Christmas is just around the corner. I put together 500 calories Christmas dinner recipes to celebrate my first Christmas with my www.iCook500calories.com. (This is my baby!) I like something romantic (how about wine sauce?), colorful (nice green and red salad) and warm (rich soup). Does it sound good? I hope everybody will have a very Merry Christmas! Chicken with Red Wine…
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For Japanese, chicken breast is not so popular because they tend to dry out when cooked and it does not have much flavor. Chicken breast is a good source of protein and very low in calories, only little over 100 calories per 100 gram. Make sure to trim skin because it will almost double up the calories with it. Just…
Until I started my 500 calories cooking, I never used whole grain mustard. I thought it was lumpy and bitter to eat compared to yellow or Dijon mustard. I was wrong. It is quite tasty! Natural whole grain mustard is made out of mustard seeds, vinegar, and salt. It has a great health benefit that you want to hear. It can…
Japanese like to eat homemade Chinese food. Chinese cooking technique is a bit different from Japanese cooking. Chinese cooking tends to deep fry meats and vegetables and coat with heavy sauce. Japanese way of Chinese cooking is much healthier. Let’s avoid deep frying food! When you deep fry meats and vegetables, they will absorb oil. One teaspoon of oil has 38 calories! I…
Japanese cooking uses variety of mushrooms for different dishes. They use Shitake mushroom, Mitake mushroom, Enoki mushroom, King Trumpet mushroom, Shimeji mushroom, Nameko mushroom and many more. Mushrooms are an ideal ingredient for 500 calories set meals. They are delicious, low in calories and rich in vitamins, minerals and fiber. There is a good mushroom grower called Hokto in southern…
I grew up with eating a variety of fish: mackerel, sardine, tuna, salmon and more. After I moved to U.S.A., I have a few reasons not to cook fish. First I am not quite sure if fish is fresh at local grocery stores. Some stores’ fish section doesn’t smell so good (old fish?) compared to the smell of fresh fish…
Let’s kick off with an easy recipe! As I mentioned in my introduction post, a plain hamburger has 500 calories. On the set meal you will enjoy five different flavors and textures. Look at colorful dishes. It means that you are eating many different vegetables. Can you count how many there are? There are at least nine vegetables used for the…
“Oh my god! We were so skinny. What happened to us?” Do you feel the same way when you look at your old pictures, like graduation or wedding? You tried so many diet foods and excises to be healthy, but nothing seems to be working, until now… I Cook 500 Calories I am a Japanese wife who is married to…