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Bryani

Another recipe from Mary McDougall. The book says it serves 4, but not in this house. I usually double this recipe and it serves the three of us for dinner plus enough left over for one serving for lunch the next day.

If you have a slow-cooker, you can also dump all the ingredients in the pot in the morning, set it on Low, and come home to a nice hot meal 8 to 10 hours later.


* Exported from MasterCook *

Bryani

Recipe By :Mary McDougall
Serving Size : 4 Preparation Time :0:20
Categories : Grains MWLP


Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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1 cup onion -- chopped
2 cloves garlic -- crushed
2 1/2 teaspoons curry powder
3/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon cloves
2 3/4 cups water
2 large carrots -- thinly sliced
1/2 cauliflower -- broken up
1 cup peas -- fresh or frozen
1 medium tomato -- chopped
1/2 cup raisins, seedless
1 cup brown rice -- uncooked

In a large pot, cook onion and garlic in 1/4 cup water for 5 minutes.

Add curry, cinnamon, and cloves, cook 2 minutes.

Add the remaining water, rice, carrots, cauliflower, and raisins. Bring to
a boil, cover, reduce heat, and simmer about 40 minutes.

Stir in tomatoes and peas. Cook an additional 15 minutes.

Serve hot.

Source:
"McDougall Health Supporting Cookbook Volume 1 Page 51"
Copyright:
"1985"
T(cooking):
"1:00"

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Per Serving: 304 Calories; 2g Fat (5.6% calories
from fat); 8g Protein; 67g Carbohydrate; 7g Dietary Fiber; 0mg
Cholesterol; 32mg Sodium. Exchanges: 3 Grain(Starch); 2 Vegetable; 1
Fruit; 0 Fat.


Nutr. Assoc. : 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Fresh Vegetable Chili

This is another family favorite. I'm lazy, I so use canned diced no-salt-added tomatoes, frozen chopped broccoli, canned and rinsed kidney beans, and double the amount of peppers, sometimes using half a bag of frozen pepper strips because a whole pound of that comes out cheaper than one measly fresh green pepper that yields just a few ounces after taking the seeds and stem out. I'll have this either with brown rice or make cornbread.

* Exported from MasterCook *

Fresh Vegetable Chili

Recipe By :Mary McDougall
Serving Size : 6 Preparation Time :0:30
Categories : Low Fat Main Dish
MWLP Acceptable

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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1 cup water
2 medium onions -- chopped
1/2 pound sliced mushrooms
1 medium green pepper -- chopped
2 small zucchini -- cut in half then sliced
4 medium tomatoes -- chopped
2 cups broccoli florets
2 tablespoons chili powder
3 cups cooked kidney beans
2 tablespoons arrowroot -- or cornstarch mixed in
1/3 cup water

1) Place 1/2 cup of water in a large pot. Add onions and sauté over
medium-high heat for three minutes.

2) Add mushrooms, green pepper, zucchini, tomatoes, broccoli, chili
powder, and remaining half cup of water. Cover and bring to a boil.

3) Reduce heat to medium. Cook for ten minutes, stirring occasionally.

4) Add beans and heat through, about another 5 minutes.

5) Mix the cornstarch mixture together and add to the vegetables while
stirring. Cook and stir until thickened.

Description:
"A wonderful meal to prepare when you have lots of fresh garden
vegetables to use up."
Source:
"The McDougall Health Supporting Cookbook Volume 2, page 70"
Copyright:
"1986"
T(cooking):
"0:30"

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Per Serving: 192 Calories; 2g Fat (6.6% calories
from fat); 12g Protein; 37g Carbohydrate; 10g Dietary Fiber; 0mg
Cholesterol; 48mg Sodium. Exchanges: 1 1/2 Grain(Starch); 1/2 Lean Meat;
2 1/2 Vegetable; 0 Fat.

Serving Ideas : Serve over brown rice. Pass the optional toppings to spoon over the top, if desired.

1 bunch green onions, chopped fine
chopped cucumbers
sliced radishes
diced canned green chilies
sliced black olives
chopped fresh coriander

Nutr. Assoc. : 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Back to Soups

Even my husband is ready to get back to plain meals, and today we're having Greeny Beany Soup from the McDougall Quick and Easy Cookbook. I still have to go through my ABM recipes to find a nice loaf of bread to go with it, something with a little tang to it. Maybe I'll just make a basic whole wheat loaf and add a tablespoon of Italian salad seasonings to it, like the Good Seasons fat-free or the one I buy in bulk from Penzy's Spices, which meets McDougall standards.

And the official damage from those donuts was 3 1/2 pounds. One week of healthy eating and they should be gone again. And soon the new MWLP DVD should be arriving to give me that extra boost, too. I need all the help I can get right now.

Updated an old site

I had some times to kill yesterday while my husband took a nap on his last day of vacation, and added some of the more recent recipes to an old web page I had made, McDougall Plan Recipes.

And just when I convinced my husband to let me replace the broken camera, the scanner died yesterday. There goes the camera, and now I have to search high and low to find a scanner that will run with Windows 98.

Damn Donuts!

I stepped on the sale yesterday. I didn't want to do it, especially not when fully dressed and after a 24 ounce glass of water, 12 ounce mug of coffee and cup of oatmeal plus fruit breakfast, but it was calling me. When my husband went into the bathroom I gently removed the item of torture and placed in on the flat kitchen floor, took in a deep breath, and stepped on.

It reads 5 pounds heavier than it did at 5 in the morning on November 21st.

I'll get an official reading tomorrow morning at 5am, after my husband goes back to work. I'm certain of a gain - one doesn't share in a few dozen donuts and fudge brownies over a ten day period, plus a few very salty meals (like Chinese food, even though it was low fat and vegan) and not suffer the consequences - but I'm sure it won't be a five pound gain.

I put the sale back into its lair under the bed and promised myself to stick to strict McDougall MWLP until I lose not just those 5 but an additional 130 pounds. We were on our own for dinner again so I made a pot of Broccoli Cheese soup from a post on the McDougall forums earlier this year, and Rainbow Skillet Medley, a MWLP recipe.

Three hours later my husband comes into the room with the dregs of the donuts and insists we finish them off. Like a good little wife I did as he requested. At least those things are now GONE and even he realizes we really can't handle them any more at our age. If either of us feels like something sweet, more than just a piece of fruit, it's going to be made from a McDougall-legal recipe.

Here's to a healthier December!

<<<<< Over There, On the Left-Hand Side of this Page

I guess nobody was looking over there in the left-hand column where I had all the McDougall-friendly and other vegetarian blogs listed. All but one that was suggested in yesterday's Comments is already there.

And I had to edit one of the widgets. It seems that Flickr has been inundated recently with a load of photos for the Walther PPK gun so all the photos appearing in the Flicker PPK widget was for guns and neo-nazi groups. Sorry about that. I changed the keywords to VWAV and Vcon and now all the good food photos are back. And I was able to add a slide-show for the McDougall Foods Flicker group photos, too.

Friends of the McDougall Plan

Aside from the official McDougall forums, a lot of people have no idea where to find other people who are following the McDougall Plan.

There's a list of bloggers who are/were recently/plan to following McDougall on my Bloglines RSS feed page which includes:

McDougalling With Chile

Rites of Passage

Awkward Elegance

Fun Crunch Files

caroveg

cheezyvegan

Jill Nussinow's Green Cooking with A Pressure Cooker (A McDougall Celebrity Chef and pressure cooker genius)

and

Jennifer McCann's Vegan Lunch Box (mostly eat to Live lately but still McD-legal)


The McDougall Community on LiveJournal.

McDougall Chat on Yahoogroups

McDougall Weight Loss Plans Yahoogroup

Susan Voisin's Fat Free Discussion Board

McDougalling Community on Facebook

McDougall Friendly Recipe Wiki which as much more than just recipes

Dr. Neal Barnard's Get Healthy Club on PCRM

and there's a whole slew of McDougallers on the Post Punk Kitchen forums

I think we have a pretty prolific presence out there, wouldn't you agree?

McDougall Group on Facebook

On the blog owned by caroveg (carolyn) she mentions a McDougall group on Facebook. I did a few searches and all I get are links to posts about Right Foods cups.

http://happyveg.blogspot.com/2008/11/caroveggie-takes-exercise.html

Her blog doesn't allow comments or I would ask her directly.

If anyone has the url for the group, would you mind sharing? It just might be worth finally making a Facebook acccount if it's an active group.