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April 3, 2005
Lasagna
One thing you should be aware of is that when I do the recipe crunch for food I make for MR, I put the two of us together into one DWIDP foodlist. Then he eats 2/3 of it and I eat 1/3. That's cause I'm half of him! Isn't that cute???
Friday night I made my amazing lasagna. He loves it. This time we used Quorn "ground round," which is like ground beef. Quorn is made of some kind of fungus and it's a meat substitute. MR had me bring a bunch from home because they don't sell it in his stores here.
Here's how you make my lasagna:
(the DWIDP seems incapable of saving the right amounts to text so I'll spell it out to you)
100 g zucchini, chopped
100 g red bell pepper, chopped
90 g part skim mozarella cheese sliced into very thin slices
1/2 cup lowfat cottage cheese
100 g arugula
10 g basil
100 g shitake mushrooms, chopped
400 grams no salt added tomato sauce
89 g (3 oz) dry-ish red wine
1 teaspoon olive oil
2 cloves garic.
garlic powder, salt
To make the tomato sauce, boil the garlic (minced) in the red wine for about ten minutes. Cut down the heat and add tomato sauce. Throw in a bit of garlic powder and salt to taste. (You can use half salt -- indeed, if MR is looking over your shoulder, you must.) Allow to simmer for another twenty minutes... you can do the simmering while you chop the other veggies. Just as you're about to add the sauce to the lasagna, stir in a teaspoon of olive oil.
Mix up the cottage cheese with the basil and a few dashes of garlic powder and a dash of salt. Set aside. Put down a thin layer of arugula, cover with an thin layer of zucchini. Put down a layer of cottage cheese. Follow with a thin layer of red pepper. Follow with ground Quorn, or any other ground beef substitute (like Gardenburger) or just skip it all together. Follow with shitakes. Continue until you're out of all the ingredients. Cover with the tomato sauce, allowing it time to drip down into the rest of the mixture. Top with the mozarella cheese. Bake at about 400 for about 45 mins. Serve with a glass of pinot noir (3 oz for each of us is in the recipe crunch.)
Here's the nutrition info:
NUTRIENT TOTALS:
Abs. Values %RDA/SA
Calories 925.69__cal 46%
Protein 56.91__gm 103% RDA
Total Fat 42.64__gm 66%
Sat. Fat 22.65__gm 113%
Mono. Fat 14.05__gm 49%
Poly. Fat 3.17__gm 48%
Carbohydrate 67.79__gm 23%
Fiber 17.59__gm 59%
Cholesterol 100.10__mg 33%
Vit. A 8467.40__IU 169% RDA
Vit. B6 1.40__mg 87% RDA
Vit. B12 1.06__mcg 53% RDA
Vit. C 163.40__mg 272% RDA
Vit. E 8.51__mg 106% RDA
Thiamine 0.68__mg 61% RDA
Folacin 256.41__mcg 142% RDA
Riboflavin 1.26__mg 97% RDA
Niacin 8.05__mg 54% RDA
Panto. Acid 6.33__mg 127% SA
Calcium 1227.50__mg 102% RDA
Copper 2.40__mg 120% SA
Iron 7.79__mg 52% RDA
Magnesium 263.08__mg 94% RDA
Manganese 5.35__mg 178% SA
Phosphorus 1043.89__mg 87% RDA
Potassium 2858.50__mg 143% RDA
Selenium 41.97__mcg 76% RDA
Sodium 3418.41__mg 142% SA
Zinc 17.04__mg 142% RDA
Tyrosine 2.97__gm 310% RDA
Lysine 6.18__gm 858% RDA
Phenylalanine 3.49__gm 364% RDA
Leucine 6.46__gm 673% RDA
Valine 4.22__gm 502% RDA
Methionine 1.84__gm 614% RDA
Cystine 0.78__gm 260% RDA
Tryptophan 0.93__gm 516% RDA
Threonine 3.23__gm 673% RDA
Isoleucine 3.90__gm 541% RDA
It does have more saturated fat than we would normally eat, but since our diets are usually so low in saturated fat, and it also rocks out on the calcium, it's okay for sometimes. MR and I are at mindnumbingly low risk for heart disease. So yes, Dan, go out to Trader Joes and buy your goat cheese! You could alternatively skip the mozarella all together and use a whole lot more cottage cheese mixture, which cuts out saturated fat almost all together and makes it more ricotta-like. You could also sprinkle a little bit of fresh grated parmesean on top.
Tonight I'm making a shrimp dish. Tomorrow I fly home to Philly... alas, coming down from the mountaintop is always rough. But MR is going to pack me some of Sherm's megamuffins and Sherm's binging brownies to soften the transition.
Posted by april at April 3, 2005 12:27 PM
Comments
Hi April,
Sounds a whole lot better than the SAD (but tasty) sausage lasagana at my Team Tennis dinner thingy last night. Luckily, they needed someone to bring a salad, so I brought a nice big one. Suprisingly, I didn't have to eat it all :) Maybe that's 'cause I put walnuts, pear, dried cranberries (alas, sweetened with sugar), and lots of fresh herbs in with the romaine and red cabbage.
One thing that was wierd. I made a stupid simple balsamic vinaigrette for it. It basically just had a 2:1 ratio of olive oil to vinegar and a little salt and pepper. I somehow managed to guess the right amount of dressing for the salad--it wasn't soaking in the stuff but was nicely coated. Anyway, it tasted *so* bland to me! I wonder if that's because I usually use a 1:1 ratio (1 Tbl each) for my salads at home.
Or maybe I just have worn out tastebuds :)
Ciao,
-Dan
Posted by: Dan at April 3, 2005 6:45 PM
Hi April. First I would like to say thank you for your helpful blog. I've just discovered it and am working towards CR. Would you please tell me where I can find a recipe for the Megamuffins/Megabrownies, if it's not a secret. :) I would very much appreciate it.
Thanks!
Jessica
Posted by: Jessica at May 23, 2006 12:46 PM
Dear April:
Found your receipes interesting! Would you please email me the megamuffin and brownie recipe. They sound delicious.
Thanks, Wendy
Posted by: Wendy Macaulay at January 9, 2007 6:18 PM
april I am really overweight,and have given up dieting in favour of eating nutritionally high/low calorie and am amazed by how much i can eat and am full up but feel light and no cravings. Isaw your xmas dinner video you and m look fantastic. light and strong. iam not weighing myself Iknow that this way of eating will change my cells and body. I stopped drinking and smoking etc 15 years ago and my weight has been creeping up. i thought there was an emotional reason it was just cause i was eating poor quality food which exausts me.
please can you point me in the direction of your megamuffins rcipe as they will be useful to have in my bag if i know i cant put a lunch or breakfast together. //i love cr its what i have been waiting for for years.
I feel so different and also so positive, I am eating large plates of food and feel so alert clean and lively.best wishes
eve
Posted by: eve campbell at August 11, 2007 5:22 PM