weight off week 15

[cornerofmadness]

Nothing to see here. Keep on moving. Haven't lost a pound but honestly I've had other things on my mind.

I did start a little tai chi but had to take the dvd back to the library.If I don't find mine soon I'll just order another one. I need something slow and easy to get me going and to accomodate my arthritis if I'm going to be exercising on dry land. gah, my kingdom for a pool without students claiming harrassment in it.

and the recipe this week is from ital_gal complete with her notes. Thanks for sharing.




Dtom yum Gkoong (hot and sour prawn soup)
1/2 lb medium prawns/shrimp. Remove shells and heads (and save for stock ) and butterfly shrimp.
2-3 stalks lemongrass (fresh or dried)
3 cups water/mild stock salted with thai fish sauce to desired saltiness
6 thin slices ginger or (better)fresh or dried thai ginger (galanga) if you can get it. use less if dried.
3 fresh or dried (kaffir) lime leaves
8-10 whole thai chiles (to taste)stems removed and bruised. (red if you can get them are prettier and easier to spot! or subts 2-3 sliced jalapeno/serrano
1/2 small onion sliced thin
1-2 tbps chili paste (nahm prik pow)
1 cup fresh mushrooms sliced into 1/2 inch pieces (1 can whole straw mushrooms)
1 small tomato (optional) cut into wedges
2 green onions cut into rounds
juice of 1-2 limes to desired sourness
1/2 cup cilantro leaves or cilantro springs.
small amount thai fish sauce
3-4 TBS tamarind water (1TB wet tamarind with the soft parts dissolved in 1/4 cup water pulp removed)

Ok I make this with shrimp since fresh, or decent frozen shells-on shrimp are available pretty easily here). It`s also pretty good with chicken, fish or other seafood, and I think you can make it vegetarian as well. You would just need to change the kind of stock you use etc.

Slice and bruise lemon grass, put with shells and water/stock. Bring to a boil then simmer with lid on for 15-20 minutes. Strain shells and some of the lemon grass.

Add sliced ginger/galanga, kaffir lime leaves,thai chilies and sliced onion. simmer a couple of minutes, then add the roasted chili paste, tamarind water, and mushrooms. Heat to boil and simmer a couple of minutes. Stir in tomato wedges,green onions and shrimp. After 20-30 seconds (a little longer if using chicken obviously) turn off heat, add lime juice to desired sourness and throw in the cilantro. (don`t let shrimp overcook) If you are worried about the heat from the chilis, you can pick them out after simmering them with the ginger etc

Comments

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

that sounds like a yummy recipe.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

it does. i'll have to waituntil i can get to an Asian store though since i can't get half that stuff here

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

I didn't lose anything this week, either. I'll be lucky if I didn't gain anything back...

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

trust me I get that

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Well, since we hit up an Asian grocery store this weekend....

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

there you go

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Yup. I have so much cilantro in my fridge right now. I used it as greens on my sammich.

[enemytosleep]

I've started using everydayhealth.com o track my calories. :D If that doesn't work, I'll need to go visit seatbrltdrivein and her personal Izumi.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yeah I need to look into this

[caffeinified.livejournal.com]

Is there a YMCA close by? Cause they will usually have pool exercise classes so that it's just used specifically for that with trainers and everything. The first time my dad had a blister on the bottom of his foot that got infected and they surprisingly didn't have to cut anything off yet, he rebuilt his leg strength with those classes at the YMCA.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

YMCA yes, pool no.

[ital-gal.livejournal.com]

Well try finding lemongrass and kaffir here...hope you get around to trying it, it really is tasty and has so little fat .... also pretty quick and easy even though the explanation was pretty long..I had stock in the freezer so this weekend I made it using thinly sliced beef (not much needed so not expensive either) and it came out yummy, and i didn`t really feel deprived...
anyway, Vinitaly didn`t put me back so much, took me a day or two more than I would have liked to get back on track but I didn`t gain so I`m feeling like that`s a success....

It`s a drag about not having pool access if that`s the exercise you like. Tell those d?!* cats to give back the tai chi vids back, or at least the belly dancing ones, surely they can`t be that good at it....

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yeah I can imagine that's a real treat to find. It sounds yummy and I'm looking forward to trying it.

it does suck

i have this image of my cats bellydancing

[ital-gal.livejournal.com]

I was going to make a crack about kanda and belly dancing but it just seemed mean...

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

hahaha, well he's getting a lot of belly to dance

[ital-gal.livejournal.com]

well, all I can say is thank god nobody has ever seen me do my Crunch Go-Go dance aerobics dvd, so..... If you think he might want it, let me know and i`ll send it along.....

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

hahahaha