Low Fat, Hearty Meatball Recipes: Food Tip of the Day - Saturday, February 27th, 2010

It was while I was fairly aimlessly browsing Hub Pages today that I came across the page I am going to share with you as today's food tip of the day. The page was actually compiled by one of Hub Pages' staff, Maddie Ruud, and is all about different ways to cook meatballs in a healthy fashion. I thoroughly enjoyed reading the page and the link is included at the bottom of this post.

I am fairly sure that I included a meatball recipe at some point previously on this blog - which is when I probably took the photo to the right which I found in my archives! - but until today, I did not fully realise just to what extent it is possible to experiment with new ways of serving meatballs in a healthy fashion. I'll have to come up with something for this blog fairly soon.

I hope that you enjoy Maddie's site - and if so - that you will leave her a comment to this effect.

Low Fat, Hearty Meatball Recipes

Perkara sebelum Tidur

‎​Perkara Sebelum Tidur ( Tafsir Haqqi )
Rasulullah berpesan kepada Aisyah ra : "Ya Aisyah jangan engkau tidur sebelum melakukan empat perkara, yaitu :

1. Sebelum khatam Al Qur'an
2. Sebelum membuat para Nabi memberimu syafaat di hari akhir
3. Sebelum para muslim meridhoi kamu
4. Sebelum kau laksanakan haji dan umroh"

Bertanya Aisyah :"Ya Rasulullah ... Bagaimana aku dapat melaksanakan empat perkara seketika?"

Rasul tersenyum dan bersabda : "Jika engkau tidur bacalah,

1. Al Ikhlas tiga kali seakan-akan kau mengkhatamkan Al Qur'an. 

" Bismillaahirrohmaan irrohiim,
'Qulhualloohu ahad' Alloohushshomad' lam yalid walam yuulad' walam yakul lahuu kufuwan ahad'  ( 3x ) "

2. Sholawat untuk Ku dan para nabi sebelum aku, maka kami semua akan memberi syafaat di hari kiamat. 

“  Bismillaahirrohmaan irrohiim, Alloohumma shollii 'alaa  Muhammad wa'alaa aalii  Muhammad ( 3x ) “

3. Beristighfarlah untuk para muslimin maka mereka akan meridhoi kamu. 

“ Astaghfirulloohal adziim aladzii laa ilaaha illaa huwal hayyul qoyyuum wa atuubu ilaih ( 3x )

4. Perbanyaklah bertasbih, bertahmid, bertahlil, bertakbir maka seakan - akan kamu telah melaksanakan ibadah haji dan umroh.

“ Bismillaahirrohmaan irrohiim, Subhanalloohi Walhamdulillaahi walaailaaha illalloohu alloohu akbar ( 3x  )

HAM & POTATO SOUP

Ingredients:

Potato ...... 1 medium sized ( diced) about 1/2 cup
Onion ........ 1 small ( finely chopped) about 1/4 cup

Celery ....... about 1/4 cup (finely chopped)

Ham .......... 1/4 cup ( diced)

Chicken stock .. 2-3 cups

White flour ..... 1 tbsp.

Butter ............. 1 tbsp.

Milk ................. 1/2 cup

Salt .................. to taste

Black or white pepper ....to taste.

Method:

1. Boil together diced potato, onion, celery and ham in the chicken stock adding salt to taste for 10-12 minutes.(use chicken cube+water if you don't have the stock ready.)

2. In a seperate pan heat the butter and stir in the white flour. Keep mixing for for a minute on medium flame and carefully stir in the milk whisking continuously to avoid lumps.

3. Add this to the boiling soup and let it simmer for 4-5 minutes.

4. Check the salt and thickness of the soup according to your taste.

5. Sprinkle pepper and serve hot.

(This quantity serves 2)

PS: Vegetarians can substitute the ham with diced carrot and use the vegetable stock.

( Contributed by Holli Keshwani )

Thai Salad Dressing

I don't have a picture for you today. I just have a recipe, a very simple recipe, for an easy and yummy salad dressing . It's so good, you'll drink it up if there's any left in the bowl after you finish swirling your last lettuce leaf around in the dregs.

Maybe all you have is lettuce in the fridge, because it's Thursday night and you're in a hurry to watch Grey's Anatomy and running out of food. Maybe you throw a can of soup into a pot, but it's all too unsatisfying and unhealthy and you pull that slightly wilted head of romaine out of the fridge and motivate yourself to wash it and tear it up. Then it goes into a salad spinner or patted down with a towel and finally you are staring at a pile of green in a big bowl. And that's even more pathetic than the canned soup.

Maybe you have a bottle of fish sauce in the fridge because you made a Thai curry two months ago, and a lime because you were going to make guacamole before the avocado turned mushy and brown, except it turned mushy and brown the day after you bought it. So you mix up some fish sauce, lime juice, soy sauce, red pepper flakes, sugar, and whisk in some vegetable oil. Toss that limp, clean lettuce with your dressing to wake it up a little, and what do you know, there are some ruddy looking radishes rolling around in the crisper, so you add some thin slices of radish on top for color and bite. A little salt and pepper and your meal just became something special. And it's nice to have something special during a mundane Thursday night meal.

Thai Salad Dressing (Joy of Cooking, for the Thai Beef Salad, but it's good on any light salad)
Yields 1 cup dressing

1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/2 cup fresh lime juice
3 tablespoons fish sauce
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1 1/2 teaspoons sugar
red pepper flakes to taste
salt and pepper to taste

Whisk together all ingredients in a small bowl. Keep refrigerated until ready to use.

Any minute now...

First of all, I would like to thank you all of you for your comments on my last entry! It was my first interview, so I'm glad you liked it! I'm thinking of doing some more interviews, so keep an eye on it!!

Today I spent the evening with Rocío around Barcelona center, taking pictures and having a fun time... but now I'm almost dead, and I should rest because tomorrow I'm going to a zombie walk! Yes, a zombie walk, but unfortunately I had no time for doing any costumes, so finally I'll go but only for taking pictures for my classes!

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Anyway, this evening was very productive, I took some great pictures...

 

Ro at our favourite cafe... 

Yummy!

 

Ro taking a picture of our cakes!

 

A lovely place I discovered today aroun Raval's neiborghood... 

 

Love is in the air... (the air it's a fluorescent light).

 

Ro at Tallers.

 

  

Me with one of my favourite dresses! I bought it some time ago and it was long, but I just cut it and now looks so sixties! And my beloved boots from Berlin... yaw!

Dress - Vintage

Boots - Aces of London

Tights and scarf - H&M

So, have you got any special plans for the weekend?

Oh, by the way, I'm writting an article for an online magazine about Skins... I'm so happy! I'll tell you more about that very soon!