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Thursday, January 22, 2015

Halloumi Cheese Meatballs

My friends Baghwant and Sahar were visiting me this weekend and it was a great weekend of feasting and learning about new foods and cooking techniques for me. Thanks Baghwant! One of the first things I learned about was this delicious cheese called Halloumi. From Cyprus, it’s a semi-hard, unripened brined cheese made from a mixture of goat’s and sheep’s milk, sometimes adding cow’s milk as well. It’s even better if you can find the “light” version! I know a lot of you don’t eat cheese on the Dukan Diet but I have to tell you I was completely successful eating it the first time, trying to find as low fat cheeses as possible, and I made my goat weight on time. When I add cheese to my recipes, aside from them being low fat, I make sure that the other ingredients and the protein are as low fat as they can be.

With that said, cheese is one of my choices to make this lifestyle work for me. You may find other things that you can’t live without. At any rate, for those who are eating cheese, these are fabulous!! You can fry and grill this cheese too. It’s wonderful with eggs as I had them on an omelette this weekend!

Halloumi Cheese Meatballs

HALLOUMI CHEESE MEATBALLS

1 lb ground turkey breast
1 egg white
2 T oat bran
1/4 cup red onion, finely chopped
1 small serrano pepper, finely chopped
1/2 cup fat free cottage cheese
2 oz Halloumi cheese, small-cubed

Mix all ingredients together in a bowl using hands, careful not to handle too much. Form 15 large meatballs and cook at 400 for 20 minutes.

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Hot Dogs For Dinner

Hot Dogs

So, not exactly a Dukan Diet recipe but I wanted you all to know that I’m just like the rest of the world and don’t like cooking EVERY night. Although I like cooking a lot! Tonight I stopped by Smart&Final, a discount market we have all over Los Angeles. They have these fabulous lowfat hotdogs (albeit loaded with stuff I’m sure my body doesn’t think is all that fabulous) from HOFFY that are endorsed by The Hungry Girl, who also happens to be located here in LA. She posts lots of cool lowfat recipes and tips for dieting and keeping trim. Not exactly what I consider “healthy” stuff but lower in fat and calories.

Hoffy Hot Dogs

At any rate, these hot dogs are really good and I really wanted one last night so I went for it. With only 4 grams of fat and 90 calories per hot dog, ok, I had two, I didn’t feel so guilty. They’re also gluten-free and no MSG–although I’m not saying in any means are they a perfect food. They have a pretty high sodium count and they have nitrites (not a good ingredient in any of our food). Once I boiled them, yes, I like boiled hot dogs, I cut it down the middle and filled it with onions and mustard and ate it like a hot dog! It was awesome. Hope you can find them in your neighborhood. They’re gonna be great this summer on the grill–in moderation, of course.

HAPPY WEEKEND EVERYONE!

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Grilled Maple/Soy Salmon

Maple/Soy Salmon

I’m at my place in the desert this weekend and what better to do than barbecue! This was simple and delicious…I hope you all have as great a weekend as I’m having!! Now get in that kitchen and whip up a Dukan Diet recipe or two!!

GRILLED MAPLE/SOY SALMON

1/3 cup soy sauce
1/3 cup maple syrup (sugar free for those of you early phaser Dukaners)
4 salmon fillets, with skin
Lemon wedges, for serving

Combine the soy and maple. Reserve a little less than half, to reduce down for a glaze to serve with. Pour the rest of the sauce in a glass dish and place the salmon, skin side up, over the marinade. Cover and refrigerate for about 20-30 minutes or until you have the rest of the meal ready to grill. Salt and pepper the salmon and sear the it over a very hot grill, for one minute, skin side up. Then flip and sear the skin side for about 3 minutes. Move the salmon off the direct heat and cook until desired doneness, 1-2 minutes for medium, 3-5 for well done. While you grill the salmon, add 2 more tablespoons of maple syrup to the reserved marinade and pour it all into a small saucepan. Reduce the sauce over medium heat until thickened, about 3-5 minutes. Serve salmon with a bit of glaze drizzled over it.

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Turkey Sausage Scramble with Stuffed Jalapenos

Brunch Sunday before my Seattle Seahawks earned their way to the Super Bowl. Oops, I mean The Big Game!! I think I’m still in shock quite frankly. But to get ready for the game, I had a healthy Dukan Diet recipe breakfast! Hope everyone had as great of a weekend as I did.

TURKEY SAUSAGE SCRAMBLE WITH STUFFED JALAPENOS

2 whole eggs
3 egg whites
1 turkey sausage
1/2 small onion, sliced

Brown the sausage and onion in a non-stick skillet. Add eggs and voila. It’s that simple.

The recipe for the Stuffed Jalapenos can be found here. Hope you enjoy.

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Saturday, July 19, 2014

Special Order Recipes

Cheers!

It’s been over three years since Dukan It Out by Special Order Recipes was launched and I want to say a big “Thank you!” to my existing readers and a friendly “Hello!” to my new readers!

I followed the Dukan Diet beginning in March of 2011 and reached my goal weight in June, right on target. I couldn’t say enough good things about this diet because it worked for me so well!

I love cooking and I love being healthy, so I decided to combine these two passions and launch this blog. Dukan It Out is filled with recipes inspired to keep people on track with the diet. I highly recommend you read all about how I started and how I interpreted the diet HERE.

My goals at Special Order Recipes are still the same but I’ve made some major changes in my lifestyle that I want to share with everyone that is interested in living a healthy life through food, exercise and mental stimulation:

To explain to you how and why I decided to make all the changes I talk about and what my experiences were doing so.To help you understand how you can help yourself by following my experiences and hopefully doing some of the same things for yourself.To show that every good recipe has many variations that can adapt to anyone’s personal tastes, needs, and preferences.Help people understand that food doesn’t have to taste bad to be healthy.And of course, to share my happiness of cooking and eating really good food!

I am now 48 years old and all sorts of things have changed. My mind is in a different place, my body is in a different place and the world around me is different. I will share with you the different ways i challenge my mind and body.

Taking care of your body should always be your main concern. Followed by…eating really good food! Alas, food is the battle of good and evil. I hope my recipes can help you win your “battle” between eating tasty, wholesome, and nutritional foods vs. high-calorie, high-fat, and simple-carb laden foods.

To your health,

Janice

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Friday, July 18, 2014

What I’ve Been Up To These Past Few Months

WHAT I’VE BEEN UP TO THESE PAST FEW MONTHS

I guess I have to start with more than the last few months…about 7 years ago I had a hysterectomy. I had quite a few fibroids wreaking havoc on my body so it became time for me to do something about it.

All was well for the couple years following that, I gained a bit of weight, started the Dukan Diet, and was feeling great. Then a few more years passed and all that dieting wasn’t giving me the results I wanted anymore. That’s when I decided, about a year ago, to start seeing Dr. David Allen, an MD that practices alternative medicine, in Santa Monica, CA. I also started taking private Pilates classes from my dear friend Claire at the Body Wellness Center in Santa Monica, CA. I had hurt my knee running all these years and knew if I didn’t strengthen it, I was looking at surgery. So these changes were crucial to my going forward, living a healthier lifestyle.

I was hopeful that finding a new doctor, one that would do more things for me than just prescribe drugs, would help me with some of the symptoms my body was feeling lately. First, my body temperature. It was always hot, not necessarily hot flashes, but just hot. And if I drank a glass of wine, it was that much worse. A friend suggested I go to her doctor but he was way out in the Valley and had a 6-month waiting list. Ugh!

Dr. Allen first checked my blood. Amazingly, (sarcastically), there were quite a few things going on inside me. First, my cholesterol was high. Now, just over 200 doesn’t seem high, especially when my good cholesterol (HDL) was 96, which is awesome. But he told me that doesn’t outweigh the fact that my bad cholesterol was still 125–NOT GOOD. I figured I only had my diet to blame for that. I was eating mucho protein, including a good amount of red meat and dark meat chicken and turkey. For, you see, I really didn’t like the super-lean white stuff anyway.

He then went on to tell me that my Vitamin D was low, 30, which should’ve been between 30 and 90 and preferably much closer to 60, rather than the lowest possible.

My liver enzymes were super high too and even after not drinking the entire holiday season they actually were all higher!

Then, to explain lots that was happening, my hormone levels were almost obsolete.

I couldn’t even deal with the issues that I was experiencing because we had to level off these things before moving on. So, he prescribed some plant-based supplements to get myself up to more “normal” levels. These included a multi-vitamin, bio-identical hormones, Vitamin D and multiple supplements for my liver, inflammation and my lack of good nutrition absorption.

Back-and-forth to Dr. Allen and my liver enzymes were just not going down. Further testing for liver diseases, including hepatitis, all came back negative. Ultrasound didn’t show any irregularities.

About the beginning of May I read Alicia Silverstone’s “The Kind Diet“. I’ve already read many books on vegetarianism and veganism and seen almost every movie on how bad animals are treated for human consumption and just how unhealthy it is to consume them. How bad our treatment of the earth is, how much disease is caused by our environment. It was overnight that I decided to start following a vegan lifestyle. I’ve been a vegetarian many times in my life but not until now have I also given up eggs and dairy.

I immediately started to feel better. My skin looked great, I was FINALLY losing weight, although be it slow, and I went back to Dr. Allen for another blood check. YAY! My liver enzymes were finally back to normal.

Stay tuned for my next steps…

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Hot and Sour Japanese Eggplant

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You can use any kind of eggplants you can find, I just happened to have Japanese ones (the smaller variety) so that is what I called the dish! They seem a bit more tender and cook a little bit faster too! Anyway, a bit of chicken breast chopped up and added to the dish would be great for those of you looking for a true Dukan Diet Recipe. This could also just be a great side dish for a nice chicken breast or piece of whitefish.

I’ve been using a lot of eggplant in place of the meat that I’m not eating anymore. It’s super filling and satisfying. You could also toss in some cubed tofu near the end of the cooking process to add your protein. Just be careful and use firm tofu or it’ll break apart in the pan.

Mini Japanese Eggplant

HOT AND SOUR JAPANESE EGGPLANT

1 very large eggplant, 2 longer Chinese style, or about 6-7 smaller Japanese ones, cut in 2-inch strips
1 1/2 T low sodium soy sauce
1 T red wine vinegar
1 T agave syrup, honey or 1 t sweetener
1 jalapeno, seeded and chopped
1 t cornstarch
1/2 t garlic chili paste (or more or less depending on how hot you want it!)
1 t salt
2 T oil

In a large bowl combine the eggplant and salt, cover with water and let stand for 30 minutes. Rinse well and dry on paper towels. In a small bowl combine soy, vinegar, sweetener, pepper, cornstarch and chili paste. Heat the oil in a large skillet and fry the eggplant until it begins to brown. (This is when you would add your chicken pieces.) Pour in the sauce (and tofu, if using) and cook another few minutes or until the sauce has thickened and the eggplant is coated well. Serve with brown rice if diet allows.

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