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homealone_2

Suggs wrote: »

Manic, no problem, glad to help in whatever way I can. I hit the gym 5 or 6 times a week, doing plain cv work, normally 20 mins on the bike and 21 mins on the cross ([FONT=&quot]elliptical) trainer this works out to 360 cals and 420 cals = 780 on average. Yesterday though I added some jogging and it pushed i upto 1137 cals. My intention is to lose 13lb by 12th August as I go on holiday then. That will have taken me to around just short of 10stone lost since Feb 2006. If I can then anyone can

With regards to eating late, I always find it hard to eat early evening, and I have thought and believed that eating late in day doesnt help matters, however I found this and now wonder? [/FONT]

firstly well done. how on earth did you manage to lose 10 stone in just over a year. i have 6 stone to lose and cant imagine ever getting there. my mobility is severly restricted so besides short walks all exercise is out. i know i should be thinking in terms of small chunks of weight lose rather than the whole 6 stone but it is just so much to contemplate

Lois_Lane

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Originally Posted by petrichor
Me Too!!! ...Ajax have one of these from Lois and me :grouphug: ...

xxxx

.... oooh, don't mind if I do, my morning has perked up already

Can someone who knows how to cook (ie certainly not me :rotfl: ) please answer a question for me? I was wondering if I could make a white sauce by reducing some stock in a pan then adding a dollop of creme fraiche or fromage frais or something? Would that work or would it not homogenise? Free 'tomato type' sauces are easy on SW but I've never made a free white sauce. Ta in advance.

Right, back to my :grouphug:......

I've always thought that group hug smiley looks a bit pervy, now I'm convinced! I think I'm going to change my sig!

I don't know of any free white sauce recipes, and I've got a feeling that the fromage frais would curdle (is that the same as homogenise..?) although it's worth a try.

There is a fairly low syn way to make white sauce that uses 1 HEa - here's a link. Just being nosy now - what are you going to use the sauce for?

LL

petrichor

ajaxgeezer wrote: »

.... oooh, don't mind if I do, my morning has perked up already

Can someone who knows how to cook (ie certainly not me :rotfl: ) please answer a question for me? I was wondering if I could make a white sauce by reducing some stock in a pan then adding a dollop of creme fraiche or fromage frais or something? Would that work or would it not homogenise? Free 'tomato type' sauces are easy on SW but I've never made a free white sauce. Ta in advance.

Right, back to my :grouphug:......

I've made savoury sauces that way and prefer them to the flour/milk variety. I add the low-fat creme freche/fromage frais/yoghurt at the end of cooking when the boiling has subsided to prevent any curdling.

xxxx

ajaxgeezer

Lois_Lane wrote: »

I've always thought that group hug smiley looks a bit pervy, now I'm convinced! I think I'm going to change my sig!

I don't know of any free white sauce recipes, and I've got a feeling that the fromage frais would curdle (is that the same as homogenise..?) although it's worth a try.

There is a fairly low syn way to make white sauce that uses 1 HEa - here's a link. Just being nosy now - what are you going to use the sauce for?

LL

... you wanna remove a pervy smiley? This is the naughty noughties, get another one in there... you only live once

The sauce would be for... oh, anything really. Quorn fillets/pieces with pasta shells probably as I have a these huge great shells which are delicious and I'm bored of doing a tomatoes/onions/peppers/chillies thing with them and have never made a white sauce. Homogenise is just the opposite to curdle.... would reducing the heat and gently warming the fromage frais/creme fraiche help rather than simmering it?

ajaxgeezer

petrichor wrote: »

I've made savoury sauces that way and prefer them to the flour/milk variety. I add the low-fat creme freche/fromage frais/yoghurt at the end of cooking when the boiling has subsided to prevent any curdling.

xxxx

... thanks petrichor (and did I really get a 'xxxx'? ) <puts on Joey accent> "How YOU doin'?"

Lois, thanks very much for that recipe, I'll give that a go too (when I finally get a day off work). For anyone else on SW who fancies that sauce and doesn't know, Cathedral City now do a lower fat full flavoured mature cheddar of which you can have 42g as a HEa on original or green.

victory

THAI CHICKEN STIR FRY for petrichor IF YOU wanted to try it at home...

1 tsp fry light
2 boneless chicken, thinly sliced
2 cloved garlic, diced
1 inch of fresh ginger
1 red chilli, finely chopped
1 bunch spring onions
1 red pepper seeded and diced
grated juice of 1 lome
large bunch basil
1 tbsp reduced salt soy sauce
optional a dollop of runny honey

heat fry light in wok, add chicken for 2/3 mins, remove.
add garlic, ginger,chilli, peppers, spring onions and fry 2/3 mins.
return chicken to pan to heat through.

low fat/low calorie full of flavour.

ajax ONE for you as you are vegetarian...

MIXED VEGETABLE AND BEAN CURRY...

fry light
1 small onion, diced
1 large pot, diced
1 tblsp medium curry paste or powder
1/2 pint of veg stock
200g/7 0z cauliflower, cut
50g/1 3/4 oz of frozen peas
400g WW baked beans

heat pan, add potato and onion and fry for 3/4 mins, add curry paste for another 1 min.
add cauli and peas and boil in stock for 5/6 mins, stir through the beans and heat through, Serve with low calorie pitta bread (Somerfield 151 calories thanks to petrichor!)

CHICKEN PILAF 8 points on ww

FRY LIGHT
1 small red onion
3 skinless boneless thighs chcken
8 0z total weight (serves 2)
100 g brown basmati rice
1 tsp mild curry powder
1/2 pint chicken stock
1 bay leaf
stock made from a cube
1 slice lemon
1/2 cinammon stick
250g frozen chuncky mixed vegetable

heat pan,spray saute onions 3/4 mins.
Add rice/curry powder and stir,add stock, bay leaf, lemon slice and cinammon.
Bring to the boil, cover and simmer for 20 mins.
Add frozen veg to pan, 5 mins or until chicken rice is cooked through and veg tender.. leave to stand for 2 mins, remove cinammon stick and serve.

ajaxgeezer

victory wrote: »

THAI CHICKEN STIR FRY for petrichor IF YOU wanted to try it at home...

1 tsp fry light
2 boneless chicken, thinly sliced
2 cloved garlic, diced
1 inch of fresh ginger
1 red chilli, finely chopped
1 bunch spring onions
1 red pepper seeded and diced
grated juice of 1 lome
large bunch basil
1 tbsp reduced salt soy sauce
optional a dollop of runny honey

heat fry light in wok, add chicken for 2/3 mins, remove.
add garlic, ginger,chilli, peppers, spring onions and fry 2/3 mins.
return chicken to pan to heat through.

low fat/low calorie full of flavour.

ajax ONE for you as you are vegetarian...

MIXED VEGETABLE AND BEAN CURRY...

.

:j thanks victory and not just for the veg/bean one. I love Thai stir frys and curries, and am a regular at our local Thai takeaway. I walk in and get greeted with "One vegetable Thai green curry with no fish sauce, boiled rice?" ... just too predictable. I'll be substituting that chicken with Quorn pieces faster than you can say Sharwoods.

Weighing in tonight. Scary. Had a bottle of wine over the last 2 nights, very poor planning

katmad99

Hi, quick update (sorry i didnt post yesterday, was too busy worrying about my job interview!) i have gained 4lbs :(:(
but it's not as bad as it could have been, and i'm convinced it will come off again once i get back to the gym/exercise classes.
sorry i'm too late for the chart lois
thanks for the recipes victory they look great!
K x

ajaxgeezer

katmad99 wrote: »

Hi, quick update (sorry i didnt post yesterday, was too busy worrying about my job interview!) i have gained 4lbs :(:(
but it's not as bad as it could have been, and i'm convinced it will come off again once i get back to the gym/exercise classes.
sorry i'm too late for the chart lois
thanks for the recipes victory they look great!
K x

.....at least it sounds like you know what caused it katmad. Good luck with getting it off and also the job!

Suggs

petrichor wrote: »

Me Too!!! :eek: :eek: :rotfl: ...Ajax have one of these from Lois and me :grouphug: ...

xxxx

Thats it, Im Jealous!!! :mad:

I've been here a year and never ever ever got such an offer :rolleyes: