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Old Place, New – carb-loaded! – Soul Food |
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Isn't it a shrieking irony? Just as I'd never thought that I'd also dedicate a collection of Yums to "treating / curing" chronic underweight I'd reached because I'd taken Low Carb, Intermittent Fasting & Weight Training too seriously, => "MEHR HUNGER!"  I'd NEVER in my life have thought that I'd EVER be UNDERnourished – or better UNDER-carbed – because of the three... and that this made me actually sick, too.  My metabolism's in sleep mode: – my digestion inert, – my muscles weak (and deteriorating ) & my body too fat (despite sports & "healthy" diet!), – my nails and hair brittle, – my skin fatty, dry & pimply (at the same time! )– I'm sleepy a great portion of the day – I'm anxious ... Once more it was a book that awakened me: Abnehmen mit Kohlenhydraten (Losing Weight with Carbs) (only in German till now.  ) Nutritionist Daniela Kielkowski who's not solely treated thousands of people, monitoring / adjusting them by measuring metabolic performance by – spirometry (met performance at rest) and – using a finely tuned body analysis scale has helped these people losing their overweight and associated illnesses by feeding them carbs. I'm only doing it since April 11 , reading the book along, and I'm already: – more awake during the day – more active during the day – more motivated (decluttering again) – not hangry anymore – not snacking anymore. – having daily digestion (when it was only every 2-3 days!) – better skin, hair & nails, plus – smaller injuries (cut myself while cooking) healing quicker. Oh, and the anxiety is GONE! All that with only 2 - 3 x Carbs / day! HOW? I'll share my new nutrition – NOT diet, which is the root of all that Sick Evil!  – and knowledge along the way and add according recipes below. And, yes, I'm also aware I (not only) culinarily traveled to NYC last year in "NEW YORK – HUNGRY" already, inspired greatly by my Novel Series and other stories set there (and in Munich).But honestly? I wanna stay a little longer in NYC  – especially Staten Island, my favorite borough. The stock cover, by the way, shows the Verrazano Narrows Bridge on the Staten Island end, coming from Brooklyn. Beyond it (leftwards)? The open Atlantic. It's no coincidence that my novels' MMC, Vince, was born and raised, and still lives, there... as I felt at home there like nowhere else before, not even in Nova Scotia!  Also this year will be the MOST demanding, arduous, stressful & tiring till now, as I want to have dig myself out of my traumatizing past and lost dreams and move beyond them – I think everyone who ever decluttered a house worth of stuff knows what especially emotional work it is to let go of even one piece sometimes.  And for that endeavor, I need Soul Food – burger, pizza, risotto, fries, cake, cookies, ice cream  – but the most healthy I can manage. I don't want to heal my mind to wake up in a sick body one day because of too much sh– I ate.  Also, since the whole world lives in New York City, it's not gonna get culinarily boring in the least. Maybe even native New Yorkers on this site stumble upon this (and "NEW YORK – HUNGRY" ) and think, "Dang! Why didn't I have that idea!" or "A *peeping* pity we don't have have here." The latter would be the biggest compliment to the cook / baker, indeed! I already found some recipes which are a) NY-classics – I'll start this collection with one! – and b) unusual variations of the familiar.  There'll be: – more vegs – and also some which I haven't tried before, – experiments like... handmade müsli bars & ice cream – "meal prep". My MCs, half-Italian police detective Vince and Italian food lover Laura are all into it, especially he with his erratic shift work.  Also Laurie will do some familiar Italian dishes differently, and have to convince Vince to overcome his traditional food biases. Also their friends'/family's various cuisines will have their place again as well to complete the overall experience. In this sense: Guten Hunger! Enjoy! Buon Appetito! Buen provecho! Afiyet olsun! Smacznego! Gudden Appetit! |
11. Piselli alla Romana (Hi-Carb) April 22, 2024 at 5:53am
Guys, do you know these dishes where you think, Bloody hell, that's SO simple ! Readers will feel cheated if I include it in the cook book!
THIS one is one of them, but heck!, this collection would be poorer without it!
Actually, it's "just" a side dish in the Roman Kitchen, but then again... it's also a feel-good recipe, one that makes you feel better when you're sad / ill (like my Mom's mashed potatoes => ).
It'... [Read more] 10. Nonno Aurelio's Gnocchi (Hi-Carb) April 19, 2024 at 6:40am
This recipe I found in Gennaro Contaldo's cook book Cucina Povera , in which Jamie Oliver's Mentor cooks recipes people in Italy cook since eons . Ingredients are cheap to get and recipes simple, nutritious & versatile .
Now!
As you know, my novel series' MMC Vince Romano 's Nonna Stella has already left her culinary footprint in my hungry endeavors across the years.
We've had
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As Vince's name hints at, (par... [Read more] 9. Lemony Salmon-Pumpkin Balls March 23, 2024 at 2:58pm
You must know that I write a shopping list for weekly grocery shopping day for a reason, but every time I'm inexplicably hungry when I go. Maybe because I plan cooking yummy things that week. Thank God, I've trained the muscle to go for healthy extras – nuts, mushrooms, more vegs – for when that eye hunger strikes.
That doesn't keep me from reaching for the new recipe collection by the German Food mag "Meine Familie & Ich" (My family & I), e... [Read more] 8. Nonna Stella's Spinatknödel March 21, 2024 at 11:56am
These are the hefty vegetarian siblings of Semmelknödel (bread dumplings) and .
I found the recipe in Everyday Cooking , the second cookbook by the creators of the worldwide popular German cooking app KitchenStories . (Sorry, it's only available in German. But if you're up to a challenge... )
Like Semmel- / Pilzknödel , you often get them served in the neighboring states of the Alps: Southern Germany, Austria, Switzerland and, yes, South Tirol (Alto Adi... [Read more] 7. Savory Pumpkin Waffle Premiere March 20, 2024 at 3:54pm
So I had this waffle iron, hidden in a drawer of my TARDIS, er, kitchen ... until I started decluttering at the beginning of the year.
I think everyone who declutters knows how emotionally draining, upsetting and downright frustrating it is, when you dig through clutter nest after clutter nest, and stuff becomes more instead of less. Often, like in my case, it comes in union with mourning the person(s) (/ event(s)) that only caused building the clutter-stuff protection wal... [Read more] 6. Umami Chocolate Chip Cookies March 7, 2024 at 7:27am => => => =>
Ha! You already thought I've gone completely bonkers after "pimping" the Classic to , don't you, right?
Hm, weeeeell... Nope!
You can always do something whackier .
So it happened that due to a lot of emotional work – mourning and decluttering – I wanted cookies, Chocolate Chip, to be exact.
So far, so normal .
So I downsized the recipe from the Chocolate-Chip-Cookie recipe included in – using the am... [Read more] 5. Italian Chocolate Bread February 27, 2024 at 1:53pm
Now imagine this : your bread and your sweets run out at the same time – what are you to do!?
Like the Good German that I am, I honor Bread Culture – our bread is UNESCO World Cultural Heritage for a reason. Okay, granted, I didn't do one classic German Bread ever (didn't want to dis honor it, I suppose ), but, Dudes, it counts anyway, no matter where it comes from. Bread is bread.
So, the above MCA, er, case happened: I wanted sweets and I w... [Read more] 4. Pumpkin Burger 2 in 1 February 27, 2024 at 9:04am
Okay, I admit it's not as novel as (because easier to get) , but something that was "missing" in my recipe collection for pumpkin yet.
There's an impressive amount I did with pumpkin over the last 3+ years:
– Soup ; ;
– Bread
– Cakes ; ; ; (even as oil ! )
– Lasagna
– Gnocchi
– Pasta
– Muffins
A burger was only consequent ... and overdue , eh?
Why are you "burge... [Read more] 3. A VERY Special Cauliflower Burger & EXTRA February 27, 2024 at 9:03am
Actually, I wanted to do a pumpkin dish I haven't done before – yeah, there's one more , and such an obvious one, too – but Cauliflower stopped me. So blame IT!
What? I hear you ask. Didn't you say you hated cauliflower because of traumatic memories, and only did one recipe featuring it, , so far?
Yeah, and honestly it should stay like that. The "Großmama forced me to eat it in gallons"-demon seemed to have been exorcised.
Hm, ... [Read more] 2. Banana Walnut PAN-cake February 10, 2024 at 12:38pm
No, this is not a recipe for banana pancakes , this is a recipe for banana cake that is baked in a pan .
It came about by two things coming together:
– the title-giving bananas were so ripe they were short of running away on their own, and begged to be processed
– I didn't know if I should give away the baking book I found the recipe in, or not. (Now I know: NO! )
I was tending toward "giving away" because I was especially doubtful about ... [Read more] 1. Reuben Sandwich February 8, 2024 at 10:24am
As threatened in the header, I'll start this new collection with a NY-classic .
I wanted to do it on Christmas – an unexpected invitation to dinner with friends cut it –, on New Year's Eve – here celebrations with other friends got in the way.
So I'm doing it now.
Like its little (or was it BIG? ) Bro from Katz's Delicatessen in the Lower East Side , the , this one is said to have origined from Reuben's Deli on the Upper East Side (58th S... [Read more] |
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