Are veggies in sauce still good for you?
General November 25th, 2008Last night I made this :
It was delicious and absolutely what I wanted. It was full of veggies and completely homemade.
It was made with milk, butter and cheese.
It was dinner (along w some steamed plain broccoli).
I’ve been working on a big recipe organisation project, plus looking at recipes as I finalize my Thanksgiving-on-Saturday menu. I found the swiss chard at the market on Sunday and added Swiss Chard to the things I was looking up for recipes anyway.
When I found this recipe I was sold - in particular because I know the French love their veggies in gratins, and my husband would desperately love for me to give veggies that treatment at home. Since he wasn’t coming home until late I decided I could play with little risk and set off for my rather complex cooking task.
I thoroughly enjoyed spending over an hour preparing one dish (it’s supposed to be a side dish). It was really good and maybe if I knew the recipe by heart I could get the time down by half, but who on earth has time for that kind of time for ONE side dish? Well, I did yesterday.
It was DELICIOUS. I mean fabulous, awesome, incredible. I had to stop myself from eating more and more but I did stop, knowing it was too full of calories to go hog wild, and yet it was rich enough that I felt really satisfied with what I did eat.
I skipped eating a lot of other things to eat this - and exercised the control muscle pretty well, and ended the day with a really healthy dose of extra veggies and within normal calorie bounds as well.
November 25th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
Sounds great! Do you have a link to the recipe? Way to go on getting back to it and enjoying it. I agree, lately it seems to be easier for me to diet alone because my husband and teen son are draggin butt and I can’t have them slowing me down. I don’t like nagging, reminding, or waiting on them either. I don’t want to give up especially since we paid $175 for DS gym membership. for a few weeks I was having a real hard time seperating the weeks from the weekends because when DH is home, we hang out, stay up late, eat junk (sometimes) but I’ve been able to avoid that the past few weeks and am proud of the results. So you hang in there, take care of yourself, and take it one day at a time.
November 25th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
It’s gorgeous! Dangerous, but gorgeous
Could you post the recipe?
I was a vegetarian for about five years and gained 30 pounds. I was NOT vegan. I went on the butter milk eggs and cheese diet. With bread, usually sourdough. It was heaven. I loved cooking vegetarian meals. Sigh. You bring it all back. (You were much more sensible, of course — fitting this into your day rather eating this for dinner and, as I did, a grilled cheese sandwich for lunch, and maybe a nice fruit pie….)
November 25th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
Yum! That looks Julia Child-worthy to me. It’s a beautiful dish. And, dang, look how clean that oven is.
Sounds like you have excellent self-control.
November 25th, 2008 at 11:45 pm
Ok, I made you ask me, but here is the link (found the recipe on RecipeZaar).
http://www.recipezaar.com/Swiss-Chard-in-Sauce-Gruyere-104968
If anyone else makes it let me know what you thought.
And thanks for all the compliments - I’m pretty new to cooking so I need encouragement (the oven’s cleanliness is all thanks to my cleaning lady, not me…)
November 26th, 2008 at 6:30 am
Thanks for the recipe, round. Reading it reminded me of my misspent youth, trying to cook from Julia Child. I’d skim a recipe, think, “Oh, that’s not hard,:” and start in, guests waiting. Everything was fine until I hit, as here, “Step 12. Prepare a Sauce Velouté.”
November 26th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
mmm that looks like I’d want to eat it with wheat wafers
November 27th, 2008 at 11:34 pm
Thank you, I have bookmarked it and will let you know if/when I’ve made it.
December 2nd, 2008 at 10:05 pm
omg, that looks AMAZING!!! I agree, one hour for a side dish is a little much. One hour for any dish in my opinion is a bit much, but since you had time…why not!!