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Tip #8 for Weight Loss without diet: Veggie Pizza
If you choose vegetable toppings for your pizza instead of meat you’ll automatically shave 100 calories from your meal. Just slice up your fresh veggies with your appropriate cutlery knife from your kitchen cutlery set. On other low calorie tricks go light on the cheese or use reduced fat cheese and choose a thing, bread like crust made with a light brushing of olive oil. Great ideas, Enjoy!
Always remember cook low fat like with Waterless cookware techniques and eat lots of vegetables and fruits. Baking your own pizza allows your imagination to go to town and also you know your ingredients. Right?
Cooking your Rib Roast
I love a good roast prime rib meal. (We can always splurge occasionally can’t we?) Roasting/cooking A standing rib roast with oven browned potatoes along with fresh cooked vegetables, green salad,nice dry red wine like a Cabernet Sauvignon, Red Zinfandel, or Petite Sarah(optional of course), and French bread makes a wonderful special meal.
Ingredients:
4-6 pound beef rib roast
salt and pepper to taste
dried Rosemary and thyme crushed
5 medium potatoes peeled and quartered, or red or white boiling potatoes halved or quartered depending on size
Place the meat fat side up in a 15 1/2×10 1/2 x2 inch roasting pan with a wire rack. Sprinkle with salt and fresh ground pepper to taste and I like to also take dried rosemary and thyme and crush it then sprinkle to taste over the roast as well. Insert a meat thermometer, place in an oven preheated to 325 degrees F, and cook 1 3/4 to 3 hours for rare(140 degrees F), 2 1/4 to 3 3/4 for medium (160 degrees F) or 2 3/4 to 4 1/4 hours for rell done (170 degrees F). Of course this is huge guideline from a cooking chart and remember to check the meat thermometer after 1 3/4 hours to see where you are.
For oven browned potatoes, peel and quarter the baking potatoes or half or quarter the red or white boiling potatoes(I like them better). Cook in boiling salted water for about 10 minutes. Drain them and set aside. About 30 to 40 minutes before the roast is done cooking add 1/2 cup water to the pand and arrange the potatoes aroung the roast, turning them to coat them.
When all is done, remove the potatoes to a serving bowl and the roast to a carving plate. Choose the appropriate carving knife from your kitchen cutlery and prepare to carve when ready to serve.
Pour off excess oils from your roasting pan saving the juices. Take 1-2 TBS. all purpose flour and add to a small glass of cold water and mix to make a paste. (I will use Wondra prepared flour which doesn’t clump and often skip the paste step). Add the paste or Wondra to the beef juices in your Roast pan from your Cookware set and stir the paste and juices over a medium heat on your stove smoothing it out with spoon and or spatula from your kitchen accessories. Slowly add water to the gravy and cook until the thinned gravy thickens by reduction and browns. Salt and pepper to taste but not too much salt. Enjoy a great meal.
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!
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
Choosing the Best Cookware Set
Cookware is now constructed from an array of materials, and each person has their opinion as to which is best. When you go to purchase your set, you can take advice from all of your friends and the experts, but you won’t find any answers. The truth of the matter is that the optimal cookware set for you will depend on how you cook and what features you’re looking for.
If you are looking for versatile, durable cookware, it’s best to go with cast iron. You can use it on the stove, in the oven and even transfer it to the fridge. You only have to wipe it down to clean it, but you will have to reseason it from time to time, which is rather labor intensive. Stainless steel offers a sleek, modern look, but food does have a tendency to stick to it. Non-stick sets are obviously easy to clean, but you have to be careful with what utensils you use with them and how you clean them.