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Creamy Peppercorn Sauce
Easy to make and ready in as little as 30 minutes, creamy peppercorn sauce over a perfectly cooked steak is as elegant to look at as it is delicious to eat. Yum!
Peppercorns. “The world’s most popular spice is a berry that grows in grapelike clusters on the pepper plant (Piper nigrum), a climbing vine native to India and Indonesia. The berry is processed to produce three basic types of peppercorn—black, white and green. The most common is the black peppercorn, which is picked when the berry is not quite ripe, then dried until it shrivels and the skin turns dark brown to black. It’s the strongest flavored of the three—slightly hot with a hint of sweetness”. Read more foodterms.com
Ingredients
For the steak
1 or 2 steaks, tenderloin or other cut of your choice
1 garlic clove
Coarsely ground black pepper and salt
Butter
Olive oil
For the sauce
1 shallot, chopped
2 cloves garlic, chopped
3/4 cup beef broth
1 to 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
1/4 cup Heavy Cream
Green peppercorns (use to taste and soak in beef broth a few hours before making sauce to infuse flavours)
Directions
- Rub steaks with garlic clove and season with ground black pepper and salt. Add a little butter and olive oil to a pan. Cook steaks over medium high heat to desired doneness. Remove from pan and set aside.
- In the same pan, make the sauce by adding chopped shallot and garlic to the drippings. Cook for about 30 seconds and add the beef broth along with the peppercorns and the Dijon mustard. Simmer until reduced. Add cream and simmer a few minutes longer. Note: If you want to ‘up the flavour’, simply crush a few of the peppercorns while reducing sauce.
- Spoon peppercorn sauce over steaks and enjoy!
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Healthy Lunch Box Tips
by Ishmir Savory
Vegan Chef & CHC
Greetings! How has your summer been? I have enjoyed warm bright days while, sucking on sweet juicy mangoes or a juicy slice of a hydrating watermelon along with the waves of the sea massaging my body. It sure has been some of the best days to reside in my memory for 2014. The days are starting to shorten hinting to us the fall will soon set in and the children are back in school from their fun-filled summer vacation.
Now that our children have returned to school, I am going to share to four tips for healthy lunch box building so your child can eating for better brain function. Statistics show that ADHD and obesity are common among children. The National Institute for Health reported “over the last two decades, this number [of overweight children] has increased by more than 50 percent and the number of ‘extremely’ overweight children has nearly doubled.” Also different studies have hypothesized a link between obesity and ADHD. Note that good nutrition aids the focus and the productivity a child and since a child is built from the genetics of his or her parents, as well as the nutrients provided during nurturing years. The way your child is nourished is the vehicle that can turn health debilitating genes on and off. Hence one can prevent disease and change the brain’s structure. Who is down with providing nourishing meals and healthy lunches for their child (ren)? Why not start early, to prevent degenerative diseases that are experienced later on in life? In recent years studies published by the American Medical Association and Archives of Neurology have shown that people with a diet that includes antioxidant rich fruits and vegetables, whole grains, fatty fish and low refined carbohydrates as well as saturated fats tend to function better mentally.
Tips for a Healthy Lunch Box
Kick out fast burning carbs: There is an abundance of evidence that shows that continuous high insulin spikes are the effects of consuming refined carbohydrates like refined grain based bread, pasta, cookies, sugar galvanized soda pops or fruit juices. These types of “food” will eventually weaken your sugar metabolism (similar to Type 2 diabetes) causing damage to blood vessels and accelerated aging. Provide your child with slow burning, low glycemic, and whole food carbohydrates. Substitute refined grains and pasta, sugary drinks and snacks with whole grains, nuts and seeds, fresh fruits and their juices along with water. (more…)
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