Comments on: a tale of two dinners

By: Marie

Marie — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 05:25:51 +0000

Way to go Claudia! I really should be following in your footsteps!

By: Vincent

Vincent — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 04:09:06 +0000

love it love it love it… egg whites are the new black for me. smooches.

By: Maffy

Maffy — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:41:55 +0000

I’m on ly finishing up week 1, so it’s very hard. I haven’t hit 1000, yet, but I’m close. If I do have a low day, I’ve probably not done very much, either. I weigh in Friday, so I’ll know how week 1 went. It’s tough to stay interesting with food, but you keep the inspiration coming. I have red summer dress that I really hope to wear in NYC in June, but I’ll have to stay the course. You are not alone! And your efforts and blogging (when you can) are greatly appreciated.

By: Irene

Irene — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:13:53 +0000

Both look awesome, and I have a special weakness for scallops, and well, eggs over anything is a winner with me. We are doing the same thing around here in terms of re-learning balanced diet and portion size (huh, balanced… portion size? I used to know how to do that once upon a time!)

By: goodfoodmatters

goodfoodmatters — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:38:05 +0000

Claudia, your scallops look delish–nice crusty-ish caramelizing–not unattractive at all!

By: marianne

marianne — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 05:13:48 +0000

Do you know what happened to the lovely ” life in recipes” blog????

By: Lauren

Lauren — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:31:19 +0000

if that’s the diet food, i think i could get on board. i drool for scallops. you are well aware of my love of amy’s veggie loaf. as for the butternut squash soup, i had a great bowl of it at a local restaurant a few weeks ago and i’m pretty sure it wasn’t low calorie, but it was soooo good.
keep up the diet. you’re doing great.

By: Brittany

Brittany — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:24:38 +0000

Yay for beans and greens. Add a drippy egg and I am putty in your hands.

There is a little (independant, not jamba juice) smoothie place next door to where I work that makes acai smoothies with a ashot of B 12 in them for added crack-like energy.
I’m officially addicted. They don’t taste great, but they don’t taste like shit either.

I’m totally making your tomato sauce tonight.

By: ponyboat

ponyboat — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:58:14 +0000

Diet Dr Pepper is laced with heroin. It is highly addictive and I have proof. It is usually the only soft drink I keep stocked, and on several occasions I have offered friends their first one ever, to change it up from their usual Diet Coke. After the first sip, I can see the change behind their eyes. Invariably, upon my next visit to their home, I open the fridge, and there’s nothing in it but Diet Dr Pepper. Open the pantry, same thing. It’s like the body snatcher of soft drinks.

By: Rachel (S[d]OC)

Rachel (S[d]OC) — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 07:51:24 +0000

Congrats on the lost pounds. I think I gained back everything I lost this weekend. V-day was an eating frenzy (but so worth it).

Interesting article about Gordon Ramsey. I guess his ego got the better of him.

I love your beans and greens with eggs on top idea. I should try that for hubby. He likes beans and lvoes it when I throw eggs on tops of things.

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 23:52:52 +0000

For the life of me I can’t believe you didn’t stretch these into two posts. You’re even lazy at being lazy!

Seriously, though, I think eating this way can make one a better cook- forcing you to extract nuances of flavor so that simpler food can still excite.

But not with Marmite, though. Marmite is the devil.

By: Bren

Bren — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:11:31 +0000

girl, you are funny!!! I’ve been bad about posting too, In fact, yesterday was my first in 2 weeks. I won’t admit I was so removed from writing. I was also traveling, so I have somewhat of an excuse. Glad you’re back on it. Eggs on top of anything works for me.

By: rebekka

rebekka — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:18:06 +0000

So diet Dr. Pepper, huh!? I keep hearing that commercial on Lightning 100 with the dialouge between the lady and her husband about it and I’m like, man…there must be something to this stuff!

By: Laura

Laura — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 03:42:50 +0000

Oops. Also, new blog.

By: Laura

Laura — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 03:41:27 +0000

Oh eggs. How I love thee. I think the word “unctuous” was coined just to describe the texture of the yolk of a perfectly-poached egg, running down into whatever it rests atop. Sexy. I hereby declare that any food item with a well-poached egg on top of it becomes a Sexy Food Item. Plain risotto? No way. Sexy Risotto? Yes please. Plain beans and greens. Yawn. Sexy Beans and Greens? Oh, sign me up, mama!

Bourdain called himself an egg slut the other night on No Reservations. Yeah… Me, too.

By: SpinachTiger

SpinachTiger — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:42:36 +0000

I love poached eggs and when I’m dieting, I tend to eat a lot of them and I also try to find something other than bread to sop them up. …Glad you are doing well on your plan, and keeping a good sense of humor about it.

By: lo

lo — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:42:42 +0000

Mmm. Did I ever tell you that lima beans are my favorite?
Totally loving the scallops dish.

And heck — what doesn’t photograph well separately looks darned good together.

By: Julie

Julie — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:05:32 +0000

Hey, the food looks great but where are the puppy pictures?

By: Jennifer Hess

Jennifer Hess — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:01:17 +0000

That all looks great, sweets. Can you get farro pasta down there? If not, I’m totally sending you a care package. It’s far, far superior to whole wheat in flavor and texture (imho).

(and Melissa: you have me cracking up here )

By: democommie

democommie — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:13:01 +0000

Claudia:

The food is lookin’ good! Not as good as you, but, lookin’ good. I could eat a cedar shingle if it had a few poached eggs on its bad self.

I made a sort of cioppinoish stew the other day with some kielbasa, chorizo, mussels and scallop in a tomato, mire poix, sherry infused chicken broth base. It was not calorie concious, but it very easily could have been using some lean pork or chicken. It is delicious and would have been even better if I had access to some nice fresh fish.

Stay on your plan and cheat as necessary!

By: Heather

Heather — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 05:37:19 +0000

Another gimme is those Tasty Bite Indian meals. Easy, couple hundred calories, and not bad.

Almost there!

By: Abby @ mangerlaville

Abby @ mangerlaville — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:50:27 +0000

Congrats on the diet, losing weight is hard, but your snacks sound delicious. I will say the poached eggs over beans and greens sounds healthy delicious and something I could eat everyday.

By: maris

maris — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:47:30 +0000

It soundsa like you’re doing great! My 1150 is more like 1750 or 2250 so you should be proud

I like those Laughing Cow cheeses also, they taste so much richer than they are! And I’m sorry to hear that you’re housebound. I was home sick last week for 3 days and had some serious cabin fever!

By: Kristie

Kristie — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 02:42:30 +0000

Okay, so I think you’re gorgeous. Like “HiI’mClaudiaI’mamodel” gorgeous. But if you’re going to diet, shouldn’t you be eating, at minimum, 1200 calories per day? Or is that just for really large people? I just know that I lose jack and shit for weight if I go below 1600 calories per day. Seriously. It just stalls. Then if I get to 1800 a day I gain. I mean, fuck. Who can keep that close a count? Stupid genes.

By: we are never full

we are never full — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:59:07 +0000

you go girl. you sound like you’re doing great . keep up the good work. (do i sound like a school counselor yet?). if eating lite means eating these two dishes, well, i’m in.

as for diet dr. pepper, it’s my fave too out of any diet soda. i’m w/ cookie crumb – depeche mode usually isn’t my exercise music of choice, but buy their remix album and you’ll def. be rocking.