What's for dinner at your place?? Topic

DavidDD 01/20/16 replied to K8sMom2002
There really aren't any good low carb crackers that I have found. This recipe is tasty and crunchy like a cracker, but it is lousy for adding to soups and such. It is also pretty high calorie with the almond flour. It is okay for cheese and crackers, but I will usually wrap my cheese in a piece of salami or pepperoni to reduce the carbs.

When nothing but a cracker will do (for example when I eat chili soup), I choose the club-style whole grain or whole wheat crackers (the Walmart and Kroger brands are pretty good) and use as few as possible.


https://elanaspantry.com/salt-and-pepper-crackers/

DavidDD 01/20/16 replied to K8sMom2002
We're having chicken sandwiches tonight as well. Mine are chicken bbq. We cook chicken thighs in the slow cooker with a sliced lemon, shred them up and add bottled bbq sauce. Served on a whole wheat bun with mixed vegetables and salad for the sides.

K8sMom2002 01/21/16
Yum! Love BBQ! Unfortunately I have to make my own BBQ sauce since I can't find any inexpensive corn free sauce. I usually make a big batch so that I have leftovers.

Tonight we'll be having beef stroganoff with my homemade cream of mushroom soup -- I make the soup in batches and freeze it to make weeknight suppers easier. I don't know why conventional wisdom says you can't freeze cream based or potato based soups or cabbage ... I've successfully frozen all three with no harm in taste. It does take a bit of know how in thawing and reheating cream based soups, but it's much better than having to make it from scratch every time. And that would be my only option since it's impossible to find corn free inexpensive condensed soups.

To round it out, I'll make oven roasted broccoli and carrots.

DavidDD 01/21/16
We are having spaghetti squash lasagna tonight. This isn't our recipe, but it is very close:https://celiacinthecity.wordpress.com/2014/01/18/stuffed-spaghetti-squash-lasagna-style/

Dietitian 01/21/16 replied to DavidDD
Wow DavidDD - that recipe looks pretty darn delicious.

I thought I had replied yesterday with how much I loved the Red Lentil Soup with Lemon from the NYT. It is a winner! And pretty low calories for the filling quality (due to the lentils). Here's the link if you didn't see my other post: http://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1016062-red-lentil-soup-with-lemon

Tonight I might make green peppers stuffed with a turkey & rice mixture if I can find a recipe I like for the slow cooker.

DavidDD 01/22/16 replied to Dietitian
Your lentil soup looks pretty good too. I love lentils, but the rest of my family won't touch them. The Spaghetti Squash Lasagna turned out pretty well, although I think we should have steamed (roasted in water) the squash. The plain roasting left the squash a little crunchy; the texture was off-putting.

Dietitian 01/22/16 replied to DavidDD
I'm going to try the Slow Cooker Stuffed Peppers from: http://damndelicious.net/2015/09/11/slow-cooker-stuffed-peppers/

If I like it, I'll enter it as a recipe to get the nutrition info to share. Since I usually use ground turkey, I'll use that instead of ground beef.

Thanks for the info about the squash, DavidDD - helpful. I usually have to cook food just a little bit longer than recommended where I live (and also use a little more liquid).

DavidDD 01/22/16
I am so excited---WOOT!!!

We are snowed in here in the Eastern US so I decided to experiment with my low carb flours and cooking techniques. Tonight's experiment was pancakes. Yep--good old fashioned, buttery, brown comfort food. The new recipe is fabulous! About 200 calories per serving (that's four 4-inch pancakes) and only 8 g Carbs. I even had room in my diet to add some decidedly not low cal or carb homemade blueberry syrup.

Here's the recipe:

1 egg
1 egg white
1/2 cup almond flour
2 tablespoons coconut flour
1 tablespoon buttermilk
1 tablespoon low fat Greek Yogurt (I used vanilla, but any flavor will do)
1 package Stevia sweetener (or 1 tablespoon honey, agave nectar, etc.)
1/2 tablespoon butter

Mix the egg and egg white in a bowl with electric mixer. Beat until eggs are more than doubled in size (whipped). Add almond flour, coconut flour, buttermilk, yogurt, and sweetener and gently fold until mixed. The mixture will seem thin at this point. Let sit for 5 minutes while warming griddle. Cook over medium to medium low heat in the butter until brown. Turn once and brown the other side.

The nutritional information is entered under my recipes as David's no flour pancakes.

DavidDD 01/22/16 replied to DavidDD
Make that David's no-grain pancakes

K8sMom2002 01/23/16
Wow, I'll have to pass that on to my sis. I keep seeing recipes for cottage cheese pancakes, but it calls for 3 eggs. Wow!

Last night we had breakfast for supper: millet grits and cheese, scrambled eggs and bacon. We tend to save the grits for the odd treat because millet can suppress thyroid function.

What's for dinner at your place??