Category: South Beach Diet

Breakfast/Brunch, South Beach Diet

Real Men (And Women) Eat Quiche

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Vegetable Quiche Cups

They also eat cakes, cookies, ice cream, and all sorts of tasty treats cooked up in the BAH kitchen.  So is it any surprise that eventually all those food choices catch up with you?  When I casually mentioned to The Mistah that I was thinking of revisiting Phase One of South Beach, because I was starting to feel a little jiggly in the middle, I expected him to say that I’d lost my mind.  My previous South Beach journey through Phase One had been brutal. Continue reading “Real Men (And Women) Eat Quiche” →

Breakfast/Brunch, South Beach Diet

Morning Glory

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Anyone who is:

  • A past roommate of mine;
  • A member of my immediate family;
  • A former overnight guest;
  • A former overnight host;

Will all tell you that I am NOT a morning person.  Unlike The Mistah who hears the first beeps of the alarm and bounds of out bed ready to start the day, I slap not one, but two alarms, several times each and every morning.  I protest and struggle to raise my head from the pillow.  I try and bargain for just a few more minutes under the covers before I have to face the day.  Ultimately, the alarms win out and I grudgingly make the bed, unable to win a single minute more snugly burrowed beneath the covers I’ve managed to reclaim from The Mistah’s side of the bed.  So you could say that I’m not terribly ambitious in the mornings. Continue reading “Morning Glory” →

Fish, Main Course, South Beach Diet

TMI

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Salmon with Roasted Cherry Tomatoes

I’m a bad typist.  I remember taking typing in high school thinking that the class was a complete waste of my time.  Why did Cecil County Public Schools think that I needed to know how to type?  This was all back when computers as we know them today were insanely expensive. They weren’t in people’s homes and they certainly weren’t in schools.  But the Board of Education said I had to take typing.  So I did.  I spent hours in Mr. Cleek’s classroom with typing drills – The quick brown fox jump over the lazy dog…or some such nonsense.  Actually, I probably paid more attention to the boys in the class than to my IBM Selectric.  So is it any wonder that I’m a typo queen? Continue reading “TMI” →

Breakfast/Brunch, South Beach Diet

Savory

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Savory

While The Mistah and I don’t exclusively eat South Beach cookbook recipes anymore, I still keep my eyes open for SB Friendly recipes on the Interwebs.  What can I say, the SB approach really has worked for us.  I still have people tell me that the weight loss is noticeable, and this is almost two years later.  I may not have reached that elusive Driver’s License weight, but I’m more comfortable in my own skin that I have been in quite some time.  And it doesn’t hurt that the SB Friendly dishes we eat taste good or that The Mistah says my skinny jeans look freaking awesome.

Cottage Cheese and Cheddar Muffins

From Alexandra’s Kitchen (who also references Kalyn’s Kitchen and 101 Cookbooks)

BAH Note:  You don’t have to be on South Beach to enjoy this savory muffin.  It makes a great light snack or quick breakfast if you make them in advance.  Don’t be like me and neglect to spray the paper liners with cooking spray.  Because scraping savory muffin out of the paper liner is not a good start to a day. And be prepared to pay a pretty penny for the almond flour.  Luckily, there’s a French Macaron recipe in The Sweet Life in Paris that uses almond flour.  While definitely not a SB Friendly recipe, I think there’s room for French cookies once in a while...at least until the skinny jeans tell me otherwise.

  • 2/3 cup cottage cheese
  • 1/4 cup grated Parmesan
  • 1/4 cup wheat flour
  • 2/3 cup almond flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
  • 4 eggs
  • 3 tablespoons water
  • 1/2 cup grated sharp cheddar cheese
  • 4 slices canadian bacon

Heat the oven to 400 degrees.

Combine the cottage cheese, Parmesan, wheat and almond flour, baking powder, and salt in a medium bowl.  Beat the eggs and water together and add to the bowl.  Mix well to combine.   Add the canadian bacon and grated cheddar to the bowl and fold to combine.

Place 8 paper liners in a muffin pan and coat the liners lightly with a nonstick cooking spray.  Divide the batter among the liners and bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until the tops are lightly browned and the egg has set.

Leftover muffins can be cooled completely and stored in the refrigerator.

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Fish, Main Course, South Beach Diet

Mustard Glazed Salmon

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Mustard Glazed Salmon

So my first attempt at a Cook Wise recipe didn’t go so well.  While I haven’t retaken the Raised Waffles exam, I have aced the Salmon Fillet with Mustard quiz.  It’s quite similar to the Honey Mustard Chicken Breast that we like so much here at BAH.  But quicker.  And who doesn’t love a quick recipe?  While I could use that extra time to study up on the Raised Waffles, my assigned reading this week is The Sweet Life In Paris.  And I think there’s going to be a pop quiz coming up so I need to be ready.

Salmon Fillet with Mustard

Cook Wise

  • 2 cups apple juice
  • 1/2 cup coarse grain mustard (I personally adore Inglehoffer’s Original Stone Ground Mustard)
  • 1 tablespoon fresh dill, finely chopped
  • 2 to 4 salmon fillets, with or without skin
  • 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees and line a sheet pan with aluminum foil.

Bring the apple juice to a boil in a small saucepan over medium high heat until reduced to approximately 1/4 cup.  Whisk in the mustard and dill and remove from the heat.

Pat the fish dry with paper towels and place (skin side down if applicable) on the baking sheet and season with salt.  Spoon the apple juice mixture over the fish and bake for 10 to 15 minutes until the fish flakes easily with a fork.

Serve immediately.

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Side Dishes, South Beach Diet, Vegetables

Ina’s Roasted Carrots

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We have gotten really bad lately about incorporating vegetables into our meals.  Sure, sure, we still eat a LOT of salads for lunch but back when we first embarked on our South Beach adventure, there was veg with each and every lunch and dinner.  Now, I try and convince myself that merely thinking about making a vegetable counts. Continue reading “Ina’s Roasted Carrots” →

Soup, South Beach Diet

Soupy

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Soup and a Side

I’m having a bit of writer’s block today. I think I might still be a bit conflicted about posting Cook’s Illustrated Recipes.  Like the ex that you continue to drunk dial, long after the breakup, I can’t make a clean break from CI.  But you know what?  Quick and easy trumps moral dilemma in this instance.  So instead of trying to come up with a witty narrative, I’m just going to skip right to the recipe. Continue reading “Soupy” →

Breakfast/Brunch, South Beach Diet

Dutch Baby

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Dutch Apple Pancake

Our breakfast routine gets, well, routine sometimes.  As in, boring.  As in, I cannot eat another scrambled egg if my life depended on it.  So we find ourselves looking for ways to spice things up.  This usually happens on the weekend when we have more time to wander about in the kitchen.  It goes something like this:

The Mistah:  “What do you want for breakfast?”

Me:  “I dunno, as long as it’s not eggs or oatmeal.  What do we have?”

The Mistah:  “Um, eggs and oatmeal, sorry.”

There is then much muttering under my breath and I start flipping through cookbooks and recipes for something, anything, different.  Most recently, it resulted in a Dutch Baby. Continue reading “Dutch Baby” →

Main Course, South Beach Diet

En Papillote

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En Papillote

Traditionally, cooking en papillote means using parchment paper.  Not the kind you write on, so don’t go looking for it at your office supply or card store.  It’s baking/cooking paper that is treated with a bit of nonstick magic and it has countless uses in the kitchen.  Sure I use it to line cake pans and cookie sheets and wrap things like sandwiches, but in a pinch I also use it like a funnel for dry ingredients or a nonstick surface to roll out doughs.  It’s pretty freaking versatile.  I prefer the precut sheets that King Arthur Flour sells and I find that the 100 count really is a Best Buy.  The $19.95 that I just spent to restock my supply will get me a year, maybe a year and a half, or parchment perfection. Continue reading “En Papillote” →

Appetizers, Main Course, South Beach Diet

Mother Necessity

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Spice Dusted Tuna

Schoolhouse Rock taught me that necessity is the mother of invention.

Mother Necessity
With her good intentions,
Where would this country be
Without her inventions?

So when faced with a need, I try to get creative in my solution.  I look at what I do have and see if I can’t repurpose an item.  It’s amazing how many ordinary household items can be used in ways they are not specifically designed for.  For instance, did you know that in a pinch, a basket style coffee filter can be used to line a cake pan instead of parchment?  It can. Continue reading “Mother Necessity” →