Professional Culinary Chef would like some feedback on food

I feel that tasty food, especially calorie controlled food, need not have esoteric ingredients or weird substitutions. People need to try things such as roasted and grilled vegetables for example.

I love a good salad, however I never order one from anywhere. Generally, it's because the restaurant versions are loaded with calories that are near the equivalent of a cheeseburger. And like an above poster said, not enough protein. It may be weird, but I don't like cold salads either. The flavors seem to get lost. This post has inspired me to find some simple grilled romaine and veggie recipes! No iceberg lettuce...ever...on anything.

Another home cook here. I also care more about balancing the macros and watching the overall calorie count. Carbs are not the enemy! I also try and reduce salt where I can to take care of other health markers.

Foods and food prep I'm rather obsessed with lately include caramelizing onions and slow roasting curries. Just because they are such a calorie bomb, I typically reduce the cheese topping on a recipe to a quarter or a third. A very good, sharp cheddar can be so much more flavourful than a mountain of blah cheese. This, I am sure, you know already.

So you are asking people on this site to contribute ideas for recipes that you are going to then sell to people on this site?

I'm a foodie and home cook. I'd love to talk about recipes and test your creations. If you really want to get into recipe writing, I'd strongly recommend The Recipe Writer's Handbook by Ostmann & Baker. I learned a lot from it.

I do have a couple of observations that may inform your decision-making.
--There's no reason for healthy food to be tasteless but there's also no reason for salt and sugar to rule over other flavors.
--Too many so-called healthy recipes seem to have been developed with only an awareness of what the popular press is touting at present. Some are seemingly unaware of recent findings. For example, there are still folks out there trying to associate low fat with low cholesterol whereas this has been debunked.
--There are too few recipes for whole grains. When whole grains are included wheat (emmer, spelt, freekeh, bulgur, etc.) and rye tend to be ignored.
--There's a need for more recipes out there for simply adding flavor to one or two main ingredients, for example, dressings and seasonings for vegetables, fish, chicken, etc., that don't add up to a casserole and don't require much time to create. Like I just figured out that you can make a pretty good french mustard cream to drizzle if you just mix together 2:2:1 cream:sour cream:mustard and heat it up in the microwave. Yes, it's not a low calorie addition but if you only use a tablespoon at a time, it goes a long way to turn a bag of frozen green beans into something special.

I've got a bunch of recipes at https://www.justapinch.com/me/heidicookssupper -- some are better than others and some are better written than others.

HeidiCooksSupper wrote: »

Where do you intend to share the recipes. As far as I know there's no way to share recipes on MFP no matter what the site says. It doesn't work and has been promised as coming soon for the several years I've belonged to the site. Did I miss something?

People often post recipes (and pictures) in the "Recipe" area, that could be what OP has in mind.

Darnit, I was hoping you'd send out samples.

ourenchantedcottage wrote: »

HeidiCooksSupper wrote: »

Where do you intend to share the recipes. As far as I know there's no way to share recipes on MFP no matter what the site says. It doesn't work and has been promised as coming soon for the several years I've belonged to the site. Did I miss something?

I thought That I can let everyone know on this thread that I made a recipe available with the name of the recipes. I thought that is why they ask if you want to list the recipes. Am I wrong about that?

If you post the recipe here or create a new thread with recipes it is okay. If you create a blog or Facebook page or a personal website to share your recipes it is a violation of the advertising policy on MyFitnessPal. That could be partially why they are asking.

I like quality rather than quantity. I also love traditional foods. I never know what to expect at these weird hipster places we have in abundance around here. I'm usually surprised by my dish and not in a good way.

I am not looking for specific healthy foods or "superfood". My single problem with many standard recipes is that the proportions are not right. Too little fiber, too little protein in comparison to too much fat and often too many carbs, but carbs I feel are the easies to reduce using my instinct. Often, when I try to rebalance them they either don't turn out right or are not filling enough any more.