Well, Blest said I can still post about one of the recipes I tried and get the challenge points. I admit that I really didn’t want to post - I don’t like admitting that something that I thought would work, didn’t work out all that well.
The one that I had the most hope for was a variation on a chicken dish, but I wanted to try it with pork roast. The recipe that I borrowed from was called 40 garlic chicken.
I like garlic. I like pork roast. I wanted something low-carb, high protein - and thought - hmmm. I’ll try that recipe with pork roast instead.
Take 40 cloves of garlic, unpeeled, and put them in the bottom of the pan. Drizzle some olive oil and whatever herbs you’d like to use. Place pork roast on top. Bake, covered, at 350 for 2 hours.
Well, it was okay, I guess. My daughter loved it! But it was just… blah. I was very disappointed.
I’ve discovered that my big problem is that most recipes that LOOK great to me, aren’t GREAT for my diet. I pull recipes out over and over again, and end up realizing that they aren’t something I can try just now. Not if I want to lose more weight.
We also did a lot of speciality cooking this week. My daughter needed a recipe from Spain to make a food dish for her project, due this Thursday - they are having lunch with the dishes that the kids bring.
We’ve tried an Arroz con leche recipe (rice with milk) - but it turned out more like Leche con arroz (milk with rice). We tried a flan recipe - it didn’t quite work (though it smelled great). We tried a tortilla recipe - which is actually a potato-egg dish, kind of like an omelet. While it was good, we can’t figure out how to keep it warm for the luncheon. And I can only have a tiny bite of it at most with all those potatoes (I do WW with low-carb options for my diet).
We ended up making Tarta de Santiago - a traditional almond cake from Galicia - it’s definitely not something I should eat much of. Do the words ”powdered sugar” explain my problem? Pray for strength for me!
Its hard having to cook things when you can’t eat them. Well done for resisting.
I must admit I just love Chicken with 40 garlic cloves.I can’t quite imagine how it would work with pork though. Well done you for trying. Really depends of course how much you like garlic. And for those garlic haters or not so sure it really isn’t horrible the garlic cloves go all mushy and yummy by the end of cooking.
Comment by elly — March 5, 2007 @ 3:43 pm
That’s the thing - I love garlic. And I have another recipe for garlic pork roast that has worked out very well - but this? well, it just didn’t impart the garlic taste that I like at all. When I say - blah - I mean it was just boring tasting. if that makes sense?
I love 40 garlic chicken. It’s amazingly awesome and easy!
Comment by Tracy — March 5, 2007 @ 4:08 pm