I Eat Green - 11/30/11

Guest: Ken Babal

Ken Babal CN, is a licensed clinical nutritionist with over 25 years experience. He is a consultant to the natural food and supplement industry and a former instructor for Southern California School of Culinary Arts. 

Ken Babal has written over 100 articles that have appeared in many popular publications including Let's Live, Taste for Life and Doctors' Prescription for Healthy Living. He is co-author with Shari Lieberman, Ph.D. of Maitake Mushroom and D-Fraction (Woodland 2004) and author of Good Digestion: Your Key to Vibrant Health (Alive 2000) and Seafood Sense: The Truth about Seafood Nutrition and Safety (Basic Health Publications 2005). His latest book, Mushrooms for Health and Longevity,  came out earlier this year.

Ken appears in the Discovery Health Channel documentary Alternatives Uncovered and E! TV's The High Price of Fame: Starved!. He has also been a guest on many local and national radio programs.
As a professional musician and drummer, Ken became interested in nutrition as a means of realizing one's optimum potential. "You can't have a bad day when you go on stage. Nutrition is something we have control over and it plays a huge role in how we feel and perform each day."

Today's Recipe: Low Fat, Gluten Free, Sugar Free, Pumpkin Cake

Preheat Oven to 350*

Ingredients

4 eggs, whisked

1 can organic pumpkin

2 cups organic brown rice syrup

1 ½ cup Arrowhead Mills GF flour

2 cups Bob’s Red Mill GF flour 

½ cup oil

½ cup apple sauce 

1 t. baking powder

2 t. salt

2 t. baking soda

1 t. cinnamon

1 t. nutmeg

1 t. allspice

½ t. cloves 

2 cups unsweetened organic coconut

Procedure

Combine eggs, water, pumpkin, oil and apple sauce in large bowl.

Place coconut in food processor and pulse until consistency of sugar.

In another bowl, combine all dry ingredients.

Add the dry ingredients to the wet, and mix together until combined.

Bake in a 350* oven for 45 minutes or until a knife comes out clean.

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I Eat Green - 11/23/11

Guest: Jay Weinstein.

Jay Weinstein, a chef trained at the Culinary Institute of America, is a New York based food writer, editor, culinary instructor, and author of three culinary books. His food articles and recipes have been featured in The New York Times, Travel & Leisure, Newsday, Time Out New York, National Geographic Traveler, and numerous other publications. His latest book, The Ethical Gourmet, focuses on ecologically sustainable fine foods. He teaches culinary arts at The Natural Gourmet Institute in New York City.

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Today's Recipe: Stuffed Wild Pumpkin

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I Eat Green - 11/16/11

Guest: Ellen Jaffe Jones

Ellen, "The Veg Coach", is a personal trainer, running coach, author, and teacher of healthy cooking classes designed by respected doctors and registered dieticians. She is the author of Eat Vegan on $4 a Day, a guide to eating healthy and delicious plant-based meals for no more than $4 a day per person.

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Today's Recipe: Seitan Marsala

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I Eat Green - 11/9/11

Guest:  Karen Ranzi

Karen Ranzi is a lecturer, raw food consultant, and author of Creating Healthy Children: 
Through Attachment Parenting and Raw Foods. Karen has presented at numerous seminars, schools, festivals and health institutes throughout the United States on raising healthy children. She is a writer for Raw Mom Times, Vibrance Magazine, and Get Fresh Magazine of the UK, and has also written articles for Living Nutrition Magazine, Vegetarian Baby and Child Magazine, Health Science Magazine, The Raw Dish and Raw Foods News Magazine.

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Todays Recipe: Red Lentil Soup

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