Ice cream is running away with the vote for you favorite vice. I guess a lot of you are giving it up for Lent.
I gave up a lot of stuff recently. We had to change our diet drastically for health reasons. So no bread, no pasta, no ice cream, no cake, no carbs of any kind. We have both lost about 15 pounds already.
I have been making a lot of creative dishes that taste great but just take a lot more time. Like yesterday's meal. I made veal parm with using breadcrumbs and a vegetable medley of zucchini, eggplant, mushroom and asparagus that I grilled first than baked in red sauce for a while and topped off with some pecorino romano cheese. It was quite tasty.
But no ice cream.
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We did the low/no-carb thing a few years back. You can get pretty creative when you need to. Probably our biggest problem was how to eat Italian w/o pasta. Solution, make lasagna with cabbage in place of noodles. Pour spaghetti sauce over cauliflower. Eat Italian sausage by itself, which is what you want to do anyway.
Get a spaghetti squash and cut in half lengthwise - when it's cooked (you can steam it or boil it or bake it), it comes apart in little strands, about the same size as spaghetti noodles. Just use a fork to pull it apart. Toss with some salt, pepper and olive oil, and then ladle on your red sauce. It's really good.
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