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News & Events for Health Empowerment // May 3, 2023
Spring has sprung, and that means spring vegetables like asparagus and even wild ramps (in the same plant family as onions and garlic) are available at markets around the region. Try this hearty whole-grain dish:
Barley with Spring Vegetables
Ingredients
1 cup hulled barley
3 cups low-sodium vegetable broth (or homemade: boil your veggie scraps and strain!)
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 cup broccoli rabe, chopped (or other seasonal greens)
4-5 asparagus stalks, diced
1/2 cup frozen or fresh peas
4 scallions, thinly sliced
Instructions:
In a medium pot, bring the vegetable broth to a boil. Add the barley, reduce the heat to low and cook for 50-55 minutes or until the barley is tender. Pour off any excess liquid if needed. Set aside to let it cool.
While it’s boiling, prepare the vegetables. In a separate pan, sauté garlic (and thinly sliced wild ramps, if available) in a splash of water until fragrant.
Add broccoli rabe and asparagus, and cook for 3-4 minutes on medium heat. Add peas in the last minute of cooking.
In a mixing bowl, combine barley and vegetables. Mix evenly, adding scallions at the end.
Recipe courtesy of Vivian Lee, PPMNY Culinary Empowerment Coordinator
Looking for more wholesome plant-powered recipes? Check out our app, PPMNY In Your Kitchen, with community-contributed dishes to keep you happy and healthy.
South Shore Spring Social Wednesday, June 7, 6:30 - 8:30 PM – Lynbrook, NY Leona & 3 Brothers, 152 Union Avenue $50 advanced payment – register hereby May 31
Join Plant Powered Metro New York on the South Shore of Nassau County for an evening of fine food and fellowship! We’ve arranged for a three-course plant-powered meal at a vegan-friendly Italian restaurant. The fixed price menu includes Rigatoni Alla Norma, your choice of Eggplant Rollatini or Cauliflower Steak, your choice of a slice of cake or fresh fruit bowl, and seltzer.
Additional drinks or dishes may be purchased separately off the menu. Please note that, while all dishes for our group will be free of animal foods and oils, some dishes will contain salt, and the cake has added sugar.
Hosted by Anita Mancini, PPMNY Board Member.
Healthcare Professionals' Potluck Thursday, May 18, 7:00 - 9:00 PM – Scarsdale, NY Inquire about registration at info@ppmny.org
PPMNY’s Lifestyle Medicine Action Group invites clinicians, faculty, and administrators in healthcare to join your colleagues in Westchester for our next potluck event. Bring a nourishing dish for an evening of stimulating conversation over a whole food, plant-based dinner. Registrants will receive the address of this home-hosted gathering.
It’s National Salad Month! Hop into our Facebook groups — in English or Español — to participate in a month of salad sharing. Healthy food isn’t always rabbit food, but we do love the diverse and flavorful combinations of plant-powered salads.
We’re challenging our community to eat a salad each day throughout May because it’s just so good for us. Share your salad photos, non-traditional recipes, oil-free salad dressings, and anything else you’d like, using the hashtag #NationalSaladMonth (or #NationalSaladMes) and #PlantPoweredMetroNY. We might even feature some of our favorite photos in future newsletters. Thanks to moderators Zina Miller and Aifra Ruiz for getting us going with greens!
Six comedians took the stage at last night’s comedy show fundraiser at Stand Up NY, making us laugh out loud, tear up, and sometimes cringe! Community members enjoyed the bar and our mocktail menu, including a virgin juice blend we dubbed the “Mayor’s Punch,” as well as satisfying plant-powered finger foods catered by Chef Brandy Cochrane of Plant Candy.
We can’t get Ethos Farm out of our mind! Here are just a few of our favorite photos from our Earth Day summit, showing tours around the farm from Dr. Weiss and Farm Manager, Nora Pugliese, as well as joy and laughter from this mission-aligned community that we're so proud to be a part of!
Nutrition and Women’s Health Presented by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and the National Organization of Blacks in Dietetics and Nutrition Thursday, May 4, 8:00 - 9:00 PM ET – Online FREE – register here
Hear from health and nutrition experts on how a plant-based diet can support menopause, hot flashes, and endometriosis symptoms. Featured speakers include Asha Subramanian, MD, MPH; Chef Rebecca Johnson from Plant Powered Metro New York; and Mara Davis, MS, RD, LDN.
Discover how a plant-forward diet and lifestyle can improve your health in this unique educational experience with Richard Rosenfeld, MD, MPH, MBA, Distinguished Professor, Immediate Past Chairman, and Program Director of Otolaryngology at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University. Dr. Rosenfeld will share the six pillars of lifestyle medicine and how these pillars integrate with the NYBG. In-person sessions will include a walking tour of the Edible Academy Garden and the Native Forest. Limited to 30 participants, first-come, first-served.
Nearly one in five adults in the world may have osteoporosis, but the good news is that only about 30% of osteoporotic bone fracture risk is genetic. In this live two-hour webinar, Dr. Michael Greger of NutritionFacts.org will cover bone mineral density screening, common over-the-counter drugs like acid blockers that may increase fracture risk, how safe and effective the current oral and injected osteoporosis medications are, which foods may help protect our bones, the best type and frequency of exercise, and how to reduce fall risk.
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