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Skriven 2014-09-26 02:01:00 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HAFFLY
Ärende: health 5
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 RH> I'm reining in my sweet tooth, never will lose it entirely but it's
 RH> learning to adapt to smaller portions of sweets. I'll never be able to

Seems to work pretty well for you.

 RH> give up meats either but overall, we eat a lot less of them than we
 RH> did when we first got married.

I do wonder what I'd do if I were bitten by the bug that
Steve described that potentiates an allergy to red meat.
Risk death frequently, I guess.
 
 RH> Better buy a belt--you don't want to be mistaken for one of these kids
 RH> that walks around with one hand holding up his trousers all the time.
 RH> The minute he lets go, they sag and show all he's wearing (or not)

Hey, I AM one of those kids.

 ML> As I said, it's an umami bomb.
 RH> Going to try making it at an upcoming picnic?

Nope. Buy it at the Asian market.
 
 ML> in fact overconcentrated the flavor of the confit and the salt
 ML> both, which made it less than a stellar experience. Availability
 ML> of a large quantity of (say) potatoes would have helped.
 RH> Always room for improvement, especially on something like that.

I've never had one that fully satisfied me except at
Michelin-quality restaurants, mostly in Europe, where
they cook better than I do but also make much more money
than I do. But even a suboptimal confit is better than
no confit at all.

 ML> My father, for example, made it to 89 and might well have
 ML> lived past 90 but for some medical misunderstanding, and
 ML> after his 30s he never got a full night's sleep or a lick
 ML> of exercise. Or, oddly, for some decades, much medical care,
 ML> despite it being free for him. Uncontrolled heart disease
 ML> and diabetes from 50 and no consequence until past 80.
 RH> He was probably more the exception than the rule to most rules on
 RH> maintaining health.
 
My point in conversation with Nancy is that in a lot of
cases, the data from which the rules sprang were collected
from a population that didn't include my people and that
might only partially apply. I question the universality of
food pyramids, the benefit of exercise, proper hydration,
staying in the sun enough to get Vitamin D but not enough
to get cancer, and so on. I notice that the researchers are
beginning to come around little by little - you see the odd
study that tries to generalize its findings just to a
subpopulation rather than to humanity as a whole. More often
still you get these monster pronouncements that seem well
and good until the next study asserts that the exact
opposite is true.

Baked eggplant and meatball casserole 
cat: Armenian, main
servings: 6

h - Tomato sauce
1 lb cn tomatoes, blended smooth
8 oz cn tomato sauce
1/2 c chopped onion
2 Tb butter
1 clove garlic, mashed
1 Tb sugar
salt, pepper to taste
1/4 bn parsley. chopped fine
h - Eggplant and meat preparation
1 lg eggplant, peel and cut into ½" thick round slices
1/4 c flour
salt, pepper to taste
1/4 c oil
1 1/2 lb ground lamb or chuck
1/2 ts salt
1/4 c grated cheese

PATLIJAN/SEMPOOG TAVA KEBAB

Saute onion and garlic in butter. Add remaining sauce
ingredients, bring to boil, and simmer 10 min.

Combine flour, salt and pepper. Use to coat eggplant. Fry
and set aside. Add salt to ground meat, shape into eight
patties and broil 5 min on each side.

Spoon half of tomato sauce in a baking pan. Arrange eggplant
and meat in 12"x8" dish. Spoon remaining sauce on top.
Sprinkle with grated cheese. Bake uncovered for 30 min at 350F.

by Rose Terzian
from Armeniapedia.org


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