Recipe Review
Today’s
Recipe and Location: Braised
Beef Brisket
Found
in: The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes from
an Accidental Country Girl
Pages 160 - 162 Copyright: 2009 Harper
Collins OR http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2007/06/brisket_baby/
I figured out that there are
402 calories per serving, if 7 servings are made. (Please note that the calorie counts vary
depending on the specific brands of ingredients that you choose to use.) ***I made a 4 lb. brisket and got 7
servings.
 |
| This is the wonderful marinade. Ree recommends using a disposable pan to make life easier. I'm all for that thought! |
 |
| Here is the raw meat. It looked so good. |
 |
| The final product |
 |
| My amazing knife makes everything so easy to accomplish |
You begin this recipe by marinating the brisket
for 24 to 48 hours. This is really important to know if you have a deadline.
The marinade smells so wonderful and is dark and rich.
The final product
was absolutely fabulous. This meat was so great and flavorful that I can’t wait
to have it again. Yum! Yum! Yum!
Random Reflections - Bucket List
The
following is a Why Weight entry from January of 2014. Today, I figured out my
B.M.I. is 40. While I am thrilled it is declining, I find it frustrating how
slowly it goes down. My bucket list goal is to reach a “normal healthy” B.M.I.
of 24.9 or lower.
Below
is the old entry in case you wanted to figure out where you stand. I love that
my B.M.I. went from 64 to 43 and now to 40. So, I guess my specific Bucket List item is to lower my
B.M.I. by 15.1. I can’t get any more specific than that.
BMI – Body Mass Index. This is a number that I have always
hated, but of late the number is lookin’ better. At my highest weight my BMI
was a whopping 64. Now that I am
144.3 lbs lower than that scary number, my BMI has dropped to 43. Now that number is nothin’ to write
home about, but I’ll rejoice in the 21 that it has dropped.
I
found an old newspaper cutout for how to figure out your BMI. According to an unknown paper, since I
just cut out the two inch article, it stated that the National Institutes of
Health established these four categories based on BMI levels for adults over 20
years old.
Below
18.5: underweight (really? Not in my future)
18.5
to 24.9 healthy (this
is my goal)
25.0
to 29.9 overweight
30.0
or higher obese
According
to this data, I really need to work hard to get my BMI down 13 more
points. I really think this is
doable and boy oh boy will this new number help when I need to find my own
insurance.
So
are you curious???? Don’t you,
deep down, want to know your number???
Oh come on – it has to be lower than mine so buck up and figure it out. Here are the directions.
The
body mass index is a common measure of obesity. It’s the ratio of weight in
kilograms to height in meters squared. Here’s how to calculate yours:
(Your weight
in kilograms) = (0.4535) x (your weight in pounds)
(Your height
in meters) = (0.0254) x (your height in inches)
To
square your height, take the answer to your height in meters and multiply
it by itself and that is your squared height.
(Your
BMI) = (your weight in kilograms) divided by (your height in meters, SQUARED)
Okay –
so you may not like your number (just like me) but I have learned that it is
fixable. Keep track of everything
– like in a journal and you will have data over time. Just like Martha would say, “It’s a good thing!”
Becky’s Bucket
List #21
Have a B.M.I. of
24.9 or lower
Return to Florida/Alabama and
see old friends
Play tennis again
Learn to play bridge
Have an in-ground pool
Finish writing a book on the
Scent Family
Save up enough money for a down
payment on my Kentucky house
Research every town in Kentucky
in hopes of relocating
Work on learning calligraphy
and bettering daily penmanship
Begin making my own clothing
using a mannequin
Volunteer at an animal rescue
Visit all 50 states
Photography courses
Complete all of Mom’s and my
scrapbooks
Go skiing again in Colorado
Meet the Duggar family
Watch every nominee and winner
for the Academy Awards to date
Remodel my kitchen
Take piano lessons
Write 2 books for my
great-nephews
Travel to Wales
Travel to Scotland
Alaskan cruise
Why Weight?
8/10 Sunday 1,620 calories nothing
8/11 Monday 1,822 calories Curves
8/12 Tuesday 1,984
calories Curves
8/13 Wednesday
1,787
calories Curves
8/14 Thursday 2,050
calories Curves **scale
broke
8/15 Friday 2,282
calories nothing
8/16 Saturday 1,698
calories Curves
I was
moving along great, and then I realized that one of the feet on my scale was
off, and I kept getting different readings. On Thursday, 8/14/14, I went to
Costco and purchased a new scale.
A great idea until I used it that day. On this scale, I was five pounds
heavier than my old scale. I was pretty bummed, but I let myself have a pity
party for Thursday and Friday and then got right back on track. I did end up
losing a whole fourth of a pound, but that still put be back 4.6 pounds. Oh well – I just have to work through
it and keep focused on the future – not the present.
Goal: 71.5 lbs. (100
lb. loss between 6/1/14 – 6/1/15)
+
4.6 lbs. this
week’s loss
76.1 lbs. lbs to go
Sun. 8/10 10,633
steps 3,171
calories burned
Mon. 8/11
14,079 steps 3,396
calories burned
Tues. 8/12
11,777 steps 3,141
calories burned
Wed.` 8/13
10,332 steps 3,113
calories burned
Thurs. 8/14
10,419 steps 3,002
calories burned
Fri. 8/15
12,360 steps 3,187
calories burned
Sat. 8/16
13,299 steps 3,221
calories burned
I DID
IT! I actually reached 10,000
steps every day this week. There
are days where I was a little worried but I conscientiously made myself move a
lot more. A big goal reached.
Wants and Wishes
I
want to learn a new skill in sewing. I haven’t made buttonholes is more than 10
years, so I would like to take a class that has creating buttonholes as a part
of it. Since one of the things I would like to do is begin creating clothing
again, this would be a great first step toward that goal.
No comments:
Post a Comment