Corn-Free Recipes

Pecan Pie Filling And Winter Squash Soup

(CBS)  Curt Ellis’ Corn-Free Pecan Pie Filling

½ cup real maple syrup
½ teaspoon cinnamon
1 tablespoon arrowroot
2 tablespoons tahini
2 ½ cups pecans

Blend wet ingredients. Stir in pecans. Pour into pie crust. Bake 25 minutes at 350.


Chef Ann Cooper’s Winter Squash Soup
Berkeley Unified School District
Serves 500

31 ¼ gallons winter squash (cubed)
5 gallons and 3 ¼ cups red onions (chopped)
1 ¼ gallons and ¾ cups celery (chopped)
31 ¼ gallons municipal water
3 quarts and 3 ¾ cups parsley (chopped)
3 ¼ cups and 2 tbsp kosher salt
2 quarts and 2 ½ cups maple syrup
3 ¾ gallons and 2 ½ cups dried pumpkin and squash seed kernels

1. Put the squash, onions and celery in a large soup pot.

2. Add water and stir in salt and 2/3 of the parsley.

3. Bring to a boil, cover and reduce heat.

4. Simmer for 20 minutes, until vegetables are very tender.

5. Remove from the heat and set aside to cool.

6. Transfer the soup to a food processor or blender and blend until smooth. This may have to be done in batches.

7. Return the soup to the pot and reheat gently.

8. Taste and adjust the seasonings, adding the maple syrup for a sweeter tasting soup.

9. Place the seeds in a dry skillet and sauté over medium heat until the seeds begin to brown and pop, about 3 minutes.

10. Garnish soup with the remaining parsley leaves and seeds, and serve at once.

[sscs1]

Bravo on this story ! It''s long overdue. Now I''d like to see a ''sister'' story on the gross over use of soy in all sorts of food products, canned tuna fish for just one exampple. How unnecessary is that ? How much more protein does fish require ? Such over- dosing on a single ingredient throughout the food chain - crackers, breads,soups, sauces, you name it - cannot be healthy. I look forward to a non-biased scientific investigation of this.

[bjcds1]

I was excited to hear a report on corn and how the Untied States uses High fructose corn syrup in so many things which is now causing other health issue other than the problems of over weight. I am talking about a dietary issue not well known called Fructose Intolerance. I was diagnosed 3 years ago and now have very limited amounts fruits and veg. that I can eat along with normal sugars. All because of the over abundance of the fructose that was put into my system, (No, I am not over weight I am under weight and always have been. At one point 90lbs in the hospital due to this condition. ) But now I have to live my life with out apples, oranges, peas, corn everything with natural sugars. Also because of the adding of the high fructose corn syrup into so many of the products on the market in just about everything that you buy that is pre made, we can not buy those products either everything has to be home made for me to be able to eat. So thank your for this report and lets get the high fructose corn syrup out of the products it is not needed.

[teelab]

As a family that produces REAL Maple Syrup, I find it offensive that your show claims that there is high fructose corn syrup in Maple Syrup. Maple Syrup contains only Maple sap. There are no additives. Pancake Syrup can and probably does include high fructose corn syrup. And might even contain a small amount of Maple Syrup.

Other than that enjoy the show. Thanks for all the great stories.

[roselady13-2009]

I don''t totally agree with Anne Cooper''s statement that ''corn-free'' products are ''by definition'' more expensive. We (two 50-something adults who eat a diet conscious of Cardiac and Diabetes ''Risk Reduction'', a la Herbert Benson, et al) including fresh, frozen, and canned fruits, vegetables, including beans and legumes, low fat dairy products, fish, herbs and spices, and limited amounts of salt, sugar, honey, and maple syrup (the REAL stuff - not maple flavoring plus corn syrup as highlighted in the piece - most true New Englanders would be appalled at the thought of such a thing!), a few eggs (mostly for baking desserts that incorporate whole grains and fruits, because almost all of the commercially available stuff is ''highly overpriced junk'' that in our experience, contains little or no whole grains and/or fruit, and does contain high fructose corn syrup and/or artificial sweeteners, both of which we try to avoid), whole grains - including corn, brown rice, buckwheat, bulgur, (and yes, we also eat a limited amount of some commercially produced ''junk'' food - including refrigerated whole wheat pizza dough, ''multigrain'' crackers, ''instant oatmeal'', cereals, and breads, pudding mix and ''graham'' crackers, which are some of the many ''misnomers'' that are ''enabled'' by the U S FDA, and some ''enriched wheat'' pasta - don''t worry, there''s no ''whole grain'' in that, either!). It costs the two of us less than $150.00 per month for groceries near Boston, which is not exactly a low cost environment!

[roselady13-2009]

I think that you ''missed the point'' in the story coverage of "King Corn" - most informed people will agree that growing ''mega-crops'' of corn in itself, is not the problem, it is the use of said corn mostly for the production and use of ''refined corn products'' (along with refined wheat, rice, and any other grain that can be ''refined'' that I might have missed, etc.), including a fairly recent entry to the commercial marketplace, high fructose corn syrup - as opposed to ''GLUCOSE corn syrup'', and good old sugar, from the sugar cane plant, AND let''s not forget records amount of salt, and fat, including a relative newcomer, ''trans-fats'', in the food supply, and also ''portion sizes'' that are more and more outrageous, and also increased amounts of ''sedentary'' work and leisure activities, that is helping lead to record levels of obesity, and the complications thereof...

As with most issues, it''s not just a simple as a single issue like "King Corn"...

[roselady13-2009]

I find it mildly amazing that neither ''Mr. Corn Free'' (Curt Ellis), Anne Cooper, and/or CBS Reporter, John Blackstone, in his hopefully ''thorough research'' for this piece, have not discovered (or if any of them has, it wasn''t mentioned in this morning''s piece) that any commercially produced product marked ''Kosher for Passover'' is by definition - ''corn free'' - including corn, corn meal, cornstarch, corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, and since it is also by definition ''kosher'', you can also bet there won''t be any chance of finding ''corn fed pork'' products in it, either...

Kindly note: I did NOT state that the contents of such package(s) are in any way ''healthy'' -- just ''corn free''!