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.
No-Carb Bread
Published on: Nov 16 2020, 11:59
I recently tried a new bread recipe that Valentina sent me. It uses baking soda instead of yeast, and the result tasted excellent. Unfortunately, the texture wasn't so excellent: my bread turned out crumbly, barely rose at all, and fell apart when I tried to slice it. I think this was because the recipe didn't use any wheat gluten. We don't have anything against gluten (it's okay unless you have the extremely rare celiac disease), so we tried the recipe again with gluten. I wanted to answer the question:…
No-Beans Chili
Published on: Jan 15 2021, 11:30
The quickest, easiest, and most beloved party food is chili con carne. But that means red beans and corn, which are loaded with carbs. Our "no-beans" chili will amaze you! I'd been wondering for days how to make my tried-and-true chili recipe without beans and still preserve the taste. Then came the epiphany: instead of beans, corn, or potatoes, just use peppers and mango. Other than that, almost everything stays the same. My wife was skeptical, but she agreed to let me give it a test run. In…
Mojo
Published on: Dec 21 2021, 21:00
The first time I saw the word "Mojo" on a menu in the Canary Islands, I immediately thought of Austin Powers, who famously lost his sex appeal when Dr. Evil stole his mojo. When I said, "Look! Here's mojo!", my wife (who's studying Spanish) corrected me: "It's pronounced moho." Whether or not mojo increases your sex appeal_(probably not, because of the garlic), this Canarian specialty tastes wonderful and is very versatile. Traditionally there are two kinds of mojo, mostly served with a potato…
Meatball Casserole
Published on: May 04 2021, 02:55
Last week we gave a lot of thought to what we would cook on the weekend. Now that autumn is here, there is a huge selection of cabbages and other vegetables. My wife wanted Brussels sprouts, and I was thinking about how to use them in a low-carb dish. My inspiration came from listening to a soccer game on the radio. Our team won (yay!) and then the announcer quoted the great Sepp Herberger's explanation of how soccer works: "The round thing_(ball) has to go into the square thing_(goal)!" And that's…
Mc LowCarb
Published on: Jul 31 2021, 21:11
My attack on "God's own country" last week was not without consequences. At risk of becoming a victim in the War on Culinary Terror, imprisoned in a camp with only bread and beans to eat (a low-carb fan's version of torture) and subjected to cola-boarding, it's time for the rehabilitation of American cuisine. We'll start with THE classic American dish: a burger and fries. Amazingly, the low-carb version is delicious and - unlike the McDonald's version - very satisfying. Of course, we used only…