Halloween preparations have consumed us all week. Sorry for the crappy updates.
Ate at a Mexican restaurant last night. I had 2 taquitos and some beans.
Tonight we'll be having Salmon and broccoli. I will barely have time to make it and finish my costume so I won't be posting a pic. I will however have a post up this weekend summarizing my month long experience and retouching on why I did this in the first place.
Total Calorie Count for the Day (29th): 960
Total Calorie Count for the Day (30th): should be 750ish, I'll update later.
Oct 30, 2009
Oct 28, 2009
Potato Soup with Andouille Sausage
Same as always for breakfast. Skipped lunch.
Made a potato soup today using onion, garlic, and minced rosemary sauteed with andouille sausage. Added the potatoes, covered with water and boiled until the potatoes were tender, then added two cups of milk and served it in a bread bowl. Good way to have potato soup without any canned stock or broth.
Received a boon in apples from my friend Brad, so I decided to make apple pie. Used the crust from smittenkitchen, which had vodka added to it of all things, and used the caramel apple pie filling method, where you saute the apples, tossed in cinnamon, nutmeg, sugar and brown sugar, lemon juice, vanilla, and a bit of cream, to form a caramel base that thickens while baking. It's possibly the most beautiful, flaky looking pie I've ever made. Got the camera working just so I could take a picture.
Won't be having a slice of it tonight, but it'll be calling me in the morning.
Total Calorie Count for the Day: 845
Made a potato soup today using onion, garlic, and minced rosemary sauteed with andouille sausage. Added the potatoes, covered with water and boiled until the potatoes were tender, then added two cups of milk and served it in a bread bowl. Good way to have potato soup without any canned stock or broth.
Received a boon in apples from my friend Brad, so I decided to make apple pie. Used the crust from smittenkitchen, which had vodka added to it of all things, and used the caramel apple pie filling method, where you saute the apples, tossed in cinnamon, nutmeg, sugar and brown sugar, lemon juice, vanilla, and a bit of cream, to form a caramel base that thickens while baking. It's possibly the most beautiful, flaky looking pie I've ever made. Got the camera working just so I could take a picture.
Total Calorie Count for the Day: 845
Gumbo (26th) Manhatten Fish Chowder (27th)
Camera still wasn't working on Monday or Tuesday.
Monday was a leftover night, everyone kind of fended for themselves. I finished the last bowl of gumbo.
Tuesday I made manhatten fish chowder which, if you wiki it, has an interesting history. Recipe follows:
Monday was a leftover night, everyone kind of fended for themselves. I finished the last bowl of gumbo.
Tuesday I made manhatten fish chowder which, if you wiki it, has an interesting history. Recipe follows:
Manhattan Fish Chowder
4 slices bacon, cut crosswise into 1-inch pieces
1 large onion, finely chopped
2 medium carrots, halved lengthwise and thinly sliced crosswise
1 (28 ounce) can plum tomatoes in juice
2 (8 ounce) bottles clam juice
2 medium baking potatoes, peeled and cut into 2-inch chunks
1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
1 pound skinless tilapia fillets, cut into 2-inch chunks
Coarse salt and ground pepper
In a large 5-quart pot or Dutch oven, cook bacon over medium-low heat until browned and crisp, 8 to 10 minutes. Spoon off and discard all but 1 tablespoon fat. Add onion and carrots; cook, stirring occasionally, until softened, about 10 minutes. Add tomatoes and their juice (breaking tomatoes up with a spoon), clam juice, and 1 1/2 cups water; bring to a boil.
Add potatoes and thyme; reduce heat to simmer. Cook until potatoes are tender, but not falling apart, 15 to 20 minutes.
Add tilapia; cover, and cook until opaque and flaky, about 3 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. With a ladle, spoon solids and liquid into six soup bowls; serve immediately.
Yield: 6 servings
4 slices bacon, cut crosswise into 1-inch pieces
1 large onion, finely chopped
2 medium carrots, halved lengthwise and thinly sliced crosswise
1 (28 ounce) can plum tomatoes in juice
2 (8 ounce) bottles clam juice
2 medium baking potatoes, peeled and cut into 2-inch chunks
1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
1 pound skinless tilapia fillets, cut into 2-inch chunks
Coarse salt and ground pepper
In a large 5-quart pot or Dutch oven, cook bacon over medium-low heat until browned and crisp, 8 to 10 minutes. Spoon off and discard all but 1 tablespoon fat. Add onion and carrots; cook, stirring occasionally, until softened, about 10 minutes. Add tomatoes and their juice (breaking tomatoes up with a spoon), clam juice, and 1 1/2 cups water; bring to a boil.
Add potatoes and thyme; reduce heat to simmer. Cook until potatoes are tender, but not falling apart, 15 to 20 minutes.
Add tilapia; cover, and cook until opaque and flaky, about 3 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. With a ladle, spoon solids and liquid into six soup bowls; serve immediately.
Yield: 6 servings
Total Calorie Count for the Day (26th): 856
Total Calorie Count for the Day (27th): 923
Oct 25, 2009
Caloric Restriction
I've been asked several times why it is that I chose a 1000 calorie diet for this experiment. Generally, the choice came first because I sought a diet that would challenge me enough to require a significant personal change. Further, however, I sought something that was less about gimmick and more related to something that made simple sense. You can't get much simpler than the truths of caloric balance. To boot, I was also able to take some of the consequences to their logical conclusions in order to evaluate how one might balance the potential negatives of such a diet with the clear gains. However, there are more gains associated with caloric restriction than I have mentioned and that, more than any other reason, is why I chose the 1000 calorie diet. There is a direct link between caloric restriction and general longevity; a strict diet can, according to the research, help us to live longer. Extending life... an amazing dream and something I hope to see come to fruition. So, without further ado, let me present Dr. Aubrey de Gray and his reasoning for the future of humanity.
So what does that have to do with Caloric Restriction? A lot actually. Not only is there a lot of verifiable, data backed research suggesting Caloric Restriction may lengthen your life, there's some common sense to it, too. As Aubrey mentioned, most of what accounts for aging is a part of the metabolic process. Things build up, add to, are taken from, etc. over and over again in your body as part of making your body function. What if you cut that process in half? Or even reduced it by 25%? Then you'd have less of those negative events occurring (and of course, less of the positive events too). This will trigger hunger responses, but as I've mentioned before, it will also trigger basic homeostasis response: adaptation. You live longer because your metabolism slows and you take in less free radicals, etc., and in effect take longer to reach the same destination. All it takes, or so it would seem, is a bit of self control. We're in the business of mind over matter, folks!
Papa Murphy's (23th) Pasta Bake (24th) Frybread Taco (25th)
Camera went on the fritz, so just a brief update.
Had some deLite pizza from Papa Murphy's Thursday, make a pasta bake with leftover spaghetti sauce, some pepperoni, and some mozzarella, and had frybread tacos again today. Trying to stretch our current food supply a bit.
Total Calorie Count for the Day (23th): 985
Total Calorie Count for the Day (24th): 884
Total Calorie Count for the Day (25th): 954
Had some deLite pizza from Papa Murphy's Thursday, make a pasta bake with leftover spaghetti sauce, some pepperoni, and some mozzarella, and had frybread tacos again today. Trying to stretch our current food supply a bit.
Total Calorie Count for the Day (23th): 985
Total Calorie Count for the Day (24th): 884
Total Calorie Count for the Day (25th): 954
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