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7*~ | MmusUnt Munir ]( CLiTe .ijmmtal WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2003 ft/ 10/ carte wmmm gw* Real cocoa for grownups Now that there’s a nip in the air, it’s time for hot cocoa. For those who’ve for gotten about it, or never had it, here’s a timely tip. The “real” stuff is a little more trouble, but well worth it. 1/2 cup sugar 1/3 cup hot water 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa (oi‘ 1/3 cup if you want a deeper chocolate flavor) 4 cups milk 1/8 teaspoon salt 3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract Mix cocoa, sugar, water and salt in a saucepan. Do NOT leave the salt out. Cook until mixture boils and stir until well blended. Add the milk and heat thoroughly (Do not boil). Add vanilla before serving. Makes four cups. Grownups might like to add a little Kahluaha. Peanut butter and what? What do your kids like on their peanut butter sand wiches? If you’ve got a cre ative sandwich maker in your house, here’s a neat contest with a $5,000 savingsj bond for the win ner. Kids, 6-12, are invited to enter the 'W$-- I 'M ii •lap Jif Ultimate Peanut Butter sandwich competition. Entries must include lists of all ingredients, and can include photos or drawings. Check it out at (Jif.com) Taco Soup Here’s an easy taco soup recipe, easy enough for teens to cook, that can be made in minutes and served with corn chips. 1 pound ground beef, browned and drained 1 onion, chopped, browned with ground beef 4 cups tomato juice 1 15-ounce can whole ker nel corn, drained 1 15- ounce can kidney beans, drained 1 8 ounce can tomato sauce 1/2 (1.25 ounce) package taco seasoning mix Directions Cook ground beef and onions together, and drain of any fat. Add the tomato juice, corn, beans, tomato sauce and taco seasoning. Stir well and heat without boiling. New in bamboo Pandas love it, and it grows and replenishes itself about as fast as kudzu. Bamboo is also the latest thing in cutting ■ boards, with naturally honey-colored strips held together by a permanent non-toxic grade clue. To take a look or make an order, see Totallyßamboo.com. Chef Audrey says - Chef Audrey George gets great end results by starting off organized. Here’s her tip for the week: “Before start ing any recipe, measure all ingredients needed and set aside in order to prepare the recipe from beginning to end without interruption. For consistency, fol low the recipe every time. D° not count on your mem ory." Eve, Isaac Newton, Johnny Appleseed Old recipes and new for a time'honored and tempting treat “If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first cre ate the universe. ” Carl Sagan By Charlotte Perkins HHJ Lifestyle Editor From that earliest temp tation until the discovery that they’re packed with antioxidants, apples have had a way of holding their own as a popular favorite. It was, after all, the lowly apple that gave Sir Isaac Newton his brainstorm about gravity, and the hum ble appleseed that John Chapman spread across the new land for future genera tions. And no wonder apples are beloved. They can be eaten raw with known benefits to dental health. They can be dried, crushed for cider, simmered into sauce or but ter, covered with taffy or baked in a pie. Crisp apples also make a great addition to salads and even to stir fries. So, just in time for the harvest, and thanks to the U.S. Apple Association, here are some recipes for apple lovers. Perfect Pie 6 to 8 large tart apples Pastry for 2-crust 9-inch pie 1/2 cups granulated sugar 1/2 cups firmly brown sugar 2 tablespoons flour 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg Grated peel of 1 lem^^Hn| Grated peel of 1 ori«§e; 3 tablespoon but^K^gE, margarine \v V Preheat oven tojHmra Pare and core applcßn^^ inch with^^^^^H Combine sugars. l||Hp nutmeg; rub a httft'sjpj|pKra mixture into pastflp orange and lemon remaining sugar ifiap Arrange apples in pie'dHK'l sprinkling each layeHLrUt/ some of the sugar minßj|9 Dot with butter or wHS: garine. Cut remainingßfß| try into strips 10 long and 2 inches Weave, lattice fashion, ovIH pie filling. Trim and crimpß What khfd of apple eater are you? There are almost as many ways to eat an apple as there are apple varieties. What kind of apple eater are you? Compare your munching method with these apple profiles. Compulsive Wedger: This apple eater can’t eat the apple whole; must have perfect, core-free wedges neatly arranged op a plate. Each wedge must equal one-eighth of an apple. Splitter: This apple eater hates to deal with the core, but isn’t compulsive enough to bother with wedges - just chop the apple in half, remove the core and much contentedly. Muscle-bound types show a off their brute force by m twisting the apple in half® with their bare hands® (though in fact it's really® not that difficult). V Circle Stickler: This \ rebellious sort slices the Food&Style edges. Bake for 30 minutes. Lower temperature to 325 degrees and bake for addi tional 20 to 25 minutes, or until apples are tender. Let cool. Makes 6 servings. Optional: brush top with thin confectioners’ sugar icing; decorate with chopped candied orange peel and chopped glace cherries. Approximate nutritional analysis (per serving): calo ries, 439; fat, 20 g; choles terol, 0 mg; sodium, 254 mg; fiber, 5 g, percent calo ries from fat, 41percent. Source: U.S. Apple Association Peach Baked Apples 6 medium baking apples 1/4 cup peach preserves 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon 1/4 cup apple cider or apple juice 3/4 cup crumbled chewy oatmeal cookies Cut apples in half and core. Plane in 13 x 9 x 2- inch baking pan, cut side up. Combine preserves, cin namon and apple juice or cider. Drizzle over cut sides of apples. Cover pan tightly with foil. Bake in 350 Q F oven about 35 minutes or until apples are just tender. Sprinkle crumbled cookies over cut surface of apples and drizzle with preserve mixture in bottom of pan. Bake 5 minutes longer, uncovered. Serve warm or cold. Can be topped with whipped topping or frozen vanilla yogurt, if desired. Makes 6 servings. This is an official 5 A Day his icwpe is approved by the “5 A Day- For Better Health” Program because it pro vides at least one serving of fruit and/or vegetable per serving, and gets less than 30% of its calories from fat, less than 10% of its calories from saturated fat, has less than 100 mg of cholesterol and not more than 480 mg Approximate nutritional analysis (per serving): calo ries, 23.5; fat, 5 g; choles terol, 0 mg; sodium, 105 mg; fiber; 5 g; percent calo ■ft HA ’ •' ' '. • j’ y y sliced < :’ -. it f across • be found with convenient slices of cheese at hand. This person knows that round apple slices are much better than crackers! Top-to-Bottom Type: This methodical muncher starts at the stem and munches all the way down to the bottom. He doesn’t change the apple’s position until one vertical top-to bottom pass had been com pleted. He then rotates the apple to contin ue in the next —T I PUSBf 811fH|f|fli mk fjlißMlf /M . wk mm irf ’s N:r 9m Ajfßrip' 'llk Apple pie is an all-American treat, especially made from scratch. thinly sliced 1 1/2 teaspoon vegetable oil 1 dried basil, crushed* «srt6riiff fresh or frozen ChinesJpba pods 1 tablespoon water 1 medium baking apple, cored and thinly sliced 1 tablespoon oil 2 cups cooked rice Stir-fry cubed chicken breast in 1 tablespoon veg etable oil in non-stick skil let until lightly browned and cooked. Remove from skillet. Stir-fry onion, car rots and basil in oil in same skillet until carrots are ten der. Stir in pea pods and water; stir-fry 2 minutes. Remove from heat; stir in apple. Add to chicken, serve hot over cooked rice. Makes 4 servings. This is an official 5 A Day recipe. This recipe is approved by the “5 A Day - For Better Health” Program because it pro vides at least one serving of fruit and/or vegetable per serving, and gets less than Equator Eater: Probably the most common approach, this muncher takes bites out of the center of the apple all the way around, until the apple looks something like a mushroom on a mirror. The nibbler then attacks the top, and finally the bottom, which is somewhat less con venient as there is no place left to hold apple with get ting one’s fingers juicy - but she doesn’t mind! \ 30 percent of its calories from fat, less than 10 per cent of its calories from sat urated fat, has less than 100 mg of cholesterol and not more than 480 mg of sodium. Approximate nutritional analysis (per serving): calo ries, 365; fat, 9 g; choles terol, 62 mg; sodium, 71 mg; fiber, 3g; percent calo ries from fat, 22 percent. Source: Washington Apple Commis sion Apple Butter 10 pints apples, peeled and sliced 4 cups raw sugar 1 tablespoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon ground all spice 1 quart water 1 cup brown sugar 1 teaspoon ground cipves Combine the apples and water in a large kettle. Bring to a boil and simmer, covered, until apples are soft. Pass through a food mill. Combine strained applesauce with remaining Hie Streak: This eater WBBwr prefers to eat his apples in the nude - the apple, that is! He does not care about what he’s been told about all those vitamins and fiber in the skin, peeling the stuff right off, preferably in one long winding piece. Once the peeling is complete, he either eats the apple whole or sliced. The latter method is usually employed, as the apple’s skinless state can lead to copious juice drip pings. Core-Free Cruncher: This muncher comes P in two / per- PAGE 6A U.S. Apple Association ingredients in a clean ket tle. Bring to a boil, stirring until sugar is dissolved. Cook gently, uncovered, until mixture becomes quite thick, at least two and a half hours, stirring often. Pour into hot sterilized jars and seal. Makes about 2 quarts. Serving size: 1 tablespoon. Approximate nutritional analysis (per serving): calo ries, 42; fat, 0g; choles terol, 0 mg; sodium, 1 mg; fiber, 1 g; percent calories from fat, 2 percent. Source: U.S. Apple Association Apple Chicken Stir-Fry 1 pound cubed boneless, skinless, chicken breast 1/2 cup onion, vertically sliced 1 cup (2 medium) carrots, thinly sliced 1 1/2 teaspoon vegetable oil 1 teaspoon dried basil, crushed See APPLE, page 7A sonalities. Type B loves gadgets and small appli ances. He eats a lot of apples because he gets to use that nifty “apple corer” gadget. Type A is a seedo phobic and doesn’t care whether she gets to use a gadget, knife or sharp fin gernails - she just has to get those darned seeds out of there before she’ll even take one bite! The Type A personality does avoid core disposal issues, however. Stem Piucker: Before the first bite, this apple muncher grabs the apple’s stem and twists, saying one letter of the alphabet with each turn. The letter at which the stem comes off has profound meaning, usu ally interpreted as the first initial of the name of the future spouse. (Married munchers, take note: Turns can be modified to ensure the stem comes out at the See EATER, page 7A