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Low Carb Banh Mi

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Low Carb Carbalose Flour Banh Mi SandwichLow Carb Banh Mi and yes, made with Carbalose bread but shaped into a different form. So, as I am from the mountains of Colorado, there were no Thai restaurants hence nary a low carb Banh Mi Sandwich in sight.  As a diabetic I had never had nor tasted one and really had no basis of comparison but the ingredients that go into one are all ingredients I am quite familiar with, love, and use all the time. I do have lots of friends who have not only eaten them but raved about them so I thought, since I use and make all the ingredients in a low carb carbalose flour Banh Mi sandwich, and yes I do even have maggi sauce, why not just try it.  Well, I am here to tell you this baby is ridiculously good.  It is not the largest sandwich at 6 inches but it does pack unbelievable flavors in those 6”.  I do want to say your small baguettes will not be as crispy as a traditional one.  I did use a small amount of butter to toast it and that’s about as good as it gets.  If you look carefully, you can see all the layers of goodness.

Low Carb Carbalose Flour Banh Mi SandwichLow Carb Carbalose Flour Banh Mi SandwichIf the average 6″ Banh Mi sandwich has 70g-75g carbs I’m not sure where else you could get a sandwich with all the stuff piled in a bun and have it under 17g carbs so, when you have nothing else better to do, please try it.  You will need the recipes for Carbalose Flour Bread, Chicken Liver Pate, and Maggi Mayo which is best made a day or two ahead anyway and which means you can make this in stages.

I have included a picture of the bun top’s guts hollowed out and which weighs about an ounce because not only is it not needed, it allows more room for other stuff.  If you decide to hollow out the top it will also reduce your final carb count by about 1g.

The picture to the left is my very first Banh Mi (bunless of course) that I had while on a recent trip to Seattle to see old friends.  Notice the egg which was an add on.  I have to say it really was divine and though quite piquant with the jalapeno peppers, I am positive it had a bit of sugar in it.

 

I’m really sorry I did not have any pork skins to eat with my sandwich as they would have been the perfect accompaniment but ate the last of what I had and hadn’t popped any replacements.

All my other Carbalose Recipes are listed at the bottom of the Carbalose Informational Page.

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Banh Mi Sandwich
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Ingredients
  1. 1 Recipe Carbalose Bread
  2. 1 Recipe Chicken Liver Pate
  3. 1 Recipe Maggi Mayo
Guts
  1. 12 Oz Warmed Pulled Pork
  2. 1 C Apple Cider Vinegar
  3. 1 C Water
  4. 3 Drops Liquid Sucralose
  5. 1 Grated Medium Carrot (Or About 1 Cup)
  6. 1 Grated Jicama (Or About 1½ C)
  7. 1 Medium Cucumber Sliced Lengthwise
  8. 8 T Pickled Jalapenos
  9. 8 T Coarsely Chopped Cilantro
  10. 8 t Butter
Instructions
  1. Combine water, vinegar, & Sucralose and add grated veggies. Refrigerate and marinate at least a couple of hours.
  2. Slice bun in half (carefully scooping out top of bun if wanted you can use it later for bread crumbs), thinly spread butter on top & bottom and toast in heated skillet.
Working up
  1. Spread chicken liver pate on each bottom.
  2. Divide and place pork on top of pate.
  3. Add drained veggies.
  4. Add sliced cucumber.
Top
  1. Spread with maggi mayo.
  2. Evenly distribute jalapenos.
  3. Cover with cilantro.
  4. Close, cut and serve.
  5. 4 Servings
  6. 795 Calories, 48.1g Protein, 41.5g Fat, 37.7g Carbs, 21.2g Fiber, 16.5g Net Carbs
Notes
  1. Nutritionals include bread, maggi mayo and pate as well as the rest of the ingredients.
  2. I marinated my cucumber but I think it would be much crunchier just sliced and un-marinated.
  3. If you like, have and use pickled red onions they might be another good addition but are not authentic to the sandwich.
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Low Carb Bacon Wrapped Mean Dogs

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Low Carb Bacon Wrapped Mean DogsLow Carb Bacon Wrapped Mean DogsLow Carb Bacon Wrapped Mean DogsLow Carb Bacon Wrapped Mean Dogs?  Many times it’s fun to come up with a tricky name.  Probably not so smart as you don’t want to confuse people but in this case it seems appropriate.  I doubt anyone will mistake a bacon wrapped anything without thinking of food.  Diddling around in the kitchen is fun (at least for me).  You will need both the Pico de Gallo and Chipotle Mayonnaise recipes for final assembly but this are so easy and quick to make and I thought the name Mean Dogs was perfect as they are a bit spicy and can be adjusted to make them even more so.  I showed a picture with two dogs because…I ate them both and…it was all I had for dinner…except a small bowl of raspberries. If you like a bit of spice and you like hot dogs then these low carb bacon wrapped mean dogs just may be for you.

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Bacon Wrapped Mean Dogs
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Ingredients
  1. 4 Beef Hot Dogs (I Use Hebrew National)
  2. 4 Slices Thick Bacon
  3. Toothpicks
  4. 1 Recipe Pico de Gallo
  5. 1 Recipe Chipotle Mayo
Instructions
  1. Wrap hot dogs with bacon, stretching if necessary to cover, and secure with toothpicks.
  2. Pan fry or grill.
  3. Put on plate, spoon on Pico de Gallo, spoon chipotle mayo over all and enjoy.
  4. 4 Servings
  5. 365 Calories, 32.7g Fat, 10.0g Protein, 8.0g Carbs, .8g Fiber, 7.2g Net Carbs
  6. 2 Servings
  7. 730 Calories, 64.4g Fat, 20.0g Protein, 16.0g Carbs, 1.6g Fiber, 14.2g Net Carbs
Notes
  1. Nutritionals are for total dish and include mayo & pico.
  2. You will probably only use about ½ the pico de gallo.
  3. That little blob of green stuff at the back of the plate? It’s sugar-free bread & butter pickles.
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Low Carb Steak Salad

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Low Carb Steak SaladLow Carb Steak Salad. Sometimes in the day-to-day humdrum of life it’s easy to forget some of the simpler ways to eat and a low carb steak salad might be one of them. It has everything in it with balanced, healthy meats, fats, and yes a few carbs sprinkled in because even lettuce has carbs.  The Denver steak below is the same one I use for Chicken Fried Steak.

I eat this as a complete meal and it’s terrific for the warm days of summer and when the grilling of steaks happens frequently.  Pretty easy to make your steaks a bit larger and have leftovers for a salad the next day.  Steak, when reheated takes on a rather crummy taste and the beauty of this salad is that the meat is never reheated.  I actually use Denver steak specifically for this and refrigerate it overnight, but that’s just me.  As this recipe is a complete meal I suggest using at least 6 oz. of beef and more if you can eat it.  The recipe is for one and may be multiplied as needed for more.

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Steak Salad
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Ingredients
  1. 6-7 Oz. Good Quality Steak ( Used Denver Steak)
  2. 3 C Chopped Romaine Lettuce
  3. ½ C Chunked Tomato (Cherry Tomatoes Work As Well)
  4. ½ Small Avocado Cut Into Chunks
  5. 1½ Oz Blue Cheese (Optional But Really Good)
  6. 3 T Olive Oil
  7. 1 T Lemon Juice
  8. 1 t Dijon Mustard
  9. 1 T Minced Shallots
  10. ½ t Garlic
  11. ¼ t Salt
  12. Freshly Ground Pepper
Instructions
  1. Dry sauté in hot pan or grill steak to desired doneness Rare to medium-rare is best.
  2. Toss lettuce, avocado & tomatoes in ⅔ of the dressing and plate.
  3. Put steak down and then blue cheese if using.
  4. Drizzle rest of dressing over meat & cheese.
  5. 1 Serving
  6. 896 Calories, 44.2g Protein, 72.5g Fat, 15.8g Carbs, 6.6g Fiber, 9.2g Net Carbs
Notes
  1. I use Denver steak because it has lots of fat laced in the meat (see picture) with no surrounding gristle.
  2. If you like a particular steak spice then by all means use it. Herbs? Of course.
  3. Denver steaks are not usually very large and you may need two of them to get to 6-7 oz. They are typically about ½" thick and cook very quickly so be sure to use a blazing hot pan if you are sautéing. The steak is self-basting.
  4. Avocado would be a really good addition and I would have used it but...didn't have one...and I ran to the store and now I do.
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Keto Chicken Fried Steak

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Keto Chicken Fried SteakKeto Chicken Fried Steak. My use of Ground Pork Rinds has almost gotten to the ridiculous…but not quite.  This chicken fried steak is so easy and nearly zero carbs.  When I was a kid my mom used to fix us minute steaks, minus any gravy, and today you can’t even find minute steaks.  I finally ended up with a ¼ lb “Denver Steak” whatever the heck that is.  I lived in Denver, Colorado and there was certainly no such steak when I was there.

A Denver steak is taken from the fattiest part of the chuck and definitely not cubed nor could I get my market to cube it.  It seems like a ploy to get more money for a traditionally tougher cut of beef.  They didn’t have the equipment to cube my expensive steak so…I did it myself with my Norpro Meat Pounder and Dough Docker.  You know, if some kitchen gadget has only one use I don’t want it, if it plays with a couple of different hats then maybe, and if it does three jobs…then sign me up.

I thought ¼ lb of meat wouldn’t be enough but all the other stuff I had coupled with the high fat content of the heavy cream, was plenty enough. Yes, you can have a fabulous keto chicken fried steak in life-you just found it here.

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Chicken Fried Steak
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Ingredients
  1. 2 ¼-⅓ Lb Denver, Cube, Or Minute Steak
  2. 1 Egg
  3. 2 T Sour Cream
  4. ¾-1 C Pork Dust
  5. 3-4 T Fat (I Used Lard)
  6. ⅔ C Heavy Cream
  7. 1 t Chicken Base
  8. ½ t Pepper
Instructions
  1. Whip egg and sour cream and put on large plate.
  2. Put smaller amount pork dust on another large plate.
  3. Heat fat to medium, medium high.
  4. Dredge both sides of meat in egg then into pork dust. Repeat. If you need more dust add the last ¼ C.
  5. Lay into fat, sauté until blood comes to top, turn and finish. Plate.
  6. Add heavy cream, chicken base, and pepper to pan and reduce slightly. More pepper to taste.
  7. 2 Servings
  8. 916 Calories, 26.2g Protein, 73.4g Fat, 0.7g Carbs, 0g Fiber, 0.7g Net Carbs
Notes
  1. If you used a cube or minute steak DO NOT pound it as they are usable from the git-go. They will also take less time to cook.
  2. Because I ended up with a tender piece of meat (the Denver steak) I did not wait for the tell-tale blood to come to the surface. Since I like my meat rare it turned out about medium rare which was perfect.
  3. Lord forbid I was out of mashed cauliflower so I paired spaghetti squash mixed with butter & poppy seeds and what a great combo it turned out to be.
  4. Very high fat but < than 1g carbs.
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Low Carb Chicken Bog

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Low Carb Chicken BogLow Carb Chicken Bog is a very regionalized dish of the South, specific to South Carolina but akin to Perlo and I’ll be danged if I can see any difference.  It calls for rice which I don’t eat but it doesn’t mean I can’t have its essence and jazz it up a little.  Gads, this is really good and you can almost feed an army with it. Low carb chicken bog for your family’s win.

It also does not take the time traditional chicken bog does because there is no cooking of any rice.  It takes more time to cut & chop the vegetables as it does to actually cook it.

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Chicken Bog
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Ingredients
  1. 1 Lb. Poached & Pulled Chicken
  2. 12-16 Oz Smoked Sausage (Your Favorite)
  3. ½ Lb Sauteed Mushrooms
  4. 8 C Cauliflower Rice (About 1 Medium-Large Core Included)
  5. ¼ C Fat Divided (I Used Lard)
  6. 1 C Onion
  7. ½ C Finely Diced Carrot (For Color Only)
  8. ½ C Stalk Celery
  9. ½ C Red Bell Pepper (Optional For Color)
  10. ¼ C Green Onions (For Color)
  11. 1 T Garlic
  12. ½ t Thyme (Optional)
  13. ½ t Liquid Smoke
  14. ¼ t Crushed Red Pepper (Optional-But Do Use If Meat is Kielbasa)
  15. 2 C Heavy Cream
  16. ½ C Water
  17. 1-1½ T Chicken Base Or To Taste
  18. 6 T Parmesan Cheese (Optional & Nice To Serve To The Side)
  19. Salt & Fresh Ground Pepper To Taste
Instructions
  1. Poach & pull chicken.
  2. Sauté mushrooms in 2 T fat.
  3. Chunk chop sausage, barely brown in 1 T fat and add to pulled chicken. Add rest of fat and sauté onions, carrots, red pepper, & celery until soft. Add garlic, thyme, (crushed red pepper if using) and cook another minute or two. Add liquid smoke.
  4. Mix meats and cauliflower into veggies, add heavy cream & chicken base and reduce cream until desired thickness. If it gets too thick either thin with a little more water or...add more heavy cream.
  5. Taste and season accordingly. If you are using chicken base it should be enough salt.
  6. 8 Servings
  7. 544 Calories, 20.5g Protein, 44.8 g Fat, 10.4g Carbs, 3.7g Fiber, 6.7g Net Carbs
  8. 6 Servings
  9. 725 Calories, 27.3g Protein, 59.7g Fat, 13.9g Carbs, 4.9g Fiber, 9.0g Net Carbs
Notes
  1. If you have a special herb or spice you like-add it.
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Keto Shrimp Scampi

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Keto Shrimp ScampiKeto Shrimp ScampiKeto Shrimp Scampi.  I have eaten Shrimp Scampi since time immemorial and this is the way I have always fixed it.  It does NOT have lemon in it.  It has garlic and lots of it.  If anyone tries to tell you there is lemon in it there isn’t.  If you want to serve lemon on the side then cool and OK.  Yeah, I also used to sop up the butter with lots of French bread and now…I eat it with a spoon.. with absolutely zero regrets. Keto Shrimp Scampi, it’s what for dinner.

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Shrimp Scampi
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Ingredients
  1. 1½-2 Lbs Raw Shrimp
  2. 2 T Butter Divided
  3. 1½ Sticks Butter
  4. 2 T Dried Chives
  5. 4 t Crushed Garlic
Instructions
  1. Peel & dry shrimp.
  2. Begin melting sticked butter and when completely melted add garlic, chives, mix, and remove from heat. As you cook garlic it begins to “sweeten” and you want the strongest punch you can get from it. Think of this as melted compound butter.
  3. Heat 1 T butter in sauté pan until it begins to start browning . Better to be more brown that not or you will end up stewing you shrimp and you don't want that.
  4. Add ½ of the shrimp and cook, turning once. Repeat.
  5. Making sure to keep butter stirred, divide into 4 dipping bowls.
  6. Plate and enjoy.
  7. 4 Servings
  8. 602 Calories, 46.6g Protein, 44.1g Fat, 3.0g Carbs, .1g Fiber, 2.9g Net Carbs
Notes
  1. Yes, that really is 3 T butter per person. If you don’t want or don’t think you can eat that much then cut it down to 2 T.
  2. Substitute olive oil for some of the butter. It will alter the taste if you sub too much but...olive oil and garlic is marriage made in heaven.
  3. I actually do eat mine with a spoon. I cut the shrimp in half, put it into the butter, and scoop up all that goodness.
  4. Put this over spaghetti squash for a complete dinner.
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Keto Tostadas On Cheese Crisp Tortillas

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Keto Tostadas On Cheese Crisp TortillasKeto Tostadas On Cheese Crisp TortillasKeto Tostadas On Cheese Crisp TortillasKeto Tostadas On Cheese Crisp Tortillas. Thought perhaps while I was making the Seafood Cerviche with all its wonderful fruits de mar it might be nice to make a companion recipe and instead of using  high carby tortillas I would make them with large fried cheese crisps.  Pretty cool huh?  Now a lot of tostadas recipes call for some kind of slaw but you know what, I think slaw on a tostada is just a filler for other wonderful things you can put on them. You will need Crème Fraîche or sour cream to finish. If you are interested in a complete meal on a plate then Keto Tostadas On Cheese Crisp Tortillas are your answer.

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Tostadas On Cheese Crisp Tortillas
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Ingredients
  1. 8 Oz Grated cheddar Cheese
  2. 1 Lb Fresh White Fish (Tilapia Is Easiest And Least Expensive)
  3. 3 Juiced Limes
  4. 2 Small Jalapeno Peppers Very Finely Diced
  5. ½ C Small Diced Tomatoes
  6. ½ C Minced Cilantro
  7. ¼ C Thinly Sliced Purple Onions
  8. ¼ C Small Diced Orange Pepper
  9. 2 T Minced Green Onions
  10. ½ C Guacamole (Either What You Make Or Your Favorite Store Bought)
  11. ¼ C Crème Fraîche (Or Sour Cream)
Instructions
  1. Heat a 7” bottomed sauté pan to medium low, sprinkle in 2 oz. of cheese to cover bottom, and slowly cook until bubbly, crispy and it releases from pan.
  2. Remove quickly from pan onto a flat surface to cool and parchment paper works perfectly. Repeat 3 times.
  3. Cut fish into ½” cubes and put into lime juice for about 20 minutes stirring occasionally and when ready to use drain the lime juice. (Save it to dilute your Mexican Crema)
  4. Mince and chop all vegetables.
  5. To assemble your tostadas put down cheese crisp, then seafood. Artfully place vegetables and guacamole, finishing with the Mexican Crema. Making Mexican Crema is as easy as thinning crème fraiche or sour cream with leftover lime juice from your marinated fish or seafood.
  6. 4 Servings
  7. 418 Calories, 39.5g Protein, 26.7g Fat, 8.2g Carbs, 2.3g Fiber, 5.9g Net Carbs
Notes
  1. Make your crisps ahead of time if wanted. If you live in a dry area (I do not) they will be OK stacked on the counter. Otherwise gently stack, plate uncovered, and refrigerate until ready to use.
  2. If you have never made crème fraîche please, please at least look at the recipe as it is ridiculously easy to make and store.
  3. But as everyone else says you can also use sour cream and rest assured they are not the same.
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Keto Giant Baked MeatBalls

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Low Carb Giant Baked MeatBallsLow Carb Giant Baked MeatBallsLow Carb Giant Baked MeatBalls

Keto Giant Baked MeatBalls.  Meatballs conger up many things to many people which is why there are so many different meatball recipes and I don’t really mean many, I mean 1,000’s & 1,000’s.  Every Italian son thinks his mother makes the best meatballs and that is only the Italians. There are the Swedes, the Vietnamese, and the whole of The Middle East, let alone Europeans like the Poles, the Germans (don’t forget the French) and for heaven’s sake even the Mexicans have meatballs and…trust me they all think theirs are the best.  Well, I do not presume to say or think mine are the best low carb keto giant baked meatballs, I can only say that they are really good, I love them, and they are extremely versatile.  They are larger than most balls and at 7-7½ oz each and one is plenty enough as a single serving coupled with however or whatever you decide to serve them with.  The picture above is with Porcini Cream, is best with beef, and I think it looks like one of those Famous NYC Black & White Cookies.

Low Carb Giant Baked MeatBallsWhen most people think “meatballs” they think balls swimming in some kind of red sauce, but you can put whatever sauce you want on these or just eat them plain and simple.  This is a relatively easy recipe in that I do not use many spices & herbs which means you can sauce or flavor them as you wish. Whatever other herbs or spices you may decide to put into meatballs, at least in my opinion, kind of determines what sauce you plan to use.  Here are a few suggestions:  Porcini Wine Cream,  Primal Keto Gravy,  Basic Cream Gravy,  Tomato Basil Cream,  sounds strange but Huli BBQ Sauce is terrific and lastly, it’s red and the best of ’em all.  Puttanesca Sauce served over the meatball with about 4 oz. of spaghetti squash.

It’s pretty hard to make meatballs or meatloaf without breadcrumbs for several reasons and the biggest is that they retains the moisture and fat inside the ball instead of in/on your pan. (Think my Hot Crossed Bacon Meatloaf for the purists among you).  That recipe calls for no breadcrumbs and in my opinion leaving animal fat of any kind is a food sin.  Not only does fat make things taste good, it’s good for you, and makes your pants fall down.  If you have your own low carb bread crumbs then my suggestion is use them.  If not Carbalose Flour Bread makes fabulous crumbs.  I keep a bag of them in my freezer at all times.  I don’t use them often but when I need them, they are there.  They are NOT in this recipe:  See Below.

An Experiment:  Based on my test of ¼ C ground pork rinds with 2 T melted lard I thought this should work and voilé…it worked perfectly.  For the 2 Lbs. ground meat you will need 1 C Ground Pork Rinds and it seems to be the same ratio as breadcrumbs and after all that, it makes keto giant baked meatballs paleo and Whoopee.  I pop and grind my own pork dust and it’s what in the bag to the right and oh, did I mention the taste?  My, My, My.

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Giant Baked Meatballs
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Ingredients
  1. ⅔ Lb. 20% Ground Beef
  2. ⅔ Lb. Ground Pork
  3. ⅔ Lb. Ground Lamb
  4. 1 C Pork Rind Dust (See Above)
  5. 1 Egg
  6. ½ Medium Onion Minced
  7. ½ T Garlic Salt
  8. 2 t Salt
  9. ¾ t Pepper
Instructions
  1. Heat oven to 350°
  2. Have all ingredients at room temperature.
  3. Beat egg and add onions, salts & pepper.
  4. Sprinkle pork rind dust onto meats, add egg stuff and gently blend.
  5. Divide equally into 6-8 parts and gentle form large balls.
  6. Place into muffin tin and bake for 18-20 minutes. They don't take long.
  7. Let sit for 5 minutes in tin, then remove.
  8. 6 Servings
  9. 345 Calories, 51.1g Protein, 13.6g Fat, 1.6g Carbs, 0.3g Fiber, 1.3g Net Carbs
  10. 8 Servings
  11. 259 Calories, 43.6g Protein, 10.2g Fat, 1.2g Carbs, 0.3g Fiber, 0.9g Net Carbs
Notes
  1. Not sure how to tell you portion for either 6 or 8. As you can see, my balls clocked in at 8 oz before cooking and 7½ oz after cooking or about ½ oz per ball fat lose. If you portion into 8 you still end up with nearly 5 oz of cooked meat.
  2. If your meatball mixture seems a bit dry to begin with, fear not. By the time the pork skins start to sop up the fat after cooking they will end up very moist and with the fat inside the meatballs instead of in your muffin pan
  3. These meatballs are really good served with any of the above named sauces and maybe with a little spaghetti squash under them.
  4. To be on the safe side put another pan under your muffin tin for any spill-over grease remembering lamb and pork have a LOT of fat.
  5. Best to use a larger muffin tin than I did. I don't, and have never made muffins for the home so, this was the only tin I had.
  6. Strike that last sentence. I bought a large 6 hole tin and it was...perfect.
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Low Carb Seafood Ceviche

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Low Carb Seafood Ceviche Low Carb Seafood CevicheLow Carb Seafood Ceviche. Pronounced sa vee chay or sa vee chee and even sa-beachy.  No matter how you pronounce it, this is a really good, clean, fresh food.  Every time I see ceviche on a menu, which is not all that often, I order it and it is never the same twice as so many different combinations of seafood can be used.  Food lore says it originally came from Spain to Ecuador or Peru but from wherever, as I said, it is really good.

It is most often made with shrimp but I am using more than several different seafoods here because when I was visiting my brother in NC we ate in a restaurant that served it this way…and this is as close to that recipe as I can get.  The secrets to making a good low carb seafood ceviche are:  Cutting the seafood pieces pretty close to the same size, not letting it “cook” in the marinade any longer that 30 minutes as it will turn the seafood either rubbery (the shrimp) or mushy, (the fish) and blending in the vegetables just before serving.  And please, if you are going to go to the cost and trouble of making this with anything other than shrimp, which works quite well, buy fresh fish and make the dish the same day if possible.  One of the reasons I like using a little crab in my cerviche is its ability to help bind everything together but…so does the avocado as you see in the picture.  You can see my now famous 30 yr. old tuna can (PVC pipe works well too) for my molding and anyway you present it is OK.  A little Crème Fraîche would be good as well and if coconut cream trips any triggers you would like Fijian Ceviche as well.

You are going to get a great mixture of not only flavors but also textures.  The wonderful feel of firmed fish and the crunch of vegetables.  This can be a complete meal if desired and I have given the nutritionals as an appetizer and dinner.  This is a picture of low carb seafood ceviche served as soup and eaten with a spoon.  Directions for the soup are in the notes below.

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Seafood Ceviche
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Ingredients
  1. ¼ Lb. Each Halibut, Shrimp, Large Scallops, & Crab (Your Crab Will Already Be Cooked)
  2. ½ C Lime Juice
  3. 1 Small Avocado Cubed Into ½” Pieces
  4. 1 Small Jalapeno Diced Very Small
  5. ½ Small Diced Tomato (I Use Regular Tomatoes Because I Like The Bit Of Juice I Get)
  6. ½ C Seeded Cucumber Diced Small
  7. ½ C Small Diced Orange Pepper
  8. ¼ C Small Diced Purple Onion
  9. ¼ C Celery
  10. ¼ C Minced Green Onion Tops
  11. 2 T Very Finely Chopped Cilantro
  12. 1 T Olive Oil
  13. 1 Lemon (Wedged And Served To The Side)
  14. Salt & Pepper
Instructions
  1. Cut halibut into ½” cubes, depending on size cut shrimp into 3 or 4 sections and quarter the scallops. The idea is to have all seafood close to the same size and vegetables a bit smaller.
  2. Put seafood into glass or stainless bowl, mix in lime juice and let sit 15-20 minutes. Stir occasionally. Drain lime juice unless making the soup version.
  3. Meanwhile cut all vegetables, ending with avocado and put into another bowl. Add Crab, olive oil and blend.
  4. Mix vegetables into seafood and let sit 5 minutes. Taste and salt & pepper as wanted.
  5. Divide mixture into 8 equal portions. If using a mold placed on serving dish and making sure the lime juice has been left in the bowl and mold it pressing down firmly. Gently lift the ring off and go on to the next one.
  6. If serving in some kind of glass container it is not necessary to drain lime juice and a martini glass makes a very nice presentation as does any bed of lettuce.
  7. Serve with a wedge of lemon.
  8. 8 Servings as an appetizer
  9. 101 Calories, 11.25g Protein, 4.2g Fat, 3.1g Carbs, 1.2g Fiber, 1.9g Net Carbs
  10. 4 Servings as an entrée
  11. 202 Calories, 22.5g Protein, 6.4g g Fat, 6.1g Carbs, 2.4g Fiber, 3.7g Net Carbs
Notes
  1. If you want to serve this in a cocktail glass you do not need to drain the liquid. If molding, the way I did it, it needs to be drained so the ingredients will “stick” together and hold their form. Some places even serve this quite soup-like as a good hangover cure. That’s probably on a beach someplace where it’s party time any time. If you decide to make this as a soup, (see picture) you can skip the jalapeno and add spicy tomato juice to it or...leave in the jalapeno and add some diced or crushed tomatoes...or put half of the vegetables in your blender and puree to desired consistency.
  2. If you’re feeling a bit frisky you can add a few squid rings too.
  3. Crab is NOT marinated in the citrus. I used Dungeness crab as it is what’s abundant here in the Pacific NW. Good quality canned crab is fine and just be sure to drain it.
  4. If you like the flavor of orange with seafood but do not want to use orange juice as the acid add ¼ t orange extract to lime juice.
  5. I have had Ceviche with garlic in it and didn’t like it. If I am going to eat the expensive ingredients in this dish I want to be able to taste them.
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Low Carb Sloppy Piggy

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Low Carb Sloppy PiggyLow Carb Sloppy Piggy. We of course all know what a sloppy joe is and we know that it is made with ground beef.  But what the heck is a sloppy piggy?  Not really so different from its cousin the joe but this is made with pulled pork.  One of my childhood remembrances was eating sloppy joes and my mom didn’t care that we got dirty.  Let’s face it, most times your mom does care when you get dirty, and I actually used to eat dirt…but she never knew…or did she?

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Sloppy Piggy
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Ingredients
  1. 1 Lb Pulled Pork Chopped Into Smaller Threads
  2. ¼ C Butter (I Use Lard)
  3. 1½ C Yellow Pepper (Any Color Can Be Used But Yellow Is A Good Contrast-Sort Of)
  4. 1 C Finely Diced Onion
  5. 1 t Crushed Garlic
  6. 1 Cn Crushed Tomatoes (Diced Will Work As Well)
  7. 1 T Tomato Paste
  8. Water To Thin As Necessary (Start With ½ C)
  9. 3 T White Vinegar
  10. 2 t Mustard
  11. 1 T Just Like Sugar Brown (Optional And I Did Not Use It)
  12. 1 T Paprika
  13. 1 t Cumin
  14. 1½ t Salt (More To Taste)
  15. 1 t Pepper
  16. Large Lettuce Pieces (Romaine) To Plop (Slop) Your Piggy On
Instructions
  1. Heat oil to medium-low, add peppers & onions and cook until soft.
  2. Add garlic, tomatoes, tomato paste, vinegar, mustard and simmer to mix and heat.
  3. Add rest of ingredients, mix and lastly add pulled pork to heat.
  4. Plate on lettuce leaves (or not)
  5. 4 Servings
  6. 457 Calories, 30.2g Protein, 20.1g Fat, 11.1 g Carbs, 2.4g Fiber, 8.7g Net Carbs
Notes
  1. You will probably be surprised how much water this will use, especially after you mix in the pork. I actually use pulled pork to thicken several of the recipes on the site.
  2. I think 1 t of liquid smoke would be really good in this.
  3. You do not need any lettuce leaves especially if you don’t have them. Just slop piggies on the plates and enjoy.
  4. I also used salt and pepper on my lettuce.
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Low Carb Scalloped Ham And Celery Root

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Low Carb Scalloped Ham And Celery RootThis Low Carb Scalloped Ham And Celery Root recipe is a take on one of my old (cheap) college favorites.  Back in the day and in my case the late 60’s, one of the least expensive foods you could buy was potatoes.  At the time potatoes were about .49 for a 10 lb. bag and ham was about .49 per lb.  So if you think about it this recipe was a really inexpensive way to serve 4-6 hungry college students.

I have substituted celery root in place of the potatoes and used heavy cream in place of a roux made with flour and added milk.  In my world, today, this tastes so much better and of course back then not many people had ever thought about thickening with heavy cream much less heard of it…and celery root?…celery what?  The water injected crud that passes for ham today?..didn’t exist. So get yourself a nice fat-rat celery root and above all good quality ham that has not been injected with some saltwater crapola.

Low Carb Scalloped Ham And Celery RootI think low carb scalloped ham and celery root has lots less than ¼ the carbs that it does when made with potatoes.  If you have a mandoline for slicing then I would suggest using it as celery root is very difficult to cut by hand and the mandoline will make short work of it.  If you don’t have one a great place to look, if you have one in your area, is a used restaurant supply house.  In fact if you can get to a restaurant supply house be careful, as it is quite easy to go nuts in them.  If you are going to invest in a mandoline I would suggest an adjustable bladed one as you can easily set the thickness of anything you wish to slice/cut.  Yes, you can of course cut it by hand by cutting it half and laboriously use a chef’s knife.  One last way would be to use the slicing blade on your food processor and the only problem may be that your processor may cut it too thin or thick.

Update:  Though I really like the flavor of celery root another very good vegetable to use is diakon radish.  Just peel and slice thinly into rounds.

If you want to add ½ C green peas for color then go ahead and it is simply for color and absolutely not needed.  My other name for peas is little sugar bombs.

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Scalloped Ham And Celery Root
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Ingredients
  1. 1 Medium Celery Root Halved & Sliced About ⅛” Thick (About 1-1½ Lb Cleaned)
  2. ½ Lb Good Quality Diced Ham ½” Cubes (Or Whatever Shape You Want)
  3. 1 T Butter
  4. ½ Onion Small Dice
  5. 1½ C Heavy Cream (Remember I Use 40% Heavy Cream)
  6. 1½ t Dry Mustard Powder
  7. 2 t Chicken Base
  8. ½ t Pepper
  9. 2 C Grated Cheese (I Use Gruyere & Sometimes Mixed With Cheddar)
  10. ½ C Green Onion Finely Chopped (These Add Additional Color & Virtually No Carbohydrate)
  11. 2 T Parmesan Cheese (Optional)
Instructions
  1. Put celery root in water to cover and cook until tender 10-12 minutes. I can’t describe how tough these babies are to cut and how quickly they become tender. This is unknowable stuff. Put in large mixing bowl.
  2. Preheat oven to 325°
  3. Meanwhile sweat onions in 1½ t butter until tender and add to celery root.
  4. Add remaining butter, increasing heat, sauté ham chunks & add to celery root.
  5. Slowly heat heavy cream, add chicken base, mustard powder, pepper and reduce slightly.
  6. Add cheese & green onions until cheese is just barely melty. Pour over celery root mixture and blend thoroughly.
  7. Put into glass baking dish and top with Parmesan cheese.
  8. Bake until bubbly and then if Parmesan cheese has not browned, broil for about a minute.
  9. 6 Servings
  10. 483 Calories, 19.2g Protein, 40.5g Fat, 4.5g Carbs, .6g Fiber, 3.9g Net Carbs
  11. 8 Servings
  12. 362 Calories, 14.4g Protein, 30.4g Fat, 3.4g Carbs, .4g Fiber, 3.0g Net Carbs
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Low Carb Salmon Croquettes

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Low Carb Salmon CroquettesLow Carb Salmon Croquettes, or as I like to call them, little submarines on a plate.  I have certainly said it elsewhere that my mother was a terrific cook and one of the things, every once in a while, that she tried to shovel down our gullets were salmon croquettes.  I can tell you now that all three of us kids hate, hate, hated them and as you can imagine I did not eat them for many years.  When I decided to experiment and add a lot more ingredients  than my mom used and of course with the advent of better ways to eat salmon I came up with these.  Not much different than my originals but of course I do not use any panko or bread crumbs and now I realize how good they can be fried in lard.  Probably one of the biggest ways I get around using bread crumbs is the use of crushed fried pork skins.  It takes more than a rolling pin but your food processor will work quite well.  Yes, I do fry my own raw pork pellets from Willies since I also eat them as my diabetic popcorn but once they are crushed they can be used in all kinds of recipes.   A few examples might be:  Crunchy Deep Fried Chicken Chips,  Fried Cauliflower Tater Tots,  Chicken Kiev,  Crab Cakes & Spicy Chipotle Aioli, and I even have a completely different recipe for Salmon Cakes & Tartar Sauce. In the picture above I paired  it with a buttery lemon wine caper sauce and of course you can use your own or perhaps try my Tartar Sauce. No matter what you serve with your low carb salmon croquettes life will be better.

If you don’t have the time or inclination to pop your own pellets and grind them, then you can buy a 3 oz. bag of Pork Dust or a 12 Oz container also through Netrition.  One of the reasons I have always liked to pop and grind my own dust is that I was able to control the fineness of the grind.  But since I have now gotten the pork rind crumbs to the right I will not go back.  They are fried in their own lard and what could be better?  I contacted Bret at www.baconsheir.com to see what the cup count of their 1 lb. bag would be and he graciously told me about 7 cups so you can see at $21.00 per bag, and if you don’t want to pop your own, this is a great way to get them.

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Salmon Croquettes
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Ingredients
  1. 1 Lb Canned Salmon (Yes, Fresh Is OK And Just More Time Consuming)
  2. ½ C Water
  3. 3 T Butter
  4. 1 Small Onion Very Finely Diced
  5. ¾ C Celery Very Finely Diced
  6. ¾ C Red Bell Pepper Very Finely Diced
  7. ¾ C Yellow Bell Pepper Very Finely Diced
  8. ⅓ C Finely Ground Pork Skins***
  9. 2 T Dried Parsley (Fresh Is Fine If Finely Chopped)
  10. ½ C Mayonnaise
  11. 2 T Drained And Chopped Capers
  12. 1 T Worcestershire Sauce
  13. 2 t Dijon Mustard
  14. 2 t Old Bay Seasoning
  15. ¼ t Tabasco Sauce
  16. 2 Eggs Beaten
  17. ¼ C Sour Cream
  18. 1½ C Finely Ground Pork Skins*** (+ More Only If Needed)
  19. Oil Of Choice For Frying
Instructions
  1. Slowly heat butter and water, dice all vegetables, add to butter & water, cover, and cook until soft. Drain if there is any water left or...better yet...uncover until it is all evaporated. Cool completely.
  2. Flake salmon making sure to discard any bones and put into a bowl. Blend in ⅓ C pork skins.
  3. In another bowl mix mayo, capers, Worcestershire sauce, mustard, parsley, old bay, and Tabasco.
  4. Beat eggs and sour cream until smooth, add 3 T to mayo mix and reserve the rest.
  5. Blend mayo mix into salmon making sure all is coated. At this point if you are not making immediately, cover and refrigerate for later. It is best chilled anyway.
  6. Put balance of egg mix on a plate, put ground pork skins on another plate and have a third plate to put finished croquettes on.
  7. Dividing salmon into 6 equal parts, form into little submarines.
  8. Roll each in the egg, then in the pork skins and put onto the third plate.
  9. Heat oil of choice (I do use lard) and when oil reached 340°-350° place each sub gently into the oil. When browned turn and brown 2nd side.
  10. Serve with lemon wedges and tartar sauce. I will say these are so flavorful that they are good just plain.
  11. 6 Servings
  12. 383 Calories, 27.5g Protein, 28.0g Fat, 5.0g Carbs, 1.6g Fiber, 3.4g Net Carbs
Notes
  1. Easy enough to make into hors d’oeuvres with a thin slice of lemon on top.
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