Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 135, Number 45, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 7 November 2013 — Page 4

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Advance News • Thursday, November 7, 2013

Enjoy the bounty Bringing out my of the fall harvests culinary side

As I gather information and the thoughts that I want to share in this column, I am reflecting on how the weather and seasons affect and determine the iL _ k-

foods that we prepare for our families. Just this week we had some nice warm fall days but as I type, the weather is colder, windy, rainy and just not nice to be out in. This kind of weather is all about warm foods like hot spiced cider, warm apple crisp for breakfast, a snack or dessert and anything and everything you can make with apples. I would be remiss if I did not at least mention other fall foods as there are some wonderful ones like cabbage with its unlimited possibilities - coleslaw, fried, cabbage rolls, sweet and sour cabbage and of course sauerkraut. , Next there are white and red potatoes; my taste buds say baked potatoes, cheesy potatoes, casseroles and soups. If you have a chance and can find the fingerling potatoes, they are very tasty! I simply rinse and dry them, coat them lightly with oil then season them with various seasonings and Parmesan cheese and bake them in the cast iron skillet. Let's not forget sweet potatoes. I really like the dark orange ones, and they can be prepared any way. I have also already had some wonderful winter squash and they provide unlimited recipe possibilities. There are so many wonderful fall vegetables and fruits, but to me the queen of fall is a fruit and it is the apple. What's great about apples is they're flavorful, nutritious, low in calories and fat and high in fiber. Apples have no cholesterol and contain a water-soluble fiber called pectin that can actually help lower blood cholesterol levels. The fiber your body can't completely digest may decrease your possibilities of several other health problems. The potassium in apples can contribute to the control of high blood pressure. Potassium is also associated with a reduced risk of stroke. In addition, the carotenoids found in apples help, ,reduce the cancer. Eachi§f us needs (||pffectivel|oo&ht the stress of everyday life a# well as reduce the risk of developing heart "disease and some forms of cancer and diabetes. As adults, we especially need a diet high in nutrients, complex carbohydrates and fiber, but low in fat, sodium and calories. A medium apple only has about 81 calories, is full of fiber, and can help you maintain a healthy weight. An apple keeps blood sugar levels up making you feel full longer and the sweet taste and satisfying crunch adds to

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Food and Nutrition By Mary Ann Lienhart Cross

your eating pleasure. Apples can also help with the prevention of osteoporosis, which the bone thinning disease that causes bone fractures in women over 60. Apples contain boron, which is a mineral that works with calcium. Retaining calcium

is also important in preventing tooth loss. A recent USDA study showed that boron in apples could help keep you mentally alert by influencing brain function. This fact helps support the need to have a variety of foods in our healthy eating plans. Locally grown apples should put that fresh crunch into your healthy eating plan. A real plus is that there is a bumper crop of apples this year and they are wonderful! To increase apples in your healthy eating plan, here are some suggestions you might want to try: mix apple chunks into a favorite high fiber breakfast cereal; the apple chunks add a sweet crunch and extra fiber. Don't forget apples at a salad bar; they're great tossed in both fruit and green salads. For a quick, low calorie dessert, microwave a cored apple in a little apple cider or other fruit juice until tender. Apple slices; low fat cheese and whole-wheat crackers make a delicious snack or appetizer. Here is a great recipe for sweet potatoes and apples that I am confident will be a real family pleaser! You can access a copy from our office website at www.ag.purdue.edu/ counties/ elkhart Harvest Casserole Ingredients: 5 cups diced sweet potatoes 5 cups diced or sliced Granny Smith apples 1 cup dried cranberries 1-1/2 cups firmly packed brown sugar, divided 2 tsp. ground cinnamon, divided 1/4 tsp. salt 1/4 cup butter, cut into pats 1 cup quick oats 1/4 cup flour 1/2 cup butter, melted

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Now that the tricks have been cleaned up and the treats have been snuck by candy-loving moms, dads and grandmas, I'm left with six completely destroyed costumes, some bluishwhite face powder that

I'll likely never use again, a very slim bank account and five yet uncarved, unpainted pumpkins, the remainder of the 20-some which were generously donated to my large family by Jeff Kitson at the Nappanee Center. What's a mom of four to do with all these pumpkins? Make pumpkin pie, of course! Growing up, I never really learned to cook, so teaching myself to make pumpkin pie from scratch was definitely a learning curve and I would not have succeeded were it not for Google. I love pumpkins. This year, I grew some in my backyard and I found myself, MidAugust, out there dragging a few inside so I could make pumpkin bread with it for school lunches- which is why I didn't have any of my own when Halloween came around this year.

Obamacare; The biggest danger of all is that the program might actually work New-Sentinel Indiana U.S. Sen. Dan Coats is again urging a one-year delay in the individual mandate for Obamacare (see guest column elsewhere on the page). He's right that individuals deserve the same relief the Obama administration gave to businesses; simple fairness alone is a sufficient reason for the delay. But we have to realize that such a delay carries great risk. There's a saying among techie geeks that "if you computerize a mess, all you get is a 'faster mess." What needs to be said here is that "if you put off a mess, all you get is a delayed mess." Obamacare is one big mess of government intrusion that will make far many ihore American Anes miserable •than lives Utmakilßbetter. H» biggas*dan« ger is that Obamacare will actually work, and delaying its implementation might help make it work. Coats is also right that delaying Obamacare until after the 2014 midterm election "would .allow American voters to decide the health care law's fate now that the impact of the law is being felt." But would they have the best, most accurate information with which to make that decision? A delay would mute even temporarily halt the real-world effects of the law. Wouldn't it give voters more information if they could see the implications of Obamacare played out day

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and red trees in front of me, all the sudden I'm Rachael Ray. * This is the first autumn I get to spend with my step-daughters and, while I couldn't convince the youngest to love coconut this summer, I am bound and determined to instill a love of pumpkin pie into the child through some old-fashioned baking. What's more, if you've never taken a kid to the kitchen and explained to them that in order to make this pie, the first step is going in involve shoving an entire pumpkin, cut in half, into the oven, you're missing out on a thoroughy amusing reaction. Dani Molnar is the editor of the Bremen Enquirer and the Advance news of Nappanee and Wakarusa.

after day? And it's not as if the voters haven't already had a chance to dump Obamacare. A majority of Americans have always opposed the deceptively named Affordable Care Act, and they had a chance to dump in when they voted in last November. But a majority of them chose to re-elect Barack Obama and keep Democrats in control of the Senate. Had they voted a different way, Obamacare would be gone or on the way out. Coats is also right about one other thing: Republicans in the House can keep taking vote after vote to gut or repeal Obamacare, but they just don't have the votes in the Senate. There might be enough votes for a delay, however, as vulnerable red-state Democrats hear from their disgruntled constituents. The longer Obamacare is in effect, the harder it will be to get rid of. That has been ) tru| h ff ejjgry -government program ever conceiveaTand the laws of politics have not been suspended. That means the best chance to stop it and, most likely, the last chance will be in November 2014. Voters can put enough Republicans in the Senate to not only repeal Obamacare but to override Obama's certain veto, and keep a GOP majority in the House. That means it 7 s all up to us, as it always has been. Kind of messy, this representative democracy stuff. Copyright 2012 The News-Sentinel, all rights reserved

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There is definitely something about the apples, squash, leaves and colors of the fall that put me in a mood to bake. Most of the year, I'm a Chinese-takeout addict, but if you put some chilly, cloudy weather and a couple of orange