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Another awesome recipe from Sunset magazine, this one with a terrific culinary technique – cooking in parchment. Parchment cooking creates maximum flavor with minimal use of oil or butter because all aromas and flavors are sealed in (along with moisture) as the food cooks. Flavor combinations with fish are endless. Try various herbs – I [...]
Vegetable soups are powerful food this time of year. Not only do they warm you up on cold winter days, but they provide nutritional wallop – a great defense against viruses. And if you do get a cold or flu? Soup will always make you feel better. Make a double batch and keep half in [...]
I was eating soup at a restaurant the other day and realized what I thought was rice was barley, which was much more healthier and higher in fiber. I should use it more often. This recipe from Sunset magazine’s January 2007 article on Soup Socials is a good start. It combines a classic split pea [...]
The wonderful thing about soup is how good it makes you feel on winter days. It’s a wonderful dish if you’re sick or just tired and cold from shoveling the driveway. And it’s terrific for entertaining, too. In their January 2007 issue, Sunset magazine did a feature on the Soup Social. You can make the [...]
Here’s another inspired vegetarian soup from the January 2007 issue of Cooking Light magazine. Since the soup is very low in fat and high in fiber, it’s only 4 Weight Watchers Points per serving! Try it with a whole wheat pita and a carton of plain yogurt. I found red dal at a local Asian [...]
The January issue of Cooking Light magazine had some terrific vegetarian soups. The Carrot and Sweet Potato Soup is very low in Weight Watchers Points – about 3 Points per serving! This should give you plenty of room for a salad, some bread sticks, and maybe a glass of wine. You may want to double [...]
When I saw this in the February 2007 issue of Ladies’ Home Journal, I just had to share. Instead of using pasta noodles, it uses egg wrappers. I love anything that uses roasted veggies, so I’m dying to give this recipe a try even through it’s a bit labor intensive. Best of all – it [...]
Back in October I wrote about eating at Charlie Palmer’s Aureole Las Vegas restaurant in the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino. So I was pleasantly surprised to see a Charlie Palmer recipe in last week’s Denver Post food section. Then I realized how easily this recipe for Herb-Broiled Cod fits into the Weight Watchers Flex [...]
My book club is reading A Passage to India by E.M. Forster. I’m hosting the next meeting, so I offered to make a chicken curry. But I’m busy, and on Weight Watchers, so what’s a good hostess to do? Find a terrific curry chicken slow cooker recipe from Weight Watchers, that’s what! I can make [...]
Ever wonder what Ph.D. chemists do in their spare time? (Geez, I hope not. What’s wrong with you?!) Well, I know, because I’m married to one. Big Bad Dad, like many other chemists, likes to homebrew his own beer and make his own liquors. (Actually, they like to drink even more than they like to [...]
Never in a million years did I think I’d mention a gaming video on this blog. But when I read about a game called “Cooking Mama” in Dave Thomas’s column in the Denver Post, I had to laugh out loud. As Dave writes: Anyone who has watched “Iron Chef” knows that Japan long has understood [...]
How do you like your steak cooked, ’cause the 2007 National Beef Cook-Off is looking for the country’s best family chefs! Enter today for a chance to win the $50,000 Best of Beef Grand Prize. The 2007 National Beef Cook-Off, the country’s premier amateur beef-cooking contest, invites home chefs to submit their favorite original beef [...]
Did you know that 13 pieces of California Roll sushi have only 9.5 Weight Watchers Flex Plan Points? So not only is sushi low in points, fat, calories, and healthy for you but it’s delicious as well. That’s why I love it, and most folks agree. In the October 4, 2006 Newsday story, Sushi swims [...]
Now that the holiday season is officially over (though I’m sure it really doesn’t end until after the Super Bowl in February), it’s time to go back on the Weight Watchers eating plan. I’m doing Flex Points, since the Core Plan scares me. I’m a bottomless pit when it comes to food, even brown rice [...]
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