In a prior thread I posted I am going to have the Lap-Band procedure done, and I am still working on that, but in the meanwhile I decided to go on a low carb diet like Atkins & South Beach but not holding myself 100% to it. Examples are I’ve eaten regualr cookies and regular bread but limited the amount per week.
I’ve had very good in my opinion success. Granted I’ve lost less than 45 lbs in a month, losing about 6 pounds a week for the first two, now about two pounds a week. I gained 1.2 pounds two weeks ago, but lost two pounds the next week I made up for that.
However now I’ve been craving some food I refuse to eat but want to make something similar to appease myself and I need some suggestions
Macroni & Cheese
I bought some Mullers Low Carb Pasta and some Sharp Cheddar Cheese. I plan on boiling the elbo pasta and melting the cheese. My question becomes how do I melt the cheese in a house with an electric range, and a microwave over but no double boilers. I can’t just put the cheese in a pot and put the pot on the oven top because I don’t think it will work. Nuking the cheese won’t work too well either
Pizza
I miss pizza. I saw a personal size Atkins pizza in the supermarket but at over five dollars it’s too much for me to willinglyu pay. Instread I bought for almost the same amount some low carb spagetti sauce and low carb white bread. My idea is to make a somewhat fake pizza. Should I either
Take some slices and soak them, forming a ball then flattening it and baking it in the oven so It firms up again?
Take some slices and put them in a bowl with eggs to get them to stick together than flatten and bake it in the oven so it’s firm?
There’s a better way to do the pizza–make a pizza. Or buy a pizza.
All a pizza is, basically, is flattened-out bread dough with tomato sauce and mozzarella cheese on it. If you’re just going to smoosh up some bread, you might as well have the real thing.
You can get “instant bread dough” in all kinds of configurations–check the dairy case where the Pillsbury biscuits are. Smoosh it out, put pizza sauce on it, add cheese, bake and enjoy. You don’t even need a pizza pan–use a cookie sheet, or a sheet cake pan. A sheet cake pan, if you make the edges go up the sides, will give you a Deep Dish Pizza.
Okay, Mac & cheese?
Basically the procedure is you cook the elbow macaroni, drain it, and put it back in the pot along with shredded cheese and milk, and you stir it while the cheese is melting and it’s all mixing together (and you stand there and WATCH it, you don’t leave the room to watch TV while it’s melting).
Or you start giving it thirty-second increments in the microwave, stirring.
I’d do it on the stove, because it really ought to be stirred while it’s melting and you’re incorporating the milk and cheese, and it’s hard to do that with stuff in the microwave. You have to keep taking it out.
2 eggs 2 oz. firm tofu cut into macaroni size pieces 2 oz cheddar cheese Salt to taste Scramble the eggs and cook over medium heat. When almost firm add the tofu and cheese and finish cooking until the cheese melts. Velveeta makes it taste almost like Kraft out of the box.
and for pizza, make meatza…
take a foil pie tin, and carefully punch tiny holes in it. Take a pound of ground sirloin or ground round, add a dash of worchestershire sauce, and about a tbsp or so of italian herb blend to the meat and flatten into the pie tin so it is like a pie crust. Dollop in about half a cup of a good brand of pizza sauce, then add a cup of mozarella cheese mixed with some good parmesan cheese. Add your favorite topping [pepperoni slices, shaved onion, black olives, italian sausage…you get the drift] and bake in an oven at 350 degrees fahr for about 30-40 minutes or until the ground meat is cooked through. You put the pie tin on a small grating in a baking dish so the fat drips out the bottom. Nothing worse than really greasy pizza…
I normally make one up, then chill it to firm it up, say a couple hours in the fridge then I cut it into wedges and plate them in plastic ‘tupperware-oid’ containers, stack them in the freezer and nuke as I feel like eating them.
