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Gizzards

Offal of the Week: Gizzards

gizzards

Most people are tangentially aware of gizzards, only dealing with the peculiar muscle while shoving their hands up the cavity of a bird carcass to remove to the random nameless giblets before really getting down to work.  Little do they know that in fact, they’re throwing away some of the tastiest parts of the bird.  With only a marginal amount of work and time you can turn gizzards into a fantastic (and eyebrow-raising!) addition to your cooking repertoire.

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Salads: Cutdown on the Calories

KFC Crispy Chicken Caesar Salad

That’s what I had for dinner last night. Supposedly. LOL.

This is what how it really looked like. See the not so nice looking lettuce bits on the right?

Tips on how to minimize your dressing application on your salad from take out. I learned this thing from my good friend Oliver Aquino when I had a salad from Starbucks when we were there 3 years ago. This is a great thing to do when you’re on a diet or counting your calories. Why? The salad I had minus the dressing and croutons is just 360 – 370 Calories give or take. But after you add ALL the dressing from a sachet, it’ll bloat to a whopping 630 calories. Almost double! Imagine the local kind that we get that comes from a CUP. So I’d say that’ll be as bad as eating a Burger King Whopper which is 740 Calories.

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