Secret weapon #7= Seasoning mixes and prep techniques! If food is properly seasoned it suddenly goes from "diet food" to "gourmet decadence". And altering your food prep can take a food you eat everyday from "ho-hum" to "wow!" Seasoning Lettuce , for instance, is mostly water, so if you eat a lettuce heavy salad you will be unsatisfied and definitely unfulfilled meal-wise. So here's what you do: Start with a nutrient rich base of romaine lettuce and spinach. Add 1/4 cup each of the following as you like cherry tomatoes, cucumber, roasted almonds, chickpeas (or dollops of hummus or baked hummus for protein!), red bell pepper, avocado, red onion. 1 T nutritional yeast (nutty cheesy flavor with loads of vitamins including b-complex) Drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle on black pepper and sea salt. Some more Examples: Cream cheese= blah bagel topping Cream cheese + seasoning = cheesecake baguette= yawn crusty bread (okay maybe not totally, but j...
Do you ever feel like not eating, but then you make something really tasty and completely off the cuff? Yeah that was me on July 5th (and various other days).. I woke up a little later than usual and just had no appetite... Also, no real food. So I had some peanuts and got some things done while thinking about what i had that could turn into a reasonably healthy and filling meal. Bottom of the bag Trader Joe's long-grain brown rice, black barley and daikon radish seeds some Restaurant Style Salsa and a can of black beans. I think I can work with that... I cooked the rice put it in a bowl and then heated the beans with some salsa. I put that on the rice ,mixed and topped it with more salsa...Yum! I love inventing recipes that turn out delicious. Especially when I'm doing some On the fly scraping the bottom of the grocery barrel cooking. :-) It was so good I had it again for dinner. Well, that and I really didnt have anything else to eat other than garbanzo flour and im trying no...
It is incredibly surreal to visit places that I've read about and seen on television and in movies for decades. I experienced a very serious case of deja vu in certain places that can only be attributed to my intense visual memory. It was wonderful to be able to go to France. I was only in Paris two and a half weeks but it was so packed with activity it felt like I was there much longer and I felt very much at home there by the end of my trip. What can I say about Paris that has not already been said? It is beautiful and charming and most definitely enchanting. One visit is certainly not enough unless that visit lasts a year or so. There are so many charming corners in Paris and it is so easy to happen upon a piece of history or a hidden gem. Literally, randomly stumbled upon a cemetery went in and one of my favorite author's sons (albeit illegitimate) grave was there. Alexandre Dumas fils , son of the famous author Alexandre Dumas. Dumas' bo...
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