Archive for August, 2007
Friday, August 24th, 2007
I love to eat. I am willing to spend money on a luxury meal rather than expensive clothing. Just like some of the people willing to spend money on buying gold bullion rather than gold jewelry that not worth in investment. Different people different choice of enjoyment. Eating is the best enjoyment of ease and comfort for me. Therefore, I do not mind to spend more on something that make me happy. Of cause, I will be happier if you buy me the gold bullion. I do not think people will refuse such great item. I will say thousand thank you to whom buy me that gold bullion some more.
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Friday, August 24th, 2007
Ingredients:
8 ounces spinach
4 eggs
400 grams salmon
4 tablespoons mayonnaise
1 small onion
How to Prepare:
- Spinach - fresh or frozen, cook and squeeze out moisture then finely chop.
- Beat in 4 egg yolks. Whisk the egg whites and fold into the mixture.
- Place in a swiss roll tin (flat baking tray) lines with non stick baking paper.
- Bake at 200c 400f for approx 12 minutes. Turn out and allow to cool.
- Mix 400 gms of salmon, cooked fresh or tinned, with 4 tablespoons of mayonnaise and 1 small onion chopped finely.
- Spread along the roulade and roll up like a swiss roll.
- Place back in oven for 15 to 20 minutes.
CarbsPerServing:20
Effort:Easy
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Friday, August 24th, 2007
Ingredients:
1 can tuna in brine
1 small red onion
2 ounces cheddar cheese — mild
1 teaspoon chili powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon cumin seed
1 egg — beaten
fresh corriander 1 egg — beaten for coating
How to Prepare:
- Add all ingredients into a bowl and mix well once all ingredients are mixed into a dough.
- Take a handfull and roll into a ball then flatten like a burger.
- Once firmly into shape coat with egg by dipping the kebab into the egg mixture, turn over and then straight into the frying pan.
- Make sure the pan is coated with3 tblspns of oil (any).
- Once side is cooked then turn until golden brown.
- Once cooked as they cook very quick serve with salad and sour cream and onion dip.
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Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
Does your kitchen install any range hoods? I am regret that I did not get it done before I moved in the apartment. I hate all kind of cleaning works. I am sure you know how oily and dirty a kitchen will be after a heavy cooking. I having fear to wash and clean my kitchen, because it is very hard to clean all after the cook.
I usually cook after back from work, reached on at 6.30pm then cook and get thing done at 7.30pm. I still have to spend more than half an hour for the cleaning work after that. The earliest for my dinner is starts at 8pm. Oh my…I wish to buy the Broan Range Hoods now. I hope that with this range hoods I no longer need to spend so much time on cleaning my kitchen.
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Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
Ingredients:
3 tablespoons butter
4 tablespoons ricotta cheese
4 tablespoons cream cheese
2 eggs
1/4 cup almonds — ground into 1/2 cup almond flour
1/2 cup atkins bake mix
1/2 cup protein powder — plain
1/2 cup vanilla protein powder
1/2 cup artificial sweetener
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 tablespoon cinnamon
1 tablespoon vanilla
1 cup water (start w/3/4 cup and see how much — (more or less) you need)
2 tablespoons artificial sweetener — 1/4 cup chopped
** Base:
1/4 cup pecans
12 thin pats butter
How to Prepare:
- Preheat oven to 350f.
- Spray a muffin tin w/cooking spray.
- Place 1 pat of butter in each, followed by equal amounts of the
**Base Splenda and pecans.
- IN a large bowl, cream the butter, cream cheese and ricotta well.
- Add eggs and blend again.
- Add splenda and beta again.
- Add remaining ingredients and beat well. This should be a very thick pancake type batter.
- Spoon into prepared muffin tin and bake at 350 for approx 40 minutes or until nicely browned on top.
**These don’t get that gooey butter/sugar run off that you get with traditional sugar. You might even be able to skip the splenda in the tins:)
NOTES : Counts for Vanilla Protein Powder not included - adjust accordingly
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Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
Ingredients:
Crepes:
2 eggs
1/3 cup heavy cream
1/3 cup water
2 Tbsp. butter, melted
1/4 tsp. salt
1 dropper stevia extract
3 Tbsp. soy protein powderCream:
1/2 cup heavy cream (or more if you like lots of cream!)
1/2-1 tsp. vanilla
1/2-1 dropper stevia extract
1 1/2 cups strawberries, sliced
How to Prepare:
To make cream:
beat cream until stiff, add vanilla and stevia to taste.
To make crepes:
- whisk together eggs, cream, water, butter, salt, and stevia until well-mixed.
- Add protein powder and whisk until smooth.
- Heat frying pan to medium hot, melt a little butter in pan, and pour in 1/6 of crepe batter, tilting pan this way and that so that batter spreads out.
- Cook until top is dry and full of air holes, then turn and cook briefly on second side.
- Remove to plate and set aside while cook remaining crepes.
To assemble:
- Place crepe on plate with good side down.
- Spread with cream.
- Top with 1/4 cup strawberries, and fold top of crepe over cream and strawberries.
- Top crepe with dollop of whipped cream and slice of strawberry.
Serves:6,10
CarbsPerServing:Total 4.68 Fiber 1.27 Atkins 3.41
Prep Time:10 minutes
Effort:Easy
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Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
I usually will go out for dinner when I lost of idea what to do on that day. I will just call my hubby and tell him, we are out for dinner today then will do. The only problem for us might be the location, where should we go and which restaurant should we enjoy our dinner. Sometimes I will totally don’t know where to go.
Then, simply get a restaurant address from the distance search yellow pages and go for it will be a good choice too. So that, I do not need to think about where to go anymore. Just select a location and search for restaurant directory. Then pick one restaurant and go. That is.
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Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
Ingredients:
1 scoop choc protein powder
1/4 c oat bran
1 c bran
1/2 c cream
1 large egg
1/2 c Splenda
1 tsp vanilla extract
How to Prepare:
- Combine all ingredients. Makes 8 muffins.
- Bake about 15 minutes.
- These are short but so tasty, better than a real muffin.
Serves:8 muffins
CarbsPerServing:5 carbs each
Prep Time:5 min
Effort:Easy
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Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
Ingredients:
1 cup dark rum
1 teaspoon lemon rind – grated
¾ cup artificial sweetener
¾ to 1 cup 1/2 cup walnuts – chopped,pecans or almonds
4 ups cranberries – raw fresh or frozen
How to Prepare:
- Put Splenda and rum in saucepan, heat to boiling.
- Add cranberries & lemon zest, bring back to boil & immediately lower heat so the mixture is on a low, rolling boil, just above a simmer.
- Cover and cook for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Add chopped nuts, mixing in thoroughly Let cook 1-2 min, then remove from heat, cover and let cool completely.
- The rum & lemon zest add tremendous richness complexity to the sauce.
- But, if you want to forego the rum, just substitute an equal amount of water.
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Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
Many office starting to know the best way for saving telephone cost is make call using the VoIP phone systems. It is pretty cheap if compare to ordinary telephone charges for sure. This especially benefits the company who doing import and export business, because VoIP phone systems going to helps them save many oversea call phone charges. Just one thing have to be clever on choosing a VoIP phone system, you have to make sure the company is provide high performance web-based voice services. Else, you might loss more than benefit. Conferencing with a low performance voice system might make your business going worst.
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