What are you eating?

[rockmanj]

You like your sausages thick, rock hard, and manly, do you?

I get my fiber from other sources (hopefully). This meal was all about flavor.

Well played, sir. Well played...

[Ryllharu]

^ This.

Quite easily the best tasting skin of all time. Combine the skin with the white meat in a single bite, and it is the food of gods.

This turkey was deep fried after being brined for 24+ hours in the following concoction (US units of course):

14 cups water
3 1/2 cups apple juice, preferably unsweetened and unfiltered
1 1/2 cups bourbon whiskey (I used Buffalo Trace because it has a really good flavor)
1 1/2 cups light brown sugar
1 1/4 cups salt
4 bay leaves
12-14 whole black peppercorns
1 medium onion, coarsely chopped
4 medium cloves garlic, coarsely chopped
1 lemon zest

(Recipe modified from a Washington Post brine for a smoked turkey recipe)

It ended up a little overdone, but because it was brined and deep fried, you'd never even notice. That's part of the benefit of deep frying, the water stays inside the turkey meat after vaporizing in 350°F oil. The caramelization on the skin is fantastic. It looks burnt, but it isn't at all.

[David75]

Easy dinner pictures
Just before serving:
Two sea bream filets, zucchini cut in stripes
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Sticky rice
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Pascaline's bowl:
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Mine, with coarsely ground salt, black pepper and damn hot cayenne pepper.
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Quick, easy, good taste, healthy.
I change Fish and vegetables every-night.

[Buffalobiian]

When I was eating normally, I would had to to fill that bowl to the rum with rice (though maybe not heaped).

Then again, that's with long-grain white rice. Sticky rice tends to be more filling, so perhaps my portions would be more similar to yours.

[David75]

Well, I try to keep it light. I will probably decrease rice quantity come spring.

[Animeniax]

I'm still searching for a steamer pan that will fit inside my rice cooker. After spending a lot of money for the holidays, I can't bring myself to buy a new rice cooker with steamer pan.

Instead of cooking turkey dinner or getting it from Boston Market like we've done before, we bought turkey and fixings from the deli at a Whole Foods Market. Some of the best tasting turkey, gravy, mashed sweet potato, and green bean casserole (this one item was homemade) I've ever had.

[Animeniax]

So I tried the steamed fish diet and it was good for a couple weeks, but fizzled out. I think the steamed veggies were lacking in flavor to effort ratio so I started only cooking the fish, then stopped altogether. Still have some frozen tilapia to finish though.

I made this for dinner today:

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Here's the recipe: http://www.nutmegnanny.com/2011/07/2...lazed-chicken/ It didn't come out exactly right but was still awesome. Next time I'll add less vinegar so the honey stays thicker.

[Buffalobiian]

My diet's back to the normal random stuff now since I can't buy my veges regularly, and I don't know where to put a chest freezer if I went out and bought one.

I wouldn't have any trouble leaving it in my room if it wasn't so damn noisy.

@David: I thought the whole French Paradox thing meant you guys had some pretty optimal eating habits. Not the case?

[Animeniax]

I made this for dinner today:

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It was a bit of work with all the steps, but worth it!

http://www.sixsistersstuff.com/2012/...en-recipe.html

[fahoumh]

That looks really tasty. Did yours look the same as the picture?

[Animeniax]

That looks really tasty. Did yours look the same as the picture?

Surprisingly yes... usually I end up with something that doesn't quite resemble the pictures and I spend a lot of time trying to achieve that look and end up overcooking it. I'll say any recipe that calls for chicken breast should be altered to use chicken thighs instead. They have more flavor and are more forgiving to overcooking.

I made this in the slow cooker today:

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from here: http://www.mmmisformommy.com/2011/09...cued-ribs.html

[Buffalobiian]

I went out to make some cold soba for a get-together picnic I had with some friends a few days ago.



I hadn't made the sauce for two years, so I played around with different ratios and altering the ingredients a little. Didn't end up going as far as I intended to at first since I got lazy.

After getting the kaeshi done up, the most variable step for me is actually the dashi stock mix. I buy the granules instead of making my own, but there's different concentrations for usages like soup, noodle-soup to hotpots. I have no idea how much water to actually add per cup of granules for mixing up the dipping sauce. It turned out alright at the end. Garnishing the noodles with roasted seaweed makes it heaps better IMO.

Then for dinner I made some curry from a boxed pack. It was the first time I bothered to buy one of those, and the results were rather tasty. It's cheap too. A $5 box makes curry for plenty of rice. The only complaint I had was that it wasn't hot enough, but a few dashes of cayenne pepper per plate fixes that.

[Buffalobiian]

Easy dinner pictures
Just before serving:
Two sea bream filets, zucchini cut in stripes
IMG_0482.jpg

Sticky rice
IMG_0483.jpg

Pascaline's bowl:
IMG_0485.jpg

Mine, with coarsely ground salt, black pepper and damn hot cayenne pepper.
IMG_0486.jpg

Quick, easy, good taste, healthy.
I change Fish and vegetables every-night.

Hey David, how's this working out for you? Still keeping up with it?

Since going back to uni now, I've kind of regressed back to my older, "normal" diet. Lack of freezer space for frozen vegetables and regular eating times makes the previous "controlled" diet hard. I'm used to eating less (and always have been, to an extent), but I'm not sure that's helping. Exercise is almost non-existent.

As a side note though, interestingly my peak-flow rating is a fair bit higher than my predicted value, especially compared to my peers who seem to exercise a lot more than I do.

[Kraco]

I'm used to eating less (and always have been, to an extent), but I'm not sure that's helping.

Weren't you talking about eating a whole chicken at some point (minus the innards, I hope)?

[Buffalobiian]

Weren't you talking about eating a whole chicken at some point (minus the innards, I hope)?

That was around a year ago, but yes I did talk about that.

I can still do that, in fact. I'm used to eating less but I'm definitely still capable of eating more than I need.

[Buffalobiian]

Holidays have started so I went back to exercise and a veggie+fish diet.

Difference from last time is that I'm trying to eat above my base metabolic rate this time, so the target is around 8000KJs.

It only lasted for one day, because eating that much (instead of the previous 4000KJs) involved 1KG of vegetables and 9 tins of sardines. Quite frankly, I got tired (physically) from eating the sheer volume. Since the point of the diet is to make my body go into ketosis, I just went for a high-fat diet instead.

That is, replace the 9 tins of sardines with 250g of peanut butter (pretty much the only high mono/poly-saturated fat food I could find that was cheap and came in a jar). That solved a fair few of my sustainability problems before with trying to find the time and effort to prepare everything (especially when I'm not at home).

I should probably keep an eye on my sodium level since I've been making soup out of powdered vegetable stock (166L for $8!), and the nutrient indicates that is contains pretty much just sodium and not much else.

I can't do as much exercise at the moment, so we'll see how far this can take me.

[animus]

When I dieted a couple months back with no exercise I lost close to 40 pounds just eating a light breakfast and just a heavier lunch, and no dinner. Worked for me because instead of eating 6 smaller meals of stuff that are light and not liking what I was eating, I just had a really enjoyable lunch where I just ate what I usually wanted.

Starting out was hard, but I'm so used to it already and don't feel hungry with just one real meal.

[Animeniax]

Found my new favorite recipe for white fish fillets like tilapia or sole: http://www.self.com/fooddiet/recipes...e-en-papillote

Has all kinds of awesome flavors from the white wine, tomatoes, olives, and capers. I don't even like olives but they work with the fish and other flavors. I left out the bread and ate it with rice.

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[Buffalobiian]

Pan-fried some prawns in chopped garlic and olive oil, then combined it with eggs and vegetables into an omlette served with 2 teaspoons of oyster sauce and a dash of fish sauce.

It was a nice break from peanut butter..

When I dieted a couple months back with no exercise I lost close to 40 pounds just eating a light breakfast and just a heavier lunch, and no dinner. Worked for me because instead of eating 6 smaller meals of stuff that are light and not liking what I was eating, I just had a really enjoyable lunch where I just ate what I usually wanted.

Starting out was hard, but I'm so used to it already and don't feel hungry with just one real meal.

When you finished, were you ripped/fit-slim, or average slim?

I don't have 40 pounds to lose.. probably 4-10 max, and just aren't sure whether I can take it there with diet alone (almost).

[Animeniax]

As with anything Buff, pics or gtfo. Really it's kind of pointless just describing what you're eating unless it's part of a nutrition/health plan.

I'll be making this for lunch/dinner: chicken-marsala-1.jpg

From http://savorysweetlife.com/2010/03/chicken-marsala/