Culinary Endeavor #4 - Grilled Chicken Sandwich

Tuesday, 15 of May , 2007 @ 3:35 am

Tags: diet, culinary endeavors, recipes, grilled chicken sandwich

My friend and I are on a pseudo-diet, in hopes of losing the 10 or so pounds we gained since high school. The rules: no beef, pork and rice. Just chicken, pork, and healthy carbohydrates (whole grain and fruits). I used the word “pseudo-diet” because for all the saturated fat I won’t eat from from four-legged animal meat, I make up for my huge fat, sugar and carbohydrate intake from oils, fruits and dairy products. Still, it’s worth a shot. Besides, it’s about time for us to get “healthy”. Our clothes don’t fit us right anymore.

Today is Day 3 of my diet. So far, so good. For breakfast I had a slice of bread with cheese, and two small chicken pieces from last night’s dinner. In school, I ate chicken barbecue and a four seasons fruit shake (no milk, less sugar). Then, for lunch, I decided to make a sandwich with grilled… chicken.

Actually it wasn’t even grilled. I was supposed to use the grill in our stove but my Mom did not know how to use it and I didn’t feel like figuring it out. So I pan-fried it instead (with olive oil, healthy oil at least!).

So here’s what I did: First, I marinated some chicken breast in olive oil, garlic, rosemary, ionized salt, and pepper for about 30 minutes. Then I pan-fried it with a Teflon pan (since there was oil already in the chicken we didn’t need to add anymore), until the chicken was golden brown. While that was going on, I got honey mustard sauce with mayonnaise, mustard, all-purpose cream, salt and pepper. Then I placed some of that, as well as ketchup, lettuce and tomatoes, on two slices of whole wheat bread (cut diagonally).

Ladies and gentlemen, the final results:

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Culinary Endeavor #1 - Not-So-Cold Nutty Asian Noodles

Saturday, 5 of May , 2007 @ 8:59 pm

Tags: recipes, Thai food, Asian cuisine, noodles, Yummy Magazine

In my quest to be more domestic (funny how that makes me sounds like a farm animal), I intend to cook at least one dish every week. I started yesterday, when I used my parents’ 22th wedding anniversary as an excuse to cook lunch.

I found this recipe for “Cold Nutty Asian Noodles” on Yummy Magazine’s April issue (p. 41) A warning, though, that magazine will let your diet fall by the wayside. The photography and food styling will make you crave for everything you see. Everything is so eye-candy; Summit Media always has the best magazine layouts.

Anyway, in the picture it looked a lot like Pad Thai, except that it had no meat and the noodles weren’t stir-fried. Actually, the only cooking required by the recipe is cooking the linguine; the dressing and raw vegetables were tossed in with the noodles later.

My mom told me to saute the vegetables anyway, as well as some tofu and shrimp. When everything was done, something didn’t quite taste right, so I added brown sugar.

Then end result:

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