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[May 31, 2006 @ 3:49pm] |
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Dear friends,
As you might note, I have never posted a recipe to this blog. To be honest, I am a pretty decent cook, when I'm following someone else's directions. I do an okay job of improvising or adapting recipes, too. When it comes to creating a recipe straight from a blank slate, though, I'm afraid I'm all thumbs.
My challenge to you:
I eat a ton of pasta. It's cheap, it's easy, and it's healthy ... or so I thought. I recently gave the nutritional information on the pasta and sauces that i have been using a look, and they're shockingly high in caloric content. Can anyone give me a good, cheap, low-calorie pasta recipe? I have searched the net for recipes like this, with limited success.
The requirements:
- I must be able to make it using a standard kitchen setup. I don't have a garlic press, or a humidor, or a crock pot, or any of that weird stuff. What I do have is a working oven and stove, and a good set of selected pots, pans, and kitchen tools.
- The recipe must not take hours upon hours to make, unless that time is just it simmering by itself or something. I'm a pretty busy person, and I rarely have time to stand over and supervise a meal for that long. An hour, or less, preferably, of actual focused work on my part is a good benchmark to shoot for.
- The caloric content must be less than 500 calories per serving.
- The recipe does not have to include meat. I usually don't include it with my recipes anyway, and I'm willing to try whatever kind of weird veggies you want to foist upon me. Plus, I love onions, tomatoes, mushrooms, peppers, garlic, artichokes and all that stuff, so go nuts.
- The recipe must be less than or around $5 per serving. I'm on a budget here, and I usually only spend a dollar or two per meal, but I'm willing to splurge for more extravagant, more healthy food. This doesn't mean it has to cost me only $5 to make it. If it costs me $25 to buy the ingredients, but I can make the recipe six times with those ingredients, that's cool, too.
- NO TUNA. God help me, but I cannot stand the stuff.
Anyway, that's my proposition to you. Don't take this too seriously - I'm not trying to impose or anything - i just know that some of you like to get creative in the kitchen, and I thought if you had any ideas that could help me out in my dilemma, I'd put a call out and let you know I'm looking for them.
Hope everyone's doing well.
-Justin
P.S. BONUS POINTS for any recipe that conforms to the above requirements, even if it isn't a pasta dish.
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| The China Study, by T. Colin Campbell & Thomas M. Campbell II |
[April 19, 2006 @ 10:26am] |
Title: The China Study
Authors: T. Colin Campbell & Thomas M. Campbell II
 I am a little too preoccupied with work and other things to write a review, but nevertheless, I strongly recommend this book to anyone looking to take control of what they eat and empower themselves through nutrition and diet. I'm sure it's really brutal information for the typical person who is used to eating sugar, meat or dairy on even a semi-constant basis. Even I, who am devoted to knowing why I am eating the things I eat, and don't even have a real attachment to meat and most dairy, found it hard to imagine integrating what I learned into my eating habits. But after trying it, I realized it was easy and that knowing why I am eating the foods I eat fills me with joy and pride.
I still do indulge and eat certain things that aren't necessarily good for my body, but at those times I know the reason is because it tastes good and is fun, and thus creates joy. So anyway, if you are vehemently opposed to the idea of a mainly vegan diet with little refined sugar, your take on this book may be that it is a farce, but even so I can't help recommend it to even just such a person for the betterment of their lives, because I really do believe that no matter who has what scientific evidence to say that eating such-and-such is good or bad, giving more thought in general to what you are eating is a greatly rewarding and beneficial experience.
About the text itself - it can be a bit repetitive of certain points, and even a little drab at times. Not a fun or light kind of read that you'll want to do just for the sake of entertainment. However, nothing in the book is presented in a hard to understand way, so it isn't a difficult read.
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| Avocado Soup |
[January 28, 2006 @ 11:58am] |
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I got this recipe from vegweb.com.
It is soup week. This is my third soup in three days and I am not done yet. At first it tasted weird, but after I got used to it I liked it. Definitely not for everyone! You must be sure you really like avocado to want to eat this. Am I posting too much food? I haven't finished my book yet.
( Avocado lovers only )
The recipe makes two big bowls or four cups of soup. I garnished it with cilantro. I think this recipe could be better with more ingredients, but I don't know what exactly.
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| Carrot Soup |
[January 26, 2006 @ 11:43pm] |
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My mom emailed me this recipe on my request~ Hers is better than mine, though. Thanks mom!
( carrot soup! )
By the way, if your "blendor" is antiquated like mine and has no rubber washer on the lid for suction, be careful to blend it at a slow speed, because the steam will somehow force the lid off no matter how hard you hold it on if you blend it too fast! I found this out the hard way (three times).
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