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Low Carb Carbalose Bread

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Low Carb Carbalose BreadLow Carb Carbalose BreadLow Carb Carbalose BreadLow Carb Carbalose Bread.  There are many of you who don’t have the same (rather odd) size loaf pan that I used to develop the original Carbalose Flour Bread so this slightly smaller loaf of low carb carbalose bread is for you.  I recently bought a standard size 4”x8” loaf pan, adjusted the ingredients, and it did indeed turn out perfectly.  Do not use a larger pan for this as it will not work.  As you look carefully at the pictures notice I did use my electric knife and I did get 18 slices+2 heels.  Each slice weighs on average about 32g, some a little larger and some a little smaller and those heels?…I save and freeze to either make bread cubes or crumbs.  If you are going to make rolls, buns, or baguettes then use the original recipe as the nutritional calculations below are for the slightly larger dough amounts.

Carbalose Bread Addendum & Update

I have wanted to write this addendum update for about 6-8 months, am finally doing it, and it will make your breads and rolls oh so much better.  I have had people asking me how to get rid of the holes that sometimes end up in their bread. I set about trying to find a solution and have come up with it and all it entails is adding one whole egg in place of ¼ C water. I have also begun using butter instead of coconut oil but that is a personal preference. It is the egg that makes the difference and somehow, chemically, not only enables better stability of the dough but better keeps it from losing some of its puffiness or collapsing. I haven’t done it yet, except for many loaves of bread but I do think this change will make a big difference for you when shaping and making rolls or things like hamburger or hotdog buns and larger baguettes for garlic bread etc. This small change will work in any of the bread-like recipes using 1½ C of Carbalose Flour or more.

Don’t despair if you do not have an electric knife but you will probably not be able to make a less than ½” cut the way I can.  I would think on average and if cut with a good SHARP bread knife, you should be able to get 14-15 slices which is completely acceptable.

You can do all the same things with this slightly smaller loaf that can be done with the only slightly larger loaf so have at it and have fun with it.

DO NOT USE CARBQUIK-IT WILL NOT WORK.

Nutritionals are below the recipe.

  • Equipment Needed:
  • Large Cuisinart or other Large Food Processor
  • Electric Knife
  • Small Cutting Board
  • 4” x 8” x 2 ½” Loaf Pan (Non-Stick)

If you use a larger loaf pan then your bread will be longer, not rise as high, and will be wider that the picture above.

Use for Stuffed Strawberry Cream Cheese French Toast and the dough for low carb carbalose bread may also be used for rolls, buns, individual baguettes, and whatever else you might imagine.  Also makes great bread crumbs and yes, even Basic Pizza Crust.  A roll, hot out of the oven?  Slathered with butter?  Heavenly.

For many other Carbalose Flour Recipes please see All Things Carbalose informational page.

To the left is Tara’s first time loaf and I think we should all give her a hand because it takes courage to make that first loaf and then…it’s Katy bar the door with what you can do with the basic dough after that. If you will just make 3 loaves of low carb carbalose bread, one for bread, one for croutons, and one for crumbs, I doubt you will ever want to be without them. Many other recipes are built around this basic recipe using more/less some of the same ingredients. To the right are some rolls made by Dviolette and I’ll bet they are as good as they look. Yum.

  • Carbalose Flour may be purchased in 3 lb. bags from www.netrition.com
  • Complete Nutritionals for rolls, buns, baguettes, cubes and crumbs are below recipe.

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Carbalose Bread
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Ingredients
  1. 2 C Carbalose Flour
  2. 3½ T Wheat Gluten
  3. 3½ T Coconut Flour
  4. ¾ t Salt
  5. ¼ t Guar Gum
  6. ¼ t Xanthan Gum
  7. 3½ T Golden Flaxseed Meal***
  8. ¼ C Warm Water***
  9. 2 T+½ t Melted Coconut Oil (I Use Softened Butter Now-& It's Perfect)
  10. 1 C Water + (Only If Needed) or (¾ C Water + 1 Whole Egg)
  11. 1 T Yeast
  12. ½ t Sugar
  13. 6 Drops Liquid Sucralose* (Optional)
Instructions
  1. Bloom yeast & sugar in 1 cup warm water for 10 minutes or until foamy.
  2. Add flaxseed to ¼ C warm water for 10 minutes. (It will become quite gelatinous)
  3. Put first 6 ingredients + butter if using, in processor and pulse to blend.
  4. Add flaxseed mixture to dry ingredients and pulse to blend.
  5. Add liquid Sucralose and 2 T coconut oil (if using) to bloomed yeast and with machine running add to dry ingredients.
  6. Run processor for at least 2 minutes and probably a little longer adding any additional water as needed 1 T at a time.
  7. You want to make sure there is enough water. Dough should hold together, have a loose consistency and should not be sticky on your hands. At this point the dough should have the same look and feel of regular bread.
  8. Form into a ball and put into un-greased bowl and cover with film for about 20-25-30 minutes or until slightly less than doubled. If over-proofed it will not rise well the second time and will more than likely "fall", leaving a less that desirable looking loaf.
  9. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  10. Take dough out of bowl and knead (very gently) until you are sure ALL air pockets are out.
  11. Form gently into loaf rolling so the seam is on the bottom, put into greased (remaining ½ t coconut oil or butter) pan, very loosely cover with film and let rise for 25-30 minutes. DO NOT over-proof as it will raise a bit more in the oven.
  12. Bake 45 minutes.
  13. Rest the bread in the pan at least 10 minutes.
  14. Make sure bread sides are not sticking to pan, remove gently, put on wire rack, and cool completely.
  15. Slice bread with an electric knife.
  16. 16 Servings
  17. 80 Calories, 6.3g Protein, 4.2g Fat, 8.0g Carbs, 4.7g Fiber, 3.3g Net Carbs
  18. 18 Servings
  19. 71 Calories, 5.6g Protein, 3.7g Fat, 7.1g Carbs, 4.2g Fiber, 2.9g Net Carbs
Notes
  1. If you decide to use butter in place of coconut oil (and I do now) put it into into processor at the same time you add the gelatinous flaxseed & water mixture.
  2. You may easily substitute 1 whole egg in place of ¼ C water if you consistently get holes in your bread.
  3. Please note the use of *Sucralose in each of the recipes using Carbalose is only to negate the bitter taste of the flour and DOES NOT make the recipe “sweet”.
  4. Slice size is equivalent to a normal slice of pretty much any other normal bread.
  5. ** I plugged all the ingredients (except the Carbalose Flour) into a food database to get the figures below and added them to the Carbalose figures to get my Totals Per Loaf.
  6. If at any time after the loaf is form and touched, the indentation will remain even after baking and the same thing when taking out of the pan until the loaf in completely cooled. This is the reason I keep using the word gently.
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It took me many tries to get the original  Carbalose Flour Bread recipe  just right and I paid nearly $700.00 to have it tested through Exova Laboratories so I know all the figures are correct.  The figures below are only slightly off as this recipe uses a bit less ingredients than are listed in the original and I am not going to the trouble of changing them all.

  • Carbalose Flour                                   
  • Calories           Carbohydrate             Fiber               Protein            Fat
  • 675                  108g                            65g                  70g                  25g
  • Rest of Ingredients**
  • 705                    37g                            21g                  29g                  53g
  • Totals Per Loaf
  • 1380                145g                            86g                  99g                  78g
  • Divided by 16 Slices=42g slice             
  • 86                        9g                              5g                    6g                    5g
  • Divided by 18 Slices=37g slice          
  • 77                        8g                              5g                    6g                    4g
  • 16 Slices/Loaf
  • 86 Calories, 6g Protein, 5g Fat, 9g Carbs, 5g Fiber, 4g Net Carbs
  • 18 Slices/Loaf
  • 77 Calories, 6g Protein, 4g Fat, 8g Carbs, 5g Fiber, 3g Net Carbs
  • Bread Cubes 11 Cups/Loaf
  • 125 Calories, 9g Protein, 7g Fat, 13g Carbs, 8g Fiber, 5g Net Carbs
  • Bread Crumbs 8 Cups/Loaf
  • 175 Calories, 12g Protein, 10g Fat, 19g Carbs, 11g Fiber, 8g Net Carbs
  • 12-2 oz. Rolls/Recipe
  • 115 Calories, 8g Protein, 7g Fat , 12g Carbs, 7g Fiber, 5g Net Carbs
  • 12-2 oz. Mini Slider Buns
  • 115 Calories, 8g Protein, 7g Fat , 12g Carbs, 7g Fiber, 5g Net Carbs
  • 8  3 oz. Pencil Rolls
  • 168 Calories, 12g Protein, 10g Fat , 18g Carbs, 11g Fiber, 7g Net Carbs

  • 6 4 oz. Mini Baguettes
  • 230 Calories, 17g Protein, 9g Fat , 24g Carbs, 14g Fiber, 10g Net Carbs
  • 2-12 oz. Baguettes
  • 690 Calories, 50g Protein, 27g Fat , 73g Carbs, 43g Fiber, 30g Net Carbs
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Low Carb Chipotle Mayonnaise

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Low Carb Chipotle MayonnaiseLow Carb Chipotle Mayonnaise. Yeah, Yeah, I know there are several recipes similar to this low carb chipotle mayo & after reading the ingredients list I hope you will think it sounds good enough to make.   I love this stuff as it is good on/with so many things and certainly a requirement for Bacon Wrapped Mean Dogs. low carb chipotle mayonnaise can be used as a vegetable dip and is especially good with fried pork skins.  There is no mayonnaise only sour cream and actually, I used Crème Fraîche in mine.  I like that smooth special twang it gives.  Many years ago at a food show in Seattle, there was this new product being sampled called Chipotle Mayo and was available by the gallon to restaurants.  I thought it was so good that I designed a pulled pork sandwich around using it and gads, people loved it.  There was also a restaurant in Everett, WA called Alligator Soul and they also served this same chipotle mayo with many of their dishes.  Turns out it was the restaurant’s recipe licensed and being sold to other restaurants.  At the time I had never had anything so tasty and have been chasing the recipe ever since (and that’s another story).  To the right is a picture of a small still unopened jar I have that is probably at least 9-10 years old.  Hard to believe I still have that jar today and of course it would be totally inedible.  The restaurant closed in 2010 but I listened to a lot of live zydeco music and ate a lot of good Cajun “soul food” there before it did.

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Chipotle Mayonnaise
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Ingredients
  1. ¾ C Sour Cream (I Used Crème Fraîche)
  2. 1-2 T Chipotle Peppers In Adobo (Depending On Hotness Desired & I Used 2)
  3. 2 T Finely Chopped Cilantro
  4. 1 T Lime Juice
  5. ½ t Crushed Garlic
  6. ¼ t Liquid Smoke
  7. 1-2 Drops Liquid Splenda (Optional)
Instructions
  1. Macerate chipotle peppers.
  2. Add rest of ingredients, mix well, and refrigerate.
  3. Will be thin and will tighten a bit in the fridge.
  4. 4 Servings
  5. 165 Calories, .1g Protein, 18.1g Fat, .6g Carbs, .0g Fiber, .6g Net Carbs
Notes
  1. Splenda not only gives it a kiss of sweetness, but also rounds out the flavor. It is not necessary and yes, I did use it. Use 1 drop to start and another if you think it needs it.
  2. As I said I used crème fraîche to make mine and sour cream would have a bit more carbs.
  3. With the addition of crumbled bacon this makes a great salad dressing.
  4. Also terrific on pulled pork.
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Keto Cold Stuffed Jalapeño Peppers

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Low Carb Cold Stuffed Jalapeño PeppersLow Carb Cold Stuffed Jalapeño PeppersLow Carb Cold Stuffed Jalapeño PeppersKeto Cold Stuffed Jalapeño Peppers come a little later. Nearly 40 years ago as a young lass of 27 in Denver CO, I was hired as the 1st woman trainee for management by Furr’s Cafeterias.  Now of course today, I know you are laughing yourselves silly but back in 1977 this was a big deal, I mean a huge deal.  It was 6 months of really intense training.  6 weeks with the first cook or “chef”  6 weeks in the bakery 6 in salads etc.  In case you are wondering yes, I did go on the be the 1st woman manager of what was at the time, the smallest cafeteria in the company in Arvada, CO.  They subsequently built a much larger Arvada store and mine was closed.  (Long after I had left)

I am here to tell you that not only did I learn to cook in a different way than I was used to but I also quickly learned the business side of a restaurant too.  Sadly, all but a handful of around 70 cafeterias have closed and those that are left are all in TX.  I think their Millionaire’s Pie is the only recipe they ever released and by the way, it was delicious & I used to loved it.

Meanwhile, back at the farm, these keto cold stuffed jalapeño peppers can be spicy unlike their rather tame Baked Stuffed Jalapeño Pepper  cousins.  They are rawness at it’s best.  We used to make them at Furr’s and they sold like hotcakes.  If you don’t like hot then these may not be for you but put them out for a bunch of men, and sit back to watch the fireworks.  Men will make it a contest to see who can eat the most.  Think I’m kidding?  Try it.  You can control the heat a bit by by de-seeding but leaving the veiny innards and using chipotle powder, hot sauce or a combination.  As you can see to the left, jalapeño peppers are way down on the Scoville Heat Chart.

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Cold Stuffed Jalapeño Peppers
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Ingredients
  1. 4 Jalapeño Peppers Stems Off, Cut In Half, And Seeded & Deveined (Wear Gloves)
  2. 4 Oz. Grated Cheddar Cheese
  3. 2 Oz Room Temperature Cream Cheese
  4. 2 Oz Drained Pimentos
  5. 2 T Mayonnaise
  6. 1 T Butter
  7. 1 T Lime Juice
  8. 1 T Heavy Cream
  9. ⅛ t Salt (More To Taste)
  10. Ground Cumin
  11. Chipotle Powder (Optional But Really Good)
  12. Hot Sauce (Optional)
Instructions
  1. Beat cream cheese, butter, mayonnaise & lime juice.
  2. Blend in heavy cream.
  3. Add grated cheese, pimentos, & salt and mix well.
  4. Generously fill pepper halves & sprinkle on ground cumin.
  5. Refrigerate, but bring to room temperature before serving.
  6. 4 Servings
  7. 255 Calories, 8.5 g Protein, 23.8g Fat, 2.4g Carbs, .6g Fiber, 1.8g Net Carbs
Notes
  1. I only had 3 peppers and as you can see I had enough to do 1 more.
  2. You can easily multiply this recipe as many times as you want.
  3. If you veined your peppers it will be a good idea to use a hot sauce as they can be pretty tame.
  4. What you see on the appetizer plate are mine sprinkled with not only cumin but also chipotle powder which imparts that smoky flavor that jalapeños are so famous for.
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Keto Italian Dipping Herbs

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Low Carb Italian Dipping OilLow Carb Italian Dipping OilLow Carb Italian Dipping OilKeto Italian Dipping HerbsKeto Italian Dipping Herbs are kind of hard to show a picture of since it’s just a bunch of herbs all mixed together in olive oil but this is so good on so many things.  Its original intended use was as a dip for breads. Obviously if you use Carbalose Flour Bread great, and I use this oil on all kinds of vegetables. I love it on broccolini, mung bean sprouts, and Cauliflower Grits.  Most often when used with bread, it also calls for the use of Parmesan cheese but since you will most likely be using it with vegetables then the obvious thing to do is to use that Parmesan on the vegetables too and it’s what I do.  How many ways can you think to use it?  How about Italian Parmesan Garlic Wings or Ham & Cheese Pinwheels and maybe even some Carbalose Italian Parmesan Garlic Knots. Keto Italian Dipping Herbs are truly good on just about anything. I use these herbs in so many ways that I actually make double the recipe below. They are the same herbs I use for anything Italian.

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Italian Dipping Herbs & Oil
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Ingredients
  1. 1 T Dried Basil
  2. 1 T Garlic Powder
  3. 1 T Dried Thyme
  4. 1 T Dried Oregano
  5. 1 T Dried Rosemary
  6. 1 T Dried Marjoram
  7. 1½ t Black Pepper
  8. 1½ t Salt
  9. ½ t Red Pepper Flakes
  10. 3 T Garlic Paste***
  11. 2¼ C Olive Oil
Instructions
  1. Combine all dried herbs & spices.
  2. When ready to serve combine 2 t spice blend & 1 t crushed garlic (or more to taste) with ¼ C olive oil, mix well, and put on a small plate. Dip your brains out.
  3. 36 Servings
  4. 121 Calories, .1g Protein, 13.5g Fat, .2g Carbs, .0g Fiber, .2g Net Carbs
Notes
  1. You WILL NOT use all of this at once as the recipe makes quite a bit. (About 9 times for 4 servings) Just save dried herbs and spices in a small jar and when you want them, you have them.
  2. If you want to test before making the full recipe (you'll be sorry) use 1 t of each herb and ½ t each salt & pepper with a pinch of red pepper flakes
  3. Makes a great salad dressing.
  4. Lots of fat and nearly zero carbs.
  5. The serving sizes are approximate. Some may dip more and some may dip less.
  6. This is a very garlicky dip so enjoy it with good friends.
  7. I would suggest making a batch of this ahead of time to let all the herbs soften and flavors marry. I just leave mine on the counter until it's gone. No need to refrigerate.
  8. When I make just the dry herb mixture I actually triple the recipe. As I said I use a LOT of this so I ALWAYS have it on my countertop at the ready.
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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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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 Poppy Seed Caviar

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Low Carb Poppy Seed CaviarThis Low Carb Poppy Seed Caviar is absolutely to die for.  So, I’m in my local library the other day and they have a section up front called “your lucky day” where they have relatively newer titled books which you can check out for three weeks but…you cannot renew them.  I usually do some pretty heavy non-fiction reading so finding a picture book was kind of fun.  I glanced at a book called The Art Of The Cheese Plate and silly me, I took such a small glance at the cover and I immediately thought “charcuterie” which of course it is/was not.  Since I do make a lot of charcuterie for myself I checked it out.  When I got home to look at my “picture” book of course it turns out to be about cheeses from around the world paired with all kinds of other foods and sauces.

This particular recipe was the only one that jumped out at me as I thought perhaps I could make it low carb. This is a picture from the book and the caviar is center left and is that tiny little dark blob under a beautiful dragon fruit chip.

 

Low Carb Poppy Seed CaviarI have to say that the only thing I could think to do with it was put it atop a wheel of brie cheese and that is what I did with it. Give me a little more time and maybe I can come up with something else.

 

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Poppy Seed Caviar
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Ingredients
  1. ½ C Poppy Seeds
  2. 1½ C Water
  3. ½ C Heavy Cream
  4. ¼ t Orange Extract
  5. 3 Drops Liquid Sucralose (Or Sweetener Of Choice)
  6. Pinch Salt
  7. ½ t Vanilla Extract
Instructions
  1. Put heat to medium-low, add water & poppy seeds to pan and simmer 15 minutes. Remove from heat, cover 15 minutes and then repeat one time. If you need to add more water after the first simmer-do so and I did.
  2. Drain poppy seeds into fine holed strainer and add back to pan.
  3. To poppy seeds add heavy cream, orange extract, sucralose, and salt and again on medium-low reduce to almost a paste. Do not try to do it quickly or your cream may separate.
  4. Remove from heat, mix in vanilla extract and refrigerate.
  5. 8 Servings
  6. 106 Calories, 1.6g Protein, 9.9g Fat, 2.1g Carbs, .9g Fiber, 1.2g Net Carbs
  7. 16 Servings
  8. 53 Calories, .8g Protein, 5.0g Fat, 1.1g Carbs, .5g Fiber, .6g Net Carbs
Notes
  1. As I said above I would put this on top of a brie wheel and of course you can eat it with any cheese. If you do decide to use it on a soft meltable cheese it should easily do 16 appetizer wedges.
  2. In my picture, for testing purposes, I made ½ an order and in my opinion I reduced the cream a bit too much but it does look like the book’s picture, so use your intuition on this one.
  3. I did taste mine with a spoon and it is good. You barely get the flavors of orange, vanilla with a hint of sweetness.
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Keto Stuffed Strawberry Cream Cheese French Toast

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Keto Stuffed Strawberry Cream Cheese French ToastKeto Stuffed Strawberry Cream Cheese French Toast. Was watching Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives one evening some “dive” made close to what this recipe is. Regular French toast with 2 pieces of bread and maple syrup would set you back carb-wise somewhere North of 60-65 carb grams and that’s with only 2 paltry tablespoons of  maple syrup.  Add another tablespoon, & add another 14g carbs and as you can see they begin to add up quickly.  So the short of it is:  This recipe has only about 20% of the carbs most regular French toast has.  Now I am not saying to eat this everyday (and you could) but certainly once in awhile and I do it for dinner too.  Ah yes, breakfast for dinner.  Your kids will love you for it. (But hate you for something else).  Topped with a dollop of Crème Fraîche? Oh Yeah.

To make this you’ll either need your own low carb bread or a loaf of Carbalose Flour Bread.

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Stuffed Strawberry Cream Cheese French Toast
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Ingredients
  1. 2 Slices Carbalose Flour Bread***
  2. 2 Oz Softened Cream Cheese
  3. 2 Sliced Strawberries
  4. 3 Strawberries Cut Into 8 Chunked Pieces
  5. 1 Egg
  6. 2 T Heavy Cream
  7. 2 T Water
  8. 1 Drop Liquid Sucralose*** (Optional)
  9. ¼ t Vanilla Extract
  10. ¼ t Cinnamon
  11. ¼ t Nutmeg
  12. 1 T Butter Divided
  13. ¼ C Sugar-Free Maple Syrup***
Instructions
  1. Spread 1 oz. cream cheese on each slice of bread.
  2. Lay on sliced berries and make a sandwich.
  3. Heat ½ T butter to medium.
  4. Beat egg, heavy cream, vanilla and water and put onto flat plate.
  5. Mix cinnamon and nutmeg.
  6. Dredge French toast sandwich on both sides, put into butter and sprinkle ½ cinnamon- nutmeg on uncooked top.
  7. Cook until done on one side, add rest of butter, flip and cook the other side adding the rest of the cinnamon-nutmeg mix.
  8. Barely heat maple syrup & add your chopped strawberries.
  9. Cut French toast on the diagonal and arrange as you wish.
  10. Drizzle syrup and strawberries over all.
  11. 1 Serving
  12. 748 Calories, 16.9g Protein, 58.6g Fat, 17.4g Carbs, 5.9g Fiber, 11.5g Net Carbs
Notes
  1. Nutritionals include Carbalose flour bread.
  2. The one egg, heavy cream and water should be enough for 2-3 orders so if you are making multiple orders do this step accordingly.
  3. In the restaurant I always had a large shaker of cinnamon and nutmeg mixed fifty-fifty which is the ratio above.
  4. That little dollop of crème fraîche? What a difference it makes.
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