Here are this weekend's reading diversions for your enlightenment. Have a great weekend!
Recipes for Health - Garlic Green Beans
You can make this dish with the green garlic, now widely available in farmers’ markets, or with regular garlic.
Recipes for Health - Greek Stewed Green Beans and Yellow Squash With Tomatoes
Green beans are one of many vegetables that both Greek and Turkish cooks stew with abundant olive oil in dishes known as ladera.
For Parents: Your Life After Graduation
Most of us, when we become parents, rediscover what it means to truly love another person. Our children are born and then not a day goes by when we're not making sacrifices for them in all sorts of necessary, unplanned and sometimes even unpleasant ways.
Help your heart. Brush your teeth twice a day
The people who brushed fewer than twice a day were more likely to test positive for chemical markers of inflammation in the blood, such as C-reactive protein and fibrinogen.
The whole story on whole grains
A whole grain contains all the parts of a seed — including the starchy endosperm, which has few nutrients; the bran, or outer layer of the kernel, which is the main source of fiber, and the germ, where most of the nutrients are found, including B vitamins and iron.
Recipe: Ultimate Strawberry Shortcake
It's important that your baking powder be active for the recipe to work, as there is no other leavener. The first couple of times we tried it in The Times Test Kitchen, the biscuits looked more like cookies than cakes. A change of baking powder did the trick.
Good cherries will be dark for their variety and have fresh, green stems, indicating that they were recently harvested. Cherries without their stems are fine if you'll be eating them within a few days, but they don't keep as well as fruits with intact stems.
The Health Benefits of Red Wine
Red wines also contain anxioxidants, which help the body resist cancer and cardiovascular disease.
How Brain Training Can Make You Significantly Smarter
Neuroscientists are increasingly showing that there's actually a lot that can be done. It turns that the brain needs exercise in much the same way our muscles do, and the right mental workouts can significantly improve our basic cognitive functions.
5 Signs It's Time to Kick Your Friendship to the Curb
For relationships to thrive, the balance sheet has to have some overall equality to it. Stressful times aside, we need to feel that if we took score, that somehow we'd come up even.
What to Do About Arthritis, Part 2: Some Things You May Not Know About Treatment
It is more important to find how our daily habits can significantly affect the inflammatory processes that contribute to arthritis.
Spinach and Rice (Spanakorizo)
"This is a Greek side dish that our family loves. Add a little Feta cheese and fresh lemon after it's cooked and you have heaven."
Work Life Balance: A Jungian Perspective
This imbalance can happen if the real challenge isn't being met: We keep pushing the rock up the wrong hill and it just rolls down, and we never get to the real issue. We may feel that the goal is to make more money, or to gain more power, or even to do more good.
Parents: It's Okay to Have a Favorite Child
Favoritism, however, is conditioned on children filling a need or void in their parents' lives, or making parents feel good about themselves. The better the child makes the parent feel, the more likely the child will be favored and win the ultimate reward -- confidence and power in knowing that they are the favorite child in their family.
