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Focus. The name describes the intent of this blog. I'll focus on food
and because I live in rural I hope you enjoy my ramblings about rural France!
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Three low calorie recipes. All simple & all
pretty good. Clean the mussels (about 1 to 11/2 pounds per person) then cook as for Moules Mariniere . That is you saut?finely chopped onion & celery in a bit of butter in a deep pot. When they are soft add some wine & bring to a boil. Add the mussels & cook at high heat until the mussels open. Shake every so often. This should take about 5 minutes. Drain the cooked mussels over a sieve into another bowl. Put all of the juices from the mussels back into the pot and boil gently to reduce to about 1/3 of the original volume. While is is happening & once the mussels have cooled remove the 'mussels' from their shells. Keep as much of the onion & celery as possible. When the juice has reduced enough thicken it with roux or cornflower. Boil up a pot of water for your pasta; then cook the pasta until al dente. Add the mussel meat back into the reduced hot mussel juice, then add the cooked pasta. Stir well & serve immediately with parmesan cheese to sprinkle over. Not only is this a delicious pasta its both low calorie & low fat. Alcohol is eliminated by boiling the wine. If you want to be healthier yet use whole wheat pasta. Nothing too innovative about this, but its a great quick lunch. Take a can of water packed tuna, open it & pour off the water. In a bowl put in the tuna, some chopped onion or shallot, chopped Cornichons (or if you can't find those use sweet gherkins) and some chopped celery. Add some ground cumin, salt & pepper and just enough low fat mayonnaise to bind the mixture. Spread the mixture over bread slices (your choice of bread type) or for an even healthier disc spread the mixture on Swedish rye crackers. This both quick and nutritious. You can make a batch as it keeps well in the fridge for a day or so. Dead simple, delicious and very low calorie. Allow one apple per person & 1/2 a banana. Peel, core and cut the apples into a dice of 1/4 - 1/2 inch chunks. Peel & slice the banana thinly. In a frying pan on high heat melt about one teaspoon of butter per apple. When the butter is foaming add the apples and toss well to coat with the melted butter. Sprinkle over a generous amount of ground cinnamon. Stir & toss the apples until they just begin to brown at the edges then add the banana slices. Continue cooking until the bananas start to brown. Depending upon how "good" you want to be you can serve the mixture over plain yogurt, sour cream or vanilla ice cream. For an extra kick sprinkle over a bit of ground walnut. This is very low calorie and very low fat and very delicious.
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