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Super simple low-carb pancakes

By JA October 4, 2017

Super Simple Low-carb Pancakes with a side of bacon

The need for super simple low-carb pancakes People new to the LCHF diet and life-style often miss their customary carb-laden comfort food. Personally, I think the best approach is to move on, embrace your new way of eating, and not try to recreate in low-carb form all the breads, pastas, and baked goods you used to enjoy. But a few exceptions may be good for your morale, and not hurt your carb count much or at all. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Posts, Food, Keto Journal 2017, Low-Carb Basics Tagged With: almond flour, LCHF, pancakes, recipe

Easy Eggs Florentine

By Jim September 13, 2017

In my low-carb, high-fat reincarnation, I find myself cooking more and trying new dishes. No longer can I slap ham and cheese between whole-wheat bread, garnish with potato chips, and call it lunch. A bit of creativity is in order. But only a bit. I am a simple man. My method as both a cook and a writer is the same: I simplify.  As a writer, I compose a sentence, and then go over it to remove words. I’m hell on adjectives and adverbs. Call it the “blue pencil” approach (or maybe the "Twitter … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Posts, Food, Personal Reflection Tagged With: eggs, food, recipe, spinach, strawberries

Perfect low-carb blueberry pancake recipe

By Jim March 26, 2017

For months, I've been working to perfect my low-carb blueberry pancake recipe. I'm finally there. What makes these the perfect pancakes? Well, they're easy to make -- just five ingredients. And they're high in fat, low in net carbohydrates, and the recipe makes just enough for one person to eat on a weekend morning when he or she is hungry for a treat. Oh, and the blueberries add a lot to the experience! I suppose a person could share the pancakes with another person if that other person would … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Posts, Food, Low-Carb Basics Tagged With: almond flour, blueberries, breakfast, eggs, low-carb, pancakes, recipe

No-filler salmon patties in coconut oil

By Jim March 30, 2015

Since salmon is a carb-free food, it should be easy to create a low-carb salmon patty, right? Just leave out other ingredients that would add carbohydrates. Easy-peasy. That's how I figured it in 2011 when I wrote one of the most popular posts on this blog:  "No-filler salmon patties."  The recipe presented in that post is about as simple as they get. It calls for a can of salmon, an egg, and two tablespoons of olive oil. Maybe some garlic powder. My new version is just as easy. I'm changing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food Tagged With: eggs, featured, fish, high-fat, LCHF, low-carb, recipe, salmon

Italian Green Bean Salad

By Jim August 25, 2011

For years, Anita has been putting together a summer salad with green beans, tomatoes and red onion. It's an old family recipe. She calls it "Italian Green Bean Salad" in honor of her father, who's an old Italian. It's a delicious, nutritious summer treat, and reasonably low-carb. This summer, with a bumper crop of beans, cucumbers, hot peppers and tomatoes growing in our backyard garden, we were looking forward to making salads with the freshest, most organic of ingredients. Then blossom-end … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food, Personal Reflection Tagged With: Anita, diet, green beans, low-carb, recipe, salad, tomatoes

Great foods for a low-carb diet (part 2): seeds

By Jim July 8, 2011

Maybe it's a stretch to call seeds "great food."  Also, a reader new to low-carbing might get the impression that low-carb is a diet for the birds.  That impression would be wrong unless we're talking about birds of prey! Seeds are at least a useful food, packing plenty of nutrition into a tiny space, and I have added a couple of seed products to my diet since going low-carb: sunflower kernels and flax seed meal.  As you can see from the above, neither photographs well.  Roasted sunflower … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Posts, Food, Low-Carb Basics Tagged With: flax seeds, food, low-carb, peanut butter, recipe, rolled oats, sunflower seeds

No-filler salmon patties

By Jim June 16, 2011

Before I started eating low-carb, salmon was a minor part of my diet.  If I ate salmon at all, it was in the form of a grilled or broiled salmon steak, usually in a restaurant. I never purchased or prepared canned salmon.  But that has changed. Now I look for sales on canned salmon, and try to always have a few cans in the pantry. Canned salmon is usually wild-caught fish, which has a better reputation for purity than farm-raised fish.  It's typically sold in 14.75 ounce cans, each of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Posts, Food, Personal Reflection Tagged With: cooking, fish, recipe, salmon

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