Complex tastes: creamy cilantro ginger fish soup

A very quick version of a very nuanced fish soup

If you mix sweet, sour, salty tastes together, it will help you with your life struggles. 
You'll come out as sophysticated and self-confident individual. 

Ingridients

Fish - any white fish fillets will do, tiplapia, cod, flounder, sole, haddock, pollock... - 2-3 pounds
Water - tap water as needed
Coconut milk - 1 can

Cilantro - 1 bunch (thick)
Ginger root - 1 arm
Onion - 1 large yellow onion, cut in large pieces
Garlic - ~5 cloves
Half lemon or 1 lime
Sweet potatos or yam - 2 medium or 1 large
Tomatoes fresh or canned - 1 can  or I can't? I think there don't belog here/ 
Spices: coriander, salt, curry (green curry paste works as well)

Bake potatoes (I use microwave) to make them easy to cut, or cut the raw ones

Mash cilantro and cut onion in  food processor with 1 glass of water
Mash peeled and cut giner root and garlic with 1 glass of water
Combine in a pot, add spices and simmer.
Mash tomatoes or skip tomatoes? 
Add coconut milk and bring to boil
Add ~2-3 more glasses of water and bring to boil
Add yam cut into small cubes 
Add fish and bring to boil again
Reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes
If the stock is too concentrated for your taste, dilute with more water and bring to boil
Squeeze 1/2 lemon / lime (optional)
Let it coll down a bit and serve

Serving

Chooped greens (scallions, cilantro), lime wedges are optional
Nice with a side of rice or good bread

Storing

Good in the fridge for a few days

Cheese Souffle

Souffle goes as a sweet dessert 

    if paired with black currant, 

    raspberry preserve, 

    orange jam 

    or fresh berries. 

It makes for a great savoury dish 

    if paired with truffles, 

    fried porcine 

    or portabella  mushrooms.

 

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Take 3 large eggs and lightly beat with a fork.

Mix in ricotta (15 oz box). Take reduced fat option if this is your preference.  

Add grated lemon zest. 

Add a teaspoon of natural vanilla extract - strictly optional. 

Mix together. 

Add 2 table spoons of either 

        potato starch (gluten-free option but perfectly appropriate for any diet) 

        or wheat flour, 

topped with half-teaspoon of baking powder 

    and a pinch of salt. 

Mix into batter well. 

Add 1 measuring cup of grated cheese (Parmesan, or mix of few cheeses). 

Mix together with a spatula. 

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Start heating the oven. 

Polish the bottom and sides of baking from with butter. 

Pout batter, helping yourself with spatula, into the form. 

Bake at 350F for about 40 minutes. 

Once  you almost like the colour, turn off the oven 

    and keep  souffle in there for 10 minutes. 

Take the form out and let souffle to cool down for at least 10 minutes, 

    placing the form on a rack.

Nudge souffle out of the form on a cutting board. 

Now you should be able to cut souffle with a knife. 

Serve warm.   

 

Chicken soup diet - 3 day weight loss program without feeling hungry

Chicken soup for your diet

For preparation, you'll need a large stock pot and a skimmer tool,
Fiskars 7 Inch Folding Saw / meat cleaver or garden scissors, vegetable peeler.  

Consider 

Le Creuset Enameled-Steel Stock Pot, 8-Qt

Consider 

 SUR LA TABLE STAINLESS STEEL FINE-MESH SKIMMER

Wash your chicken and cut it in quarters. 
Place into the stock pot. 
Add 4-5 liters of water, 1 table spoon of salt. 
Bring to boil, remove the foam and reduce the heat, keep simmering for an hour. 
Add 1 whole onion, 2 peeled carrots half-way. 
Remove the onion and dispose of it. 

Diet with your chicken soup

Day one
For early lunch drink 300 mg of bullion. 
Eat half of chicken quarter. 
Pause between meals. 
Repeat 2 times during the day. 
Eat 1/2 carrot. 
If you get hungry, drink more bullion. 

Day two
For early lunch drink 300 mg of bullion. 
Eat half of chicken quarter. 
Pause between meals. 
Repeat 2 times during the day. 
Eat 1/2 carrot. 
If you get hungry, drink more bullion. 
 
Day three
For early lunch drink 300 mg of bullion. 
Eat half of chicken quarter. 
Pause between meals. 
Repeat 2 times during the day.
Oh! I guess no more chicken left for the last meal. 
Eat remaining carrot. 
Drink all the bullion you want. 

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Whole chicken provides you with 3300 calories. 
You'll feel extremely satisfied by the end of this 3-day exercise and may wish to repeat every 4 weeks. 

Fat and salty cookies

 

200 gr. of coarse-grated sharp cheese (e.g. Parmesan) 

mix with

6-8 table spoons overloaded with flour

and baking powder at the tip of the knife

Then manually involve

80 gr. frozen grated butter

into the mix of dry ingridients

Add 1 egg beaten with 1-2 half egg-shells of water.

Make 2  balls, wrap into plastic or something else to prevent drying 

and cool in refrigerator for 1/2 hour. 

Roll with a pin and cur out cookies with a small glass or the cookie cutter of your liking. 

Bake at 180C for 12-18 minutes till golden.  

Enjoy instead of breakfast. 

Breakfast ideas for breakfast-conscious

Breakfast with farmer's cheese Mediterranean way

Farmer's cheese or greek yogurt [ gvina lebana ]
with chopped tomatoes
cucumber chunks
black olives
and olive oil
- add salt and pepper or have it bare.