As My focus is on food as I no longer want to eat Processed things with Vegetable oils in them, I spent some time in my kitchen on Saturday to make something that fills me up. I'll be doing that more often from here on out and will be making a list of recipes to fall back on bundeling them over time.
Recipe #1: Rice With Curry Sauce
I still had some packages of whole grain rice which have been there for so long that they actually 'expired' for a couple months. However, these things that are dry tend to stay good so I'll be using them the coming weeks. Making Rice actually is something I learned from my mom in a way I don't see many people do while it's so easy.
Ingredients
For The Rice:
- Whole Grain Rice (not in plastic)
- Onion
- Vegetable stock (or powder or salt)
- Olive Oil (or coconut oil / or butter)
For The Curry Sauce:
- Olive Oil (or coconut oil / or butter)
- Onions (1 or 2)
- Apple (Optional)
- Garlic (5+ Cloves)
- Chili Pepper
- Fresh Ginger (or powder)
- Salt & Pepper
- Herbs (Curcumin, mustard, cayenne, ground fennel, paprika, Cumin, lemongrass, ...)
- Tomato Paste
- Coconut cream
Making Rice This is as simple as pre-heating the oven at 180°, put some olive oil in a pot, put the chopped unions in them and once they are softer add 1 cup of rice which you first rinse and clean under some running water. stir it all around so the oil kind of wraps around the individual rice grains, then add 1 cup of water with some salt or vegetable stock. Stir this around and once it boils just close it with a lit on it and put it in the pre-heated oven for around 18 minutes.
It pretty much always comes out perfectly with the rice having soaked up the liquid. This method for as far as I know is called Pilaf Rice.
Making Rice is a matter of making your own curry paste and afterward adding coconut cream to it. The main variable is what herbs you throw into it and you can also just do it with pre-mixed curry powder I guess. I use onions which I heat in olive oil. I also add an apple (as I still had that laying around which makes it a bit milder) I add the Chilli Pepper after (you can choose the amount depending how hot you want it), the cut cloves of Garlic, I grate quite some fresh Ginger. once that is done I add all the hebrs and powders to it
You stir that around and also add the Tomato paste (if you cant a red curry) and quickly you will get something that looks like a curry paste. During this process you might want to add a little bit of water to smoothen it all out which makes it blend better in the pot. Adding some lemon to it also certainly is an option.
You can put part of it on the side depending on how much you want and add the coconut cream to the rest which will make a nice and tasty curry sauce.
The entire process is more a techniques instead of an actual recipe as you see what and how much you want to put into it. The main thing I really care about is that all ingredients are healthy and fresh.
You can add chicken or some vegetables to it but I choose the easy route with come canned peaches in juice which gave the following result:
Food Diary
That is pretty much all I ate in the day even though I did eat a couple portions of it and probably too much. The good thing is that I stuck to healthy food and this really gave me a feeling of being willed up which is what I was missing from the past days where I mainly ate soup.
| Day | Food |
|---|---|
| Wednesday | Chick Peas in Tomato Sauce / Banana / Carrots / 1.5L Water |
| Thursday | Oatmeal / Banana / 7 Clemintines / Mais Crackers & Peanut Butter |
| Friday | Celeriac/7 Clementines / Peanut Butter |
| Saturday | Smoothie / Pea Pasta / Mais Cracker with Peanut Butter |
| Sunday | Pizza Margaritha / 6 Clementines |
| Monday | Smoothie/ Pea Pasta / 6 Clementines |
| Tuesday | Vegetable Minestrone Soup |
| Wednesday | Rice Crackers & Peanut Butter (x7) / 2 Bowls of Minestrone Soup / 3 Clementines |
| Thursday | Ravioli Tomato Sauce / Rice Crackers/ Peanut Butter / Soup / 4 Climentines |
| Friday | 2 Bowls Soup / Peanut Butter / 7 Clemintines |
| Saturday | Rice with Curry Sauce and Peaches / Dark Chocolate |
Aside from this I have a fun football watching day and also watched a movie in the evening with Sing Sing which didn't really keep my attention.
New Day Goals: I will have more of my focus on the 4 football matches while keeping my eating clean.
| Day | Weight | Bed Time | Awake | Food | Other | Day Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 Decemver | 74.0 kg | - | - | - | - | - |
| 01 January | 72.6 kg | 01:40 | 09:00 | 0.00€ | 0.00€ | 7 |
| 02 January | 72.4 kg | 01:30 | 10:00 | 7.35€ | 44.98€ | 6 |
| 03 January | 72.0 kg | 01:20 | 10:00 | 0.00€ | 0.00€ | 7 |
| 04 January | 71.9 kg | 01:00 | 12:00 | 7.72€ | 0.00€ | 7 |
| 05 January | 72.3 kg | 01:00 | 09:30 | 6.00€ | 0.00€ | 7 |
| 06 January | 71.7 kg | 00:30 | 09:20 | 0.00€ | 0.00€ | 7 |
| 07 January | 71.8 kg | 00:50 | 10:20 | 0.00€ | 8.00€ | 8 |
| 08 January | 71.7 kg | 00:40 | 09:40 | 0.00€ | 9.20€ | 7 |
| 09 January | 71.6 kg | 01:40 | 10:20 | 7.02€ | 0.00€ | 6 |
| 10 January | 71.3 kg | 01:40 | 10:00 | 0.00€ | 0.00€ | 7 |
| 11 January | 71.5 kg | 01:50 | 10:10 | 10.14€ | 0.00€ | 7 |
