Cooking With Phadre17
11:59PM on September 03, 2008
My Own Recipes.
Most of these will be a low carb but tasty recipe, I recently got diabetes so I had to revamp many things to well, stay alive J . I was put on a diet that seems to work keeping my sugar down and my carbs down, and it isn’t some tasteless crap in a box, its real food. I get carb points, so many per day. 4 points for breakfast, 5 for lunch and 4 for dinner, with 1 point in between each for a snack. Each carb point is equal to 15 carbs. So that’s 225 carbs each day, that astounded me because, well that’s a lot. But eating that many carbs, healthy carbs, actually stops your liver from making its own carbs and u lose weight, cool huh.
My new club sandwich (1 serving or 1 carb point)
2 taco Shells
4 Slices Deli Meat (a little more if its chipped or very thin)
2 Slices cheese
2 Slices Sandwich Pickle
2 Slices Tomato, each cut in half
Onion to taste (some like a lot, others none)
Mayo or Miracle Whip to taste
Lay your deli meat down on your counter or plate, add a slice of cheese on top, then on one side of the meat and cheese and the slice of pickle and your onion. Pick up your taco shell and add your preferred amount of mayo to one side (I prefer a light smear). Flip your taco over so the mayo side is up and lay two of your tomato slices on one side (putting the tomato against the side with no mayo will allow the tomatoes to stay put and not slip out). Then fold your meat and cheese around the pickle and onion so its in a taco shape, then slide it into the taco right above the tomato. Then your ready to repeat with the other taco and enjoy eating. Those two tacos equal 1 carb point so u could actually each 8 of them and still be healthy, but I usually stick with 2 or 4 and finish off my carb points with a glass of milk and a fruit. (a side of cottage cheese is great with this too)
Simple Fish Dish (by itself this is a free carb dish)
Get yourself 4-5oz of thawed fish, any kind will work but my favorites are…
Salmon, Perch, Cod, Mahi-Mahi, Flounder, Whiting, Orange roughy, Snapper, And Halibut.
1/4c Margarine (use butter if your allowed, but diabetes brings high cholesterol so I use margarine)
A good pinch of Dill Weed (about a tsp or so)
A good pinch of parsley Flake (same as dill)
Salt and Pepper to taste
In a 10-12 inch skillet add your butter and spices over medium heat. Let the butter fully melt and brown a bit. When the butter stops bubbling it means u cooked out all the water and u now have clarified butter. Turn the heat up to med-high and add your thawed fish. The fish should cook no more than a few minutes per side. Most fish is bad because of over cooking. After cooking on both side, scoop out the fish and put it on your plate, now its time to eat. (again I usually have cottage cheese, maybe some juice and maybe a little rice with it)
Don’t be afraid to cook real rice (a 1/3c of rice is worth 1 carb point)
Its simple really, in a sauce pan add rice to water in a 1-2 ratio. Meaning if u scoop out a cup of rice, add 2 cups water. Bring the rice to a boil over high heat, then back the heat of to med-low heat and cover, let simmer and steam for 45 minutes WITHOUT stirring or opening the lid. After 45 minutes are up, fluff the rice with a fork and let stand another 5 to dry out jus a bit.
More coming soon, I’m tired…..
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