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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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…).

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.

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.

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.

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.

6. Enjoy!

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

Butter Parm Shrimp - Easy! - Recipe

In the shrimp vein, I've got something else for you to cook up, again, very low carb.

Take a stick of butter and melt it in a pan.

Throw a bit of garlic in there, it can be the jar kind, or fresh if you're fancy. Put your shrimp in, in an even layer. Cover and leave it alone for a while.

After they're all nice and pink (no more visible grey), cover with parmesan cheese (fresh if you can!). Recover to let it get all melty.

Dump in a bowl and eat with some greens!

Enjoy!

Firehole Shrimp Salad - Recipe!

Well, I got cooking tonight, and shrimp was on sale. Made lunch for tomorrow!

Start off with a pound of shrimp.

Slap that stuff right into a hot pan, at about medium heat. Spray the bottom of the pan with cooking spray very lightly, so it doesn't stick. Spread them out evenly.

 

 

Salt and pepper to taste, and throw a bit of chili powder in there (for good measure!). Leave them cook until they are the right color (you know what I mean). Crispy is good!

 

Chop them up into thirds, smallish pieces. We don't need shredded shrimp, but small pieces is good. Throw them in a mixing bowl with a cup of real mayonnaise, a half cup of shredded cheddar cheese, and a up to a tablespoon of Sriracha.

Mix it up good!

You think that looks pretty good? Me too. But its not quite ready, it needs… Bacon. Yep. Get some nice thick bacon.

Throw two pieces on a paper plate, with paper towels underneath. A minute and a half on each side in the microwave, and chop it up nice, crumble it, even.

Mix it all in. I use "Artisan Lettuce" romaine lettuce to make my lettuce wraps. Spoon that goodness into the lettuce!

Looks good, doesn't it? Lunch tomorrow is HANDLED! Very, very few carbs. Enjoy!

Vegan Ice Cream - Crush that Sweet Tooth!

Alright, so… I wanted ice cream, and I remembered that I got an ice cream maker as a wedding present. Neat, right?

So, after a bit of googling, I made some ice cream that is really very good, and decent for you too!

Ingredients:

• 1 can (13.5 oz) Coconut Milk
• 1/3 cup Light Agave Nectar
• 1 Tablespoon Cocoa Powder
• 1 Teaspoon Vanilla

This recipe makes a little over 16 oz of ice cream, so if you're using a ceramic container (like I am), throw it in the freezer awhile to chill it out.

Combine all ingredients into a bowl and whisk it until its all mixed up.

Toss it in the ice cream maker, and let it do its thing for 20 minutes or so, until its the consistency of… you guessed it, soft ice cream!

Use a spatula to scoop it all into your container (from the freezer), and freeze it for about 4-5 hours. Enjoy! (note, pay no attention to the frozen bacon fat.)

You can make a ton of different flavors, I just used Cocoa and Vanilla for this. I've also used 1 Tablespoon cinnamon, and its very good!

For the entire batch, the total nutrition facts are:

• 989 Calories
• 63.5g Fat
• 100.8 carbs

Its really good!

 

Kibble? Amazing thought. (Reaction)

I just got finished reading Dr. Tyna Moore's article (http://renegadewellness.org/2011/05/14/would-you-eat-kibble-for-the-rest-of-your-life/). That sure did stir up some thoughts.

The idea that grains and grains mashed together and formed are kibble, and also, bread, pastry, and a lot of other carb-based products... Its amazing.