Source: PUFAs May Help Prevent ‘Brain Aging’
Eat more PUFAs.
Buttermilk Pound Cake ala Rhonda
Here’s what the pound cake looks like right side up out of the pan.
Here’s the recipe.
Here’s the reviews:
Tastes like a big soft sugar cookie.
I’ll have another piece please.
I found the spaghetti !!!
It needs another stick of butter.
You can butter the sides, brown in a pan, and viola…breakfast!
Tips:
Trust your instincts and don’t use a dried spaghetti noodle to see if the cake is done. I used a strand of fettuccine only to break off a sizeable piece. The crowd was warned. If you find the spaghetti don’t eat it.
Thanks Rhonda wherever you are. We won’t wait another 25 years before we make this cake again.
Buttermilk Pound Cake
Ingredients
3 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 sticks butter
4 large eggs
3 cups sugar
1 cup buttermilk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Preparation
- Grease and flour a bundt pan. Preheat oven to 325°.
- Mix buttermilk and baking soda. Set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl cream butter, sugar, and salt.
- Add eggs one at a time and beat well after each egg.
- Add half the buttermilk mixture and mix well.
- Add half of the flour and mix well.
- Add remaining buttermilk mixture and mix well.
- Add remaining flour and mix well.
- Add vanilla.
- Pour batter into your greased and floured bundt pan.
- Bake at 325° for one hour and 20 minutes. Due to oven and atmospheric variations, check the cake after one hour and 10 minutes.
“Why do I always have to make dessert?”
“Because you are an excellent baker and all of your desserts taste wonderful.”
“Why don’t the neighbors ask you to make appetizers instead?”
“Because your desserts are better than my appetizers.”
Sometimes it takes time to decide what to make for a neighborly get together. Pound cake sounded good so we dug out this old recipe from the box. Our first house was located on a cul-de-sac. It was and still is a great spot to raise a young family. A young family of four lived across the street and Rhonda was the source of this recipe. I’ve not changed the ingredients but the instructions have been somewhat modified.
Don’t forget the strawberries and whipped cream.
Another Study Links Red Meat to Early Death
Source: Another Study Links Red Meat to Early Death | Medpage Today
Conclusions The results show increased risks of all cause mortality and death due to nine different causes associated with both processed and unprocessed red meat, accounted for, in part, by heme iron and nitrate/nitrite from processed meat. They also show reduced risks associated with substituting white meat, particularly unprocessed white meat.
No Benefit to Gluten Free Diet (unless you have celiac disease) — Quartz
Source: A new study finds no benefit to going gluten free when you don’t have celiacs — Quartz
Source: Gluten-Free Diet Doesn’t Protect Against Heart Disease | Medpage Today
I’ve been following this fad for a while. See this prior post and this this one also.
EAT WHOLE GRAIN BREAD. There, I said it.
Eating At Home Improves Diet Quality – American Council on Science and Health
Source: Eating At Home More Often Improves Diet Quality | American Council on Science and Health
The original study appears in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
It never hurts to restate the obvious.
Is a Gluten-Free Diet a Good Choice?
Celiac disease isn’t all that common. Yet in JAMA Internal Medicine, researchers reported that a growing number of U.S. adults are going gluten-free.
Source: Is a Gluten-Free Diet a Good Choice?
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away I had a friend who suffered from Celiac disease. He was tall, thin and had a hard time keeping his weight up. We would share a bottle of wine, solve the world’s problems, and figure out what to cook for dinner.
This was the origin of Refrigerator Stir Fry.
Recipe to follow.
Diet Drinks Linked to Increased Stroke and Dementia Risk
“We found that people who drank at least one can of diet soda each day had a 3 times increased risk of stroke and dementia than those not drinking any such beverages.”
Source: Diet Drinks Linked to Increased Stroke and Dementia Risk
Source: Do Diet Sodas Pose Health Risks?
Observational study and the researchers are quick to note the study findings do not prove cause and effect. There also may be an element of reverse causality.
I personally do not drink any sugar or artificially sweetened soft drinks.
I do drink a ton of coffee.
Plant protein may protect against type 2 diabetes, meat eaters at greater risk — ScienceDaily
Men with a high intake of plant protein also had healthy lifestyle habits, but lifestyle habits alone did not explain their lower risk of diabetes. The risk of men with the highest intake of plant protein to develop type 2 diabetes was 35 per cent smaller than the risk of those with the lowest intake of plant protein.
The researchers also discovered an association of a high intake of meat with a higher risk of type 2 diabetes. The strongest association was seen in the consumption of meat in general, including processed and unprocessed red meat, white meat and variety meats. The link between eating meat and having a higher risk of diabetes is likely caused by other compounds found in meat than protein, as meat protein was not associated with the risk of diabetes.
Source: Plant protein may protect against type 2 diabetes, meat eaters at greater risk — ScienceDaily
Whole Wheat Banana Muffins (updated)
Whole Wheat Banana Muffins
1 stick butter
1/2 C light brown sugar
2 eggs
1 C whole wheat flour
1/2 C white flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
3 large ripe bananas smashed
1/4 C sour cream
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a medium size mixing bowl cream butter and sugar. Add egg and beat some more.
- Add smashed bananas. Stir to mix.
- Add flours. Sprinkle baking soda and salt evenly. Stir with a fork until the dry ingredients are just moistened. Do not over-mix.
- Place baking cup papers into a 12 cup muffin pan.
- Fill each cup 3/4 full.
- Bake 20-22 minutes.
Update 04.15.17
I’m at the point in life where I buy just 2-3 bananas at a time. Since bananas conspire to all ripen simultaneously buying a small number of fruit also cuts down on the amount of muffins in the freezer.
The Boss ate the last one from the freezer this week. So I had to make more.
Since recipes gradually change over time today was a good day to update my World Famous Whole Wheat Banana Muffin recipe. As always I’ve left the original intact for all you purists out there. The changes are subtle but they do make a difference.
Butter not margarine and sour cream instead of buttermilk or yogurt. Two eggs instead of one. I find these little changes make a softer, fluffier muffin.
And for non-family member readers this recipe is not Daughter-in-Law Approved (yet).
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