But wanting to keep her girlish figure, and wanting to make sure everybody else keeps their own figures, she's "figured" out ways to cook delicious meals without adding so much girth to the diners.
Her column is updated every day or thereabouts, so check back to see what's doing in "Boggie"'s kitchen.
Bean and Seashell Salad
I love seashell-shaped pasta; for some reason, it always seems to have
a more interesting texture than other pasta shapes.
This chilled salad
combines seashells with beans, herbs, and vegetables; it's a great
side dish with lunch or dinner, but it can also stand on its own as a
main course.
Makes about eight cups.
Per 1/2 cup: 170 calories, 2.2
grams fat, 29.7 grams carbohydrates, 8.6 grams protein, 0 milligrams
cholesterol, 7.1 grams fiber, 197 milligrams sodium.
2 tablespoons olive oilIn a cruet or jar with a cover, combine olive oil, vinegar, salt, pepper, and garlic; shake well.
2 tablespoons wine vinegar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
3 cloves garlic, minced
2 15-ounce cans cannellini beans, drained and rinsed
1 15-ounce can black beans, drained and rinsed
2 tomatoes, chopped
1 red onion, chopped
2 cups seashell pasta, cooked al dente
CookWare Sampler
The folks from "Cooking Light" magazine offer this inexpensive ($6.98 list price) recipe software.
It includes the CookWare recipe management software, 100 recipes, and a sample of CookPac (a month of "Cooking Light" recipes).
Their goal is to introduce you to the monthly CookPac subscription.
The nutritional analysis of each recipe may make this CD attractive to persons with special dietary needs.
More information is available at
CookN.com - Cooking software.
Do you have a recipe to share?
You can Write to Leigh!
Include your first initial and last name and put the word LOWFAT in the subject.
I'll try to use your contribution in a future column.
(Please note that these columns are written several weeks in advance so publishing it will be delayed accordingly.)
For those of you with fast metabolisms....the HECK with you. But if you'd rather have recipes that are more traditional, then, all you need do is to visit Boggie's Cooking Tips page, then a quick visit to my mother-in-law Betty Jean's pages for some Traditional Recipes, or, Vegetarian Recipes.
AND, if you want to see how to grow all your own vegetables for the recipes and flowers for the table, visit Uncle Ernie's Gardening page. If you see Ernest, please tell him Boggie said supper will be ready soon and to get on out of the garden so he can get cleaned up.
Leigh
