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I try to include one serving of beans or legumes in my diet every day as a source of protein, fiber, and many B vitamins including folate, and assorted phytochemicals. Here's a great tasting year-round salad that fits that component of my diet. For those people who need a little help being more socially acceptable after eating beans, try using a product called Beano™ which breaks down the complex carbohydrate molecules that the bacteria in your large bowel love to eat, producing those unwanted side effects that keep too many people from eating beans or legumes.

Modified from a recipe that my sister-in-law, Marilyn Bauchat, from Carmel, IN, shared with me.

2 cups dry lentils
8 cups water
salt and pepper
1 - 2 tsp. minced garlic
2 - 3 finely chopped strips of fresh lemon peel
3 - 4 Tbsp. fresh lemon juice (or even more to taste)
1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
3 bunches scallions (wash and chop both white and green parts)
1/2 cup sliced green olives with pimentos
1/4 cup chopped parsley
1/4 cup chopped mint

Directions:

Soak lentils 1 hour.
Drain, add 8 cups water to pot with lentils and 2 tsp. salt.
Bring to boil and simmer 15 minutes. Do not overcook as the lentils get mushy. Drain.
Add vinaigrette (oil, lemon juice, garlic) to warm lentils. Let cool.
Add other ingredients. Add salt and pepper to taste.
Serve on a bed of lettuce.

Serves: 6 - 8 servings

Another great recipe that I could eat tons of. Yum, yum!!

In my book, I have included the names of several dozen cookbooks which feature recipes that are compatible with (or that can be modified to fit) the ultra-healthy diet I follow, including some resources which are free.

I am also collecting recipes to include in a future edition of my book as well as to be featured on "Menus and Recipes". I have asked readers to send me any recipes that they have found to be great-tasting and easy to prepare, and that emphasize the nutritional guidelines which are outlined in my book. I will also consider taking people's favorite "normal" recipes and posting versions which are modified for maximal cancer prevention.

If you have a recipe you wish to submit for possible inclusion in either my book or on this web page, please send it to me. If the recipe is from a cookbook or other printed source, please include the name, author, and publisher of the source so that I can ask for permission to reprint the recipe. If it is a recipe you created, or a family favorite, please indicate that, also.

Lentil Salad