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Recipe Swap!
Dec. 30th, 2004 09:35 amOne of the New Year's Resolutions I've written down is to do the "cookbook project" - basically, to wrest from the chaos of my cookbooks three shelves of tried-and-true cookbooks (with marked pages) and make a personal cookbook only of recipes I make and like. (My previous one was "recipes I thought sounded good" which... bad idea. Really bad idea.)
One of the New Year's Resolutions I haven't written down is to lose weight and to eat more healthily, because I don't want to get into the insanity of trying to lose x weight in y time. The ultimate goal is to drop 60 pounds. I got halfway once and kept it off for three years. Bettering that will be enough.
Since the news out of England is that a diet which is heavy on fish, vegetables, fruit, garlic, almonds, and dark chocolate is Good For You, that's what I'm going to try to spin my eating towards. 'Cause this is a diet I can thoroughly enjoy (at least until I die of mercury poisoning...) Chicken is also good, as is a little pork.
So - who's got a recipe that they want to share? I'm looking for homecooking/comfort food, not the fancy stuff. Fancy stuff gets its own cookbook.
I'll kick off with something that proved immensely popular while I was home for Christmas:
APPLESAUCE PORK WITH WILTED GREENS
Ingredients: pork tenderlion, applesauce, fresh spinach, olive oil, 1+ cloves of garlic.
Drop the tenderloin in a small casserole dish and completely bury it in applesauce. Shove in the oven at 350 and roast until done.
About 10 minutes before the pork is finished, drizzle approximately 1 1-1/2 tablespoons of olive oil in a skillet. Peel at least one clove of garlic and drop it in the oil. Bring to sizzling heat. Remove the garlic and drop in the spinach, quickly pan-frying it until it is wilted and the oil has been distributed evenly through it. A quick dusting of garlic powder wouldn't be amiss but isn't required.
Serve the pork sliced with the hot applesauce over it and the spinach on the side. Rice is an optional starch, but we avoided it. If you use unsweetened applesauce, this isn't even all that caloriffic.
One of the New Year's Resolutions I haven't written down is to lose weight and to eat more healthily, because I don't want to get into the insanity of trying to lose x weight in y time. The ultimate goal is to drop 60 pounds. I got halfway once and kept it off for three years. Bettering that will be enough.
Since the news out of England is that a diet which is heavy on fish, vegetables, fruit, garlic, almonds, and dark chocolate is Good For You, that's what I'm going to try to spin my eating towards. 'Cause this is a diet I can thoroughly enjoy (at least until I die of mercury poisoning...) Chicken is also good, as is a little pork.
So - who's got a recipe that they want to share? I'm looking for homecooking/comfort food, not the fancy stuff. Fancy stuff gets its own cookbook.
I'll kick off with something that proved immensely popular while I was home for Christmas:
APPLESAUCE PORK WITH WILTED GREENS
Ingredients: pork tenderlion, applesauce, fresh spinach, olive oil, 1+ cloves of garlic.
Drop the tenderloin in a small casserole dish and completely bury it in applesauce. Shove in the oven at 350 and roast until done.
About 10 minutes before the pork is finished, drizzle approximately 1 1-1/2 tablespoons of olive oil in a skillet. Peel at least one clove of garlic and drop it in the oil. Bring to sizzling heat. Remove the garlic and drop in the spinach, quickly pan-frying it until it is wilted and the oil has been distributed evenly through it. A quick dusting of garlic powder wouldn't be amiss but isn't required.
Serve the pork sliced with the hot applesauce over it and the spinach on the side. Rice is an optional starch, but we avoided it. If you use unsweetened applesauce, this isn't even all that caloriffic.
