Healthy Choices

I usually post recipes, amazing monthly specials, or tips about product use. Today I want to highlight my last Demarle Host family. Jenn and Trey Bonner are health coaches with TSFL, a physician-endorsed weight loss program that promotes lifestyle change along with a diet regimen. After losing an amazing 187/110 pounds on a journey that started almost two years ago, Jenn and her husband Trey now dub themselves "Half the couple." They are passionate about helping others take the same path they chose toward a healthy lifestyle.

Because Jenn and Trey have come to focus on making healthy eating choices, they avoid junk foods, shop for fresh veggies, and were eager to hear about non-stick Demarle products that do not interact with food during the cooking process. We used my Demarle products to prepare a salmon dinner at their house. They were amazed at the flavor of food prepared in Kosher-certified pans and the easy clean up afterward. The vibrant green broccoli prepared in the microwave with no water added was also a big hit.

Photo Credit: L Wallace

When Jenn unmolded the mandarin orange cake from the Sunflower mold, she said, "That doesn't look real!"  I laughed and asked her what she meant. "It looks like food that's been sprayed for filming a commercial," she said. The carmelized sugar sheen of baked goods in Demarle's "chef's secret" is almost too good to be true. 

Trey fell in love with the DD stainless that has no brads on the interior cooking surface to catch food and harbor germs.

This weekend, Jenn hosted her own Demarle Party and invited others who are on the quest for health to discover the Demarle Difference.

Six-year-old Ava insisted on helping fill the square savarin tray with turkey meatloaf. This is exactly what Demarle does best—

bring families back to the kitchen for easy, healthy meals.

Trey ordered his DD stainless with the May Stainless Extravaganza Special offering a 58% discount on the combined sets. Jenn is excited about getting the knives that are included with the sets.

Their hostess rewards will get them started with an array of Demarle Flexipans®, Flexitrays®, and Silpats®.

The day after the party, Jenn emailed me to say:

Kristi,

I am getting ready to cook lunch and my first thought was “I can’t wait to get my Demarle products!”

Trey and Jenn will be hosting another party soon for those who could not come to this one.

It is a thrill to walk alongside these champions of healthy living with the value that Demarle at Home brings to families.

Salmon Bake

I often use my Demarle Flexipat® to bake meat entrees and roast veggie side dishes at the same time. Fish, chicken, pork chops, even ground meats can be cooked alongside a favorite selection of veggies. This week I chose to do Salmon with lemon and dill and a veggie mix with Herbs de Provence.

 

 

Nothing could be simpler. Toss the veggies in 1/8 C. oil (I prefer grape seed oil) and about 1 T. of spice. Rub the meat with a bit of oil and whatever spices fit the bill, and bake both at 375° for 15-20 minutes. The salmon should flake apart.

And the clean-up is a breeze. I do not miss cleaning the grill pan. 

Both reheat well as leftovers, too.

Fruit Pizza

The birthday girl requested a fruit pizza with strawberries, kiwi, pineapple, and mandarin oranges:

The basic recipe is found on page 55 of our Desserts cookbook. I made the glaze with the juice from the canned mandarin and pineapple.

Fruit Pizza

Crust:

Sugar cookie dough of choice: prepackaged, mix, or homemade.

Preheat oven to 350°

Place Flexipat on medium PBS
Prepare cookie dough per instructions and press into Flexipat

Bake per recipe or package instructions

Allow to cool completely

Topping:

1 pkg cream cheese

5 oz vanilla yogurt

½ t vanilla

2 t lemon zest (juice the lemon for glaze)

Assorted fruit of choice

Blend all but fruit in mixing bowl until smooth.

Spread mixture over cookie crust.

Cut up fruit and decorate top of pizza.

Glaze:

½ C white sugar

1 T cornstarch

Pinch of salt

¾ C fruit juice

2 T lemon juice

Combine all ingredients in a small DD saucepan. 

Bring to a boil over medium heat and cook 1-2 minutes until thickened.

Remove from heat and allow to cool, but not set up.

Spoon over fruit.

Chill pizza for 2 hours.

Cut into servings with plastic cake server.

Enjoy!