Recipe Sharing for a Healthy Lifestyle

If you cook, do you have recipes that you’d like to share with Iowa Avenue members?

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Let’s work together to create a dynamic and useful IA Healthy Living Recipe Box.

I have good news and good news.

The good news is that if you can cook, Iowa Avenue needs you. The other good news is that if you can’t cook, you get the benefit of being able to view and choose different recipes that are posted here.

You get to pick, try, and see if you like them. If you do like them, then they can start to be incorporated into your healthy lifestyle.

So let’s get started.

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Being able to cook helps you to better manage your meals and meal planning, as recipes provide the foundation for eating meals with proper nutrition, portion sizes, and fruits and vegetables, based on your preferences.

I’ve posted two blogs about Spice Blends, but this is only the start. Ask the Dietician at Iowa Avenue has also posted some recipes in our Recipe Box. We have some chefs that are Iowa Avenue members, who will hopefully post theirs soon, as well.

In an effort to expand Iowa Avenue’s Recipe Box, I’ve pledged to post a recipe a day.

With everyone’s input we can build Iowa Avenue’s Recipe Box into another wonderful tool for all of us in our community.

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Iowa Avenue’s recipe box will be categorized into different files--chicken, beef, fish, vegetables, pasta/rice, breakfast, and dessert, and so forth.

When you start posting your recipes, make sure to choose the category that it best fits into. Don’t forget to tag it, so when a search is made, your recipe will show up.

As an example, if you have a great chicken recipe, but you eat if for breakfast, put the recipe in the breakfast box, but be sure to add chicken to the tag line.

Start using new recipes someone else submitted, and then see which one you might try. Was it easy to cook? Did you have any problems understanding the recipe? And most importantly, how did it taste? We all have different preferences.

If possible, try to include the nutritional data. If you don’t have them, input them from Weight1Minute’s™ recipe analysis database. Registration is free, so give it a try. It was designed and works great for this purpose.

So let’s start cooking, because

After all, it’s about a healthy lifestyle!

Comment by Eve on January 28, 2008 at 12:47pm: Either I have a mental block or W1M is difficult to post recipes to. Either way I have a recipe I would like to share for Quick Baked Fish. It's not being accepted at W1M so I'll put it here.
Ingredients:
2 lbs fish (small whole fish, cleaned; fillets, or steaks)
1/4 c evaporated milk
1/4 c water
2 tsp salt
2 c fine dry bread crumbs
Salad oil

Preheat oven to very hot (500 to 600 degrees F)
Mix evaporated milk, water, and salt. Dip fish in this mixture. Roll fish in bread crumbs until thickly coated.
Place fish in an oiled baking pan, sprinkling each piece lightly with oil. (I use cooking spray to coat the pan and give a quick spray to each piece of fish.) Bake, uncovered, in preheated oven for 10 minutes. Fish should be brown and dry on the outside and juicy on the inside. Makes 5 servings.

I'm not a big fan of fish. However, I have fixed fish this way and both my husband and I enjoy it very much. It's quick, it's easy, and you don't have to worry about the fish falling apart when you turn it - because you don't turn it. I wish I had all the nutrition information to give you, but this is a really old recipe. It predates nutrition information. ;D