5 new food trends you should try
In my quest to eat better in 2010, i found these items that will help our diets!
Cabbage Salads: Cabbage deserve a little more love. Not only cheap, it really couldn’t be any healthier. In this recipe, it’s crisp and bright with tart apples, dried fruit, and spicy, buttery pecans. The cabbage soaks up the slightly sweet dressing, providing a great crunchy base for the salad (which feels like so much more than a salad).
Baked Oatmeal: Not only does baking oatmeal make for a less watery outcome than the packaged just-add-hot-water alternative, it takes on a much deeper, homemade flavor. Warm, filling, and infinitely adaptable—dried cranberries, walnuts, or even peanut butter would all make excellent additions. Oh yeah, and it makes your kitchen smell like a pie factory. This ice cream is, wait for it, made entirely from one ingredient: bananas. You simply freeze the fruit, whip it in a food processor for a few minutes, and *poof*. It morphs into a custardy, soft serve treat.
Roasted Beet Sandwiches: You probably read that as “roasted beef” sandwich at first, but no. This is one of the few veggie sandwiches that doesn’t fail! Usually marketed as the “healthy option,” the sandwich’s downfall seems to be its overabundance. Without meat, people stuff it with as many vegetables as possible. But here, there’s balance. The sweet roasted beets give the sandwich heft along with some avocado, lightly dressed greens, and the goat cheese kind of acts like a creamy mayo.
Whole-Wheat Pasta with Turkey Sausage: Nine times out of ten, we prefer non-wheat pasta to the better-for-you wheat version. But this is the exception. Instead of acting as a boring canvas for a pile of vegetables, the whole-wheat pasta has a slightly nutty flavor and firm texture that works well with the peppery greens, sweet tomatoes, and zesty sausage. Everything’s topped off with a low-fat Parmesan sauce, which adds moisture and wonderful cheesiness (without too many extra calories).