Editorial
Front Page - Friday, May 14, 2010
Kay's Cooking Corner
Kay Bona
It’s that time of year. The time when just about everyone you know is racing the clock to get in shape before they have to don that cellulite-bulging, fat-roll showing bathing suit.
Eventually the opportunity will pop-up and…if you are like me, you won’t be any closer to looking svelte and debonair than you were last year at this time.
I was reading an article earlier today about weight loss because the opening sentence caught my eye, “Avoid eating too much.” Immediately my mind started racing. What? A new trick I didn’t know about? A new gadget? Please, Lord, just let it be easy!
Once I got into the article, I realized it wasn’t any of the above. Scientists have not discovered any new tricks, there are no new gadgets on the market (at least none that really work), and it isn’t that easy at all.
The deal is this: Spend at least 30 minutes enjoying your food. OK. Right. That means an hour and a half of every day should be spent eating. This doesn’t include your snack times. And it does say “at least”, which to me means, if you are not losing weight, then you aren’t enjoying your food as much as you should be. Heck, take another 30 minutes. Really feel yourself “eating” that weight off!
I’m not knocking their test results, neither am I a scientist, and so I am sure there are legitimate facts behind their new findings, but pul-lease…
The rest of the article gets even better – Literally! Read on… “In the study, volunteers were served two and one half scoops of ice cream, twice. On one day, they wolfed down the treat in 5 minutes flat. Then, on another day, they lingered over the bowl for a full half hour. Blood tests showed that slow eating increased levels of two appetite-lowering chemicals (peptide YY and glucagon-like peptide-1) by 25 to 30 percent. And these satisfaction hormones stayed high for the next two and one half hours.”
OK, so not only is it a way to always be eating something and it’s good for you, but – ice cream, no less! A thirty-minute bowl of two and one half scoops of ice cream. I like it. I’m not sure how much weight I will lose, but jiminy, this sounds like the best weight loss plan ever! Forget sweating it out for an hour at the gym – head for the freezer. Yeah, I definitely like it!
Well, I’m through making fun of the newest findings, and in all honesty, they probably do have some good points, but I didn’t get to those. I had to stop and hop on over to the store. I sure wanna look good for summer.
I haven’t printed an ice cream recipe lately and there are so many good ones out there. With Memorial Day right around the corner, it would be the perfect time to try a new flavor, so I have found one that I really like and it is so easy and quick. Make it right before you put those burgers on the grill and by the time you get to dessert, (remember to take at least thirty minutes to eat your burger) this ice cream will be ready.
Banana-split ice cream
4 bananas
1 large carton frozen
strawberries
1 15 oz can pineapple
chunks
1 cup pecans, chopped
1/2 cup mini chocolate
chips
1 quart half and half
(can use fat-free)
1 can sweetened condensed
milk
3/4 tsp. vanilla
1 small lime
milk
Mash three bananas and cut the other one in (round) slices. Add the juice from one small lime. Add vanilla, half and half and the can of sweetened condensed milk. Add can of pineapple and its juice. Add the frozen strawberries, pecans and mini chocolate chips. Pour in milk to finish filling freezer container. Freeze according to manufacturer’s instructions.
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