Holiday Dressing With Dried Plums and Cornbread
Holiday Dressing with Dried Plums and Cornbread
Prep Time overnight Cook Time 1 hour Serves 12
We all know how important it is to stay hydrated. Easy ways to make your water more palatable.
For those that missed my “Hollywood at Home” episode on HGTV, it will re-air January 2 at 6pm. Check your local listings to confirm the time.
Swimming World’s “Morning Swim Show” - December 22, 2011 Interview
Lumpia with Dried Plum Purée
These are a perfect appetizer. My Grandma’s recipe, altered a slight bit to add extra nutrition from the dried plums. Yum.
Ingredients
1 pound ground pork
1 (8-ounce) can water chestnuts, drained and chopped
3/4 cup minced onion
1/4 cup California dried plum purée
2 tablespoons reduced-sodium soy sauce
1 tablespoon minced garlic
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon white pepper
1 tablespoon flour
1 tablespoon water
24 lumpia wrappers
Cooking spray
Dried Plum-Chili Dipping Sauce (recipe below)
Directions
Mix together pork, water chestnuts, onion, dried plum purée, soy sauce, garlic, salt and pepper. In a small bowl, mix flour and water to make a paste.
Place one lumpia wrapper on a work surface and place about 2 tablespoons pork mixture near the edge closest to you. Roll bottom edge towards the middle, fold in both sides and continue rolling. Moisten edge with flour paste to seal. Repeat with remaining wrappers and filling.
Heat oven to 425°F. Spray a baking sheet with cooking spray. Arrange lumpia on baking sheet and spray with cooking spray. Bake 20-25 minutes or until browned and crisp. Serve with Dried Plum-Chili Dipping Sauce.
To make Dried Plum-Chili Dipping Sauce, in a blender, purée 1/2 cup Thai sweet chili sauce, 1/2 cup water and 1/4 cup California dried plum purée. (Makes 1 1/4 cups)
Prep Time 30 min. Cook Time 25 min. Serves 24
For more recipes, check out the California Dried Plum Board Website.
Watch me and the rest of Team USA take on the European All-Stars at this year’s Duel in the Pool. It will be broadcast LIVE on Universal Sports and NBC.
Friday, December 16 on Universal Sports at 7 p.m. EST
Saturday, December 17 on NBC at 2 p.m. EST
Can’t divuldge my events but I will be swimming a lot over the next few days… Click here for results: Omega LIVE timing results.
The format of 2011 Duel in the Pool:
The competition will have 15 men’s and 15 women’s events, which will include 13 individual races and two relays for each gender. A running score will be kept combining the points earned by both women and men. The winning team will be the team with the most combined team points at the end of the competition. As there are 131 points available in the 15 total events (men & women, respectively), the first team to 66 points would be the winner. Team scores will be broken down by Women, Men and Overall team scores.
Scoring in individual events is 5-3-1, scoring in relay events is 7-0.
The course for the competition will be 25 meters (short course). The order of events is as follows:
Just in time for the Holidays, the O’Neill 365 website has lauched. Check it out!
From left to right: Ryan Lochte, Michael Phelps and me.
We helped debut Speedo’s newest racesuit today: the Fastskin3. Don’t we look intimidating?
O’Neill 365 Line - Available for sale December 1st.
Check out www.oneill365.com for more information.
Natalie Coughlin Chasing Her Third Olympic Berth
By Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) - Chasing her third Olympics, Natalie Coughlin isn’t sure the trend of making the games over and over will become routine in swimming.
Michael Phelps is going for his fourth, Ryan Lochte his third. Dara Torres, Ian Thorpe, Janet Evans, Amanda Beard - everyone in the sport seems to be shattering the assumption that the Olympics are a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
“I think this is a special moment in time in swimming,” Coughlin told The Associated Press on Thursday. “Yes, there are several of us that have been to many Olympics. We’re kind of at that sweet spot where there are more opportunities now for people after college and people physically are figuring out how to keep injury away. At the same time, I think it’s kind of a coincidence that there are so many people who are doing well.”
Olympic Swimmer’s Favorite Things - SF Chronicle
One conspicuous absence outside Natalie Coughlin’s house: a pool. “How do you have fun at a pool?” asked Coughlin, half joking, one day while drinking tea in her kitchen in Lafayette. The house was unusually quiet. Its other three inhabitants - Coughlin’s husband, swim coach Ethan Hall; SheRa, her 7- year-old border terrier; and Dozer, their American bulldog, were out on a walk. “I don’t know what to do at a pool,” she said. “Most swimmers don’t. If we go to a rec pool, all I want to do is lie by it.” Coughlin is the most decorated American women’s swimmer in modern Olympic history. She began swimming at age 6 to meet friends after her parents moved, and at age 15, she became the first swimmer to qualify for all 14 events in the Summer National. In the 2008 Summer Olympic games in Beijing, she became the first woman to win six medals in a single Olympics.
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11-time Olympic medalist for USA Swimming (3 Gold, 4 Silver, and 4 Bronze)... Also an avid home cook, urban farmer, amateur photographer, sports fan, food lover & DWTS Alum.
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