Text 1534, 47 rader
Skriven 2008-01-30 19:34:34 av Carol Shenkenberger (7515.cooks)
   Kommentar till text 1187 av BOB GEARHART (1:123/140)
Ärende: RE: Christmas goodies 689
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 >  It's been a while. You are back in the states now I take it.  Where
 >  did you end up?  Last I remember you were afraid of getting stuck
 >  in cold cold Chicago at Great Lakes.

Yeah, got out of that job nicely and stayed in Japan instead another 3.5
years.

 >  I love that Italian bread unsliced, so I can slice it thin, put some
 >  extra sharp cheddar on it, top that with slices of the last of my home
 >  grown tomatoes with a sprinkle of oregano on them, then grill it.  For
 >  some reason cheese fills me up nicely with just a small amount.

Ok, that sort of italian I can go for!  I make my own bread so this would be
easy come tomato season.

 >  CS> If you start pining for salt taste and want some suitable ideas, let
 >  CS> me know. We had to convert to lower sodium intake here nearly 2 years
 >  CS> ago and have found many acceptable items to make it work well for us.
 > 
 >  Thanks Carol.  I've downloaded the DASH PDF file and check it
 >  regularly. It has a few recipes and meal plans in it, but primarily it
 >  tells you about sodium and the foods you eat.   Using it as a guide
 >  I've found there are many dishes I can create.  Plus it doesn't rule
 >  out any of the veggies I like or fruits.  It does say I had to stop
 >  with all the red meat, gravy and potatoes in the portions I had been
 >  eating.  I'm a hillbilly feeder basically, from the hills of PA over
 >  around the WV line, so grew up eating that stuff regular.  Like I
 >  wouldn't think of eating greens unless they were covered in bacon with
 >  a rich white sauce made from a whole stick of butter.   All that is gone
 >  now. Sigh!

Ah well!  There's lots of other stuff to enjoy!   I had to cut down on cholest
rol years ago so we dont do as much of the meat and gravy stuff, not that
we ever really did huge amounts of it.

I use alot of different spices to replace salt, and sometimes a careful
amount of MSG (has sodium but less than salt and can replace the flavor well
so you dont need as much salt).

It sounds like our diet would be limited, with low cholestrol, low salt, and
low sugar combined, but actually it's not that limiting once we learned to
cook around it.  Also we can have some of all of those, just have to watch
how much.
             xxcarol
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