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[titusnowl]

So I have to go on a low-cholesterol diet.  However, I HATE HATE HATE trying to make food for just one person while Justin has nothing but cheese toast for dinner, so I have to try to find healthy, inexpensive meals to cook that both of us will eat.   This means that the meals may contain:

- Chicken breasts (no dark meat)
- Beef of any kind
- Salmon, perhaps, if it's prepared a certain way

It may not contain:
- Cooked tomatoes
- Peppers (bell or hot)
- Carrots
- Mushrooms
- Any sort of sauce that gets poured over top of a meat
- Cheeses other than cheddar and possibly mozzarella, but again, the cheese can't be on top of the meat

So basically we're just going to be having sautéd chicken every night and some vegetables that I cook on the side (except that I don't know what to do with a vegetable besides put butter on it, and the butter is bad for me).

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[chikkiboo.livejournal.com]

Also, remember that dinner does not have to automatically equal cooked meat+veg.

Well, it does have to equal cooked meat, if Justin's going to have anything. He won't eat sandwiches for some reason, and he's also not big on soup. He'll eat braised & simmered beef tips in gravy, though, which is pretty much stew without the veggies - but he never lets me just put the damn veggies in it and make a stew, even though he could pick them out if he didn't want to eat them. In some ways it's like trying to feed a toddler - the foods can't touch, you know? Now that it's an issue of my health, rather than just my personal preference (I discovered yesterday that I have really high blood cholesterol, at least partly because everything Justin eats is fried), he might be a bit more willing to bend on the issue.

Question regarding tilapia: Does it have a strong "fish" flavor? I haven't eaten many different kinds of fish - mostly cod, in fact. I've been trying to get him to take a bit of a fish stick to prove to him that fish does not necessarily taste like a fishmarket smells, but he's been sticking to his guns. If I'm going to get him to try fish at all, it has to be something that doesn't taste too fishy, if you know what I mean. Maybe I'll luck out and some awesome show about how wonderfully delicious fish is and how to cook it will come on Food Network tonight and I can convince him to try something.

My ignorance of fish is rendered somewhat ironic given that I spent several months working in the fish market of a grocery store. Then again, all I had to do was weigh, package and store the stuff, not eat it. (Although I was given express permission to make my own dinner on Friday nights if I wanted to, all I had access to was the deep fryer and the lobster steamer, so I ate a lot of fish and chips that fall.)

[emmycantbemeeko.livejournal.com]

Re: tilapia- not at all. It's one of the mildest fishes there is. I was not a big fan of it because I LIKE fish and fish flavors, but I've since come around to the fact that it takes the flavors you prepare it with really well, and is sufficiently inoffensive that even most fish-haters can tolerate it.

Though to be honest I find that for most people, dislike of fish is a mental thing, often based in little or no experience of actually tasting fish. If you can pin them down long enough to get them to try it, they usually find they like at least some sorts. I mean, it's not like "fish" is some monolithic category of foods that all taste the same- a nice tuna steak, a salmon filet, and a kipper are not identifiable by taste as part of the same category of foods unless you already know that they are.

Which reminds me- a good quality tuna steak, well prepared (I like it seared and medium rare, with a little drizzle of some sort of herby lemon oil on it- is very unfishy. It's quite like eating meat. Or so I remember- it's been a lonnnnng time since I ate meat.