EAT CHOCOLATE, LOSE WEIGHT-CAN ORDER TUESDAY

jerber160

http://www.amazon.com/Eat-Chocolate-Lose-Weight-Science/dp/1623361273/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1391278332&sr=1-1&keywords=eat+chocolate+lose+weight

WUUHU. not that i need another cookbook, but a friend wrote it, i tried a sample recipe and all I can say is WOW. NICE.

DamianaKitten

I am not paying $20 to be told what chocolate is magical enough to make me lose weight. <_<

jerber160

I am not paying $20 to be told what chocolate is magical enough to make me lose weight. <_<

suit yourself, but it's not meant to be magic, like candy bars.
the one recipe I sampled called for a teaspoonful of cocoa powder and cinnamon in a jamaican fish chili. since I like to cook (and already have a penchant for jamaican food, ) my cooking horizons have broadened. It's a little sad my chocolate experience has mostly been nestles qwik and candy bars...this is FUN for me
this was a KILLER good recipe:

Recipes from Eat Chocolate, Lose Weight
Cocoa Chili Jamaican Fish
One of the amazing recipes from Eat Chocolate, Lose Weight, released on February 4th, 2014.

1 large filet of a firm white fish (such as swordfish), skin removed
3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
1/4 onion, chopped (about 1/2 cup)
1/2 red bell pepper, chopped (about 1/2 cup)
1 habañero, seeded, ribbed, and finely minced
3 garlic cloves, minced
1 6 ounce can tomato paste
2 cups chicken broth
1/8 cup soy sauce plus more to taste
1 cinnamon stick
1 teaspoon cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground pepper plus more to taste
Season the fish with a sprinkle of both salt and pepper. In a cast-iron skillet, heat 2 tablespoons of the olive oil over a medium-high flame. Add the fish and singe both sides, about 5 minutes for each side. Remove it from the pan and set aside.
Add the remaining 1 tablespoon olive oil, the onion, bell pepper, habañero, and garlic and cook for 2 minutes, stirring frequently. Add the tomato paste, chicken broth, soy sauce, cinnamon stick, cocoa powder, and pepper. Stir until the tomato paste is well blended.
At this point, the sauce should be thinner than you want it to be. Over the next 15 minutes, it’ll cook it down to the consistency you prefer. Thus, if it’s already at your desired consistency, it’s too thick and you should add more stock.
Cut the filet into bite size pieces. Set the fish back into the sauce and simmer, uncovered, for about 15 minutes. At this point, taste the sauce for the many overlapping flavors: Salt is given by the soy, heat by the chili pepper, savory by the cocoa, and the balancing sweetness by the cinnamon.
Once you have the sauce right, serve it and the fish over spiced rice. You make it just like you do regular rice, but you throw in a cinnamon stick at the beginning. You’re going to love it.

jerber160

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I served it over spaghetti squash instead of rice.... and I wonder how it will affect the taste if I initialy poach the fish, instead of sizzling in olive oil. VERY LOW CAL that way.

DamianaKitten

I found it through a google search. So far it's mostly "eat real chocolate! Don't eat crap!" Yeah... still not paying $20 to be told to eat real foods because they're more satisfying to the body than processed foods. I know my body prefers whole foods to processed foods.

jerber160

I love this guy (the author) and am glad to count him as a friend. As I get older I find it reinforced all the time that we need to use ALL the tools at our disposal to achieve our goals, be it on our weight loss journey, in our political outlooks or anything. So if you know someone who could use a boost or would like to shake someone up with a valentine's day giftee, consider this. Will said we could pass this along-it's about his passion for this project:

""Eat Chocolate, Lose Weight" challenges the cultural norms that we've been coached to believe. By pushing at those paradigms, I believe this work brings a new way to think about our weight and health: using chocolate to control "the disease of over-consumption"; our tendency to nosh all the, all the, all the time; our addiction to quick fix solutions; and our sense that 'delicious' and 'healthy' must be oxymorons.

Yes, this book is about chocolate. And yes of course, you can eat chocolate and lose weight doing it. But, more importantly, it is also a metaphor for how we should approach all our food and feeding, for ourselves and our families.

When you eat in this way, chocolate becomes a window into changing not only yourself, but also the disordered culture of health that surrounds us every day, which has led us directly into the problems we see in others, and feel in ourselves. I hope you love this approach, not to mention the chocolate itself!

pocketmole

does your friend have a blog? i don't tend to purchase cookbooks anymore but i always enjoy creative uses for cocoa powder since i always have some on hand. i like to add it to my enchilada sauce sometimes for an easy mole type of thing

jerber160

I'll check thanks

he tweets at @willclower