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Just a quick blurb to say I'm back down to 185. It's encouraging, but I have a long way to go. I am pretty sure that the bulk of last week's gain was from knocking my guts out of balance by eating FAAAAAR too much prime rib on xmas eve, and also a ton of cheese and chocolate. Moderation, fiber, and yogurt seem to be doing their job.

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Healthy Cooking for Lazy People

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Ok so, I make a lot of chicken. It's easy, that's the only reason. So here's my basic recipe, which you can adapt any old way you want.

Stuff you need:
A package of chicken parts
A baking dish
Some sort of liquid (wine, beer, vinegar, soup, salad dressing, whatever. If it's creamy, like 3 cups. If it's not creamy, like 4. Or more if you feel like it)

So you preheat your oven. If you have boneless, skinless breasts, you want 360. If you have bone-in, skin-on thighs, you want 390. In between I'm not sure, but experimentation is your friend.

While the oven is preheating, you put your chicken in the baking dish. If you have seasoning you want to throw on, now is when you do it. If you have any other stuff you want to put in, produce or some such, do that too. Anything about the size of a baby potato should cook through fine with this, although red potatoes will not. Sadface. White or blue work, as will mushrooms, broccoli florets, sliced peppers, whatever. Then you pour your liquid over it all. Try to cover everything evenly.

Put it in the oven, set your timer for an hour, and go about your business. Maybe make some rice or something on the stove if you're feeling crazy.

If you can't wait an hour to eat because sometimes we're just fucking hungry, man, sausages that have been cooked all the way through just need to be microwaved. Poke some holes in them, or be really lazy and just cut them in half. Applegate Farms is a nice organic brand for this. Their stuff is generally done in 1.5 minutes.

Lots of companies now do their frozen veggies as steam-in-bag, which is also great if your lazy and still want to eat good food.

And on the weekends, slow cookers rule. Find a recipe online, adjust ingredients as needed/desired, throw stuff in slow cooker, come back later to food.

I don't do a lot of meat on the stove top, because that generally makes a lot of dishes, but you can do that, too.

Anytime I find something that looks awesome, I try to tag it on my lj:
http://imaplatypus.livejournal.com/tag/food

Being an omnivore doesn't mean you CAN'T eat vegetarian when you feel like it.

Also, this lady has some pretty yummy food ideas:
http://brittanyherself.com/category/recipes/

And, you can always go to cooks.com and type in a random ingredient to see what comes up.