4/6/10

[yagathai]

The hardest thing about trying to cut weight is being hungry all the time, especially seeing as cooking is one of my primary hobbies and I'm normally thinking about food all damn day anyway. Plus, what ingredients do I have at home? Your standard continental cuisine staples: Cream, butter, bacon, yams, eggs, delicious golden potatoes waiting to be fried in bacon grease... oh God, oh sweet Lamb of mercy, make it stop.

Mmmmm. Lamb.

I think tonight I shall do a simple salad. If the fennel is still any good, I'll shave it and toss it with some roasted peppers, maybe some mandarin slices or cranberries. I'll do a simple balsamic vinaigrette (pepper, mustard, garlic, caper, anchovy, balsamic, olive oil) to dress it, and serve it with a couple of steamed chicken breasts. Yes. White wine, olives, capers, pepper for the sauce on that, I feel. Or... maybe just lemon and a healthy dose of fresh-ground pink peppercorn?

Damn, I'm out of lemon and mandarin slices and cranberries, I think. I do have dried cherries, though. Hm. But they would be too sweet to go with that dressing. Grated carrot? Maybe, yeah.

Or if the fennel has gone off, I'll just roast the peppers, top the chicken with them, add some onions and capers and olives and balsamic to it and pan-roast the whole shebang.

Comments

[lostreality.livejournal.com]

yep. What I try to do is serve as much food as possible over brown rice, because then I eat less of the good/fattening food and fill up on the less fattening rice. :) chicken and rice, rice in beef burritos, sauteed veggies over rice...it works with lots of dishes.

avoiding cream-based recipes helps a lot too. :)

[lawbabeak.livejournal.com]

There are ways to cut weight that don't involve being hungry all the time, though they tend to involve consuming vast quantities of vegetables and water (in addition to heartier fare).

Are you an all-or-nothing guy, or can you handle moderation? One or two of your mini-quiches with a big salad and a piece of fruit (if there is no fruit in the salad) would be a fine, weight-healthy meal. You just can't eat five of them. Potatoes have fewer calories by volume than rice does (unless you cook them in bacon grease...). Yams are god's gift to dieters - with the right spices, it's practically desert. Add a tiny bit of butter, honey, and/or molasses and it IS desert.

I think I've asked before, but have you tried the DASH diet? Your and my tax dollars at work.

[elsewhereangel.livejournal.com]

if you start cooking for those of us folks trying to lose a few PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD post up your recipes. your food is amazing but i can never allow myself to eat it, i'd love to try some of the lower cal stuff.