I've been considering going on a diet myself... but it's hard in my house - we who love meat so much. D: I'm just about average weight, but last winter I gained fifteen pounds, and I didn't lose it all in the summertime, and I KNOW that I'm not going to get much exercise this winter either... So I feel like I'll have to go on a diet. I've been doing my best to eat smaller portions, but it doesn't always work.
I have found this awesome recipe book, though - "Tea: More than 80 Delicious Recipes" by Sarina Jacobson. Essentially, it's a recipe book filled with recipes for things that will go well with different kinds of tea (it has chapters on snacks and tea preparation techniques from England, China, Japan, India, Russia...) BUT it also has a chapter on cooking WITH tea. Like, actually putting tea in recipes. Like, you can make delicious sauces for fish and lamb and stuff with it... one of the recipes is called "Roobios Couscous with snow peas and Shitake Mushrooms" - essentially, indian tea flavoured couscous. :3 I'm going to try making it soon...
I tried to attach some turkey to an e-mail for you, but it just got my screen greasy. Sorry. :(
Ugh. I know what that's like. I can't go on a diet at all unless I'm alone. I'm just bad at having yummy food in the house (or seeing other people eating yummy food right in front of me) and not eating some... or a lot of it.
So when I'm with other people, it's: we all go on a diet or none of us do. This usually translates into my family eating very healthy when they come visit me, and me eating very badly when I visit them...
(Funny thing is, when I go on a diet, I usually have to increase the amount of meat I eat. I don't dislike it, but I don't love it, either, so I end up not bothering with it and getting very low amounts of protein in my diet as a result. My problem is carbs... I'm a sucker for sweet things. >_<)
That recipe book sounds amazing. If you happen to come across some low-calorie, easy recipe, do share! I love tea. ^__^
Oh well, at least you tried. ;)
(would you believe me if I told you that I've only eaten turkey once in my life?)
You've only eaten turkey once? Well, I suppose it is a North America thing... It's delicious, though. :) I really only have it twice a year, though: at Thanksgiving and at Christmas. Other than that, for white meat we normally go for chicken.
Our family is weird, though - my dad hunts quite a bit, so we always have loads of venison in the house. THAT stuff is delicious too - it's just that we have it so often, I'm jaded to it's taste...
And I'll definitely share some recipes with you! :D I just made some of the scones in that book, actually... they give a basic recipe, then they have like eight extra types that you can make, just by adding a few different incredients at certain steps - like cheese & chives, allspice, double chocolate, walnuts...
Well, it's not just a North America thing. You'd be surprised how many contries like to have a big, fat turkey on their tables for the holiday season. Most of Latin America's countries aren't on that list, though. We prefer lamb or pork or a good "asado" (Argentinean-style barbeque), though mainly it's cold dishes on our tables at Christmas since it's the middle of summer for us. ^^
The only time I had it was when my sister (who lives in the states for a few years) cooked one during Christmas a couple of years ago.
I've never tried venison, but that may be because we'd have to import it. Where I grew up, we did have amazing trouts in our rivers (huge things, one fish would feed a party of ten) and I'd get thoroughly sick of eating "corderito" (baby lamb) at every special occasion. There's something in the grass in Tierra del Fuego which makes lamb get a very delicate taste. Unfortunately, it's very fatty meat and I was always stuck with the task of doing the dishes afterwards. Trust me, it's no fun scrubbing plates for six (or more) people (plus any implements used in cooking and serving it) that were totally smeared in that fat. Once it cools down, it's totally disgusting. -_-
I have found this awesome recipe book, though - "Tea: More than 80 Delicious Recipes" by Sarina Jacobson. Essentially, it's a recipe book filled with recipes for things that will go well with different kinds of tea (it has chapters on snacks and tea preparation techniques from England, China, Japan, India, Russia...) BUT it also has a chapter on cooking WITH tea. Like, actually putting tea in recipes. Like, you can make delicious sauces for fish and lamb and stuff with it... one of the recipes is called "Roobios Couscous with snow peas and Shitake Mushrooms" - essentially, indian tea flavoured couscous. :3 I'm going to try making it soon...
I tried to attach some turkey to an e-mail for you, but it just got my screen greasy. Sorry. :(
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So when I'm with other people, it's: we all go on a diet or none of us do. This usually translates into my family eating very healthy when they come visit me, and me eating very badly when I visit them...
(Funny thing is, when I go on a diet, I usually have to increase the amount of meat I eat. I don't dislike it, but I don't love it, either, so I end up not bothering with it and getting very low amounts of protein in my diet as a result. My problem is carbs... I'm a sucker for sweet things. >_<)
That recipe book sounds amazing. If you happen to come across some low-calorie, easy recipe, do share! I love tea. ^__^
Oh well, at least you tried. ;)
(would you believe me if I told you that I've only eaten turkey once in my life?)
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Our family is weird, though - my dad hunts quite a bit, so we always have loads of venison in the house. THAT stuff is delicious too - it's just that we have it so often, I'm jaded to it's taste...
And I'll definitely share some recipes with you! :D I just made some of the scones in that book, actually... they give a basic recipe, then they have like eight extra types that you can make, just by adding a few different incredients at certain steps - like cheese & chives, allspice, double chocolate, walnuts...
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The only time I had it was when my sister (who lives in the states for a few years) cooked one during Christmas a couple of years ago.
I've never tried venison, but that may be because we'd have to import it. Where I grew up, we did have amazing trouts in our rivers (huge things, one fish would feed a party of ten) and I'd get thoroughly sick of eating "corderito" (baby lamb) at every special occasion. There's something in the grass in Tierra del Fuego which makes lamb get a very delicate taste. Unfortunately, it's very fatty meat and I was always stuck with the task of doing the dishes afterwards. Trust me, it's no fun scrubbing plates for six (or more) people (plus any implements used in cooking and serving it) that were totally smeared in that fat. Once it cools down, it's totally disgusting. -_-
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