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For the love of Produce...
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Salade nicoise.
That looks AMAZING. I make mine with canned tuna and usually don’t have the egg or capers on hand, thus the “shady” aspect of my nicoise. But man it’s SUCH a good salad!
I just tried kumquats for the first time today. They are INCREDIBLE. So sour but also with a candied orange peel flavor… I’m addicted. I saw a YouTube video on different citruses and being the citrus addict that I am, I was inspired to try them
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@mtaratoot
I used my hubby's method for the eggs. These were lowered into boiling water for 6 minutes, stirring for the first minute to ensure that yolks are centred. Afterwards plunged into cold water. I think for nicoise a slightly firmer yolk is more practical so next time will do for 7 minutes.
I get my cast iron griddle pan to 250C according to the laser surface thermometer and fry oiled tuna for 30 seconds each side. I nonetheless struggle to make neat thin slices. If anyone has tips on how to do this I would be grateful. Glad to see on Masterchef New Zealand they also struggle to make neat slices of seared tuna.3 -
o0Firekeeper0o wrote: »Salade nicoise.
That looks AMAZING. I make mine with canned tuna and usually don’t have the egg or capers on hand, thus the “shady” aspect of my nicoise. But man it’s SUCH a good salad!
I just tried kumquats for the first time today. They are INCREDIBLE. So sour but also with a candied orange peel flavor… I’m addicted. I saw a YouTube video on different citruses and being the citrus addict that I am, I was inspired to try them
Yes to kumquats! I've been able to get good ones here - far from their native territory! - lately, too. Such a nice little treat. 😋
Exactly once in my life, I saw and bought limequats - a similar-sized green lime-tasting citrus, but sweet enough to eat out of hand like a kumquat: Tart, sweet, yummy. So, so good . . . I wish I could find more.3 -
Hubby came back with a cheap kilo box of strawberries which is surprising at this time of the year. Apparently imported from Spain. I haven't tried one yet, but they smell amazing.
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@mtaratoot
I used my hubby's method for the eggs. These were lowered into boiling water for 6 minutes, stirring for the first minute to ensure that yolks are centred. Afterwards plunged into cold water. I think for nicoise a slightly firmer yolk is more practical so next time will do for 7 minutes.
I get my cast iron griddle pan to 250C according to the laser surface thermometer and fry oiled tuna for 30 seconds each side. I nonetheless struggle to make neat thin slices. If anyone has tips on how to do this I would be grateful. Glad to see on Masterchef New Zealand they also struggle to make neat slices of seared tuna.
I changed my technique to something similar from putting eggs in cold water, heating to boil, getting off the heat, and letting sit for nine minutes before plunging in cold water. Now I gently lower them into GENTLY boiling water. It's the timing I'm working on. Has to be a very gentle boil or the albumin gets tough. They are easier to peel with this method. I think I'm doing ten minutes, and I'll try seven minutes next time.
Here's an idea I just thought of for the ahi. First cut into those rectangles, then pop in the freezer for maybe ten or 15 minutes. Then use a boning knife and make slits almost all the way through. Then pan sear on two or four sides. You might reduce the sear time as the inside will cook a bit if it's partially open, but that would be a great way to get easy-to-separate small slices in the finished product.3 -
My breakfast this morning was a slice of my homemade herb & garlic bread, toasted, topped with half an avocado and some finely cut up mushrooms and onions sauteed in a small amount of olive oil. With a couple of sticks of turkey pepperoni to bump up the protein and calories a bit. So simple, but so good!4
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Exactly once in my life, I saw and bought limequats - a similar-sized green lime-tasting citrus, but sweet enough to eat out of hand like a kumquat: Tart, sweet, yummy. So, so good . . . I wish I could find more.
A LIMEquat?! That sounds absolutely amazing. I didn’t even know such a thing existed. I hope I can get them for myself one day!
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@mtaratoot
Sorry this is not about produce really but the rare tuna slicing strategy of scoring the tuna prior to searing didn't work very well for me. It might be related to overcooking the tuna. The tuna just wants to break apart along the grain or fibre. At any rate, another salade nicoise tonight with the leftover blanched green beans.
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I made lots of veggies the last two nights, trying to use up what my friend gave me from her CSA box before she brought me more. Of course I got to share the bounty with her when the food was cooked.
Wednesday night was a mix of mustard greens, collard greens, purple sprouting broccoli, broccoli rabe, onions, garlic, and a big handful of mixed salad greens. I added a chile de arbol, some soy sauce, and some fish sauce. And lots and lots of freshly grated ginger. I made a very small batch of brown basmati rice to go along with it. It was SO good. I ate a third of it, gave her a third as a to-go box, and took a third for lunch yesterday.
Last night I cooked the last of the mustard greens and salad greens of course with more onion and garlic. I added a julienned rutabaga and a couple big yellow carrots. It was a much smaller batch of vegetables, and still quite tasty. I made sprouted brown rice and a nice fillet of Sockeye salmon. Again it was quite tasty.
But I've been eating too late in the evening and too much and well... the scale tells me I'm eating very well.4 -
There were mangosteen at the asian supermarket! My favourite fruit. They were exorbitant but I couldn't resist buying a box. Last time I ate them was on a pre-pandemic vacation in Thailand. Does anyone know how to tell when they are ripe?
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Mangosteen is such beautiful looking fruit. Pictured from top and bottom. Love the little flower like pattern at the base. It reminds me of Japanese ceramics with a pretty decorative pattern on the underside of the plate that only the dishwasher will enjoy.
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@acpgee, we don't much see mangosteen here, but the few times I've found/tried them, I haven't been able to figure out the ripeness question. I hope someone will have insight! They are an interesting fruit, though, looking a bit like a tiny eggplant, but harder shell. Ripeness-wise, I just break in and hope for the best.
Today, the new-to-me (I think) thing (that's probably common for others elsewhere) is this roughly softball sized thing that the produce market labels "Korean melon" (web says it would be called "chamoe" in Korean). Interesting, definitely melon-y flavor, but much crisper, almost cucumber-crisp, compared to the melons usual here.
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I tried something else new today. It was loosely based on some things I read online.
I had started a pound of garbanzo beans soaking on Thursday. After soaking overnight, I rinsed and drained twice a day until yesterday. They had just barely started to sprout.
I cooked them low and slow with a few bay leaves from the tree outside, some salt, and one dried Chile de Arbol. I ate some last night. From what was left, I reserved a few for another use (to add to some leftover black bean soup I took out of the freezer the other day to make it into an entirely new dish). I removed the bay leaves and the chile.
This morning, I finely minced a few very small red onions from my friend's CSA basket, a couple more small white onions from same basket, one rib of celery, a few leaves of kale rabe, a few spears of sprouting broccoli, a yellowish carrot, and a fresh sprig of spearmint from the yard. I mixed that with the quart of beans and squeezed in the juice of a lemon and a nice generous pour of EVOO. As an afterthought, I finely chopped a few cloves of garlic and added them in. I gave it a nice stir and put it all back in the quart container to meld. It's quite tasty.
I had drained the liquid from the beans that went into the salad, and I saved that with the few that will go in the black bean soup. Yumers all around.
Most of the recipes I saw didn't have several of the items I added, and most had parsley and cilantro. I didn't have any of those in my house, so I just used what I had.3 -
I got my garden planted on Sunday. Hoping everyone makes it and I can look forward to a summer of veggies, herbs and even a few edible flowers!5
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I made a big breakfast today.
I had some purple sprouting broccoli and some kale raab that really needed to be cooked. So I chopped the stems tiny and the rest coarsely. I cut up a carrot, some celery, some onion, and some mushrooms. I spiced it up with a dried Chile de Arbol. Fried up in olive oil and added some nutritional yeast and un-hulled sesame seeds. I added five or eight coarsely chopped garlic cloves right near the end of cooking. Splashed in some 40° N fish sauce for saltiness and umami.
Served over pearled barley.
It was more than I planned to eat, but I thought it wouldn't save well, and I already have plans to cook something else for supper. So.... it's all gone. All for less than 500 calories.
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I made curry last night with my homemade curry paste and the classic mix in my husband and I have done in curry since we started dating: mushrooms, potatoes, and onion. Even my toddler had seconds and she’s usually “eh” on curry.
Tomorrow I’m making our favorite Southwestern quinoa salad and some crispy tofu. I need to start soaking the beans this afternoon!5 -
I don't think I've combined this before, though not sure (a risk of the recipe-sparse life): Cooked beets, smashed chickpeas, goat feta, sweet onions, red wine vinegar, black pepper. Cold, so I suppose that makes it salad?
Looks odd, tasted good.
I'd've maybe included some seeds (pumpkin, maybe?), maybe sweet corn, on a day with a bigger calorie budget.4 -
Now I want beets.3
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Now I want beets.
Mildly guilty admission, in context of this thread: I bought a box of the Geffen already-cooked shelf-stable ones at Costco. It may be a mental block on my part, but I don't like prepping beets, but I do like beets occasionally. (Love the greens, but merely like the beets as sort of a middling-desirable veggie in my personal yum hierarchy. I wait for farmers market season to get beets with tops, usually.)
Probably fresh would be better, but these are OK, taste like simple cooked beets, contain only beets, are super easy. My version of a fast food? 😉3
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