Speaking of Lunch
Mar 24, 2010 by rilla
I failed at soup... again.
On the up side, I think I succeeded at stew, but it wasn't supposed to be stew. It was supposed to be soup. Spoons are not supposed to stand up in soup. It's a rule. I know where I went wrong, though. I substituted a mix of grains where I was supposed to simply have lentils. I tried to compensate by adding more water, and less grains, but I obviously did not compensate enough. When it was freshly cooked, it was soupier, but after a day in the fridge... it's not soup no more.
MOVING ON!
I have been working from home for approximately a month and as such the rate that I burn calories has dropped to... oh, say, four calories a day. I sit at my desk. All day. Sometimes I sit on my couch and knit. Sometimes I watch a movie. It's a wonder I'm not losing weight like a fiend. On the contrary! This may come as a surprise to you, but a completely sedentary lifestyle is actually causing me to gain weight. I didn't think science worked that way, but I guess you can't really argue. Science won't have it. So I want a weight-loss buddy.
Wait. Let me clarify. I don't want to work out in the company of others... ever. I just want someone that also wants to lose some weight and we can compare our progress so that we can feel encouraged together. Perhaps we can set some collective goals and then work together to achieve them while never actually exercising together... or necessarily sitting down in a face-to-face manner to discuss things. Any takers? Don't leave me hangin'.
MOVING ON!
I have been working from home for approximately a month and as such the rate that I burn calories has dropped to... oh, say, four calories a day. I sit at my desk. All day. Sometimes I sit on my couch and knit. Sometimes I watch a movie. It's a wonder I'm not losing weight like a fiend. On the contrary! This may come as a surprise to you, but a completely sedentary lifestyle is actually causing me to gain weight. I didn't think science worked that way, but I guess you can't really argue. Science won't have it. So I want a weight-loss buddy.
Wait. Let me clarify. I don't want to work out in the company of others... ever. I just want someone that also wants to lose some weight and we can compare our progress so that we can feel encouraged together. Perhaps we can set some collective goals and then work together to achieve them while never actually exercising together... or necessarily sitting down in a face-to-face manner to discuss things. Any takers? Don't leave me hangin'.
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Sure! My injury is forcing me to be much more sedentary than I like, although you'd be surprised how many calories just being in pain can eat up. I do not, however, recommend it as a diet plan.
I hear that the addition of stock, water, milk, or coconut milk will resoupify stew-like consistency.
Did you rinse your grains to remove the surface starch before you cooked them? I suspect that like any soup involving noodles, it might also be beneficial to cook the grains separately before rinsing them and adding them to the main soup pot.
I vastly prefer my soup to be stew-like in any case; all my soups end up that way. It makes it seem more like a meal.
Cori: Huzzah for healthy buddies!
DM/AJ: I did not rinse my grains, and I regret that. I think it would have been less starchy all around if I had done that.
I still wasn't as bad as my cousins' homemade noodle soup, I'm sure. You see, they threw the raw homemade noodles into the pot with the chicken and herbs and cooked it all together. You can imagine the inedible mess that resulted, yes?
It also occurs to me that you could rinse off your soup in water, strain it, and then add in some soup stock, bought or homemade. That would make your soup less starchy without too much loss of flavour.
DM/AJ: The soup has been eaten for a long time now, but you're probably correct that I could have re-soupified it. It was tasty regardless of its consistency.