Martha Stewart Living told me this:
"Add 14 years to your life!
We've heard it before: lead a healthy life and you'll live longer. But how much longer? A recent study from the University of Cambridge Institute of Public Health provides the answer. Researchers studies more than 20,000 men and women ages 45 to 79, for more than a decade. They identified four habits associated with long life. People who followed all four lived about 14 years longer than those who didn't. (there was more article but I'm skipping to the juicy stuff).
*Keeping physically active, either on the job or in leisure time
*Eating five servings of fruits and vegetables daily
*Drinking moderately, defined broadly in this study as anywhere from one to fourteen servings (a glass of wine, a half pint of beer, or a shot of liquor) per week
*Not smoking"
page 46 of April 2010 edition
She also gave me this delicious sounding recipe:
TINY BITES, BIG TASTE
Corn bread bites
(makes 3 dozen mini muffins)
1 C flour
1 C coarse yellow cornmeal
1/4 C plus 2 T sugar
1 1/2 t baking powder
1/4 t baking soda
1/4 t salt
1 C buttermilk
1 large egg, lightly beaten
1/4 C safflower oil
FLAVOR combinations: (each flavor combination is enough for one batch)
Orange-Rosemary
1/4 t finely grated orange zest
1/4 t finely chopped fresh rosemary
1/4 t freshly ground pepper
Jalapeno-Cheddar
3/4 t finely chopped jalapeno chile
1/4 C plus 2 T grated white cheddar cheese
Carmelized Onion-Bacon
2 T carmelized onion
1 1/2 strip cooked bacon broken into small pieces
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Lightly butter the tins. Whisk together flour, cornmeal, sugar, baking powder & soda, and salt.
2. Combine buttermilk, egg and oil. Stir buttermilk mixture into flour mixture until combined. Divide batter into 3 (THREE) batches of one cup each and stire a flavor combination into each.
3. Fill muffin tin cups 3/4 full. Bake until tops are golden in color and fork/toothpick inserted into center comes out clean. Transfer to wire rack and cool five minutes. Remove from muffin tin. Repeat process until all are complete.
Muffins can be stored at room temp for up to two days.
this recipe said do them in mini muffin tins for more of an hors d'oeuvres.
