Editorial
Front Page - Friday, October 15, 2010
Kay's Cooking Corner
Kay Bona
I struggle with weight, you struggle with weight (if you’re honest), your aunt struggles with weight, your mom, dad. Face it, you don’t have to watch “The Biggest Loser” to see that everyone struggles with weight. Some for as little as five pounds and some as much as 500 pounds, although I don’t think the 500 is the norm.
Everyone (scientists) says Americans are fat. I weigh twenty pounds more than I did when I graduated high school. Occasionally, (just a few times) it has been more, but not much, and not for long.
Anyway, you know technology – iPhones, iPads, and oh, Droids. (That one sounds like you’re carrying a little alien around in your pocket.)
All these gadgets have apps and more apps. A few weeks back I talked briefly about one you use in the grocery store, where you hold it up to the food item, then it rates it on a 1 to 10 level on how healthy it is for you, depending on fiber, sugar content, ingredients and preservatives. I don’t have that one, and probably won’t get it. I use my cell phone for talking.
However there is a new one out that I just downloaded for kicks, but I’m putting it on my iPad instead of my iPhone.
It’s called “The Snack App.” Here’s a description from the Web site: “Hungry? The new Snack App from the No.1 health site, EverydayHealth.com, helps you choose the perfect snack to satisfy your craving.
This App sorts hundreds of snacks by calorie counts – 50, 100, or 200 – and by type of craving: salty, sweet, crunchy, cheesy, creamy and more. Just tell the app what you want, and you’ll get a list of tasty snack ideas complete with caloric and nutritional information. Feeling guilty after your snack? The Snack App also gives you simple ways to burn the calories you just consumed”
There is more, but I think you get the idea. Geez-z-z-z, what is wrong with us? Are we so dependent on having a gadget telling us what to do, that now we need one to tell us what our tummies are craving? Not only that, but then how to completely void out the calories, so we don’t gain a pound? Really, how fun can that be?
So I guess if you’re going to the beach tomorrow, but you’re craving something snack-y tonight, get the app, let it tell you what you want, and then before you go to bed, work it all off – that way tomorrow you still won’t look anymore overweight than you did the day before. (Ok, I’m sorry. I just think it’s kinda funny – but, hey it’s all this is new generation stuff, so I can make fun. Kinda like how my mom and dad made fun of our bell-bottom jeans and fringed suede vests.)
Well, I have a recipe. Not so much a snack, because about the only snacks that I like are Ding Dongs and Starbursts. (BTW, those aren’t in the new app yet. Probably won’t be. And probably why I can’t shed those few pounds, because after eating a few of those, I ain’t worried about tomorrow! But here is a recipe for one of my very favorite ways to cook a pork loin. Yummy!
Roasted pork loin
with rosemary and garlic
4 large garlic cloves,
pressed
4 teaspoons chopped
resh Rosemary
1 1/2 teaspoons coarse salt
1/2 teaspoon ground
black pepper
2 to 3 pound boneless pork
loin roast, well trimmed
Preheat oven to 400 de-grees F. Line roasting pan with foil. Mix first four ingredients in bowl. Rub garlic mixture all over pork. Place pork, fat side down, in pan. Roast pork 30 minutes. Turn roast fat side up. Roast until thermometer inserted into center of pork registers 155 degrees F., (about 25 minutes longer.) Remove from oven; let stand 10 minutes. Pour any juices from roasting pan into small saucepan; set over low heat to keep warm. Cut pork crosswise into 1/3-inch-thick slices. Arrange pork slices on platter. Pour pan
juices over.
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