 Re: Recipes I will try this year! | |
So.... the tomatoes have been in the oven for the past 6 hours. I have a feeling they won't get crisp even if I leave them until tomorrow. Maybe I'm doing something wrong? I used 650 g of tomatoes (about 1.5 lbs), 40 mL olive oil (infused with 3 small finely-minced garlic cloves), 1/2 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp thyme, 1/2 tsp oregano, 1/3 tsp ground white pepper and 1/2 tsp ground cumin. The oven is at 100 C (that's about 200 F). Should I increase or decrease the temperature? Or maybe I should use/should have used more oil? I didn't need 1/2 cup to brush the tomatoes (didn't just poured the olive all over them... I used a pastry brush instead).  They smell good and I even tasted a small one and it has an awesome flavor, but they are definitely not "crisp".
The Indian Grilled Chicken is fantastic! I wanted to save money and bought a whole chicken instead of chicken breasts. This made four pieces of chicken breast (I halved each breast half), which worked just fine with 1/4 of the recipe on Herb Companion. I had two pieces for lunch and I'll have the other two for dinner. I even managed to broil without turning the pan all black!  This is how it looks like: 
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"The truth is that temptation lurks everywhere, unless you deny yourself a social and working life and the attendant pleasures of eating out. I believe that the best way to overcome temptation is not with willpower, which is so often in short supply, but with our brain power, a potentially unlimited resource.
Imagine that you're doing great, losing weight, feeling better than ever, thrilled with yourself, hearing compliments from friends and acquaintances---and then it happens! Despite all your good intentions, you're mightily tempted by a food you're not supposed to have. What to do? I'll tell you this: You'd better have a strategy ready!"
(Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution, Chapter 19)
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