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Cutting up Poultry
Using a French Cutlery knife, cleaver, or santoku styly knife from your stainless steel cutlery set. First cut the skin between the body and one thigh. Pull the thigh out and down until the bone pops out of the hip joint. Cut through the broken hip joint as close to the backbone as possible. Repeat on the other side. Cut through the skin at the joint between the thigh and drumstick, bend the joint backwards and cut through the joint with your cutlery knife and of course repeat on the other side. The cut through the skin on the inside of each wing at the joint. Pull the wing out and down until the joint breaks and cut through the joint.
Now to divide the body lay the bird on its side and cut with an appropriate kitchen cultery knife between the breast ribs and lower part of the body and you can cut through the back bone with a good cleaver or French cutlery knife or bend the back in half after cutting down from both sides if desired(of course talking about chicken, game hens and maybe duckling, not turkey). Divide the breast by cutting in half lengthwise along the breastbone. I have been carving birds for a long time. Enjoy!
Tip #7 Weight Loss without diet:Skip the bacon
Passing on those 2 strips of bacon at breakfast or in your lunch time sandwich can save about 100 calories. This all by itself can add up to a 10 pound weight loss over a year. You can replace them with other sandwich fixings for great flavors with much fewer calories. Think, tomato slices, banana peppers (or any chili peppers), roasted bell peppers, grainy mustard, and/or light spread of herbed goat cheese as examples. Ideas from emedicinehealth.
Cooking and eating lean meats, vegetables etc. in a greaseless low water technique like waterless steam control cooking in your stainless steel waterless cookware can help you always to eat healthy and lose weight the natural safe ways without fad extreme diets. (South Beach diets, Weight watchers diets are diets for long term health and can of course help guide you). Eat lean meats (including lean red meats, poultry, fish) lots of vegetables and salads and cook healthy the Waterless cookware way. Enjoy life!
My “Poached” Salmon Recipe for the Barbecue
I took a microwave recipe that I used for years and adapted it to my Barbecue Grill. All you need is a grill medium heat or with spread prepared charcoal and a long handled spatula or thong from your barbecue tool set. I took away the water and added some olive oil. It is delicious.
Ingredients:
2-3 lbs. Fresh Salmon cut in serving portions
Fresh squeezed lemon juice (2 TBS or so per portion)
whole pepper corns
Lawry’s Seasoned Salt
olive oil(1 tsp or so per portion)
dry white wine (enough to cover the fish in the “boat”)
aluminum foil formed in individual “boats) to place the fish and ingredients
I first form aluminum boats flattened in the bottom and crimped at the ends for placing the ingredients. Then I cut the salmon into individual portions with an appropriate knife from your kitchen cutlery set. I place them in each aluminum boat and then coat them with olive oil, Lawry’s salt and then lemon juice.I dredge the fish on both sides then pour the wine over the fish. I add a little Lawry’s salt and 3-4 pepper corns and close the boat by crimping the top. I cook them on direct heat for 20-25 minutes. At 15 minutes I usually open the top crimp with my Long handles thongs from the bbq tool set to allow some browning and to have the fish absorb more of the smoke flavor. Serve with a nice dry white wine or pinot noir along with a fresh salad with a vinaigrette or oil and vinegar dressing. French or Italian bread and maybe some fresh grilled zucchini. Enjoy!
Tip #6 for Weight Loss without Diet, Healthy Cooking and Eating
Hang an old dress or skirt of sexy pair of jeans where you can see them all of the time. Men a favorite pair of jeans or that dress suit that just doesn’t quite button anymore works. Pick one just too snug to start so that you can attain that goal. Then go to last years or the year before that stuff. It will be a good reminder to keep up that moderate, consistent exercise routine and to cook healthy and eat healthy. Cooking with waterless cookware is a great way to achieve this. Waterless stainless steel cookware allows you to cook with only the oils from your lean meats and the liquid from the meats and vegetables and thus keep calories down and preserve the nutrients, vitamins and minerals of your foods. Enjoy life!
Ideas partly derived from emedicinehealth.
Vegetable Beef Soup
Here’s a great one stainless steel pot recipe. Soups like vegetable beef soup are great on a cold winter day or as a great starter for a nice multi-course dinner. It fills you up but is relatively low in calories.
Ingredients:
1 package of beef short-ribs
2 quarts of water in a large pan(or beef stock or low salt beef broth, or combination of water and broth)
1 medium onion chopped
1 tsp salt(or 1/2 tsp if desired)
2 cups canned tomatoes
6 sprigs parsley
2 cups chopped cabbage
5-6 carrots sliced
2 cups cut green beans
1 cup diced potatoes
1/2 cup chopped celery
2 cups corn
Chop and slice vegetables with your french cutlery knife from your stainless steel cutlery set. Then cut the meat from the bones with the appropriate cutlery knife (french cutlery or medium carving knife) and brown in the appropriate 4-6 quart stainless steel pot in small amount of oil (olive or corn). If using multi-element stainless steel cookware, including waterless cookware, grease will not be necessary. Add the chopped onion and cook. Add cold water to the ingredients and cook with vegetables and other ingredients for 1-2 hours.Enjoy with a nice red wine and French or Italian bread. You could have smaller portion as the appetizer for a main meal as well.
Another Tip for Weight Loss without Diet, Cooking and Eating Healthy
Another great strategy for your weight loss is to include whole grains in your diet regimen. Cooking with your stainless steel waterless cookware helps to preserve the nutrients while cooking your brown rice, or your barley, oats, buckwheat, and whole wheat cereals. Whole grain breads also are great. The whole grains help to fill you up and can be a great aid in lowering your cholesterol. The whole grains are now in many products such as waffles, pizza crusts, English muffins, pasta, and whole wheat breads as well as of course multi grain breads.
Eat healthy and cook with waterless cookware, the waterless, greaseless way of cooking. Ideas derived from emedicinehealth.com.
French Onion Soup
This a great easy recipe to cook in your Waterless stainless steel cookware.
Ingredients:
8 onions (Vidalia)
6 garlic cloves whole
1 TBS butter
1 TBS oil
3 14.5 oz containers of chicken broth
1/2 cup dry red wine
6 slices of French bread (baguette) 1/4″ thinck
1 cup Monterey Jack or better mozzarella or Swiss grated
Carmelize onions and garlic in butter and oil in a 3 quart stainless steel saucepan from your stainless steel waterless cookware set over medium heat until transparent and creamy,about 30 minutes. Add Chicken brothand the red wine. Simmer covered an additional 30 minutes. Meanwhile toast the French bread in oven until light brown and dry. Ladle soup into broil safe bowls. Place one slice of bread on top an cover with the grated cheese. Broil until the cheese melts and begins to brown. Enjoy!
Sopa de Tortilla, Tortilla soup easy to cook with your Stainless Steel Cookware
Sopa de Tortilla or Tortilla Soup
Ingredients:
12 one day old tortillas
1/4 cup corn oil or olive oil
1/8 cup oil
2 cloves garlic pressed or finely chopped
4 tomatoes skinned, seeded and groung
6 cups chicken stock or broth low salt
2 sprigs epazote
lightly salt
10 oz mild white cheese, crumbled
6 chiles pasilla, fried and chopped
Use scissors to cut the tortilla into pencil-thin strips. Put them on a flat surface and let them dry for about 30 minutes in a warm place. Then fry them in 1/4 cup of corn or olive oil in a stainless steel frying pan until they are brown. Drain.
Lightly fry the onion and garlic in 1/8 cup of corn or olive oil in a stainless steel cookware pot. Add the tomatoes, and stir constantly until the ingredients from a thick paste. Add the stock or broth and epazote. Cover and simmer over a low heat. Add salt to taste, strain but keep the liquid hot.
Line the bottoms of hot soup bowls with the tortilla strips. Then pour the soup into the bowls or mugs and sprinkle cheese and chopped chile on the soup. Serve immediately. Enjoy!
Another tip for Weight Loss without Diet
Add a Broth based soup at the beginning of the meal for dinner or as the main part of lunch. You’ll fill up on much fewer calories. You can heat up a can of prepared low salt or even better make from scratch in your stainless steel cookware in minutes. The multiple element bottoms of quality stainless steel pots allow even heating and quicker cooking time. Think about minestrone, tortilla or Chinese won ton soup for some ideas.
Soup at the beginning of the meal slows your eating and curbs your appetite. You can start with a low sodium broth and add fresh or frozen vegetables along with maybe pepper and spices to your liking. Simmer them in a stainless steel pot 20-30 minutes. Avoid creamy soups which are high in fats and calories(except of course for an occassional splurge). Enjoy life!
ideas adapted from emedicinehealth.com
Barbecued Crusted Trout
Grill the trout by the indirect method for either charcoal or gas barbecue grills. All you need is a barbecue fork and long handled spatula from your barbecue tools sets and a cooking grill.
Ingredients:
4 8-10 oz. fresh trout (or thawed)
2 TBS olive oil
3/4 cup fine dry bread crumbs
1/2 tsp garlic salt(I would prefer crushed garlic and only lightly salt the fish if desired)
1/4 tsp paprika
1/4 tsp white pepper
1/4 tsp dried thyme crushed
1/4 tsp dried oregano crushed
Split trout open like a butterfly and brush both sides with the olive oil.
In a shallow dish combine bread crumbs, garlic, small amount salt, paprika, white pepper, thyme and oregano tossing together. Place the fish in the crumb mixture to coat on both sides with the crumbs.
Lightly grease the cooking grill and place the fish flesh side down in the center of the cooking grill. Grill 8-10 minutes or until fish flakes with tested with your fork of your barbecue tools. Then remove with the long handled spatula to a serving plate. Cook the fish the entire time on one side to avoid losing the crumb coating. Turning is not necessary.