Tuesday, November 30, 2010
thanksgiving is over
Hey Everyone,
Thanks for signing on today. The holidays are over, and now its time to get back on track. The diet track. and we all know what the first three letters in diet is DIE. lol. ok ok...lets hope we all wont be dying on our way to a healthier way of life. I know that after being a 18 year veteran/drop-out/16 time re-joiner of weight watchers, i know that the only thing that makes me stick to a "food plan" is if my food isn't boring.
When I actually stick to the plan, it works. This time around Ive lost 34 pounds of my yo-yo weight Losing weight has never been a problem. Ive always been able to lose weight.. aahh..but alas, the secret to keeping it off has eluded me. As Allison just likes to eat whatever she wants!
The other day, i said that I was going to make salmon with a cinnamon-pear balsamic glaze and had every intention of fitting into the points plan(which I'm proud to say I did). I cooked my salmon with the balsamic, i also added a touch of honey. It weighed 8 ounces cooked. I cut it in half and brought half to Michael in the hospital because i know he'd appreciate it (hospital food is so icky). I charged myself 5 points.
I must say, I had very high hopes for that Salmon, but for the most part, in the cooking process the cinnamon-pear flavor disappeared. So from now on rather than waste it on fish, I will just enjoy my tasty vinegar on salads. This will definitely make eating salads more interesting as they tend to get very boring.
So i was watching "The best thing I ever ate" and Ted Allen was talking about the twenty-four dollar spaghetti at Scott Conants restaurant Scarpetta. It's spaghetti with tomato sauce. He said It's so good he would pay thirty-four dollars for this pasta. He said that once you have pasta the way its supposed to be cooked, pasta everywhere else will be horrible experience. So i ask myself, do i want to go eat the best pasta of my life if its just going to ruin it for the rest of my life everywhere else. Well, I watch Scott Conant all the time on "chopped" complain about red onions and what a crime it is to rinse the pasta because then your sauce wont stick to it properly (bullshit...i rinse my pasta all the time, and my sauce sticks just fine)
So I would go just to see if his pasta and sauce is worth the twenty four dollars hes charging. So if only for the experience, i can say it was either the best I ever had and write Ted Allen a thank you note, or ask him to reimburse my money.
ok....I'm off...must make my 2 point cheese sandwich and portable rice cake snacks
(oh the joy in dieting)
until next time
Thanks for signing on today. The holidays are over, and now its time to get back on track. The diet track. and we all know what the first three letters in diet is DIE. lol. ok ok...lets hope we all wont be dying on our way to a healthier way of life. I know that after being a 18 year veteran/drop-out/16 time re-joiner of weight watchers, i know that the only thing that makes me stick to a "food plan" is if my food isn't boring.
When I actually stick to the plan, it works. This time around Ive lost 34 pounds of my yo-yo weight Losing weight has never been a problem. Ive always been able to lose weight.. aahh..but alas, the secret to keeping it off has eluded me. As Allison just likes to eat whatever she wants!
The other day, i said that I was going to make salmon with a cinnamon-pear balsamic glaze and had every intention of fitting into the points plan(which I'm proud to say I did). I cooked my salmon with the balsamic, i also added a touch of honey. It weighed 8 ounces cooked. I cut it in half and brought half to Michael in the hospital because i know he'd appreciate it (hospital food is so icky). I charged myself 5 points.
I must say, I had very high hopes for that Salmon, but for the most part, in the cooking process the cinnamon-pear flavor disappeared. So from now on rather than waste it on fish, I will just enjoy my tasty vinegar on salads. This will definitely make eating salads more interesting as they tend to get very boring.
So i was watching "The best thing I ever ate" and Ted Allen was talking about the twenty-four dollar spaghetti at Scott Conants restaurant Scarpetta. It's spaghetti with tomato sauce. He said It's so good he would pay thirty-four dollars for this pasta. He said that once you have pasta the way its supposed to be cooked, pasta everywhere else will be horrible experience. So i ask myself, do i want to go eat the best pasta of my life if its just going to ruin it for the rest of my life everywhere else. Well, I watch Scott Conant all the time on "chopped" complain about red onions and what a crime it is to rinse the pasta because then your sauce wont stick to it properly (bullshit...i rinse my pasta all the time, and my sauce sticks just fine)
So I would go just to see if his pasta and sauce is worth the twenty four dollars hes charging. So if only for the experience, i can say it was either the best I ever had and write Ted Allen a thank you note, or ask him to reimburse my money.
ok....I'm off...must make my 2 point cheese sandwich and portable rice cake snacks
(oh the joy in dieting)
until next time
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Friday, November 26, 2010
adventure!!!!!!!!!!
Hi peeps!
ok...so you got my little mobile blog from before...i love mobile blogging. I get to post little things as i experience them and when I get home, elaborate on them. Sooo cool
So lets talk about today's adventure. I went to my most favorite place in the whole world. Union square. Met my friend Dan. Dragged him around a little while. He seemed like a fish out of water. I'm more the "walk around aimlessly and wander about looking at nothing in particular at all and talk to strangers for no apparent reason". Dan, not so much. lol. So after about 20 minutes of looking at overpriced jewelery we went to WholeFoods for a bite to eat. They have the best salad bar, so much to choose from...but it seems like when I go their I always get the same thing. Vegetable biryani, alloo matar, saag paneer, and two samosas. Of course the best part is eating out of that brown carton:) Dan approved.
Well, like I blogged about earlier in the week, I went back to the filling station. this time I got a big bottle of the Dark chocolate vinegar, and the big bottle of the Black Truffle extra virgin olive oil (just call it liquid heaven). I also got a cinnamon pear balsamic vinegar that I'm going to use as a glaze on salmon this week. I know this is going to be fantastic and I cant wait. I haven't even thought about baking anything else...I'm all baked out for today. Holiday season is that time where you either "go hard or go home" lol
I cook and bake up a storm, and then nothing. So for today the excitement was the new Cinnamon-pear vinegar....this is definitely very tasty...another must have from the filling station!www.tfsnyc.com
i will be making my balsamic glazed Salmon sometime this week.
Also Christmas is coming and I'm a food gifter...so I'm thinking cookies are the way to go this year...I saw a cookie recipe magazine in Micheal's craft store...
OK will keep you all posted
until then,
ta
ok...so you got my little mobile blog from before...i love mobile blogging. I get to post little things as i experience them and when I get home, elaborate on them. Sooo cool
So lets talk about today's adventure. I went to my most favorite place in the whole world. Union square. Met my friend Dan. Dragged him around a little while. He seemed like a fish out of water. I'm more the "walk around aimlessly and wander about looking at nothing in particular at all and talk to strangers for no apparent reason". Dan, not so much. lol. So after about 20 minutes of looking at overpriced jewelery we went to WholeFoods for a bite to eat. They have the best salad bar, so much to choose from...but it seems like when I go their I always get the same thing. Vegetable biryani, alloo matar, saag paneer, and two samosas. Of course the best part is eating out of that brown carton:) Dan approved.
Well, like I blogged about earlier in the week, I went back to the filling station. this time I got a big bottle of the Dark chocolate vinegar, and the big bottle of the Black Truffle extra virgin olive oil (just call it liquid heaven). I also got a cinnamon pear balsamic vinegar that I'm going to use as a glaze on salmon this week. I know this is going to be fantastic and I cant wait. I haven't even thought about baking anything else...I'm all baked out for today. Holiday season is that time where you either "go hard or go home" lol
I cook and bake up a storm, and then nothing. So for today the excitement was the new Cinnamon-pear vinegar....this is definitely very tasty...another must have from the filling station!www.tfsnyc.com
i will be making my balsamic glazed Salmon sometime this week.
Also Christmas is coming and I'm a food gifter...so I'm thinking cookies are the way to go this year...I saw a cookie recipe magazine in Micheal's craft store...
OK will keep you all posted
until then,
ta
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