I don't want to know what my cholesterol-level is. I can only guess that I'm at least 5 pounds over what I was last time I looked and that was a while ago. I have decided not to stop going to great restaurants and not to stop enjoying food but that I don't have to have the braised, deep-fried, sugary, fatty foods that I haven't consciously avoided thus far.
BUT Here's what I had to eat today! The day before the diet (of sorts) starts... Egg McMuffin (I AM ASHAMED), lots of coffee and a kick-ass cruller, a Bismark (jelly-donut), Long John Silver's Lobster Bites (research of sorts), and braised short-ribs with tons of roasted garlic. You know that Homer Simpson noise where his tongue lolls out of his mouth. Yeah. That's me. Lucky there's no ice cream in the house.
...I did get a blueberry kringle.
Where did you have the short ribs?
Posted by: Jamie | November 08, 2007 at 10:47 PM
Made 'em. Simply buy a pack at the grocery (for lik $6) and sub them with salt, pepper, any seasoning... coriander, what have you... and I put them in a pre-heated cast iron pot with rosemary sprigs, garlic and bay leaves. You can't really over-salt these so I recommend being pretty liberal about it. In the oven at 280 for 3.5 hours at most and you're good to go. The fat should pool and cook the garlic and the meat should fall right off the bone. For an even better adventure cook at 220º for 5-6 hours. Ridiculously easy and I actually enjoyed them better than the short-ribs i had at Custom House.
Posted by: josh | November 09, 2007 at 10:34 AM
Did this last week, served with polenta. Awesome.
Posted by: Pursuit | November 10, 2007 at 09:47 AM