Fat Tuesday 2010
In Windsor, Ont., it’s the day your preferences crave, and your arteries dread — Fat Tuesday — better known within the border city as Paczki Day.
And it’s really a growing tradition, with tens of thousands of the 500-calorie treats for sale for Mardi Gras.
The paczki, pronounced poonsh-key, is made for many, Polish pastry perfected.
Delicious Branzino Fish for an impressive dinner
If you are thinking what you would cook for an easy but yet impressive dinner this season, here is a recipe of Branzino Fish from Food & Wine. The recipe is simple yet looks amazing when set on the dinner table and tastes delicious as well.
Cooking Ingredients:
3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 tablespoon finely chopped capers
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
1 tablespoon chopped parsley
Two 1- to 1 1/4-pound whole branzino, scaled and gutted
1 lemon, sliced into 4 rounds
2 large rosemary sprigs
Salt to taste
Preparation:
1. Preheat the oven to 425°. In a medium bowl, mix the canola with the capers, lemon juice and parsley and season with salt. Keep at room temperature.
2. Season the branzino cavities with salt and stuff lemon rounds and 1 rosemary sprig in each. Season the fish with salt.
3. Place fish on baking sheet. Pour mixture from step one on fish and in cavity. Roast the fish in the oven for about 10 minutes, until just cooked through.
On the ding of your oven the dish is ready to impress your guests!
Can You Lose Weight on a Cookie Diet?
Dr. Sanford Siegal makes a weight-loss offer that sounds hard to refuse: the Cookie Diet, a pound-shedding program that he says has helped thousands of his patients drop an average of 15 pounds per month.
The key is a carefully crafted cookie recipe, which suppresses hunger, paired with very specific dinner menu, said Siegal of Siegal Medical Group in Miami.
“On this diet, you have one meal only: dinner,” Siegal said. “The dinner consists of 6 ounces of chicken, turkey, fish or seafood.”
Along with the lean meat choices, the diet allows one cup of vegetables with dinner. Red meats are discouraged because of their high fat content. The rest of the diet consists of exactly six hunger-suppressing cookies per day, which are baked in Siegal’s own bakery in Miami and available only to patients in Siegal’s clinics (five in Florida, and one in Montreal.)
The cookies are not for breakfast or for lunch, but rather for whenever the dieter is hungry, though they must eat six a day. The six cookies, plus the one dinner, adds up to 800 calories. Dieters should also consume eight glasses of liquid a day, which includes coffee and tea, Siegal says.
