Once a Year Recipe Favorite: Slow Cooker Corned Beef with Veggies and Horseradish Sauce

This Slow-Cooked Corned Beef with Veggies and Horseradish Sauce is something I make every year for St. Patrick's Day!

(Updated and added to Recipe Favorites March 2010.) Corned Beef and Cabbage is something that's a bit of a stretch for the South Beach Diet, due to the high fat content in the meat. That's why this is only a once-a-year recipe favorite for me, but I do make corned beef in the crockpot every St. Patrick's Day. The last few years I've been cooking it for my slightly Irish father, who isn't on a diet and would love to have corned beef any time of year.

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Friday Night Photos: A New Stove at Chez Kalyn Part Two (Tile, Hood, Pan Racks, and Hardware)

In A New Stove at Chez Kalyn, Part One, I shared details about the features that made me choose the Thermador Pro Harmony 36" Gas Range for my new stove. Now I want to show what a gorgeous job my contractors have done with the stove installation. I completely love this stove and how it looks in my kitchen. Here's a view of the stove now that the tile, hood, pan racks, and new hardware are all installed. If you want to see the steps to getting to this finished result, keep reading.

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Recipe for 100% Whole Wheat Brown Soda Bread

Irish Soda Bread is one of those dishes that everyone in America associates with St. Patrick's Day, and here you'll find many variations on the recipe, even though soda bread in Ireland traditionally contains only flour, baking soda, salt, and sour milk or buttermilk. Probably we should be calling our bread Irish American Soda Bread, but no matter what you call it, this bread is easy to make and delicious. For this version I've used a combination of white whole wheat and whole wheat flour with added wheat bran and wheat germ to make it relatively South Beach Diet friendly, although the recipe does contain a small amount of butter and brown sugar.

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Kalyn's Kitchen Picks: Brummel & Brown Natural Yogurt Spread

It's been a while since I added something to my list of Kalyn's Kitchen Picks, where I share my recommendations for food or kitchen products I'd happily buy over and over. This Brummel & Brown Yogurt Spread was recommended by a reader named Alan, and I'm loving it on my whole wheat toast dipped into Eggs Fried in Olive Oil. No one likes the flavor of real butter more than I do, and turning butter into an occasional indulgence was one of the hardest changes I had to make when I started cooking the South Beach Diet way. This spread made with vegetable oil and yogurt is the best-tasting butter alternative I've found. It does have water as the first ingredient, so this isn't something I'd use for sauteing food, but for spreading on toast or melting over vegetables, the flavor of this is great.

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Five Fun Things on Friday (3-5-10)

Photo of Winter Tomato Soup 

by Lydia of Soup Chick

Friday night again, and it's time for another round-up of fun and news items I thought were fun this week. If you have something fun to share, we'd love to hear about it in the comments.

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Recipe for Roasted Kale Chips with Sea Salt and Vinegar

Countless other food bloggers have started out their post on kale chips saying "Why did it take me so long to make kale chips?" so I'll spare you that lament and just say that now that I've finally made roasted kale chips myself, I certainly see what all the fuss is about. Not only are they full of nutritious goodness, but roasted kale chips are delicious. If you don't believe these roasted crispy kale leaves can be that special, just check my list after the recipe to see how many other bloggers have raved about them.

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South Beach Diet Phase One Recipes Round-up for February 2010 (Low-Glycemic Recipes)

Kalyn's Favorite Phase One Recipe for February 2010 was
Quick and Easy Spicy Broiled Shrimp.

Once again it feels like the previous month has passed by in a blur, and it's time for another South Beach Diet Phase One Recipes Round-Up featuring the phase one recipes I've posted on Kalyn's Kitchen this month or found on other blogs, and once again I managed to accumulate a good collection of tasty looking dishes. Of course, I'll never find every phase one recipe that's posted in a month, so if you're a food blogger who posted a recipe in January that you think might be phase one friendly, see after the links for how to submit it.

(You can use the label Low-Glycemic Recipe Round-Ups to see all the posts like this one.)

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