Posted on 02/22/2011 5:18:09 AM PST by FTJM
Some conservative bloggers and talk-show hosts act like the short rib in Michelle Obama's dinner entree was, like Adam's, extracted from them personally.
The first lady, in Vail with her daughters and some friends for the Presidents Day weekend, dined at Restaurant Kelly Liken in Vail Village Saturday night, enjoying a pickled pumpkin salad with arugula and a braised ancho-chile short rib with hominy wild mushrooms and sauteed kale.
So, of course, some people are taking the short view of the short rib.
A braised short rib is a relatively lean cut of beef, braised with most of the fat cooked off. The 5-ounce serving runs about 600 calories, Liken said — a far cry from the 1,500 calories and 141 grams of fat it's accused of.
“A proper 5-ounce portion of protein is what nutritionists say we should have,” said Kelly Liken, who launched the highly successful restaurant.
Let's not forget that the 5-ounce rib is served with local kale, nurtured and grown by students at Eagle's Brush Creek Elementary School.
“Kale is one of nature's super foods,” Liken said. “There are more nutrients in the 3 ounces of kale we serve than you'll get in a massive green salad.”
A skier will burn off about 6,000 calories during the course of a day.
“It's a hearty meal for sure, a great meal after a day of skiing, well-balanced and nutritious,” Liken said.
Obama is championing her anti-obesity campaign. She ate at Restaurant Kelly Liken because of the restaurant's association with Brush Creek Elementary School's Sowing Seeds program. Students grow vegetables in a greenhouse, and some of it lands on their lunch trays.
Liken, who helped spearhead Brush Creek's Sowing Seeds program, says she uses produce from the school's greenhouse whenever she can.
“The food at Restaurant Kelly Liken is the healthiest food you can get in a restaurant,” Liken said.
Liken said she is committed to her customers' health.
“I want to nourish the people who eat it, to teach people they don't have to sacrifice taste and texture to eat nutritious and healthy foods,” Liken said.
Liken met the first lady Saturday night in her restaurant's dining room.
“It was refreshing to see how interested she really was and how passionate about the kids' healthy lunches, as well as the movement to eat locally here in the Vail Valley,” Liken said.
So, as to the carrying-on about how the first lady could eat that 5-ounce rib, Oliver Tito noticed it was eaten with a knife and fork, just like Saturday night's other diners lucky enough to get a table at Restaurant Kelly Liken.
You mean she isn’t?
We’ll have to wait for Andrea Mitchell’s commentary to find out.
A skier will burn off about 6,000 calories during the course of a day.
A fast marathon runner of her size would consume about 3000.
Some intense backcountry skiing ?
http://www.carbboom.com/nutrition/marathoncalculator.html
The first clue should be when a restaurant carries the “owners” name in full, as opposed to a more sensible “Kelly's Place” or “Elways”. Unless Kelly Liken is an assumed name.
This is a high end restaurant full of chefs, customized food and lots of wine, designed to fleece skiers that can afford the Vail experience. Not having been there, I wouldn't call it pretentious ... yet.
Portions there for each course will be small to medium sized. There are multiple side dishes that can be ordered, dramatically increasing the calorie count. It may have started as a 5 oz short rib but the sauces and the rest of the meal can kill a diet quickly.
Did I mention the cost? It takes a lot of $$ to live in Vail and transport all that food and those workers. So that the children of these workers can send their kids to public school in Vail.
Lastly, I would estimate that a new skier would not burn 6,000 calories on the slopes ...
To begin with, what a gawd-awful sounding meal.
NO SOUP FOR YOU!!!
Tell me again. Which is Zero’s wife?
All it would take is for some enterprising news crew to go over to said restaurant, purchases said meal, and take it to an independent lab for a full calorie analysis.
I’m sure she only had a few bites of her meal and carefully monitored the caloric intake of the rest of the people at the table. Afterwards, she compassionately had the scraps put out on the sidewalk so her less fortunate admirers kept at a distance outside the resturant could share in the meal.
Bunny slope? Isn’t the fact the restaurant owner said she burned 6,000 calories enough to convince you she spent the day blasting down the black diamonds? Who you going to believe?
599 grams is right at 21 ounces. I’m a hefty guy and I would be hard pressed to eat a 21 ounce steak on a regular basis.
A 5 ounce serving, with the information you provided, would be 379 calories. With the rest of the meal as described, probably less than 800 calories total.
Sounds like an awful meal to me! Kale = weeds.
That can't be the "look" she wants.
The poor people.....? Let them eat cake!
I quite often consume 1,500 calorie meals. I also run about 25 miles per week and cycle or play basketball on my non running days. I am 5’9” and a healthy 165 pounds. The problem isn’t what we are eating, the problem is idleness. How many obese people exercise at all, much less on a regular basis?
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