Recipe .. Kathleen's Fabulous Egg Salad

This may seem an odd inclusion as a Slim Recipe. However, it is so satisfying it is easy to savor a small portion. Serve it on cocktail rye toasted as shown here! Or savor a generous dollop on six Trader Joe's Whole Wheat Crackers. Yummmmmm.

As I'm currently living with my lovely 91 year old mom and other family members drop by from time to time, I usually do a full dozen eggs. As a single person, I'd do eight eggs, so I'd have several meals-worth.

Having instant yummy meal options makes it easier to choose healthy, yummy, slimming foods.

Ingredients:

8 - 12 hard boiled eggs, minced
Red Onion, minced
Celery, minced
Red Pepper, minced
Country Dijon Grey Poupon Mustard
Best Foods Mayonaise

I generally create a pile of onion, an equal pile of both celery and red pepper. Then mix them together on the cutting board before adding them to the minced hard boiled eggs. I add just enough mayo to bind everything. (My mom adds more mayo directly to her sandwiches; she really likes mayo.) Then, at least a heaping teaspoon of the mustard.

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Recipe ... Yummy Slim Turkey Loaf

Ingredients:

1 medium Red Onion, minced
5 stalks +/- Celery, minced

Mix together:
1/2 slice of bread, toasted and minced
1 egg, beaten
1 teaspoon Herbes de Provence

2 lb. lean ground turkey

Break up ground turkey in a bowl. Add the onions & celery, mixing completely. Add the egg mixture. Blend thoroughly.

Form into a large patty (2 lb. makes two large patties) the same shape as your Lean Mean Grilling Machine (LMGM). Cut into thirds. Transfer to LMGM using your large knife as a spatula.

Cook 5 to 6 minutes.


I'm more in the mood to cook in the morning, so I mince and mix then. Later, I form the patties and have the Turkey "Loaf" hot for dinner. The rest makes fabulously yummy meatloaf sandwiches and salads for days on end.

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Delish Recipe for Carnivores

If you're a carnivorous person, like myself, you'll enjoy this recipe for flank steak. I've created elaborate marinades but this super simple recipe only slightly modified from Weight Watchers' in 20 minutes, is the yummiest I've found!

Flank Steak with Herbes de Provence

1.5 T Herbes de Provence
1 t Salt
.5 t Pepper

Combine the ingredients. I enjoy using my glass mortar & pestle to combine the flavors. Then rub the herb mixture on the steak.

Spray your Lean Mean Grilling Machine with non-stick spray. Preheat.

Cook 5 minutes. (for medium)

Let rest on your cutting board 5 minutes.

Cut across the grain. Serve!

Enjoy!

PS No Lean Mean Grilling Machine? Follow WW in 20 minutes or go to Bed, Bath, and Beyond and treat yourself to this fabulous small appliance!

An Appeteaser is an Appetite Appeaser!

An appeteaser is a tiny, scrumptious treat that you eat before you begin to prepare a meal. It satisfies your initial hunger pangs and gives you the energy and willingness to make healthy, slim meals.

My personal favorite is five multigrain thin crackers with a healthy dab of my Gorgonzola Spread on each. Since I savor each cracker as a scrumptious treat, it is easy to stop at five crackers.

Kathleen's Gorgonzola Spread
12 oz Soft Spreadable Light Cream Cheese
2 oz Gorgonzola Cheese
.5 teaspoon Water

Add the Water to the Cream Cheese to make it more spreadable. Freshly crumble the Gorgonzola into the Cream Cheese. Hand stir with a fork. When well blended, either return it to the plastic container or put the spread in a decorative serving bowl. Cover and store it in the refrigerator 24 hours before serving.

It may seem too luscious for a slim program. Frankly, such small treats make adhering to my program possible.

A healthier appeteaser, like grapes for example, doesn't seem to have the same braking mechanism. I tend to much more than one serving of grapes.

The more scrumptious the treat, the easier it is to keep it tiny.

It also helps to serve your appeteaser on a small plate, so it looks full. The more formal the presentation, the more you savor the scrumptious treat.

This appeteaser ritual feels sumptuous while it gives me the energy to then make yummy, healthy, slim meals. Frankly, without an appeteaser, I may snack a tad too much and never make a real meal. That is a recipe for derailment if ever I heard one.

Appeteasers appease your appetite and allow you to regain your stamina by restoring your blood-sugar balance. This makes it possible to be ready, willing, and able to create, slim, delicious meals.

Bon Appetit!

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Yummy Strawberry Spinach Salad

This is such a wonderful treat of a salad, I just Have to Share it with you. One of several fab additions to my recipe collection as a result of a Cooking with Class experience. All the recipes are for 12 people (# in the class). I've reduced this one so I can easily give this treat to myself -- and easily share with friends by simple multiplication. I make the dressing for 12, then refrigerate.

Strawberry Spinach Salad
serves 1

Baby Spinach (2 or 3 handfuls)
Strawberries, 3-4, sliced
Red Onion, thin slice of small onion

Dressing
serves 12

4 T Orange Muscat Vinegar (Trader Joe's)
2 T Olive Oil
1/2 t Mustard (Grey Poupon Country Dijon)

Whisk together.

Toss with salad ingredients and Enjoy!

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Fabulous in Only 20 Minutes

This morning, I decided to check out Chapter 7: Fabulous in Only 15 Minutes.

I've only reviewed half of this chapter and already I have 10 new recipes to enjoy! AND I actually believe they will take only 20 minutes! Since I often get so focused on tasks that I forget to eat until I'm ravenous, quickly yummy real food is a god-send.

My fav's in this group so far are:
242 Filet Mignon with Herb Butter
243 Flank Steak with Herbes de Provence
251 Hungarian-style Pork Chops with Sour Creme Sauce

I'm having so much fun reviewing recipes in this cookbook. I've discovered a whole new way to be a more fabulous Kitchen Goddess!

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How to use a Cookbook for Easier Menu Planning

A most enjoyable way to start the day:

birdsong on a light, cool breeze
Sidra purring
delicious coffee &
reading recipes in a newly acquired cookbook.

Yup, not a mystery -- my more usual practice. A cookbook. Specifically, Weight Watchers in 20 minutes.

As I know what I like, ingredients-wise, and what I don't, I scanned the list, first. Anything with smoked salmon, cilantro, or scallops, for example, was immediately eliminated.

Since I'm not on the WeightWatchers points program, I'm on a high protein/low carb program, first I'd recalculate the carbs by subtracting the fiber carbs (good ones) from the carb count given. Anything with a huge (my view) carb count for one meal, got immediately eliminated.

Anything that required a food processor or a microwave got eliminated. The time saved using the food processor is blasted by the time it takes to clean them, in my opinion. Cooking with a microwave nearly always eliminates any nutritional value of the food.

Out of the 31 recipes in "Welcome the Morning," I found six recipes that sound scrumptious and that I'm likely to make. There are 8 recipes in "It's Noon ... Time to Eat" that sound yummy. Two of which, especially so.

14 new recipes - a successful harvest.

Some of the recipe pages with reject recipes on both sides, I just tore out and tossed. Others, I just marked with a line through them.

Since the Chapter recipe list does not have page numbers, I marked my winners with their page numbers.

I think I'm going to use Tombo Correction Tape (white-out) over all the rejected recipe titles. That way, all I'll see are my choices.

It's likely that I'll tear out the winners and add them to my favorite recipe binders for ease in meal planning.


For today, it is enough to have identified my winning recipes in two chapters.

KT's Chapter 1 Picks:
27 Denver Omelette
28 Provencal Vegetable Omelette
29 Potato and Green Pepper Frittata
30 Crab and Chive Frittata
36 Mixed Veggie Egg Foo Yong
42 Turkey, Potato, and Sage Patties

KT's Chapter 2 Picks:
48 Bartlett Pear and Ham Salad
52 Santa Fe Roasted Chicken Salad
56 Asparagus-Shrimp Salad
60 Roast Beef and Watercress Sandwiches
64 Warm Caesar Chicken Sandwiches
66 Soy-Glazed Fresh Tuna Sandwiches
78 Kiebasa and Black Bean Soup
81 Corn and Crab Chowder
82 Tomato-Basil Soup

That may sound like a lot of work to you. To me, it was delightful and means I'll actually use the recipes in the book more than if I didn't go through this analytical process.

I do the same with recipes found in newspapers and magazines. There, though, my first concern is: how long will it take to make this? More than a half hour, and I'm happy to have such things prepared by a master chef in a restaurant, thank you very much!

What do you think? Do you do something similar? Please share!! Comment, now!

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