I don't know how to break this to you all gently

[DFW]

None of you were here tonight.

Tonight, my wife made for dinner:

A salad with Chinese winter cabbage in a teriyaki/ginger/Lemon/Garlic sauce

A veggie pan sauté in olive oil with zucchini, onions, marinated eggplant, broccoli and green olives

A sauté of diced chicken and onion slices in olive oil, cajun spice and a dash of Worcestershire sauce

For afterward: fresh (NOT canned!) mandarin orange slices and black tea sweetened with apricot marmalade.

The occasion? No occasion. She ALWAYS cooks like this (and she's 5'10" and weighs 130). For those who ask the legitimate question of why I don't weigh 475 pounds, all I can say is that there is still an arguable case for there being miracles (i.e. I don't understand it either).

[orleans]

1. that's right--RUB IT IN

by the way, you said she made this for dinner tonight

your post clocked in around one in the afternoon. where are you at? london?

[DFW]

3. Farther east

Düsseldorf.

[hlthe2b]

2. Yeah, I'm jealous...

But if she always cooks instead of stocking up on processed foods (or heaven forbid, "fast food&quot , that explains a lot of why you aren't 475 pounds.

Sounds delish.

[DFW]

4. Most Europeans do it the old-fashioned way

My wife is from the flat farm country in the extreme northwest corner of Germany, near the Dutch border. We shop at the farmers market in our town square three times a week for our food. They've been doing it this way around here for the last 1200 years or so. Still works for us.

[Arugula Latte]

5. Eating a vegetable heavy diet is the way to go to avoid weight gain,

and sounds like you are doing that. Americans need to vastly increase their vegetable intake and vastly decrease their "other" intake.

[DFW]

6. I'd add to that:

Preferably vegetables as designed by Nature and not the versions by Monsanto

[Arugula Latte]

12. Definitely.

And that's much easier to do in Europe than here in the US.

[elleng]

7. How lovely!

Sounds like you both may have a metabolism similar to my Dad's, AND of course, all those 'good' foods, few carbs, that'll do it!!!

[DFW]

8. Not so few carbs I'm afraid

The Germans have about thirty different words for "bread," and with good reason!

(Even if "German chocolate cake" doesn't exist in Germany, and people here are thoroughly confused by the expression).

[elleng]

9. OF COURSE they do,

and Dad liked fresh bread every day. (HIS dad ran a NY deli, so he got used to it.) But his portions were always moderate, and tho dessert was required, always in moderation. None in the family were overweight.

My poor mother, however, didn't have the same metabolism, so she had to be careful. IMAGINE cooking for a slender man with definite requirements for fresh meals every day! I did feel sorry for her!

[Arugula Latte]

13. I always thought that it was odd that a dessert

with warm-climate foods in it such as coconut and pecan was connected to Germany.

[DFW]

15. It's no more German than French Toast is from France n/t

[OriginalGeek]

18. Fun Fact: German Chocolate cake is named for the chocolate used in the cake

In the 1850s the American chocolate manufacturer Sam German developed a dark, baking chocolate used in the cake. It was originally called German's Chocolate Cake and was never intended to refer to the country. Just the guy. One of the earliest recipes was submitted to the Dallas Morning Star by a Dallas homemaker in the 1950s.

[DFW]

19. Ah, so just like French Toast

Which was invented by a chef whose last name was "French." Had nothing to do with France whatsoever.

Didn't stop the Republicans from coming up with "Freedom Toast" as an alternative, of course.

Which didn't stop US from coming up with this:

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[Lionel Mandrake]

20. Our house boasts a freedom drain

in front of the garage.

US Hawks (mostly Republicans) were furious when France refused to let US warplanes fly over their country during a certain undeclared war. We haven't heard much about "freedom toast" and "freedom fries" since France helped attack Moammar Gaddafi in a subsequent undeclared war (which led to the present mess in Libya).

Nice lyrics!

[KamaAina]

10. Nom nom nom!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

11. Oh boy, my dear DFW!

You are a very lucky husband! What a wonderful meal...

[DFW]

14. I'm a lucky husband even without the meal

As well you know

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[CaliforniaPeggy]

16. You are indeed.

And I would also say that she did all right too...

[DFW]

17. Believe me

I got the better part of the bargain, and I'm not ashamed to admit it!