Saturday, January 14, 2012

Low Carb Cheesecake!

This dessert is SO good, and the whole pie has about 100g of carbs! Not paleo, due to the splenda, but, we can't win'm all.

Ingredients

2 8oz Packages of Cream Cheese

3 Eggs

1/2 Cup Splenda bake

1 heaping cup of Sour Cream

2 packets of Splenda

1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract (or imitation, doesn't matter.)

1. Gather ingredients, and soften up the cream cheese (45 seconds in the microwave or so). Throw your cream cheese, eggs, 1/2 cup splenda bake and 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla into your mixing bowl.

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2. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Mix your ingredients with a whisk (lol), hand mixer or stand mixer until its combined. While this is mixing, butter your glass pie plate.

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3. Dump your mixture into your buttered pie plate. Yes, there is no crust for this dish!

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4. Bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes. It will poof up, and, while this has never happened to me, I put a cookie sheet under the pie plate to catch spills just in case.

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5. While your cake is baking, combine your heaping cup of sour cream, 2 packets of splenda, and the remaining 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla in a small bowl. Mix well. Throw in the refrigerator until you're done baking.

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6. Take your pie out of the oven, and let it cool for 20 minutes. It'll be all poofed up when you take it out. After 20 minutes, smear the sour cream all over the top of the pie.

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7. Bake for 10 more minutes, let cool for 10 minutes, and refrigerate for at least 2 hours. Slice up and eat!

Even lower carbs: I used Splenda Sugar Blend, and that equals just about 100g carbs for the pie. You can eliminate 90 of those carbs using granulated Splenda. Use 1/3 cup.

 

Mozza-Bacon-Steak Bites!

Another awesomely low carb meal!

Got the idea from http://www.sinorslim.com.

Ingredient List

Steak (I used 2 lbs of sirloin)

A normal sized box of Mozzarella string cheese

A pound of bacon

1. Get some steaks. I got 2 lbs of sirloin (on sale for 3.99 a pound… what…).

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2. Trim off the fat, and cut into cubes of just smaller than 1 inch by 1 inch. This isn't super exact, don't stress.

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3. Strip off a bit of string cheese, and cut a piece of bacon in half, and wrap up a cube of steak. Jab with toothpicks to keep everything together. Set them aside. Again, not real exact. This might take a while. When you've only got a dozen or so left to do, put a large frying pan on the stove, medium-high heat, and preheat the oven to 400 degrees.

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4. Throw all of your steak bites into the hot pan. Get a cookie sheet ready for transfer! Line your cookie sheet with aluminum foil! Turn the steak bites until the steak starts to cook.

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5. Move the steak bites around until the bacon starts to crisp. Once they're all almost crispy, put the bites onto a cookie sheet, and put it in the oven for 7 minutes.

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6. Enjoy!

The only carb content here is the mozzarella cheese, and each bite only uses 1/5th or so of a stick. Delicious!