LID: Pasta asparagus in balsalmic sauce

Ingredients:

one pack Pasta cooked aldente
asparagus
baby corn
carrots
tomatoes
chicken cut into cubes
dash of salt not iodized
garlic
onion
olive oil

For the sauce:
honey
balsalmic vinegar
olive  oil
chilli powder
garlic powder
pepper
provence herbs
parsely
fresh tomatoes

Procedure

1.  Mix all the sauce ingredients and stir very well.  The amount of each ingredient is as desired.
2.  Boil chicken with a dash of salt (not iodized) and some herbs.  Cut into cubes.
3.  Saute garlic and onion in olive oil.
4.  Put in the cubed chicken.   Stir fry with the sauce.
5..Add the rest of the vegetables one by one, add the asparagus last.
6.  Simmer for two minutes.

LID veggie fritters

Low Iodine Diet Veggie fritters

Ingredients

1 medium zucchini
1 medium sweet potato
1 medium carrot
1 medium potato
2 egg whites
1/2 tsp ginger powder
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1/2 tsp onion powder
canola oil for deep frying

balsalmic vinegar + any herbs and pepper for dipping

Procedure

1.  Peel all the vegetables especially potato as potato skin is high in iodine.

2. Using the peeler, scrape all the vegetables and put them in one bowl.

3. Chop the parts that cannot be scraped with the peeler into small cubes.

4.  Mix together with egg, a little pepper, onion powder, ginger powder and garlic powder.  Alternatively, use onion, garlic and ginger.

5.  Heat canola oil and deep fry the fritters to your desired size or shape.

Enjoy with balsalmic dip.

Day 9: Dreaming of the last day

It has been nine days since we started the Hemani Perfect Diet.  Today, our weights are still the same as yesterday.  Plateau? Maybe?  Week two diet list of the Perfect Diet is quite heavy but the bowel movement is really, really smooth and suave :) I think it's because of the vegetables and fruits combined with coffee and tea.

We have been dreaming and planning of a "healthy feast day".  Yes, it seems that we have developed a habit of eating healthy and living healthy.  

What is healthy feast day?

Our healthy feast day is the first weekend after our two-week Perfect Diet.  In our case, weekend in Dubai is Thursdays, Fridays or Saturdays.  Our two-week diet ends on the 4th of March 2013.  We plan to have the healthy feast on the 7th of March 2013, which is my mom, Lucita Saulo Hernandez' birthday.  

What do we plan to eat.  Today, we were dreaming of what we wanted to eat right after the diet.  Surprisingly, except for Kentucky Fried Chicken hmmmm minus the skin and coco jam, we decided to have:

Vegetable cocktails

Fruit cocktails

Ham asparagus

some healthy pasta

cakes, cupcakes

I can't wait for the healthy feast.  This is the day that we test our new habit of healthy living.  Are we going to over eat or not? he he he

Caren and Lie's Recipe for today: 

For tomorrow's food, we cooked up our vegetable and fish menu. 

Fish fillet in herbs and vegetable ala first time :)

Fish Recipe

Ingredients

White fish fillet

Oregano

Ginger powder

Lemon

Bread crums

Egg

Olive oil

Procedure:

Marinate fish with lemon, ginger powder, oregano

Chill for 24 hours

Heat olive oil in low fire

beat egg and deep fish fillet one by one

Then, cover with crumbs

Fry

Vegetable ala first time

Vegetable of your own choice - anything goes

garlic

onion

olive oil

Procedure

Heat olive oil in low fire

Saute garlic and onion

Add vegetables 

Season with worcestershire sauce

I hope you enjoy our new healthy option recipes.