Watcha eating?

[IslandTractor]

A summer sausage sandwich. Good summer sausage is hard to find in the southern US and this is only tolerable. The real stuff comes in sticks 2 or 3 feet long and big enough to fill a burger bun.

What is summer sausage?

 

[brin]

What is summer sausage?

It is bad news full of sodium, fat - It is a lunch meat popular in Chicago, New York and the Northeast...In many Deli's but I would not eat it.

 

[IslandTractor]

It is bad news full of sodium, fat - It is a lunch meat popular in Chicago, New York and the Northeast...In many Deli's but I would not eat it.

Funny, I have lived in New England for thirty plus years and I've never heard of it.

 

[3v0]

It is bad news full of sodium, fat - It is a lunch meat popular in Chicago, New York and the Northeast...In many Deli's but I would not eat it.

I do not eat at MickyD's or partake of hot dogs, but I do like good summer sausage.

The stuff made by food factories is mostly all bad. A good butcher shop would do it right but I expect that to get good stuff one would has to make it.

A beef venison mix is good.

 

[txdon]

Oh, sorry I just saw the subs in the picture, I re-read thanks.

 

[txdon]

Agree that many oils (olive probably the most prominent) have beneficial effects and should be included in any diet.

No, absolutely not if you have heart disease.

For lunch I'm having a big bowl of Butter bean (lima) soup and corn bread.

 

[3v0]

No, absolutely not if you have heart disease.

For lunch I'm having a big bowl of Butter bean (lima) soup and corn bread.

I could not agree more. We all have to eat according to our individual bodies/genetics. I have been blessed with decent chlorestrol numbers and good blood pressure. On the other hand my wife gets to eat red meat once a week.

 

[txdon]

Most low fat diets do not eliminate olive oil. Is your diet following AHA or other established recommendations?

My diet is heart disease specific, and does eliminate oils. Many do.

Tragically for me and many others, the AHA established recommendations are influenced by the dairy, egg, oil, and beef industry's multi million dollar lobbying fund. (In small print their adds even say sponsored by the______ company (one of the above lobbyist)).
The recommendations do not work, sadly.
Heart disease is the #1 killer in the US.
After following the " American Heart Association established recommendations" closely for 4 years I still had a heart attack.
President Clinton dosen't even bet his life on the AHA recommendations.

I could go into a lot more but then this thread will go political really fast, so I will stop here.

I now go with the cardiologists that have a track record of successfully stoping or reversing heart disease.

 

[JDgreen227]

This thread has gone rather far off topic, but it has made me realize something interesting: For many of us, our diets are a major factor in the creation of high blood pressure and heart disease, but I wonder how many others feel the same as I do, "since I can and do take medications to lower my blood pressure and control my cholesterol, I should be able to eat what I want, when I want." I tell myself I have a reasonably healthy diet much of the time, so that allows me to fry up and consume a half pound of bacon a few mornings a week....yeah, right.

Any comments?

 

[txdon]

so that allows me to fry up and consume a half pound of bacon a few mornings a week....yeah, right.

Any comments?

Now JD quit teasing with us, everyone knows the statins only work on the cholesterol your body makes in the liver, not ingested cholesterol. (That's why you fast before a blood cholesterol test.)

My personal source: Stefano Sdringola, MD ,Weatherhead Distinguished University Chair and Professor of Medicine, University of Texas Medical School/Memorial Hermann Heart and Vascular Institute, Weatherhead P.E.T. Center for Preventing and Reversing Atherosclerosis - sat me down in his office and showed me the graph of how ingested cholesterol shoots up your blood cholesterol and then it goes down slowly after the next eight hours. Which by then you will probably ingest more cholesterol repeating the cycle. All animal products have cholesterol.

Now back to our foods, and try to stay on track here. Tell what foods you are enjoying.
Today's late lunch:
Had to eat on the road today, always a challenge. Luckily the SouperSalad had an all plant-based butter bean soup and I also had a salad of 16 different vegetables and greens, with a bit of fat free raspberry vinaigrette.

 

[MossflowerWoods]

My wife made an amazing meatloaf, grass fed beef, ital sausage, and a little bit of BACON! Plus baby red taters, boiled and butter & parsley, and broccoli, plus some mushrooms, onions, and garlic that she made a couple days ago.

That was dinner tonight. :licking:

David

 

[IslandTractor]

Now JD quit teasing with us, everyone knows the statins only work on the cholesterol your body makes in the liver, not ingested cholesterol. (That's why you fast before a blood cholesterol test.)

My personal source: Stefano Sdringola, MD ,Weatherhead Distinguished University Chair and Professor of Medicine, University of Texas Medical School/Memorial Hermann Heart and Vascular Institute, Weatherhead P.E.T. Center for Preventing and Reversing Atherosclerosis - sat me down in his office and showed me the graph of how ingested cholesterol shoots up your blood cholesterol and then it goes down slowly after the next eight hours. Which by then you will probably ingest more cholesterol repeating the cycle. All animal products have cholesterol.

Now back to our foods, and try to stay on track here. Tell what foods you are enjoying.
Today's late lunch:
Had to eat on the road today, always a challenge. Luckily the SouperSalad had an all plant-based butter bean soup and I also had a salad of 16 different vegetables and greens, with a bit of fat free raspberry vinaigrette.

Sounds like you are on the Dean Ornish diet from the Lifestyle Heart Trial. Hats off to you if you can maintain it. Tough work! Personally I think I would rather accept a shorter but better fed life but I am still impressed with anyone who can maintain that regimen.

 

[txdon]

Sounds like you are on the Dean Ornish diet from the Lifestyle Heart Trial. Hats off to you if you can maintain it. Tough work! Personally I think I would rather accept a shorter but better fed life but I am still impressed with anyone who can maintain that regimen.

Mostly from Caldwell Esselstyn Jr., M.D. among others.....
It's not that big of a deal to be impressed with.
Taste amazingly can change.

Doctors say some foods are addictive. I never though as foods being addictive but with your profound statement: " I would rather accept a shorter but better fed life." I see that they are right. Thanks for sharing and being honest about it.

Come to think of it now, I did go through a withdraw period that was tough.

 

[jinman]

My wife fixes a vegetable only gumbo that I love. It's loaded with garden okra and tomatoes. It's not vegetarian because she uses a container of chicken broth. She makes a big pot for me and we freeze leftovers. She doesn't eat it because it's too spicy for her, but she graciously makes it just for me bacause I love it. Last night I thawed a bowl and heated it up. It was yummy and very filling. Another favorite of mine is a simple guacamole recipe I make and top salads with. With my diet, I don't eat a lot of meat. I've always loved vegetables and don't miss the big slabs of red meat. Of course, in the last six months, I've had barbecue once and roasted chicken several times, but that's over six months. My primary food is almost all vegetables and salads.

 

[IslandTractor]

My wife fixes a vegetable only gumbo that I love. It's loaded with garden okra and tomatoes. It's not vegetarian because she uses a container of chicken broth. She makes a big pot for me and we freeze leftovers. She doesn't eat it because it's too spicy for her, but she graciously makes it just for me bacause I love it. Last night I thawed a bowl and heated it up. It was yummy and very filling. Another favorite of mine is a simple guacamole recipe I make and top salads with. With my diet, I don't eat a lot of meat. I've always loved vegetables and don't miss the big slabs of red meat. Of course, in the last six months, I've had barbecue once and roasted chicken several times, but that's over six months. My primary food is almost all vegetables and salads.

I also have learned to really enjoy vegetable based meals. My wife is a vegetarian and while I do prepare meat dishes a lot, I have also come to appreciate that the lack of meat is hardly ever an issue. More problematic is that my youngest daughter won't eat spicy food so we just add hot at the table.

I made a simple cumin spiced thick lentil soup over the weekend that almost defines comfort food. Lots of similar excellent simple soup and stew recipes are easily found via Internet these days. I like checking the NYTimes as they select fairly easily prepared but quite varied dishes. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/09/dining/091arex.html?emc=eta1&_r=0

 

[2LaneCruzer]

I also have learned to really enjoy vegetable based meals. My wife is a vegetarian and while I do prepare meat dishes a lot, I have also come to appreciate that the lack of meat is hardly ever an issue. More problematic is that my youngest daughter won't eat spicy food so we just add hot at the table.

I made a simple cumin spiced thick lentil soup over the weekend that almost defines comfort food. Lots of similar excellent simple soup and stew recipes are easily found via Internet these days. I like checking the NYTimes as they select fairly easily prepared but quite varied dishes. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/09/dining/091arex.html?emc=eta1&_r=0

I particularly like green chili stew:

Green Chile Stew (Pork)”

One small (2 lb) pork roast, cut into 1/2 inch cubes

One can of stewed tomatoes

(stewed tomatoes contain sugar, you may prefer a can of regular diced tomatoes).

One medium yellow onion, chopped

Potatoes, 2 or 3 medium, cubed

Green chile, (to taste, depending on how hot they are).

One clove of garlic, chopped.

Salt and pepper to taste



Put potatoes on to boil with enough water to cover; and begin browning pork in skillet with salt,

pepper, garlic and salt.

When meat is done to a golden brown, put all ingredients into the same pot with the potatoes; simmer

until the potatoes are done.

 

[IslandTractor]

I love stews. I intend to work my way through some of these: International Stew Recipes - Healthy Stews From Around The World Very interesting how stews are part of almost every cuisine from around the world and also how easy they are to make.

 

[brin]

Just all of you fellas be careful what you eat.....regardless of good genes, still be somewhat careful...look at this..

Heart Attack Grill spokesman dies of apparent heart attack | The Lookout - Yahoo! News

 

[sam5570]

well had stir fry i think it had 2 types of squash and green peppers and deer meat all cooked in one of them cast iron skillets with olive oil taste pretty darn good.

 

[big e]

I have several issues of that Cook's Illustrated magazine but not that one, and the paprika I described in an earlier post (#136) is McCormick's Gourmet Collection...will second what 2LaneCruzer says about the brand.

Cooks Illustrated has a cookbook out that has all their recipes from all the years. I think I'm going to buy it for Valentines Days.
The Complete Cook's Country TV Show Cookbook-Cook's Illustrated

And there was conversation about spices and paprika... if you don't have a Penzeys nearby, you can get their excellent spices online.
Penzeys Spices. Over 250 Spices, Herbs and Seasonings.


Having a smoothie this morning: frozen peaches, frozen blueberry, frozen strawberry, rice milk, plain yogurt, half apple, half banana, handful spinach, dollop peanut butter, flax seed oil, pro-biotic powder, whey powder.
Maybe that will atone for the scotch last night.