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oh! youre a doll thanks for the recipes! i’ve only been on my own a few months and im about to get married i gotta learn how to cook! eating out is to expensive and im starting to gain weight which isnt good only weeks before my wedding and cruise honeymoon, im afraid im gonna get harpooned by a whaler!
 
These all sound so yummy!

Last night we had extra lean beef taco salads–a plate of chopped romaine lettuce, the seasoned beef, salsa, cheese and topped with diced tomatoes. We use tostito bite sized chips to scoop it up, or just eat it plain sometimes. My husband sometimes rolls up his plate full of stuff into a couple soft and warm tortillas. I also made baked apples. .

Our dishwasher just broke and the repair man can’t come til monday…so not sure if I’ll be cooking or dining out tonight 😉 If I cook, I was planning on making tortellini with homemade red pepper sauce, italian bread and romaine caesar salad.
 
Baked apples–

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Core each apple, place in large mixing dish. Depending on how many I’m making and the size of the apples, I first douse with lemon juice (to keep the apples’ color and it accentuates their great taste, too) and then I sprinkle brown sugar and cinnamon to taste. I add a tablespoon of water (if I didn’t use the lemon juice), and then I gently mix the apples with the b-sugar and cinnamon, so they’re slightly coated, just enough for taste. (You can also slice and dice the apples, if you want to.) Also, I add sliced peaches (fresh or canned in water or syrup, but drain all the juice) sometimes. Also…you can mix in a half cup of flour, quarter cup of margarine and a cup of oats if you want to make apple crisp…

I then place apples in pre-sprayed baking dish and bake for up to 45 minutes, depending on how tender I want them. (If I didn’t add oats/flour/margarine, then I spoon little pieces of margarine on top–never too much.)

My husband likes a dollop of vanilla ice cream on them, but I think they’re fine plain… I also have it for breakfast sometimes, if I add a lot of extra oats. 🙂
 
does anyone have any good desert recipies for my fiance whos a diabetic, hes gotta sweet tooth and sugars not good for him and suggestions, he can have a little so we dont have to completley cut it out. THANKS FOR THE BAKED APPLE RECIPE! SOUNDS GREAT!
 
tonight we’re celebrating my husband’s birthday, which is on Sunday. I’m making a triple chocolate cake with fudge icing and bigos, a Polish stew. Very yummy stuff. PM me if you’d like the recipes.
 
Tara,

I would buy a package of splenda (sugar substitute made FROM sugar) and use it to make the apple pie and sugar free cheesecake on the back. I THINK you can even go to, like, splenda.com or something like that and find recipies. OR, just do a google search for “sugar free desserts” there are SO many options out there.
 
All these meals sound great. I’ll definitely have to watch this thread, as I never have any idea what to cook for dinner.
 
thanks for the tip, quick question though i have a migraine sensitivity to nutra sweet is splenda and nutra sweet the same?
 
excellent! thanks so much for your help, now i can keep him away from cookies and junk and can bake for him too!
 
There are so many healthy things you can do…

For instance, freeze new and freshly peeled bananas. Once frozen, take out and mash. Srinkle carob chips (what chocolate is made from, bought in a health food store) or sugar free chocolate shavings over it. OR sugar free chocolate syrup. Tastes just like ice cream, but it’s fruit 🙂

It’s really hard to get out of a rut of eating the same old, same old. I still get stuck a lot. My mom always made hearty meals that were fairly heavy in calories. They tasted great–but weren’t always the most heart-healthy. 🙂 My dad is a diabetic now and they’ve had to re-vamp their lifestyle quite a bit.

Also–when baking, keep in mind you can often substitute sugar with honey. You should buy the “Whole Foods for the Whole Family” cookbook. Buy it used on amazon–I got mine for 12 dollars. It’s an old book from the 1980s put out by the La Leche League. ALL recipies use unprocessed food and NONE have sugar in them. Everything is from scratch! Plenty of desserts, baked breads, dinners, soups, appetizers, etc. 🙂 It teaches you how to even make your own ketchup or bbq sauce–something that normally has a ton of sugar in it if you buy it from the supermarket.
 
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Theodora:
Any culinary chefs? What about Madeira?

Theodora
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Too sweet – but then I think veal Marsala is utterly loathsome.
 
We’re having Pasta Fazool and fresh baked bread

🙂 I love Friday night dinners…
 
Oh, veal is one of my favorite dishes in the world. Yummy!

My husband is an amazing cook. Tonight is pasta with chicken medallions and prochuitto in a white wine cream sauce. It’s really not too hard to make:

chicken breast cut into 1/2 inch cubes
prochuitto
olive oil
minced garlic
minced mushrooms (optional)
bowtie pasta (or another pasta the same size)
white wine (chardonnay)
heavy cream
basil
onion (optional)
green pepper (optional)

Put water on to boil.
Put a little olive oil in skillet. Lightly fry the prochuitto. Remove prochutto, put on plate with paper towels to drain.
In same pan with the olive oil and prochuitto leavings, lightly fry/brown chicken until golden brown.
Add 2/3 bottle of wine, prochuitto, garlic, mushrooms, basil, onions and green pepper to skillet.
Bring contents to boil, reduce heat to simmer, and let it simmer until 90% of the liquid is gone (about an hour).
Drop pasta in to cook.
When cooked, strain pasta and add pasta to skillet.
Add heavy cream to skillet.
Stir while still having it on low heat, making sure sauce gets warm. (you can tell it is warm when steam comes up from skillet)

serve in pasta bowls, and grate some parmigiano reggiano on top. Drink the rest of the wine with the meal. Yummy! Better than resturant food–he’s spoiled going out to eat for me as he cooks better.
 
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TarAshly:
thanks for the tip, quick question though i have a migraine sensitivity to nutra sweet is splenda and nutra sweet the same?
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Splenda’s great stuff. My dad has a really bad reaction to Nutra Sweet (we’re not sure why, but it really sets him off), and Splenda doesn’t bother him at all.

Almeria, that sounds fantastic.

Aaaghahghagh (Homer Simpson drool with tongue hanging out)
 
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Yeah, that’s how I am while eating it. I’m smelling the wine cooking down right now, and the drool is starting…

Couple edits to the reciepe: remove the skillet from the heat before adding the wine, just so you don’t cause a fire.

After adding the wine, scrape the pan to get all the nice yummy burnt bits released into the sauce.
 
Frozen pizza when we get home from ConQuest and Challenge Clubs! —KCT
 
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