18-03-2018, 11:33 AM
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Re: OFF slimming club---open to everyone.
Originally Posted by
susiejaeger
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Yes I know, you are both right, I won't be doing that again, it was done at short notice because I was out and couldn't be bothered to come back home and start cooking again.
Today we are going out to the Indian Restaurant and I shall be having:
Chicken Tikka.
Some Rice.
Dry Veg. Curry.
Excellent choice
I love Indian and pretty fond of Chinese and both feature in my meal plans big time. We don’t have an Indian near us now so that’s always home made but when we did go a lot and I was watching what I ate, I went for The tandoori chicken , plain boiled rice and salad
If we went to a Chinese it was usually a noodle dish
If it was a chippy tea, I removed the batter from the fish. No hardship mostly as I don’t like chip shop batter , always too thick and often doughy
Taking the kids to McDs, a happy meal was enough ( still is as it happens )
As I say I now make my own Indian meals and Chinese @ home. No where near as fattening as restaurant meals because most only use a tablespoon of oil and instead of deep frying in batter I use a method called velveting which is basically simmering chicken coated it egg white and corn flour in water
All the taste, none of the fat
This week I made trice cooked belly of pork. A really fat filled meat. What you do though is boil it first till soft with ginger and spring onions to add flavour. Boiling removes a lot of the fat. Then cut into cubes and slowly dry fry till crisp, removes more fat yet adds more flavour, then lightly stir fry veg, chuck in the pork, add sauce of choice and lightly braise until veg is soft enough. Cheap as chips, tasty as anything yet pretty low fat considering it’s pork belly. Also the focus is the veg, very little meat