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floatingleaf) wrote2007-11-16 09:53 pm
floatingleaf) wrote2007-11-16 09:53 pm
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OMG... did hell freeze over or something?...;)
I can't believe it. I just cooked a completely spontaneous, pure 'grand improvisation' fancy dinner, and it turned out delicious. I mean, usually if I want something more complicated than scrambled eggs, I need to follow a recipe. From a book. Or, to be precise, from my Weight Watchers cookbook.:) But today I didn't feel like poring over recipes, and I hadn't bought ingredients for any specific dish. I just had a lot of stuff in the fridge, left over from previous culinary endeavors.:) So my policy was to use whatever I can, before it spoils and lands in the garbage. I just never expected this would lead to a truly remarkable meal. I guess there is hope for me in the culinary department, after all.:P
I had these really thin pieces of chicken breast that were apparently meant to be wrapped around something. I also had some fresh ginger that I bought for one of the oriental recipes. And fresh garlic, which I always keep in my kitchen cabinet these days. And deliciously sweet & juicy white grapes. So I cut it all up into tiny slivers and made little chicken rolls stuffed with it, which I then baked in the toaster oven. While they were baking, I threw a thinly sliced onion onto a skillet, then added a packet of baby portobello mushrooms, some leek (which is possibly my favorite vegetable and goes with almost anything I eat) and half a cauliflower broken into tiny little florets. And some vegetable broth to let it all simmer without getting burned. I also threw in some fresh oregano (well, not so fresh anymore - it's been wilting in my fridge for quite some time, but still hasn't lost its flavor) and ground cumin (which, I find, is an amazing addition to vegetable and/or chicken stews). Then, when the cauliflower softened a bit, I took the chicken out of the oven and covered it with the contents of the skillet - so that all the flavors blended together. That was it. Simple, creative, nutritious, unbelievably tasty and low-carb to boot.:) Not to mention that it smelled like heaven. Who said losing weight meant giving up on the good stuff??? I have never eaten so well before. Not in the proper sense of the word anyway...
In other related news, Weight Watchers at work is officially over. My final score? 12 lbs down. So I was actually very close to achieving my 10% goal. And now that I have my own scale at home, I can see the weight dropping in small increments almost day by day. It's tricky, though, because if you weigh yourself more than once daily, at various hours, the results tend to fluctuate a lot. For example, it seems normal to be about a pound heavier at the end of the day than in the morning. I guess I just have to pick a particular time for stepping on the scale (e.g. right after getting up, before I put on clothes, have breakfast etc.). Less confusing that way. Or I could still just weigh myself once a week - but it's hard to keep away from the scale when the numbers actually go DOWN.:]
I had these really thin pieces of chicken breast that were apparently meant to be wrapped around something. I also had some fresh ginger that I bought for one of the oriental recipes. And fresh garlic, which I always keep in my kitchen cabinet these days. And deliciously sweet & juicy white grapes. So I cut it all up into tiny slivers and made little chicken rolls stuffed with it, which I then baked in the toaster oven. While they were baking, I threw a thinly sliced onion onto a skillet, then added a packet of baby portobello mushrooms, some leek (which is possibly my favorite vegetable and goes with almost anything I eat) and half a cauliflower broken into tiny little florets. And some vegetable broth to let it all simmer without getting burned. I also threw in some fresh oregano (well, not so fresh anymore - it's been wilting in my fridge for quite some time, but still hasn't lost its flavor) and ground cumin (which, I find, is an amazing addition to vegetable and/or chicken stews). Then, when the cauliflower softened a bit, I took the chicken out of the oven and covered it with the contents of the skillet - so that all the flavors blended together. That was it. Simple, creative, nutritious, unbelievably tasty and low-carb to boot.:) Not to mention that it smelled like heaven. Who said losing weight meant giving up on the good stuff??? I have never eaten so well before. Not in the proper sense of the word anyway...
In other related news, Weight Watchers at work is officially over. My final score? 12 lbs down. So I was actually very close to achieving my 10% goal. And now that I have my own scale at home, I can see the weight dropping in small increments almost day by day. It's tricky, though, because if you weigh yourself more than once daily, at various hours, the results tend to fluctuate a lot. For example, it seems normal to be about a pound heavier at the end of the day than in the morning. I guess I just have to pick a particular time for stepping on the scale (e.g. right after getting up, before I put on clothes, have breakfast etc.). Less confusing that way. Or I could still just weigh myself once a week - but it's hard to keep away from the scale when the numbers actually go DOWN.:]
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