Purple Pork

Food, food, food - that's all this blog ever seems to be about. You'd think I'm obsessed with it. Maybe I am. I'm addicted. If I don't eat, I die - really!

This linner was tenderloin with leaks, red cabbage and mango. It was all right, but I got it wrong, the tenderloin should have been less well done and the mango should have been fried longer. Then the meat and mango would have made a perfect match. (I ate twice this amount by the way).

The Wild Side

Yesterday I went to market and picked up some wild salmon. The colour was just so beautifull I had to show you. A fresh, deep red. Yummy. Fried it in a bit of olive oil (never use anything else) with salt and pepper.

I added some celery stalks, an orange, olives and fried fennel. Yummy.

Victory!

Finally, the last tip of the iceberg lettuce surrendered today. It took stir fried veal liver, half a red onion, a paprika, a pear and a nectarine to kill it, though. The taste of victory was good.

O, and I had yesterday's leftovers for breakfast.

Fit for a Hobbit

I decided I could teach Jamie Oliver a thing or two about nudity. The stir fried chicken, courgette and mushrooms have no seasoning whatsoever. And the flavour could have tempted a gourmet who had just devoured a horse, as dessert.

All this was laid on a bed of my never ending pile of iceberg lettuce (now I know why they compare the thing to a mountain) and tucked in under a blanket of paprika and radish. Since I wanted to give Jamie a break in a seriously unfair fight, I squirted on some curry. Yeah, baby!

But the sheer size of that plate! It's inhumane! I worked hard but it got the better of me. In my defence, I had been snacking during the afternoon. A bit of emotional eating actually. Carrots, nuts, grapes, cherries - I had been studying hard and hit a wall, so I resorted to one of my stress-relief tactics - munching. Still, I hadn't eaten that much. Man, was that plate a pile. I'll have the rest for breakfast. Or lunch. Thank goodness I actually forgot to add the double-slam -bang ingredient - mixed nuts... wow, that could have gotten ugly.

You know, it's funny. My mom, who is a wizard in the kitchen - an exceptionally creative cook - complained that with this new starch-free eating style of mine it would be almost impossible to whip up a decent meal. I think I need to show her this blog. People somehow associate healthy with difficult. I really don't know why. It's never been so easy for me to cook good food. I don't even have to plan it. I just buy fresh ingredients and throw them all together. What's the big deal? Try ordering a Big Mac without the tomato. That can be tricky. Getting yourself a half decent frozen pizza, now that's tough. And getting it to taste good is so close to impossible you could see the pores with your eyes shut. This, this is a piece of cake (without the cake).

My friends, especially the female ones, sometimes ask me why I don't have a girl friend. It's simple. I'm old fashioned - I want a woman who can outcook me!
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Need I say more?

Lunch was delicious. Stir fried chicken and - you guessed it - my favourite veggy with ground paprika, mustard seed and salt.

The salad is iceberg lettuce (there's no end to the thing, it seems like I'm not even putting a dent in the amount I cut from that one head - I'll have to have more tonight) with a tomato, half a red onion - seriously, who would call this beautiful purple red? - extra vierge olive oil, balsamico vinegar and a mix of black, green, red and white pepper.

It doesn't get easier than this and it doesn't get very much tastier either. I love this troglodyte food.

Brunner

This salad was supposed to be brunch. But it was way too much. The gargantuan size of the plate makes it look more reasonable, but there was no end to it. I ate half of everything, a very satisfying meal, and left the rest for dinner tonight.

It was half an iceberg lettuce, about 250 g of veal liver and about 150 g of chicken breast stir fried in olive oil with some Ketjap Asin and a bit of salt, two tomatoes, half a melon, green as well as black olives with selectively applied dressings of extra vierge olive oil, balsamico vinegar and lemon juice.

As a snack in the afternoon I had a few carrots and a handfull of white grapes.

I won't at all regret having the rest tonight. Desert will be a handfull of white grapes and a handfull of cherries.

For those who like to count their calories:
100 g veal liver: 185 kcal
100 g chicken breast: 158 kcal

The rest of the ingredients were listed in silly and unuseful quantities on the website I got this info from - things like a slice for melon and a bowl for cherries or grams for iceberg lettuce. But I estimate the total of the day (including the snacks) to be below 1400 kcal. I don't care because I don't count, but basically it means caloriewise I ate about three quarters of what a male adult should. Of course that is uninteresting compared to the fact that my food today was very nutrient dense and tasty. That's what counts.

The Light Horse

Today's lunch was stir fried horse steak, broccoli, cauliflower, red onion, mushrooms and asperagus. As long as they're in season I want to enjoy them as often as I can. There's three teaspoons of ground mustard seed, two teaspoons of garlic powder and some salt in there.

Would make a fine dinner too. I didn't have any tonight, because yesterday a friend came over for evening tea and since she brought some delicious seedless white grapes, I broke my fast. So I'll keep it tonight. I did have an apple and a few strawberries.

And check out my new black plate. It's humongous and makes eating even more fun.

Wonder Wok

Lunch! Stir fried chicken breast, courgette, paprika and my favourite green - asparagus. After this mornings rant about the blandness of dutch cuisine and the lack of proper use of spices (such a waste, after all those centuries of growing rich trading them across the globe)
I thought I should set the right example. So I added ground garlic, chili pepper, paprika, musterd seed, ginger and just a little salt. Perfectly suitable as a nice dinner too.

And maybe not in the picture, but I also ate a few hazelnuts and some pistachios, a few carrots and three apples during the afternoon. I'm skipping dinner to give my metabolic pathways a break. Time for repair and maintenance. That's what your cells do when you let your insulin levels drop by not eating for a while - when the levels are high, e.g. because you've been eating empty calories, you store fat. So contrary to popular dutch belief potatoes do make you fat. Especially if you eat them on a daily basis. In fact, the people I know who like potatoes the most and eat them most often are in fact the people who have the most problems with their weight. So beware the pomme de terre...

Russian Roulette

Dinner:
Three fried eggs (just one yolk) with tomatoes and strips of yaki nori. Yaki nori is the fried seeweed used to wrap sushi in.

The sidedishes are stir fried broccoli and a salad of cucumber and lemon pieces. Seriously refreshing. It almost makes you wish there were some dried chili peppers in the broccoli. Maybe there will be next time.

The yaki nori went well with the egg, but I think it would have been even better to cut it into small pieces, do the same with the tomato and make an omelet. I'll try that next time and add something a bit spicey. Oh, and I'll go for just two eggs. This was a bit much. Maybe better as a lunch.

To the left you can see desert - a mango.

I eat this way because it just tastes better, and I'm lovin' it!
Also I'm going to pass up on the diabetes, I think it's a tad overrated.

Smokey the Apple

Lunch:
A filet of smoked rainbow trout served stir fried red onion, paprika and my favourite veg - asparagus. They were fried in olive oil and I added a bit of onion powder, garlic powder, a teeny weeny bit of salt and a dried chili pepper.

Delicious! You will eventually come across the chili and it's then you'll really appreciate the apple.

Fruit 'n Fiber

Lunch was two handfulls of mixed nuts (almonds, hazelnuts, walnuts, paranuts, pecan nuts and pistachio nuts), two mangoes and a few carrots,