Just for you, Sugar, I managed to sneakily link
this fine flame-broiled meal to a London icon.

Marinated (spices and oil),
Barbecued ('til the juices just boil),
It is sliced on the slant,
Beef-eaters really can't,
Resist a well-cooked london broil!

OH MY, that looks delish!! But should you be recommending "LONDON BROIL" on kick the Brits [censored] day???

NG, that looks wonderful. I envy you today!

NG,

That london broil looks soooo good! YuM....I need to buy one next time I shop! Thamks for the idea and pic!

Hope everyone had a great 4th!

tma, here is the entire recipe.
(NG's actual result is pictured to the right.)

Marinade - Mix well
1/4 cup soy or teriaki sauce
1/4 cup cooking sherry
1 Tbs garlic powder
2 tsp ginger paste (or ground ginger powder)

Directions
1 - Put 1.25 in thick shoulder steak in plastic bag. Pour in marinade. Remove as much air as possible, and seal bag.
2 - Marinate in refrigerator for up to 24 hours
3 - Place steak on medium grill for three minutes. Rotate about 60 degrees. Cook for three more minutes. Flip steak, grill, rotate, grill as before.
4 - Remove to platter, let rest for five minutes. Slice. Eat. Accept plaudits.

I baked a filet of salmon, fried a can of green beans and baked Brussels sprouts

Thanks so much NG for complete recipe! I am DEF. going to try this! Your actual result looked fantastic!!!! Can't wait to try it....next weekend I think...I will let you know how mine turns out

tma, did you try the London broil recipe?

Anyway, with the heat baking us Empire Staters, Bride and I transferred our usual lite Caribbean supper to the MHV!

1 long loaf crusty baguette
some whole-wheat flatbread crackers
2 peaches, 2 plums, pitted and cut into wedges
fresh Bing cherries
red grapes
1 small camembert
i chunk gorgonzola
i chunk smoked gouda
adequate supply of Montepulciano Abruzzo

Not yet NG, but I am still planning to do, I am kinda cheap though, and was hoping to be able to get the London Broil on sale....I have been watching the adds.

Chicken roasted, covered with "Herbs de Provence"; potatoes roasted with salt, pepper and oil; fresh sliced carrots boiled and glazed with agave syrup

NG: Do you prefer agave syrup?

I prefer whatever Bride makes!

Breakfast;

4 hard boiled eggs, 2 cheese sticks.

Lunch;

Cucumbers, Celery w/ jalepeno cream cheese, roast beef and lettuce wrapped in low carb tortillas.


Dinner;

Dunno yet.

Snack;

Low carb snack bar.


One month in - still 245lbs, but inches are shrinking off. Beginning to think I'm destined to be 250lbs fat or fit.

Breakfast: 4 hard boiled eggs

Is this a typical breakfast? If so, I assume you are assiduously checking your cholesterol.

I think I read somewhere that the recommended limit for eggs is 4 per week.

Here is what a typical day looks like for me:

Breakfast: Steel-cut oatmeal with almond milk, natural granola, and fruit or a whole-grain waffle with almond butter and fruit.

Lunch: cheese, nuts, and fruit or pita chips, veggies, hummus and fruit.

Dinner: Varies, but we eat a lot of veggies, salads, soup, brown rice/quinoa, fish, and chicken. Sometimes we mix it up and make pasta or enchiladas (I love chicken enchiladas with green sauce or black bean and sweet potato enchiladas).

Snacks: Don't eat many, but I will usually have a small amount of dark chocolate after lunch and in the summer, I enjoy a milkshake in the evenings.

Mix that up with walking at least 4 times a week for a minimum of 30 minutes, hiking whenever I can, and climbing the occasional mountain.

5'5" and 137 pounds. Healthy BMI. Below normal BP, good cholesterol levels, no health problems other than a slightly under-active thyroid for which I take 65 mg. of Nature-throid once a day as well as a Vitamin D supplement.

Lately, we've been considering switching to a vegan/vegetarian diet. Just ordered the documentary "Forks over Knives" but it hasn't arrived yet. We already eat a lot of meals that would qualify as vegan/vegetarian. Trying to increase our health and decrease our carbon footprint as much as possible.

Not particularly;

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16340654

Eggs are about the most nutritious food you can eat. I have eaten 3-4 a day for 15 years and I have the highest HDL my doctor has ever seen in his career. (103) They are an excellent source of nutrition!

Here are my meals for today:

Breakfast: 3 fried eggs and 2 fat slices of bacon

Late lunch: blackened tilapia and grilled shrimp with sugar free coleslaw and green beans.

Snack will be sugar free ice cream, 2 devilled eggs and pickled okra. yum!

You are speaking my language!! That sounds like my kind of day. If I am on the run, I have 2 cheese sticks in the car and it keeps me full all morning. What kind of low carb snack bar do you eat?

Another thing I like for breakfast sometimes is home-made sugar free cheesecake. It is a nice, healthy, filling breakfast. One cheesecake gives me 8 slices and that is enough for breakfast for a week and one afternoon snack.

I'm working on the other risk factors for high LDL; excess weight carried in the belly/trunk, low activity lifestyle, low fiber intake.

Dietary cholesterol only contributes for about 15% of your total serum cholesterol, the other 85% is endogenous.

Increasing activity and losing weight should also benefit by lowering my blood pressure - all 3 of which are attributed to increased risk for artherosclerosis and/or heart disease (also, alcohol consumption, which is what probably lead to all the circulatory congestion that killed my mother's husband - my consumption is... rather minimal).

Nothing like a 4 egg omlette with sausage, cheese, onions, peppers, and mushrooms. Or a taco omlette.

My energy levels skyrocketed the first week, and I've been sleeping a lot less, even with back-to-back doubles and/or random on call shifts.