Keto Cajun Shrimp & Grits. This is such a fabulously easy recipe that it’s a shame you have to wait to go to New Orleans to get it. Well, you don’t and here’s a good recipe to start with. Keto Cajun shrimp & grits is spicy, piquant, and every bit as good as what you can get elsewhere and a bit of good news: It is not nearly as expensive as eating it in a restaurant. Yes, the Grits are made with cauliflower but by the time you are finished with them you are not going to know. You can use any cheese of your choosing in the grits and I chose Mozzarella because It is what I happened to have on hand but cheddar, white cheddar, or any cheese of your choice works.
As I am a Type II diabetic, all recipes on this website are keto-low carb and diabetic friendly.
Cajun Shrimp & Grits
2020-01-29 03:48:52
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Ingredients
1 Head Cauliflower Grits (4-5 Servings) Or 4 Servings Mashed Cauliflower
1-1¼ Lbs. Shrimp
Favorite Cajun Spice To Taste (Don't Be Shy) And I Have Used Cajun's Choice forever
1⅓ C Heavy Cream
1 T Chicken Base***
½ t Thyme
1 C Shredded Cheese
4 T Butter
¼ C Green Onion Tops
Instructions
Liberally sprinkle both sides shrimp with Cajun spices.
Add heavy cream, chicken base, thyme, and additional ½ t thyme to medium sauce pan, bring to low and simmer until thickened. Add grits to heat-add cheese to melt and smear grits on bottom and sides of bowls.
Heat 2 T butter to brown, add ½ shrimp and sear on both sides. Repeat. This will not take long.
Place shrimp on grits, sprinkle with green onions and serve.
For an absolute added taste treat add 2-3 T butter to hot pan after finished with shrimp and brown the in with the left-over pan spices, then drizzle it over the shrimp.
Keto Eggplant Mushroom Lasagna. It would be customary to think of lasagna with a red sauce but no, this keto eggplant mushroom lasagna is made with a white wine cream sauce. I know it is not much to look at but boy oh boy is it good, assuming you like eggplant, cheese, mushrooms and oozy gooey food. If you have looked at many of my dinner plates you have seen lots of eggplant as a side dish but this takes center stage on the plate. Your portion will be larger than mine as I only made ⅓ the recipe and because I always eat many other things with dinner. Despite the picture, there is no basil in the recipe…I ate it with my tomatoes…with abandon.
As I am a Type II diabetic, all recipes on this website are keto-low carb and diabetic friendly.
Eggplant Mushroom Lasagna
2020-01-17 04:14:07
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Ingredients
3 Medium Eggplant
½ C Olive Oil
½-¾ Lb Mushrooms
3 T Butter
½ Medium Onion
¼ C White Wine
2 C Mozzarella Cheese
¾ C Heavy Cream
4 Oz Cream Cheese Room Temperature
⅓ C Parmesan Cheese
2 t Dried Marjoram
1 t Salt
½ t Pepper
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350°.
Beat cream cheese until smooth, add heavy cream, salt, pepper, and marjoram and mix well.
Peel eggplant (or not) and slice into 1" rounds.
Drizzle oil on rounds and cook on medium low until nicely browned and beginning to collapse. You will probably need to do this in 2-3 repeats and if you need more olive oil for pete's sake add it.
Slice mushrooms, sauté in 2 T butter and set aside.
Mince onion, sweat in 1 T butter until translucent and soft, add back mushrooms, add white wine and simmer until very little wine remains.
Smear a little heavy cream sauce in 8x8" glass baking pan, put down as many eggplant rounds as you can manage and smear ½ of what's left on top. Next put ½ of mushroom onion mixture, sprinkle half the mozzarella and then sprinkle with ½ Parmesan cheese.
Repeat.
Put into oven about 20-25 minutes or until bubbly around the edges and the cheese is oozy goozy throughout.
Keto Italian Parmesan Tomatoes. I have to say that it seems a bit silly for me to post this recipe and then again, sometimes we just need a little reminder of things long past. Keto Italian Parmesan tomatoes are delicious, ridiculously easy, were all the rage served in some high-end restaurants in the 60’s and 70’s and then fell out of favor (and for good reason) as chef’s began to present newer and much spiffier vegetable side dishes. This really has actually been considered more of a plate garnish but I have always considered them as a side dish. You may wish to use my sugarfree Italian Herb Mix which is many times less expensive or, if you have a favorite, then go for it and I have listed them below. Yes, you can use tiny little tomatoes too. As “they” say, and whoever “they” are; size does not matter.
Keto Lemon Garlic Aioli as shown with padron peppers. An aioli, as I know it, pretty much always has garlic in it and by garlic I mean GARLIC and served as an appetizer with padron peppers? Yikes, so good. Not too long ago chef Taffiny Elrod from NY, a twitter friend, became a real-life friend when she came to visit Portland for a food conference.
We ate at the spectacular restaurant OX and one of the appetizers we had was padron peppers in some to-die-for sauce. I have always loved padrons just blistered and drenched in olive oil and lots of salt but as you can see and may find out that the addition of the keto lemon garlic aioli with the padrons are simply to die for. Blistered padron peppers have what I consider a very mild heat but…every once in a while you might get a zinger.
All ingredients can be adjusted to your own likes and tastes-this is just the way I like it.
Now here is where you can get creative. Sub lime juice for lemon, sub chipotle powder with chili powder and you can dunk nearly any lowcarb vegetable into it you may like. Like red peppers, jicama sticks, cucumbers, celery, and the list could go on.
Keto Orange Sauce. Whew an orange sauce with no orange juice? Yes, here it is, and if you weren’t told, you’d never know. It is orangeyness at its best…with NO ORANGE JUICE. I do use a good quality extract diluted with alcohol and not a seed oil. The alcohol will gas off and the seed oil?-You will end up eating it as it will not.
There are so many ways to use this keto orange sauce. With Crepes Suzette, on Pulled Pork, chicken, scallops, most any fish, and my personal favorite, duck breast, which I have shown above. I happen to have access to a farm that raises and sells their ducks to a market in the area where I live so I am lucky in that respect, but you can always find whole duck in any Asian market, spatchcock it and use this keto orange sauce with it. Peking Duck has always been a special meal for me and with the advent of my Low Carb Hoisin Sauce I can pretty much have it any time I want to-and I do.
I don’t-but if you eat ice cream, this would probably make a pretty tasty topping and since it has butter in it, I think it would crackle before you got it served? I know the last pic looks a little like ice cream but…it’s grated daikon radish and the pic to the left is with blistered shishito peppers. On raspberries? Don’t even ask. Keto orange sauce is probably pretty tasty on a brick.
As I am a Type II diabetic, all recipes on this website are keto-low carb and diabetic friendly.
Orange Sauce
2019-12-28 05:54:36
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Ingredients
1½ T Orange Extract
¼ C Water
¼ C White Wine
2 T Brandy
2 T Grand Marnier
2 T Orange Zest (About 1 Medium Orange)
1 T Apple Cider Vinegar
8 Drops Liquid Sucralose***
4 T Butter
Smidgeon Xanthan Gum
Instructions
Mix first 8 ingredients in a small sauce pan and bring to simmer. Turn off heat, beat in xanthan gum, and add butter 1 T at a time until smooth and creamy.
No problem with refrigeration, as it really will not get hard and will last more than a week or two but who are we kidding. It simply won’t last as you will want to have it again and…again…and…again.
If you do get it into a refrigerator, just let in sit on the counter for an hour or two and stir to get that beautiful sauce ready to use again. Any butter bits will melt immediately upon hitting any warm food.
Low Carb Oddballs. We all have recipes that don’t fit into a narrow category and these are mine. All made with Real Food for a healthier you. Please, eat well in good health.
All low carb oddballs on this site are diabetic friendly and include keto, low carb, paleo, and primal recipes. Vegans need not apply. All are made with real food for a healthier you. Please, eat well. I have several favorites in this category including the Carbalose Italian Parmesan Garlic Knots. The Keto Nut Porridge and Keto Yogurt which are both breakfast foods are something you can literally eat every day and there aren’t many foods anyone can eat everyday…well…except maybe bacon.
Keto Crepes Suzette. Somewhere in one of the many recipes on this site I talked about having worked for the Broker Restaurants, a group of restaurants in Denver. Mine was the Continental and it was the only one that did table-side cooking and yes, I wanted to increase my tips so when Eugene, our Maître d’ was busy, I would step in and do table-side for the other wait staff. One of the fancy dancy desserts we did was Crepes Suzette. Remembering that this was in the mid 70’s, a fully prepared table-side dinner was only between $9-$10. The crepes suzette was about $3. and that was a fortune back then. Whoa, those really were the good old days. Think of this; I lived up into the mountains, about a 50 minute drive, and sometimes had to work a split shift which meant a 2-3 hour afternoon break. I couldn’t go home & come back because the drive was too long but guess what I did get to do.
I went next door to the original Cherry Creek hole-in-the-wall (yeah only 950’ ft on 2 floors) Tattered Cover Bookstore and settled into the dreamworld that is books. Now, I would liken the Tattered Cover to Powell’s Books here in Portland, and Strand Bookstore in New York City. They are all three huge, they are iconic, and they are all independently owned and are NOT Amazon.
So, I have been a bit long winded and the keto crepes suzette recipe is so small and easy it’s ridiculous. You will need a recipe for Zero Carb Flaxseed Meal Crepes to finish the dish.
As I am a Type II diabetic, all recipes on this website are keto-low carb and diabetic friendly.
Crepes Suzette
2019-12-23 03:16:20
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Ingredients
1 Recipe 12 Zero Carb Crepes
1½ T Orange Extract
⅓ C Water
4 T Butter
2 T Brandy
2 T Grand Marnier
1 T Orange Zest
4 Drops Liquid Sucralose***
Smidgeon Xanthan Gum
Instructions
Zest small orange and you can see what I used. Something called a “Halo”.
Bring all ingredients except crepes, butter and xanthan gum to warm in a small sauce pan. Add butter 1 T at time until sauce begins to thicken. Sprinkle in xanthan gum only if needed.
Fold crepes into triangles, put onto a plate or small platter, and drizzle sauce over all. If using the orange segments then scatter them about.
If you by chance get too much xanthan gum just thin it with a little water.
That little bitty orange thingy (the halo) was given to me at the grocery store by Ann who had it in here re-cycling box. Not sure why because to me it looked perfect.
Low Carb Desserts. I know, I know, I pretty much look like a low carb desserts junky here and that is absolutely not the case. I do like small amounts of pretty much any dessert maybe 1-2 times a week but my LCHF eating lifestyle doesn’t really allow me to eat too many goodies after dinner as I am most often too full. I mostly make them now to dazzle dinner guests. My absolute favorite listed below? All of them. My absolutely least favorite? None of them. The first sign of an addict? Denial.
ALLULOSE***If you’re into experimenting with Allulose*** as I am, you may substitute Allulose for any sweetener in any of my recipes calling for Just Like Sugar*** and probably anyone else’s lowcarb recipes that you may be making. If the recipes are baked, I would suggest turning down the oven temperature 5-10 degrees and use the same amount of Allulose as written in the recipe. If you are a newbie to Keto then you may want to add a bit more but the longer you eat Keto the less you will automatically be able to tolerate as much sweetener.
Buy the least expensive Allulose you can find as it is basically all made by the same company (Tate & Lyle) worldwide. Not sure, but I think they have a patent on it. All I can say, as a diabetic, it is a fabulous product and in my opinion, a game changer in the world of low carb desserts and sweeteners. I am here to tell you Allulose will be a lifesaver for diabetics and lowcarbers.
Food Lagniappe: When baking any kind of cake or bar I advise using professional square, rectangular, or round aluminum pans. Compared to a glass baking dish aluminum is far and away the better heat distribution system. No hot spots & no lop-sided cakes. Magic Line Pans are the best quality available, they come in about every size & shape you will ever need and…they are made here in the USA. Because I promote this set of pans several places on this site they keep selling out of them so if you don’t see the 6 pan combo call 309-747-2125 and they will make one for you.
Low Carb Crepes. As we now well know, crêpes have become a thing not only for a fancy dessert or breakfast, they have also become mainstream for some pretty fancy dinners too. In the last 5-6 years there have been hundreds of créperies opened nationwide while people stand in line to eat in them. The wonderful thing about my low carb crêpes is they don’t cost an arm and a leg to eat.
Each of the keto low carb crepes recipes begin with a full recipe (12) of ZeroCarb Flaxseed Meal Crêpes and then the directions are for each of the fillings. Some are savory for dinners and some are sweetened for desserts. It is my opinion that after you have made the crêpes once or twice, you will come up with many more recipes of your own choosing. I have also just come up with a recipe for Keto Pork Rind Wraps and they work perfectly for any of the recipes below.
All low carb crêpes on this site are diabetic friendly and include keto, low carb, paleo, and primal recipes. Vegans need not apply. All are made with real food for a healthier you. Please, eat well.
Low Carb Dinners. Whether you are preparing a dinner for yourself, your family, or guests, people are going to know you have fixed the food they have just partaken in and eaten was made with love. It would be impossible to eat any of these low carb dinners without the beginnings of a change in your health. If you will just try eating keto low carb for two weeks you will feel the changes taking effect and the longer you eat this way the better you will feel. The higher amounts of fat will get you to, and keep you with, a higher satiety level which will automatically keep you from eating more food that you need.
All low carb dinners on this site are diabetic friendly and include keto, low carb, paleo, and primal recipes. Vegans need not apply. All are made with real food for a healthier you.
Low Carb Sauces & Dips. A good low carb sauce and/or dip can, and usually does, make the difference between a good dinner and something spectacular. Think bearnaise or a compounded butter that you have gotten in a good restaurant. You know that “something” that makes you want to get back to the restaurant as soon as you can. That’s what a good sauce can do for food. To this day there are times I can remember exactly where I was when I had______and fill in the blank. Nine times out of 10 it was a sauce or perhaps a broth that knocked my socks off.
All low carb sauces & dips on this site are diabetic friendly and include keto, low carb, paleo, and primal recipes. Vegans (probably) need not apply. All are made with real food for a healthier you.
Low Carb Vegetables. Vegetables, you know, the stuff you hated as a kid but your mom made you eat anyway? Nice that your mom forced you to eat them because in many cases, they can certainly be good for you. No, not starchy potatoes or rice or any of the other sugary drenched fruits and vegetables available today but baring any of these high sugar ingredients it leaves soooo many low carb vegetables to eat. Below is my personal compilation of the vegetables I eat on a regular basis.
All low carb vegetables on this site are diabetic friendly and include keto, low carb, paleo, and primal recipes. Vegans (probably) need not apply. All are made with real food for a healthier you.
Keto Cajun Shrimp & Grits. This is such a fabulously easy recipe that it’s a shame you have to wait to go to New Orleans to get it. Well, you don’t and here’s a good recipe to start with. Keto Cajun shrimp & grits is spicy, piquant, and every bit as good as what you can get elsewhere and a bit of good news: It is not nearly as expensive as eating it in a restaurant. Yes, the Grits are made with cauliflower but by the time you are finished with them you are not going to know. You can use any cheese of your choosing in the grits and I chose Mozzarella because It is what I happened to have on hand but cheddar, white cheddar, or any cheese of your choice works.
