I'm getting married in a month and would like to have homemade cookies as a favor. I was hoping to make mini black and whites as an homage to my home sweet home, as I now live in the south. Does anyone know a good recipe? There are several floating around the intersphere, so if you have the inside poop on a recipe I'd love to know. If you have any other great wedding favor recipes, I'd love them too!!
I just received an All Clad Slow Cooker as a shower gift! Does anyone have a great go-to slow cooker recipe? I have a few up my sleeve but I'd love some new ideas! Please keep in mind that my fiance and I are watching our waistlines for the wedding!
I also recommend the Breville Ikon. It does everything you need a blender to do and then some. It is super easy to clean and nice to look at if you care about counter-appeal!
I could go either way...sometimes I feel that it's a bit condescending to people who don't always choose foods based on their nutritional value. But as with anything else, if you don't like it, you don't have to read it! I appreciate some of her tips and check the site every now and then.
Hi! I'm Jennefur and I'm a newlywed from Raleigh, NC. I have a kitchen full of new cookware, knives and appliances. I love to cook and bake and try to do so every night. My new husband is not very culinarily adventurous, but I have been able to introduce a few new foods to his life. I love SE and check in every day, enjoy new recipes and the photos of what otther people are cooking. SE has caused me to have a sometimes unhealthy obsession with Anthony Bourdain!
Your friendly neighborhood Williams-Sonoma should have an odd size set of All Clad measuring cups including 2/3, 1 1/2 and 2 cup!
Sorry, this is a little off topic, but does anyone know if this season will be availbel on itunes? I don't get Bravo, but I really need my fix!
Love, Love, Love...they're great fresh or pickled in salads or just with honest to goodness real butter and sea salt. A happy, crunchy little pick-me-up!
Italian meats, provolone, roasted red peppers and basil.
Another vote for Young's Double Chocolate Stout! It's like dessert in a can!
I used to subscribe to her daily newsletter, but had to end it because she seriously makes me want to barf. Unsubscribing was blissful. Her newsletters, articles, advice, etc is like driving past a bad car wreck on the interstate. As much as you don't want to look. . . .
No doubt she has supporters, but I think she perpetuates eating disorders in our society with her sheer IRRATIONAL disdain for anything that has more than 100 calories. All of the processed crap she advocates and uses in her recipes will only leave the body wanting more; totally counterproductive for people trying to lose weight. She needs to stop duping people into her BS for the sake of making a buck. And her cutesy fartsy manner of writing (always replacing "them" with "'em"; her "Top Ate" lists) is beyond annoying. If she actually TALKS like that, well - I feel sorry for her immediate family.
Her tyrannical articles are harmful. She makes otherwise healthy, albeit ignorant, people ashamed of eating real, natural, wholesome foods. I'm here to ask you, no BEG you - stop listening to this muck and put some damn guacamole on that baked tortilla chip if you want it! And love it! And then drive, walk, or bike to the store and buy yourself some real food - fresh fruits, veggies, lean meats, and complex whole grain carbs. I promise me your body will thank you. Stop this love/hate relationship with your body and take care of it; this isn't a place for frickin' Hungry Girl and her propaganda.
Shame on Weight Watchers, known for their healthy approach to weight loss and adapting a new attitude, for supporting and advocating this garbage.
I ended up getting the Breville. It's not too loud, easy to clean, and very powerful! Thank you all for your suggestions!
I have the Oster Professional. 2 speeds, but they never let me down. Got it at Costco.
I second the Osterizer. Excellent blender, especially for the price. Only has 2 speeds but I've never wished for another. I use it almost daily for 3 years now.
Recipes look gross. Eat what you actually like, in small portions as necessary. I love how she constantly says "I actually eat lots of fresh produce blah blah blah" but endorses all this crap.
"For those concerned with weight loss and not nutritional content..." Or as we refer to them in DSM-IV, people who have eating disorder. Hungry Girl is an enabler.
My ire for Hungry Girl began when someone sent me one of her 'tips'--when eating natural peanut butter (which I do, well,usually cashew butter) you should pour off all the oil on top--because you can save upwards of 120-160 calories IF YOU ATE THE ENTIRE JAR of 2000+ calorie peanut butter. Or about 10 calories of healthy, satiating fat per serving. I'm sorry if you're eating a whole jar of pb, the extra few tablespoons of oil ain't gonna make much difference....
And re: the fiber one--forget fast food, why not just have nice steamed veggies in spices rather than putting cereal on them? And instead of fake fries, what's wrong with a nice baked potato with salt?
Hungry Girl is a good 'dieter'--not a thin person, not a person who is healthy, or knows about food or nutrition,but a dieter, and there is no one easier to sell products to than a professional dieter...
I had never heard of her, but after seeing these posts I got curious. I tried the .com and .net I finally found her at the .org extension. She's created a nice 'brand' for herself. I like the unique look and feel of the site.
Call me a skeptic, but I have a hard time believing her 10 calorie onion-ring coated with Fiber One... is better than fast food onion-rings.
Healthier? Sure. But tastes better? No way.
I feel like Hungry Girl is kind of pushing the next generation of those who exercise and diet - the kind of people who don't cook, or at least think that the idea of 'cooking' entails nuking turkey in the microwave and then slapping it on Wonder bread lite with some Kraft fat free cheddar and some ground up bits of Fiberone. That or the virtues of box mix. Those poor souls who LOVE her (OMG) just don't seem to realize that a nice plate of (actual, not tofu) pasta and veggies may have about 3x the calories as one of her swaps but they also have umpteen times as many nutrients as hers do.
I understand that she's not a nutritionist and that she's trying to provide a way for people with a junk food fetish to sort of 'bridge the gap' to healthy eating, but pushing a diet based on processed foods is not the solution, as low in calories as her swaps may be. Plus, some of the recipes are really high in sodium. For those concerned with only weight loss and not nutritional content, it's great, I guess.
Still, some of her email tips can be useful, such as which dishes to avoid in restaurants and chain eateries and which dishes to pick so you won't die of calorific overdose. But recipes? Not so much.
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