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post #31 of 45
12/14/02 at 7:33am
My perfect breakfast plus 2 mugs of Alterra coffee flavored with cardamom and cinnamon

Lunch: steamed broccoli with some vinaigrette, some extremely lean corned beef, sugar-free jello, diet cream soda

Dinner: sauteed chicken breasts with portobellas, steamed green beans, and a nice juicy dead-ripe persimmon for dessert!

snack- handful of Kukaburra licorice
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post #32 of 45
12/16/02 at 7:20am
Thread Starter 
First of all, I really admire the sincerity of CompassRose:p :roll:

As for my yesterday's food...hmmm...

1)Breakfast: 2 cups mocha coffee, 2 slices of candied pineapple, 4 candied strawberries, 1 banana (NOT candied, thank God)

2)Lunch: 50 grams bresaola with lemon juice, 100 grams roastbeef with lemon juice, 3 sliced raw artichokes with lemon juice and 1 tsp EVOO (I felt guilty for all those candied fruits and did penance with plenty of lemon juice)...anything else? Ah, 1 persimmon. Coffee

3)Afternoon snack: 3 dried apricots. More coffee

3)Dinner: About 200 grams grilled chicken breast, mixed salad with balsamic vinaigrette, roasted peppers marinated with EVOO, oregano, capers, garlic and salted anchovies, 6 crackers, 1 orange, 4 kumquats.

...and finally, when I was totally proud of myself, my hubby came back home with a giant Gianduiotto (do you know Gianduiotti? Imagine a 250 grams one :lips: ) and I went to bed definitely LESS proud :(

Pongi
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post #33 of 45
12/16/02 at 7:50am

Too much. . .

Breakfast : Earl grey tea and a cherry bakewell tart

Snack: See above

Lunch: some slices of baguette with duck and cream pate and green tea

Snack: See lunch

Dinner (I was at my Fether's celebrating his birthday. . .): Bresaola with fresh parmesan (too much to count) and bread, chicken fricasse with tomato, peppers, chile, martini (there was no white wine so I had to improvise) and brandy (it was lonely in the cupboard beside the martini) and rice. Violet creams. 1/3 bottle of Scala Dei Priorat, 1/3 bottle of a red Australian whose name I can't remember but it was very nice. . .
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post #34 of 45
12/16/02 at 2:50pm
Pongi, is Giandiutto a Venetian chocolate-hazelnut ice cream dessert? That's what I got when I 'googled' it up. Sounds lucious!

I have discovered that my digital scale is out of its little silicon mind, so I am now using the waistband method of monitoring my weight. The stress is far less! But I will resist a Giandiutto nonetheless.
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post #35 of 45
12/17/02 at 7:16am
Thread Starter 
Mezz,
unluckily a "Gianduiotto" isn't an icecream (a 250 grams one would be an average one...;) ) but a Piemontese soft hazelnut chocolate praline, ingot shaped and wrapped in golden paper. VERY, VERY lucious! :lips: But also a disaster for anyone on a diet...
The icecream dessert you mentioned takes probably its name just from this chocolate.
If you need more info, 'google' the word "Gianduiotti" and you'll find plenty of links.

Pongi
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post #36 of 45
12/17/02 at 7:21am
Let's see,
Breakfast was an uninspired bowl of Toppas (German frosted mini wheats) and a cup of tea.

Lunch - Saiten wurst (a..hotdog, but I like using the German name) with lentils and spaetzle. Mineral water.

a handful of sugar cookies, tis the season.

Lots more tea.

Dinner - smoked Black Forest trout on crusty bread with creamy horseradish sauce, grilled red peppers and of course Riesling
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post #37 of 45
12/17/02 at 7:43am
Sob!

My kitchen is swathed in plastic and drop cloths as it is theoretically being painted for the last week - and - as far as I can tell - into the dimness of future time. So I'm eating pizza, Chinese deliveries, and packaged stuff that requires little, no, preparation. My back's out, so even going to restaurants is out.
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post #38 of 45
12/17/02 at 11:11am
Rachel what is a violet cream?
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post #39 of 45
12/17/02 at 2:03pm
A violet cream is a chocolate filled with violet cream - like strawberry creams but violet flavour. They are really old fashioned and favoured by ladies way beyond a certain age.
My Father and I used to buy a big bag every Sunday on the way to visis
t my Grandmother, only we used to eat most of them on the way -my Father explaining that if she had too many she would get ill, so we were really doing her a favour. They are quite difficult to find, so I was pleased to find some for his birthday.
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post #40 of 45
12/17/02 at 4:45pm
We have violet-flavored gum and little candies (breath "mints", really); I forget the name, but I saw them at the cash register in a drug store. I can hardly stand the strong aroma! Once, in a fit of doomed curiosity, I bought a packet of the "mints", thinking they can't taste as strong as they smell. Alas, I was wrong. :suprise: Violently violet! :eek:
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post #41 of 45
12/19/02 at 5:25am
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One of the oldest candy and chocolate shops in town, Romanengo, is famous for its candied violets...delicious, very nice for decorations and terribly expensive of course!
Rachel, since you made me remember my last English trip and crave a slice of bakewell tart, if you have by chance a good recipe can you share it with me?
Thanks,

Pongi
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post #42 of 45
12/19/02 at 6:00am

sorry

Pongi,
The only bakewell tarts that I have ever eaten have always been bought ones. I had a look on the interent but there were quite a few different versions with varying stories, and not knowing anything about bakewell tart I wouldn't have a clue which one to recomend!
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post #43 of 45
12/19/02 at 7:35am
I've been too ashamed of my rotten eating habits to post until now, but I do take comfort in the fact that I'm not alone! :D

Yesterday: just water until about 1:00pm. Then I decided I was finally hungry, and would test another recipe for a cookbook review I'm writing. So I made two omelets, each with 3 eggs and 2 tablespoons of cream, each cooked in 1 tablespoon of butter. And I ate them both! :eek: After all, this was in the interests of research, and writing a fair review. :p

Many, many hours later, dinner:
- a glass of Dr. Konstantin Frank Johannisberger Riesling as an aperitif while making the meal;
- a leg-and-thigh quarter of roast chicken (from the previous day's recipe testing);
- roasted garlic/mushroom potato soufflé
- sautéed snow peas (mange-tout for the English English speakers ;) )
- mixed salad of red romain, radicchio, Belgian endive, and Boston lettuce, with alfalfa sprouts, olive oil and sherry vinegar;
- 1/2 bottle of Schneider Chardonnay (1999, North Fork of Long Island).
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post #44 of 45
12/19/02 at 3:07pm
Today was the annual gorging: the 'holiday feast' at school. Some very good stuff, lots of ordinary, but very edible stuff. I overdid it on desserts (four large tastes... urp) and feel sleepy from all the sugar. I made a bid bowl of vegetable saute and ate some of that before I had anybody else's main dishes, so that left less room for naughty foods.

This, the day after a piece on the local evening news that at this time of year the ERs have a huge increase in the numbers of mostly women coming in with belly pain. Turns out it's their gall bladders, overworked from all the fat in holiday foods. :rolleyes:
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post #45 of 45
12/20/02 at 1:35am
With Christmas on the horizon, my schedule is beyond $crewed up. As a rule I don't eat breakfast so that's an easy one to report. I had a Schlotsky's salad for lunch because I had to go to the post office to mail MIL's gift. I had some shopping to do at Target, so hubby threw some chix on the grill and we enjoyed BBQ chix with salad.

Then I ate a half dozen Christmas Cookies. :rolleyes:
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