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17 Day Diet, Day 2
Start Weight - 230
Food Log
7 am - hot lemon water
8 am - breakfast, miso egg drop soup (slightly different than yesterday), apple, green tea
9 am - green tea
1 pm - lunch, thai style chicken veggie soup, green tea, large citrus water
2 pm - strawberry smothie
5 pm - dinner, chicken curry with veggies on cauliflower rice, large water
Running ( Read more... ) -
17 Day Diet, Day 1
Start Weight - I forgot to weigh myself, but I know I am 230-235 from recent weigh ins ( Read more... ) -
Combining Worcestershire sauce receipies
About a year ago I made a variation on Emeril's Worchestershire sauce - http://www.emerils.com/recipe/7149/Read more... ) -
Valentines Day Meal
Currently mostly a plan, but I have started the ricotta and wanted to keep notes here.
Homemade components:
Homemade Ricotta: http://smittenkitchen.com/2011/06/rich-homemade-ricotta/
We stock skim milk and wanted a double recipe so actual ingredients:- 4 cups skim milk
- 2 cup heavy cream
- 2 cup half-n-half
- 1 teaspoon coarse sea salt
- 6 tablespoons freshly ( Read more... )
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Egg Rolls & Pork Stock
The results don't go together, but the ingredients synergized well.
2-3 lbs assorted pork chops (cut fat and meat that can be easily seperated from bone, set bone pieces and fat aside, cut into 1/2" pieces)
2 cups dried mushrooms (gourmet blend from costco, rehydrate with boiling water, when rehydrated pull out mushrooms and dice, set aside water)
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Excellant Tom-Kha-Gai
Utterly trivial with everything else going on.
Adapted from Best Recipe Soups and Stews...
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2 T - Light Oil (used light olive oil)
6 cups - Chicken Broth (used Penzy's soup base)
1/4 cup - Lime Juice
3 T - Thai Fish Sauce (Soy Sauce + anchovy paste seems to work as a substitute)
1 can Coconut Milk (used Trader Joe's light, given ( Read more... ) -
Childhood icon lost
Kiddieland - the oldest amusement park in Chicagoland closed down at the end of last summer. It was closed because of family politics, not my family, the family involved in the park. Basic summary is as some point the ownership of the land became sperate from the ownership of the park, and each was oened by seperate branches of the founding ( Read more... ) -
this one worked pretty well for me
What American accent do you have?
Your Result: The Inland North
You may think you speak "Standard English straight out of the dictionary" but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions like "Are you from Wisconsin?" or "Are you from Chicago?" Chances are you call carbonated drinks "pop."
North Central
The Midland
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Yeah stimulus...
The White house has apparently proudly announced that 650,000 jobs where saved or created by the 150 BILLION dollar stimulus ( Read more... ) -
Public Service announcements
Ladies - you may wish to consider the implications of your lowcut blouse before going for a bike ride...
The announcement brought to you by summer weather, current fashion trends, and navels displayed thru cleavage....