On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 9:57 AM, <bbarndogz@aol.com> wrote:
FIL just diagnosed with diabetes, has to have 2 hip replacments soon. NO fat on his bones at all. Someone finally thought to check his vit D levels, they were *5*!
What floors me is that after getting lectured about how really, all you need is "moderation in all things" ... they get diabetes or cancer or whatever, and then it's just "it's just bad genes ... it runs in the family".
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Wow, isn't the difference in cultures amazing? Most Americans would think the average Asian breakfast is gross or too different.... and tea for a "snack"?! Think of the possibilities if every family in the US changed the way they eat.
This is something I think everyone should pay attention to: there are a LOT of people that don't live in America, Europe, or Australia. And all those billions of people ... most of them have GREAT food! One of the major differences in cuisine, is that for most of them, the pay a lot of attention to flavor, and use very interesting spices. Your average SAD meal is just salty, sugary, or oily. Asian cuisine (for an example) has salt, sugar and oil also, but the oil might be a nice chili oil or sesame oil for flavor, and it might have lemon grass or three kinds of chilis or boiled peanuts or fresh lime juice (or kaffir lime leaves) or miso paste or boiled kelp for flavor.
Anyway, I've been kind of working my way through Thai and Japanese cooking, learning one recipe at a time. What I find is that having all that *flavor*, the meal becomes something to savor. I probably learned to wolf down my food while I was trying to finish eating in the 5-10 minutes I had in the school cafeteria, or late to school ... but most of the food was so insipid that maybe that was the best way to ingest it: without tasting.
When we actually started working at cooking GOOD food, the family kind of refused to eat out at most places ... even when we could get GF food. The family complained that it tasted rancid or like chemicals. Store-bought meat too, esp. hamburger. Now that they are publicizing just how commercial hamburger is made, it makes sense that it would taste bad.
But here is the deal: to all of you doing Fast-5 ... you only have to make ONE meal. So it can be awesome.
Here is what I want to try today:
It's a bit more work, but I'm working toward something like General Tso's chicken.
Below is about what I did yesterday:
So that recipe takes all of 5 minutes to make, but it is delicious! It's not actually Asian, although it is similar to a lot of the Asian recipes. The main ingredient is honey ... the "watery" part can be any liquid. Yesterday I used orange juice, but you could use BBQ sauce if you want that kind of flavor instead, or 5-spice or Szechwan.
http://eatingoffthefoodgrid.blogspot.com/
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