Quicklinks
Posted by kathryn in A Balanced Diet, Weight loss, Salads and Vegetable recipes
- Cooking at home: Mark Bittman talks about why he cooks at home and how to start cooking more.
- Food at work: The Shifting Times blog has an excellent list of foods to have at work – to make it easier to eat well during the day. Lots of US brands, but a good guide. Thanks to CookinPanda for pointing it out.
- Peanut noodle salad: Another great recipe from Heidi at 101 Cookbooks – a quick and easy peanut noodle salad.
- Attitudes to weight loss: Article from Rudd Sound Bites about the realities of weight loss. Quotes Jeffrey Steingarten – one of my favourite food writers: Wise up on weight loss.
- A healthier pastry: I never knew you could make pastry with olive oil – but according to Joanna you can. It still has the same amount of total fat. However by cutting out the butter you’re removing all the saturated fat.
- Eating eggplants: love the look of this eggplant recipe from A Life (Time) of Cooking: steamed eggplant in sesame-soy sauce.
04 April, 2008
Comments
Thanks for the link … olive oil pastry really is delicious. I’m going to make koulibiac with it this weekend …
Joanna
Hi there Joanna, never heard of koulibiac, but I’ve just googled it and sounds wonderful. Looking forward to seeing your version. And I’m also going to have a go at your pastry next weekend. Thanks for posting it.
Thanks for the Bittman link. I have so many friends – mostly single, under 30, small kitchens, busy lives, empty cabinets – that keep telling me they want to start cooking but just can’t handle the hugeness of the undertaking. Bittman offers a lot of practical advice, as usual.
Also, thank you for linking me!
interesting set of links as usual – I thought your series of foods that save you when you are busy would be a useful accompanying information alongside the Mark Bittman article.
Cookinpanda – I’ve fixed up the strikeout in your original comment. It’s one of the slightly buggy things my blog does. If you use lots of dashes, it thinks you’re wanting to strikeout the phrase. Bittman’s advice is good. The most important thing to do is just start cooking. Make mistakes and realise it’s not going to be perfect.
Johanna – I’m going to continue talking about eating well when busy this week. It seems to be something I’m talking to clients about during every session at the moment.
Great information and links, as always—thanks! I’m definitely going to try out Heidi’s salad and am intrigued by the olive oil pastry which might just get me to bake a pie. And I think being realistic about weight loss is so important, as it is definitely HARD work!
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