What's for Dinner

Tonight's South Beach ... Salsa Chicken - spicy cubes of chicken cooked up with some salsa, served on a bed of shredded lettuce with some sour cream. Even the kids ate it, and it's good enough for company. Even people you like. Sorry I couldn't find a link to the recipe. They are fairly well guarded so that you have to buy the book.

About the Book - South Beach Diet - it's a great diet; it's a pretty lousy book. There are great gaps in information, there is conflicting advice in different chapters, and most annoying, the number of servings each recipe makes is completely random. The dinner menu may call for an entree, a vegetable and a dessert - but the dinner recipe serves 4, the vegetable recipe serves 2 and the dessert serves 1. Maybe they expect people to start leaving once you have served them dinner. You have to check each recipe carefully before you begin to be sure you are making the right amount and you need to be a mathmetician as well as a fairly comfortable cook. Another gripe - the time given for cooking chicken and fish almost always results in undercooking. Also, some recipes give the amount in ounces - "add 2 ounces of fat free half and half". Hang on, let me grab my beaker ...