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Category — healthy eating
Sautéed Squash in a Wok
Categories: healthy eating, recipes, wokking
Wow! I knocked my own socks off with this one. Following my chilled cucumber salad dish, next on my Michi’s Ladder list was squash - a vegetable I’ve never liked in the past.
I found this sautéed squash recipe on the curiously ravenous blog. I adapted it for the ingredients I had at hand and cooked it up. (click thumbnail on the left for a bigger picture of the result)
Peeling and cutting up the acorn squash was the toughest part. Once that was done it took me 10 minutes cook this delicious dish.
Ingredients:
- one acorn squash
- 1/2 cup water
- 1 packet OXO chicken broth packet(10 calories) - or vegetable stock
- 2 cloves garlic, thinly chopped
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp ground pepper
- extra light olive oil, for frying
I think next time I might add some chopped onions and add only half a packet of OXO chicken broth - or stir-fry with real chicken pieces.
Tags: Fast, healthy and delicious., recipe, squash, wok
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Del.icio.us Chilled Cucumber Salad
Categories: healthy eating, recipes
Easy to make, light and tasty.
Ingredients:
- 2 cups thinly-sliced chilled cucumbers (I use one long and skinny cucumber)
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup thinly-sliced fresh onions (50% ratio to cucumbers)
- 1/4 cup dill pickle juice (or 1/4 cup vinegar)
- 1/8 cup water
- 1 tablespoon sugar (or a 1 packet of sugar substitute)
- 1/2 teaspoon dill weed
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- cherry tomatoes to taste (optional)
Tags: cucumber, michi's ladder, recipe, salad
Wokking Up Michi’s Ladder
Categories: healthy eating, kitchen
As part of my commitment to healthy eating, I’ve embarked on two new, and related, pursuits:
Cooking with a Teflon Wok: Until recently I didn’t cook at all. It struck me that cooking with a wok might be easy and fun. Last Christmas I purchased a Teflon wok for use on the stove-top. I’ve used it almost every day since. It’s turned out to be fun, easy and quick to clean. 
Eating From Michi’s Ladder: As part of my P90X training, I was introduced Michi’s Ladder. The ladder consists of 5 tiers of foods. The goal is to eat as much from the top two tiers and as little from the bottom tiers as possible.
In the last few months I’ve eaten, and enjoyed, more vegetable dishes than I have in the last decade.
Going forward I’m looking for and experimenting with tasty, easy to wok recipes for the food listed in the top two tiers of Michi’s Ladder.
I’ll kick things off with my latest recipes for a chilled cucumber salad and my sautéed squash in a wok.
Tags: michi's ladder, wokking
Weight-loss Diet Tips for the Single Geek
Categories: fitness, healthy eating
In December 2006 I decided (for the final time) to get fit and stay fit. For the prior decade my weight had yoyo’d within a 30 pound range.
In order to loose weight and keep it off forever I personally committed to making two fundamentally integrated life-long changes:
- Regular Workouts: I needed to first loose 40 pounds (to get to my goal weight) and thereafter maintain and and improve upon the weight loss and fitness with a lifetime of fun and sustainable physical activity.
(Note: I reached the weight goal in 90 days with P90X) - Healthy Eating: I needed to find ways that worked for me (the single geek) to match my initial weight loosing workout regime and then, for the first time in my adult life, to consistently eat right, and enjoy it, for the rest of my life.
For me, the far harder of the two was, and remains, healthy eating. This post summarizes the calorie reduced eating strategies that worked for me as I lost those first forty pounds.
Note: I will cover some of my ongoing healthy eating ideas in future posts.
