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Lauren
Hi All! As many of you know I took a major hiatus from the blog shortly after school started as my schedule was a bit out of control. Apparently signing up for three internships was not the best idea. The good news is that my schedule is much more manageable this term and I have cut down to two internships leaving me a few free minutes in the day.
I can't tell you how wonderful it was to hear from so many of you - letting me know how much you missed the posts and encouraging me to get back in to it! Well, all of the encouragement worked and I am going to do my best to at least post a few articles / recipes every week. I have tried a ton of new, wonderful clean recipes (including a batch of chickpea brownies tonight), attended amazing talks here at Yale on nutrition & food policy, and have a lot of fascinating articles to share. The other exciting news is that I landed an amazing internship in DC working on food policy at a think tank and look forward to passing on all my experiences with you!
To kick off my come back, I have a provocative article by Robert Lustig (who believes sugar is toxic and should be taxed), as well as a new "better for you" brownie recipe. While it still has a good amount of sugar and there is chocolate, adding chickpeas to replace flour adds protein and it tastes amazing!
Thanks again for everyone's support!
Lauren
Robert Lustig - Regulate Sugar, It's Toxic!
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505269_162-57370220/regulate-tax-sugar-like-alcohol-tobacco/
And if you are really feeling ambitious watch his highly viewed youtube video (+80 min) on the topic - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
Chickpea Brownie Recipe
INGREDIENTS:
1 ½ cups semisweet chocolate chips (Sunspire organic chips highly recommended)
1 15 oz. canned organic Garbanzo beans (drained and rinsed) or 1 ½ cups cooked Garbanzo beans
4 eggs
¾ cups Sucanat or Turbinado sugar
½ teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
½ teaspoon sea salt
½ cup walnuts (optional)
Zest of one orange (optional)
INSTRUCTIONS:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 9-inch baking pan with baking spray. Place chocolate chips on a double boiler and melt the chocolate until smooth.
Combine beans and eggs in the bowl of a food processor and blend until smooth, add sucanat, baking powder and melted chocolate; blend until thoroughly combined. Fold in the walnuts and orange zest, if using. Transfer the batter to the prepared baking pan.
Bake for approximately 30 minutes or until a knife inserted into the center of the brownies comes out clean. Cool in the pan on a wire rack before inverting onto a serving plate. Enjoy!
Compliments of www.sheckys.com/2011/02/14/chickpea-brownies/
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