A sign related food subject......................................................................................

[Boudica]

I tried focaccia bread for the first time this fall from the veges I had in the garden. It was quite delicious, but a bit of work. Tried to eat as much as possible from the garden this year. I ate peas for breakfast one day LOL

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I sure miss enjoying food.

 

[JBurton]

I sure miss enjoying food.

Who hurt you?

 

[Boudica]

Who hurt you?

I found out a few weeks ago that I'm diabetic. So now most the foods I love I cannot have because they raise my blood sugar too much. I've been trying some diabetic friendly dishes, but they just aren't the same.

 

[Texas_Signmaker]

I found out a few weeks ago that I'm diabetic. So now most the foods I love I cannot have because they raise my blood sugar too much. I've been trying some diabetic friendly dishes, but they just aren't the same.

You will get there... Making bad food taste good is easy. Anyone can make a good hamburger, humm lemme just add a bunch of tasty stuff, ground beef, cheese, fried veggies, fatty sugary sauce..people will think I'm a smart cook. No, you just took a bunch of tasty unhealthy things and added it all together. Making healthy food satisfying takes real skill. You will learn and in time your taste buds will change and you'll be just as satisfied. It takes time

 

[Johnny Best]

You will get there... Making bad food taste good is easy. Anyone can make a good hamburger, humm lemme just add a bunch of tasty stuff, ground beef, cheese, fried veggies, fatty sugary sauce..people will think I'm a smart cook. No, you just took a bunch of tasty unhealthy things and added it all together. Making healthy food satisfying takes real skill. You will learn and in time your taste buds will change and you'll be just as satisfied. It takes time

It takes thyme....

 

[Stacey K]

I found out a few weeks ago that I'm diabetic. So now most the foods I love I cannot have because they raise my blood sugar too much. I've been trying some diabetic friendly dishes, but they just aren't the same.

We could all benefit from a diabetic recipe post...since you are a gardener...my favorite recipe is straight from the garden for pasta sauce.

Tomatoes (whole cherry or halved large)
Handful of basil
Clove or block of garlic (I freeze my minced garlic with olive oil in ice cube trays)
Oregano is optional
Put in freezer bag and freeze. I vacuum seal mine.

To cook just put the frozen block in a pan with some olive oil, cook on low until thawed, mix with immersion blender and simmer until thick. Or you can add a thickener if you don't have patience like me. Can serve over chicken or any sugar free pasta. I planted stevia and dried it specifically for this recipe but I never felt the need to add it. You can roast the tomatoes too then mix with immersion blender - that's really delicious also but best with fresh.

I have a garden tik tok that's why I have so many photos LOL

 

[JBurton]

I found out a few weeks ago that I'm diabetic. So now most the foods I love I cannot have because they raise my blood sugar too much. I've been trying some diabetic friendly dishes, but they just aren't the same.

Leave it to boudica to tank the sign food thread on page 13...
But yeah, tex is right, eating healthy isn't easy, but it can be delicious. Getting your taste buds out of the fryer into the weeds takes some time, but it's not like you live in the deep fried south, where the healthiest dish is slow cooked with bacon. I'm reckoning I'll be joining the Wilford Brimley Bandwagon one of these days considering my sister, mom, and old man all have it, but I'll be dipped if it's going to stop me from enjoying food. Where there's a will...

 

[Boudica]

I am making new discoveries. For instance, I love rice, but rice is high in carbs. I recently discovered cauliflower rice. My husband doesn't really like it, but it's not that bad, and its a good substitute for dishes with rice. I tried making some Indian dishes this weekend and discovered chickpea flour it's high in fiber and low in carbs so - a good substitute for regular white flour. I'm kinda on a mission to find alternate ingredients.

This summer I made a really great greek salad with my garden vegies (mostly) we didn't grow cucumbers so I had to buy those, and the kalamata olives - oh and the cheese, but the rest of the vegies came from the garden.

 

[Gino]

Ya can still eat good, you just hafta eat to live, not live to eat.

I've been diabetic for almost 20 years. I watch everything I eat as it goes in my mouth, but I do eat more salads now, than I ever did and I eat my share of healthy things, but I do cheat from time to time. The main problem is Big Pharma....... as long as they can keep you thinking you're sick or unhealthy, they keep making money pumping you full of their phony medicines. Did you know that anytime a doctor finds a pre-diabetic, they are rewarded by BP. Same with tick bites/lyme disease.

It's all a racket for probably 85% of the masses.

 

[Texas_Signmaker]

I am making new discoveries. For instance, I love rice, but rice is high in carbs. I recently discovered cauliflower rice. My husband doesn't really like it, but it's not that bad, and its a good substitute for dishes with rice. I tried making some Indian dishes this weekend and discovered chickpea flour it's high in fiber and low in carbs so - a good substitute for regular white flour. I'm kinda on a mission to find alternate ingredients.

This summer I made a really great greek salad with my garden vegies (mostly) we didn't grow cucumbers so I had to buy those, and the kalamata olives - oh and the cheese, but the rest of the vegies came from the garden.

You might try a place like Sprouts or or Natural Grocers.. there'll be a ton of heathier ingredients and "alternative" foods that the main grocery stores won't have or display easily. It will give you good ideas

 

[Texas_Signmaker]

Ya can still eat good, you just hafta eat to live, not live to eat.

I've been diabetic for almost 20 years. I watch everything I eat as it goes in my mouth, but I do eat more salads now, than I ever did and I eat my share of healthy things, but I do cheat from time to time. The main problem is Big Pharma....... as long as they can keep you thinking you're sick or unhealthy, they keep making money pumping you full of their phony medicines. Did you know that anytime a doctor finds a pre-diabetic, they are rewarded by BP. Same with tick bites/lyme disease.

It's all a racket for probably 85% of the masses.

And the poison we eat called the American Diet helps feed the pharmacy companies.

 

[Gino]

And the poison we eat called the American Diet helps feed the pharmacy companies.

That all depends on what one picks to put into their mouth. Nothing wrong with almost all things out there, in moderation, with the exception of certain foods or snacks.

Our garden never made it this year, due to some personal problems, so we didn't get a chance to eat anything outta our garden, yet, June 3rd, I took my wife into emergency and after some days of testing, they declared she had listeria. Never heard of it. They claimed she got it from our garden, then this, then that and they just kept guessing. She had to have gotten it from something from a store. She was totally outta commission for a month and she's still recuperating from its affects.

You do hafta be careful, but I don't believe you need to give up everything to be healthy, unless you have a legit problem.

 

[Stacey K]

That all depends on what one picks to put into their mouth. Nothing wrong with almost all things out there, in moderation, with the exception of certain foods or snacks.

Our garden never made it this year, due to some personal problems, so we didn't get a chance to eat anything outta our garden, yet, June 3rd, I took my wife into emergency and after some days of testing, they declared she had listeria. Never heard of it. They claimed she got it from our garden, then this, then that and they just kept guessing. She had to have gotten it from something from a store. She was totally outta commission for a month and she's still recuperating from its affects.

You do hafta be careful, but I don't believe you need to give up everything to be healthy, unless you have a legit problem.

You've been gardening forever on your property. I find it extremely difficult to believe she got it from your garden.

Glad to hear she is doing better! Sucks about the garden this year, I know that's a highlight for you both. Are you going to continue gardening or are you calling it quits?

 

[DL Signs]

In case y'all haven't figured it out, I've always had a secret desire to have a burger joint.

For tonight's dining pleasure is a double (two 1/4 pound patties) smash burger on toasted brioche. It's adorned with cheese, mayo & ketchup, lettuce, tomatoes, and deep fried onion strings. It's a monster! Thing is, it's still cheaper than a premium burger from the fast food joints, twice as big, 10 times as good. Sweet, savory, crunchy, and of course... It's a grease bomb.

If you've never had, or made onion strings for a burger, they're simple. Thin sliced sweet onions, soak in buttermilk for an hour minimum. Then dredge in flour and drop into the deep fryer (or pan & oil) a little at a time to keep them from clumping, use a fork to keep separating them if you need to. They cook fast, within a minute or two they're golden brown & you'll be scooping the first batch out & adding more. You can either season them when they're done, or season the flour you dredge them in, which I do (salt pepper, a little garlic powder, and smoked paprika is what I use). Always make extra onion strings, they're addictive, you'll be munching on them till the burgers are done, guaranteed.

 

[GraphixGirl79]

I little while back, I spoke about starting a food thread. Well, things got away from me, but someone reminded me of it recently, so here goes. Besides, my wife brought me some gourmet pizza and I felt I could start sharing with that.

Over the years we've all shared different things we eat from an old member dropping burritos on his lap, then to the floor and wondering if the 5 second rule applied to people eating huge amounts of whatever.

So, anything you'd like to share from local cuisine to people sending you meals for payment or whatever................. Let's talk about it here, in Gino's Kitchen.


ps.. and let's not forget, ya hafta have hot peppers with most things.

One time we did a super rush job for a local customer's restaurant and they brought us Chinese Food the next day for lunch. it was super nice and unexpected.