You won't find recipes for steak with salad or an amazing salad with turkey breast here. If you don't know how to cook a steak, you can go allrecipes.com or similar. They have 13,000 steak recipes. (Unbelievable, isn't it? I wonder if they're all different?) Also, I don't really find it helpful to copy recipes from somewhere and just leave out the potatoes.
I trust my readers' creativity, so most of the recipes I've shared here are specifically low-carb and should be a jumping-off point for you to develop your own low-carb kitchen. They are mainly about how to create satisfying low-carb versions of traditional foods like bread, and also how to satisfy your sweet tooth on a low-carb diet. In addition, we've tried to include tips for dealing with special low-carb ingredients like almond flour or gluten.
Farmer's Breakfast
Published on: Jul 06 2022, 00:47
From a culinary perspective, winter is the season of cabbage and turnips. Last year we discovered that rutabagas are a great low-carb ingredient, which gave my wife the idea of making rutabaga fries. I had some doubts about this since our attempt at making beet chips failed spectacularly. Frying just doesn't work that well with root vegetables. We compromised and decided to try making a farmer's breakfast. With a hearty base of onions and bacon, we were able to recreate the taste of fried potatoes,…
Falafel
Published on: Oct 24 2021, 20:25
One of my best friends lived and worked in Cairo for a few years. When I traveled there to visit him, I had the opportunity to get to know Egypt "off the beaten path". If you go there on a package tour, you might not realize that Egypt is one of the most fascinating and hospitable countries in the world. I felt safer in Cairo than I have almost anywhere else. When some money fell out of my pocket, a young boy who'd been watching ran after me to give it back. And I've been spontaneously invited to…
Fake Swabians
Published on: Feb 27 2021, 22:48
The story of the "Fake Swabians" begins with a disaster. Our friend Birgit - a native of the Swabian region of southwestern Germany - was coming to visit and we hoped to serve her our first low-carb spaetzle, a type of egg noodles that are a Swabian specialty. I'm cautious and like to be prepared, so I decided to test the recipe a week before she came. I also needed to practice scraping spaetzle (traditionally, they're formed by scraping dough off a wooden cutting board). So I began our first - and…
Eggplant Tapas
Published on: Jul 06 2022, 00:48
After washing the eggplants, cut them into round slices about as thick as your finger. Fill a pot with plenty of salt water, bring it to a boil, and blanch the eggplant slices for 5 minutes max. Blot them dry and brown them on both sides in olive oil. While browning the eggplant, we can remove the tomatoes from the vinegar water and puree them with an immersion blender. Add cream and cream cheese to the tomatoes. You probably don't need to add salt. The zing in our tapas comes from the chili…
Egg Hunt Casserole
Published on: Oct 07 2022, 21:30
Now for a special touch, which admittedly wasn't my idea: Use a spoon to press 6 (or with a smaller dish, 4) wells into the casserole filling, and crack a raw egg into each one. Be careful not to break the yolks. Add a few drops of Worcestershire sauce to each egg white. Instead of covering the casserole with a flat layer of dough like in the original recipe, I crumbled the rest of the dough and sprinkled it over the top. The crumb topping confused our guests: "We're having something sweet for…