwashed cutting boards and utensils, they can cause campylobacteriosis, characterized by symptoms such as diarrhea, abdominal pain, cramping, and fever.
Though some people experience no symptoms from campylobacter, in rare cases, the bacteria can spread to the bloodstream and cause a life-threatening infection. This infection is more likely to occur in people with weak immune systems, young children, and the elderly.
Campylobacter can also be a precursor to other conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome, reactive arthritis, and Guillain-Barré syndrome, a debilitating disease of the nervous system.
The chances are, if you are reading this, you have been to your GP, had a blood test and been told to reduce your cholesterol. If that’s not you, it might be someone you know – as about 60 per cent of the British population have blood cholesterol levels that increase the risk of heart disease.
The reason you’ve been told to get your levels down is to reduce that risk. So what now?
Last week in You magazine, we revealed how certain foods can lower cholesterol, with exclusive extracts from the first recipe book to combine them into a diet which could transform your health.
Dr Laura Carr and Ian Marber have written a book, Eat Your Way To Lower Cholesterol, published by Orion
This week, we explain exactly how much of each ingredient you need to eat, alongside more delicious meals for the whole family.
It is important to realize that although you need to know what your cholesterol level is, numbers are not everything. The risk of heart disease depends on a number of factors that also include genetic predisposition, smoking cigarettes, diabetes, high blood pressure, lack of exercise and obesity.
In fact, the majority of those who suffer a heart attack have cholesterol levels that are considered ‘normal’. Even so, cholesterol is a fundamental part of the problem.
If your doctor has recommended medication in the form of statins, you should follow that advice. But whether or not drug treatment is needed, lifestyle is fundamentally important.
A central part of lowering risk is diet – but it’s not all about cutting out foods.
Building certain ingredients into your diet can actually lower cholesterol and reduce the risk of heart disease and strokes.
We have looked at the most up-to-date international research and identified six foods for which there is the best evidence for this.
There are some foods, including nuts, olive and rapeseed oils, that may stop LDL from causing damage
Studies have shown a reduction in LDL cholesterol (the bad type, see below) by as much as 20 per cent in three months when a combination of these foods was taken with a healthy diet. And the more often the foods were eaten, the greater the benefit.
With the help of dietician Dr Sarah Schenker, we have included these foods in healthy, easy-to-prepare, delicious recipes – featured in the new book Eat Your Way To Lower Cholesterol. Our hope is that everyone will enjoy them – whether or not they need help with their heart.
What is cholesterol anyway?
People think of cholesterol simply as a bad thing, but it’s not. In fact, this fatty, waxy substance is essential for building cells and is also needed to make sex and stress hormones.
Most cholesterol in the blood is produced by the liver, which manufactures it from almost any food you eat. The liver adjusts the amount it makes in response to the amount of cholesterol circulating in the blood.
This is why, when cholesterol-containing foods like eggs or shellfish are eaten, in most people the blood cholesterol doesn’t change – as the liver simply makes less.
As well as releasing cholesterol directly into the blood, the liver uses some cholesterol to make bile, a digestive fluid secreted into the gut that helps us absorb fat from the food we eat.
Bile cholesterol is either re-absorbed and recycled by the liver, or is passed out as waste.
We all know that oil and water don’t mix, and because cholesterol is a type of fat, and blood is mostly water, they wouldn’t get along without an important addition. In order for the cholesterol to be transported easily in the bloodstream, the liver coats it in proteins.
The resulting tiny balls of fat are known as lipoproteins, and it is these we are usually referring to when we talk about cholesterol.
This is my fool proof coconut fried rice recipe, the secret to good fried rice is to make sure the prepared rice is completely cool before mixing it into the stir fried vegetables.
Ingredients:
Coconut milk – 2 cups
Rice – 2 cups
Water or Stock – 1 cup
Maggi – 2 cubes
Salt- To taste
Curry, thyme and nutmeg – 1/2 teaspoon each
Oil – 1/4 cup
Onion (chopped) – 1/2 of a medium
Mixed vegetables – 1 cup
Green pepper (chopped) – 1 large
Shrimps pre cooked (optional) – 1 cup
Directions:
Place a pot on medium heat, add in the coconut milk, water, salt, curry, thyme , nutmeg and one maggi cube. Combine.
Cover the pot until the mixture comes to a rolling boil
Add in the rice. Simmer on below medium heat until rice is cooked and there is no more liquid in the rice . Set aside to cool
In a large skillet, heat up the oil. Add in the chopped onions, green pepper , maggi and mixed vegetable. Stir fry for 3- 5 minutes
Add in already cooked rice and shrimps. Combine.
Taste and adjust for seasoning. Simmer for 3 more minutes.
Serve with Fish and Plantain.
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