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Friday, March 14
Looks like I'm on a "every 4 days" kind of posting routine. I'll take this opportunity to post the recipe for one of my favorite soups, something I invented but I'm sure is recreated almost identically by every cook experimenting with Thai and coconut milk.
All ingredient amounts are approximate. Ingredients themselves are flexible, you just have to do it all to taste. I would consider the essentials to be the curry paste and the coconut milk.
Fresh garlic - 2 cloves, grated.
fresh ginger - 1 marble size piece, grated.
coconut milk - 1 small can (tomato paste size can)
stock, chicken (or fish or veggie) - 2 cups
fish sauce (nam pla) - few dashes
juice of 1 lime
red curry paste - to taste (1 T usually is very hot)
lemon grass - optional
cloud ear mushrooms, or any mushrooms - optional
cilantro, fresh - 1/4 cup, chopped
shrimp, peeled - as many as you want
bread - 1-3 slices.
Heat stock with any dried ingredients in it (mushrooms & lemongrass), add garlic, ginger, fish sauce, lime juice. Add red curry paste, let it dissolve. Add coconut milk. Add mushrooms and lemongrass (if fresh). Simmer several minutes.
Dump into blender and puree, adding 1/2 pieces of bread until it is desired thickness.
Dump back into pot, add shrimp and cook about 2 minutes until they turn pink.
Serve, garnished with cilantro. This recipe makes 2 big servings for me (supper that night, and lunch the next day).
Yum!
Time posted: 14:40 [permalink]
Monday, March 10
Protein, protein, protein. I just ain't getting enough. With my weighlifting and running and all, and not hitting 40-50g a day most of the time, I think this is causing a problem. I just need to sneak more protein into my diet. I hear everything between 1g per kg of body weight (60) to 1g per pound (130)..... so I'll shoot for the middle and 100g per day.
Still, this is kind of difficult. My 4 egg omelet (2 eggs + 2 whites) is only 20g. So is a chicken breast, a half pound of tofu, one can of tuna, and 2 Luna bars. If I can eat all 5 every day, I'm set! (Sheesh)
Time posted: 11:03 [permalink]
Thursday, March 6
More "ME" cooking last night - the live-ins had already had pizza, so I stir fried a half block of tofu with mushrooms and a poblano chile, and chipotle seasoning. Tofu is one of those things that I can ONLY cook for myself, in this household. I'm working on the veggies thing with the S.O. and his daughter, but tofu may be asking too much.... yet. *smirk*
Time posted: 10:26 [permalink]
Tuesday, March 4
What I have discovered today: sausage in a slow-cooked stew just ain't that good. I am thusly humbled by my crappiest batch of posole yet, though it is still edible (after all, it still has chile in it...).
Time posted: 14:37 [permalink]
Breakfast. That most precious meal of the day where unfertilized pre-chickens combined with fried low-quality cuts from Porky is the accepted staple. Yum.
However, this requires time, or at least more time than I usually allocate between "open eyes and groan" and "leave the house" each work morning. So weekends I tend to go overboard.
During the work week I've settled into a routine that seems to work well for my work habits and my figure - coffee for breakfast. Highly adulterated coffee, that is. Lots of milk/cream/honey for those calories. And then a cup or more of coffee with my favorite additive - General Foods International Coffees, in French Vanilla Cafe flavor. This item is likely the single worst food that I consume on a regular basis in terms of 'health'. But I allow it, in the name of Balance. Hehe.
So late in the morning after my liquid breakfast, I get a bit hungry. Depending on the day & current availability, I will have a bowl of whole grain hot cereal (usually the "Red Mill" brand with some added honey & butter, OR I will have a big pile of fruit. Grapes (1lb) or cantalope (1 whole) is the de rigeur. But I can't stand fruit out of season - it just tastes like overpriced crap, which is really what it is. So in the winter its the hot cereal.... sometimes Chilean grapes.
This breakfast routine has actually helped me lose weight this past summer. Or maybe it was the stress of my new position at work.... or both.
Time posted: 12:31 [permalink]
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