Breakfast with a good friend

Do you ever wonder what to eat when you go out?  I dined for breakfast with a really good friend of mine (No sadly, it wasnt Neta)---.  And there are a lot of high carb options, but how can you make your meal low carb?  Here is what I did-
I gave my friend all my carbs---thats why she has much on her side! the potatos were mine and i generously donated them.  She had pancakes, hashbrowns and eggs.  That is a lot of carbs.  I had eggs, steak tips, sweet peppers and onions.  I asked for extra  butter for the side, but when I took one bite,  I knew it was not butter, but actually margarine.

Breakfast was nice. It was nice for me to look at those pancakes, some times i like to see eye candy.  I did not eat any high carb items but ate a delicious low carb meal.  I drank water with my meal.  You can always make any option at a restaurant a low carb option, just give your carbs to someone else or ask the waitstaff not to give it to you.

Dairy Free, High fat - Low carb smoothie!

For a breakfast or a pre-work out or just as a treat!! Dairy free, coconut free, low carb smoothie! Excuse my horrible cameramanship XD I need a tripod! #realfood

Real greek yoghurt.

I wanted to inform everyone that THIS is greek yoghurt. 

What is sold to you as 'greek yoghurt' is in fact, "strained yoghurt". Which is why it is thicker.

Greek yoghurt is traditionally from sheep or goat's milk (nowadays they also come in cow's milk, but the tastiest is the goat's milk one) and there is a skin on top which are probiotics. 

Women on antibiotics consume a small pot of this yoghurt and they avoid yeast infections.

Ingredients are only milk and the cultivation. Nothing else.

If you find this type of yoghurt, you can start making your own by warming up raw milk to 90oC and then letting it cool to 45oC,

mix 1 spoonful of the yoghurt you found with half a glass of milk and mix.

Put mix in the oven at 45oC (or keep it at a warm place) for 4 hours minimum undisturbed.

Let the yoghurt cool down to room temperature and then place in the fridge for 24 hours.
Consume within 10 days.

Day 11 - Low Carb Shopping list! (Suggestion)

Never know what to shop? Here's a suggestion of real low-carb foods you can stock up on and have in mind each time you go to the super market.

Zero carb movie snack #2 ! Fast and simple!

Watch the video here!

Step 1 :
Get pork fat (or beef fat) from the butcher, I find pork fat so that's what i'm working with.

Step 2 :
Cut in pieces the fat. You can cut it in squares for chips or in strips for a replacement of bread sticks for dipping!

Step 3 :
Start rendering the fat in a pot or pan (i'm using a pot) at half the maximum heat your stove allows you. I was told to take out half the fat each time in order to avoid 'burning it'. Not sure what that means but it works anyhow!

Keep the rendered fat in a porcelain container of choice. I'm using a baking pan and then I transfer that in to a jar and keep it in the fridge.

Step 4 :
Season at will and enjoy your movie snack!!

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How to make crispy bacon!

So this is a method I found to make bacon crispy (when I can find actual bacon that has no preservatives or at least has the absolute minimum of 'bad mojo' in them, these had 0.2 carbs per 100 grams)

Step 1 !

Put in a tray some aluminium foil and bake at 150-200 oC until it looks half-way done

Step 2 !

Flip your bacon and let it cook at 100-150 until crispy!

Step 3!! 

Leave the kitchen for a bit and have a hungry guest just eat up your crispy bacon and don't manage to take a picture! Try it out! Cook until crisp to your preference! 

Breakfast on a budget

Want to start your day with A LOT of fat?
how about eggs, bacon and avacado?

Really simple, just dry everything in butter.

Its a great way to limit your carbs by having less for breakfast and you also don't spike your insulin levels much

Great for budget eating.  Eggs are cheap, one dozen for $2.   30 cents for 2 eggs.  Bacon is a couple of dollars an avacado is $2.  less than 1/4 was used so that is 50 cents. 1 pound of bacon is about 3.00 at 20 slices so that is 1 cents each, an comes to 30 cents.  Sometimes you can find the pack on sale for 1.29.


Total cost for breakfast is: 1.10

Budget breakfast, big amount of fat and protein!

Beef heart on a bed of vegetables! (cheap recipe)

So, as you can imagine, money is quite low.. So sometimes I need a cheap plan.

This is one of them!


- Half a beef heart
- Half a red bell pepper
- Half a green bell pepper
- Half a tomato

Feeds: 1 hungry low carber!
Estimated cost : 1.80 euros.

Step 1 :

Put the beef heart in a clay pot with spices of choice. If your butcher has cleared the heart from the extra fat, just add butter. Put the lid on and let it roast for 2-4 hours at 150-200 oC.

I generally let it roast for 2 hours at 200 oC then set it to 150 oC for the rest.

Keep the fat!

Step 2 :

Chop up the bell peppers and tomato and place on your dish (or in a bowl) and season to taste.

Enjoy!!

Low carb movie snack!! (0 carbs)

Video of this recipe! Click here!
We all want that crunchy-snacky food feeling when we're watching a movie..
Here's one that you'll absolutely adore!!

Pork Cracklings!

Ask for Pork Skin from your butcher. He may or maynot give you skin with a layer of fat. Whatever he gives, we can work with it. Some butchers just give em out for free, some sell them.

 Ask for your butcher to cut the skin in 1 cm width ribbons or do it at home. In order to do it fast, roll it up like a napkin and slice through.


Step 1 (if your pork skin has no fat, skip this step)

- Boil the pork skin ribbons for about 20 minutes. Drain.

Step 2

- Bake the pork skin ribbons for about 30 minutes. Drain (keep the fat)

Step 3
- Deep fry the pork skin for about 30 seconds to a minute in lard or butter. I tried with olive oil but the taste was too heavy. Drain and enjoy!!


Optional*

Season what spices you desire. Make it spicy or savoury to taste! Your call!

Cold tuna/ Hot tuna ! (emergency dish!)

So one of my 'things' is to be able to scrap up a fast dish.
I rarely go by recipe, I'm more of a 'what's in the fridge' type of cook.

Here are 2 dishes with canned-tuna-in-brine that you can do if you don't have much time.



Hot dish :

-Butter
- Drained tuna
- Mushrooms of choice (i use the small white ones)
- Heavy cream
- Nutmeg
-Fresh ground pepper
- Optional: coconut flour (1 tablespoon)

Execution:
Put a sauce pot on the stove.
Set heat to 3 (out of 6)
Put in a few slices of butter, depending on how 'buttery' you want the sauce to be.
Dice the mushrooms and chuck them in!
Let simmer for a few minutes, the butter will first get absorbed, don't add more, it will return to the pot in a bit.
When the mushrooms are cooked and the sauce looks thicker, if it's not thick enough, chuck in the coconut flour and leave it simmer for a minute more.

Put the drained tuna in a bowl, add the sauce.

Voila!! It's a hot dish!!




Cold dish :

- Drained tuna
- Half a tomato
- Half a green bell pepper
- 1 tablespoon of mustard.

Optional choices :
-Dill
-Homemade mayo
- Chopped boiled egg
- raw olive oil

Execution:

Just chop up everything, add all in a bowl, salad style.
Add the mustard in the end and mix it with the salad.
Enjoy a cool dish!!

Homemade Chocolate Candy

In the low carb world, we call candy Fat bombs.  The reason is if you need some more fat, you can just eat a couple of these.  Or if you are still hungry after a meal, have 1 or 2.  These are also great to take with you to a party so you have some fats to munch on or healthy desert so to speak.  Every party I have been to always had a lot of sugar laden deserts with a lot of gluten in it.   This is a guilt free desert full of fat! 
Here is what you need-

• 1/2 cup coconut oil (solid at room temp)
• 1/4 cup Cocoa Powder
• 2 Tbsp any sweetener you desire.  I used liquid stevia in this.  You can add more or less depending on how sweet you like this.
• 1 tsp vanilla extract(gives it a nice vanilla flavor)
• 1 tbsp heavy whipping cream

In a sauce pan, melt the coconut oil.  Then remove from heat.  Add all of your other ingredients and  whisk until mixed evenly.  It does not take very long.

Pour into silicone molds and put in the fridge.  It should be hardened into candy within the hour.

Stuffed Pepper Recipe

Today's Recipe is Stuffed Pepper.
Its really EASY to make.  You can make a lot of them, cook them and keep them in the fridge until you are ready to eat.  These are GREAT to take with you to a party as a low carb dish so you have something to eat.  They make great appetizers as well as an actual meal.

What you will need

butter
bell pepper (use any color you want, I used green)
ground beef
spices (i used onion power, cayenne pepper, ginger powder, garlic powder.  You can add salt if you desire, i do not)
1 egg

In a frying pan, cook the ground beef until it becomes brown.  Mix in the desired spices while cooking.  You don't need to add any fats when you cook this because it can cook in its own fat.

Cut a bell pepper in half.  Clean out the inside.  Put your cooked beef inside the bell pepper and fill it to the top.  Preheat your over to 350 degrees.  Grease a pan with some butter and put your pepper inside.  Cook for 15-20 minutes.   Check up on it to make sure it is done

In a frying pan, cook an egg with butter.

Once your pepper is done, take it out of the oven and put your egg on top of the pepper.

Its really easy takes less than 5 minutes of prep time.  The oven does most of the work for you so you don't have to do much.