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Take fajitas. Tortillas, meat, diced tomatoes, salsa, several kinds of mild and/or hot peppers, sour cream, guacamole, green chile sauce, cheeses, sweet onions, and beans. Sounds like a laser-guided fat bomb targeted on your heart, doesn’t it? No way; this is an excellent, heart-healthy meal, a gastronomic delight, and an extremely simple meal to prepare.
Buy low- or no-fat tortillas, sour cream, cheeses, and refritos (or just use beans). Experiment to your tastes; some low-fat foods taste too healthy, but it’s easy to cut fat by 80-90% with very little flavor loss. Buy low-fat meat such as shrimp or other seafood, skinless chicken breast, plus maybe a little very lean beef or pork for variety. Avocados (for the guacamole) are high in healthy fat, and the guacamole you make in minutes from fresh avocados and a guacamole seasoning package is far tastier and healthier than most restaurant versions. The primary ingredients in fajitas should be veggies -- heaps of red, green, orange, and yellow bell peppers, plus hot peppers if you like, and onions, especially the sweet varieties. Try mushrooms, too.
Now that you’ve brought home food instead of crap, fix it to further cut bad fats. Discard any visible fat from the meat. Cut up the meat and veggies (a great 8” chef’s knife is worth every cent of $90) and toss them on a Teflon griddle wiped with olive oil. Heap that on a plate-sized, low-fat, whole wheat tortilla, add beans and cheeses and salsa or tomatoes and fake sour cream, sprinkle on seasonings such as southwest blend, fajita blend, seasoned pepper, maybe a dash of cinnamon and paprika, roll it up (bet it won’t fit!), pin it with a toothpick, pour red or green chile sauce (New Mexico’s state question is “Red or Green?”) over it, nuke it to make sure it’s all hot and to melt the cheeses, slap on some guacamole, put on your raincoat, and dig in. Repeat until satisfied. Man, what’s not to like about that!? Your tongue, tummy, pocketbook, kids, spouse, guests, and hearts will all love that meal.
Fix all your food, regardless of its ethnic origin, with these principles and you’ll be a fuller, more satisfied, lighter, happier person than those poor souls who feel they have to be on some kind of DIET to stay healthy or who blow off their health because they think it requires giving up delicious food. Bolster healthy eating with exercise and you can eat all you want most of the time. Don’t forget -- the more veggies, whole grains, and fruit you eat, the more nutrition you’re getting and the less room you have for crap. A great meal should look like a bomb went off in the produce section as a chicken was passing by and should smell like the lawn mower ran over the herb garden again.
In general, when cooking from recipes or mixes, use olive oil (flavor) or canola oil (almost no taste) instead of butter/margarine and use much less of it. Use low-fat cake mixes. Ask Google about “fat substitutes”; there are many. Cook it right: grille, griddle, microwave, stir-fry in a dash of healthy oil, bake, broil, boil, steam … anything but fry it in animal fat.
Now that you’ve brought home food instead of crap, fix it to further cut bad fats. Discard any visible fat from the meat. Cut up the meat and veggies (a great 8” chef’s knife is worth every cent of $90) and toss them on a Teflon griddle wiped with olive oil. Heap that on a plate-sized, low-fat, whole wheat tortilla, add beans and cheeses and salsa or tomatoes and fake sour cream, sprinkle on seasonings such as southwest blend, fajita blend, seasoned pepper, maybe a dash of cinnamon and paprika, roll it up (bet it won’t fit!), pin it with a toothpick, pour red or green chile sauce (New Mexico’s state question is “Red or Green?”) over it, nuke it to make sure it’s all hot and to melt the cheeses, slap on some guacamole, put on your raincoat, and dig in. Repeat until satisfied. Man, what’s not to like about that!? Your tongue, tummy, pocketbook, kids, spouse, guests, and hearts will all love that meal.
Fix all your food, regardless of its ethnic origin, with these principles and you’ll be a fuller, more satisfied, lighter, happier person than those poor souls who feel they have to be on some kind of DIET to stay healthy or who blow off their health because they think it requires giving up delicious food. Bolster healthy eating with exercise and you can eat all you want most of the time. Don’t forget -- the more veggies, whole grains, and fruit you eat, the more nutrition you’re getting and the less room you have for crap. A great meal should look like a bomb went off in the produce section as a chicken was passing by and should smell like the lawn mower ran over the herb garden again.
In general, when cooking from recipes or mixes, use olive oil (flavor) or canola oil (almost no taste) instead of butter/margarine and use much less of it. Use low-fat cake mixes. Ask Google about “fat substitutes”; there are many. Cook it right: grille, griddle, microwave, stir-fry in a dash of healthy oil, bake, broil, boil, steam … anything but fry it in animal fat.