What did I cook this weekend.....

[OleBrewing]

View attachment 745561View attachment 745562First time finding and cooking a lobster mushroom. I cut into bite sized pieces and sautéed in butter and olive oil. Then made omelette in the same pan, turning it a beautiful reddish color.
It has a very strange texture, firm yet soft when you bite into it.

I love mushroom season!

I will have to research ND edible mushrooms. I know there are some. Wild shrooms are awesome power food paired with wild game.

 

[Staestc]

47° this morning. T-shirt and shorts this evening. Not exactly what I was thinking when I said winter soups and stews, but always great. I am doing tortilla soup. Picture is the soup base ingredients before adding broth and simmering.

Maybe will get a plated picture but I’m pretty starving, so who knows! Lol

 

[Staestc]

Adding a picture while it’s simmering. Love this soup. Will serve with grated cheese, tortilla chips, avocados, and hot sauce for mine.

 

[davidabcd]

I wanted to try out spatchcocking so I went to Costco. Surprisingly, they had no whole chickens for sale.

 

[Temptd2]

Yum I love chicken thighs best anyway!

 

[davidabcd]

Yum I love chicken thighs best anyway!

That's what I was telling my brother--totally worked out for the best. I really just wanted to cook something that wasn't done in 8 minutes (burgers and steaks) because I wanted to sit outside and enjoy the weather.
I used Trader Joe's 21 spices (called something like that) and a couple of those small envelopes of Goya Sazon seasoning and olive oil.
I've gotten into the habit of making extra food for my neighbor; he's getting older and all that.

 

[TwistedGray]

Pork belly and some taters from the garden.

 

[davidabcd]

These innocent looking bakers are in for something special when they reach their final destination. Hope I didn't create too much suspense!
Two pounds there, for reference.

 

[TwistedGray]

Pork belly with a honey slaw on some brioche - super yummy lunch.

 

[Temptd2]

I've gotten into the habit of making extra food for my neighbor; he's getting older and all that.

That is very thoughtful of you! I'm sure he appreciates it. I know I would!

 

[davidabcd]

I'm sure he appreciates it.

My wife just said five minutes ago, "Nothing puts a smile on that man's face like food does."
Speaking of which:

She just dropped off some of this potato soup. His has shredded cheddar on it.
Baked Potato Soup. The bowl above is "naked." I usually put shredded cheddar, bacon bits, sour cream and chives in/on it.
Made a gallon of it, freezes well.

 

[DBhomebrew]

Skillet-fried chicken thighs in a cider and mushroom gravy. Sauteed cabbage. Roasted carrots and potatoes.

 

[davidabcd]

I made five pizzas last night.
My wife took two to her friend's restaurant after they closed.
Making pizza is like painting--once you get all the prep out of the way, the rest is easy.

 

[davidabcd]

Fried up the last bit of dough and had pizza for breakfast. Broiler works well for heating the top.

 

[OleBrewing]

Creamy potato and ham soup. Ham will go in at end once veggies are soft and broth thickens up.

 

[OleBrewing]

Creamy potato and ham soup. Ham will go in at end once veggies are soft and broth thickens up.View attachment 746792

And I get one bowl for lunch tomorrow..Kids ate the rest.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Creamy leek and potato soup, made with home cooked chicken stock.

Cooked up a quick sauce, using leftover pork and canned tomatoes.

 

[davidabcd]

Basically, I thickened up chicken broth with a roux and added some ham base, mushrooms and chicken.

 

[Temptd2]

No picture, but yesterday I threw together a pot of keto chicken noodle soup. KOTC and I were both feeling a bit "under the weather" so I used a can of that Costco chicken breast, and the liquid in it; chicken stock; shirataki noodles, cut into manageable lengths; and then ginger, garlic, turmeric, black pepper, Pepper Plant spice mix, dehydrated onion bits, dash of Worcestershire and tamari. Let it simmer about 20 minutes. At the table we added a few dashes of home-fermented ginger beer vinegar. Really hit the spot! The turmeric makes it such a pretty color too. Today we both feel much better. Chicken noodle soup cures all!

 

[davidabcd]

pot of keto chicken noodle soup.

That sounds really good. Speaking of turmeric (I've been using it for decades), I started adding a titch to my omelet in the morning. Natural food coloring, if nothing else.
General, not-directed-at-anyone rant alert:
I'm familiar with no/low carb benefits (might also be called "proper eating." With X amount of carbs over a 3-6 day period, my energy level reaches bursting. I see the "low carb bread" which deals with "net carbs" which I'm still fuzzy on. but I like to put my meat on something once in a while.
I'm still reeling that, some years ago, Thanksgiving food comas were blamed on...TURKEY! Tryptophan in the turkey, I believe. It's not the marshmallow salad, the stuffing, the sweet/mashed potatoes or the overconsumption of these items--definitely not. /s
I was flabbergasted. I even sat down and ate like 12oz of turkey and waited for that awful, bloated, food coma to hit me. It didn't, of course; I only felt like I wasn't hungry but quite alert.
Anyway....

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Collars, rice and salad.

 

[Temptd2]

@davidabcd - Net carbs is just total carbs less fiber carbs and any sugar alcohol carbs. Some folks don't believe in that and only use total carbs. We use net carbs. To each their own.

For bread, I make a keto waffle (20 at a time!) and freeze them. KOTC uses them as sandwich bread and likes them better than anything else we've tried because the little waffle holes capture any condiments and hold them in the sandwich! I also make Serious Keto's 90 Second Tortillas which are great for lots of things, my favorite is to shallow-fry them and then use them for tostadas and for cinnamon crispas. They work as a wrap too. We do the sort of keto where we don't eat any sugar or wheat products and mostly avoid grains in general. Has been working well for us for a couple years now!

 

[davidabcd]

We do the sort of keto where we don't eat any sugar or wheat products and mostly avoid grains in general. Has been working well for us for a couple years now!

That's basically what I do except when I cut loose once in a while (pizza).

 

[Staestc]

Emergency Mummy Dogs for a starving grandson (well, and me and his dad actually!)

Banana Nut Muffins

And I may have posted these the other day, but Pretzel Dogs! These were just awesome, and I ate the left overs are breakfast snacks each morning till they were gone!

Happy Halloween!!

 

[Staestc]

Wow, I made these over a week ago and do not appear to have posted. Stuffed Bell Peppers. Happy Halloween again!!

 

[davidabcd]

My wife really liked the photo of the Mummy Dogs.

Mummy Dogs

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Wow, I made these over a week ago and do not appear to have posted. Stuffed Bell Peppers. Happy Halloween again!!

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Great idea! And, you carved little faces on the mummy dogs!

 

[davidabcd]

Chicken shawarma, more or less, and the tzatziki sauce. Cooked on the grill might not have been the best decision ever because of the heavy-oil marinade.
I had to move fast the entire time because of the flames.

 

[Temptd2]

That's basically what I do except when I cut loose once in a while (pizza).

LOL, we love pizza. We finally found a company that makes a really nice pizza crust of decent size. They're not cheap but they're the best we've eaten, whether homemade or purchased, since starting keto so I keep several in the freezer! The company is Soooketolicious Sooo Ketolicious - Keto Friendly Online Store if you care to look them up.

We make an "everything" pizza on them and then we also just bake the crust til it's crispy and let it cool, then spread with seasoned cream cheese, sprinkled with finely diced onion, thinly sliced Serrano peppers, and capers fried til crispy in olive oil, then top with lox-style salmon and put a few grinds of pepper on top. Man it's good!

 

[davidabcd]

if you care to look them up.

I'm always on the prowl for ideas. Thanks., I definitely will.
My general menu would basically be meat and vegetables (corn, potatoes and other starchy ones I'll have as a treat). I get plenty of carbs from the veggies even with jogging three-four times a week. I'm not great at eating fruit but I do a whole array of vitamins and minerals.
1/2 t of sugar a day in my espresso.
I have found that Keto/Atkins (maintenance) is kind of common-sense eating. I don't know where the X amount of servings of fruit came from but that's a lot of sugar and seems counterintuitive.