Dana's blog
Daily Menu March 2nd, 2009
Submitted by Dana on Wed, 2009-03-04 18:51Breakfast:
Monterey Jack and Avocado Omelet
Lunch:
1 leftover roasted pork country-style rib
1 chicken drumstick
Cole slaw
Dinner:
Pan-broiled rib eye steak
Green salad (our neighbor Keith brought over the first fresh lettuce of the season, from his greenhouse.)
Snacks:
Sugar-free dark chocolate
Pecans
Beverages:
Tea
Sparkling water
Dry red wine
Totals: 2226 Calories; 166g Fat (74.9% calories from fat); 93g Protein; 33g Carbohydrate; 12g Dietary Fiber; 21 grams usable carb.
Daily Menu February 25th, 2009
Submitted by Dana on Thu, 2009-02-26 15:32Breakfast:
Omelet of portobello mushrooms and onions, sauteed in bacon grease, and Monterey jack cheese
Lunch:
Roasted chicken thigh
Snacks:
Pork cracklin' strips
Sugar free dark chocolate
The drumstick leftover from the chicken thigh I ate for lunch
All of which left me so full, I wasn't really hungry for dinner. So all I had was:
Slice of the sorriest darned cheesecake I think I've ever made. I will not be publishing this recipe! Dry and bland. How'd I do that?
Yet Another Stupid Study
Submitted by Dana on Thu, 2009-02-26 14:08Have you seen it? It's all over the news today; a study in the New England Journal of Medicine "proving" that it doesn't matter if you choose a low fat diet, a low carb diet, or a Mediterranean diet. The only important thing, they say, is the calories.
We're back to "Just starve yourself for the rest of your life and you'll be fine." And we all know how well that works.
Acid/Alkaline
Submitted by Dana on Thu, 2009-02-19 12:41Under the thread about my liverwurst omelet, reader Sally asks:
Daily Menu February 18th, 2009
Submitted by Dana on Thu, 2009-02-19 12:21Breakfast:
Liverwurst and sundried tomato omelet
Lunch/Dinner:
Leftover roasted chicken leg and thigh
Coleslaw
Snacks:
Two handfuls of peanuts while driving around on errands
Beverages:
Tea, both hot and iced
Sparkling water
Dry red wine
This Morning's Omelet
Submitted by Dana on Wed, 2009-02-18 11:46As the days lengthen, our chickens are stepping up their laying a bit, so it seems incumbent upon me to try to keep up! It doesn't hurt that I never get tired of eggs.
So this morning, in the tradition of poking around in the fridge and making up omelets from whatever I find, I made a braunschweiger and sun-dried tomato omelet. I used three thinnish slices of braunschweiger -- about 1/4" thick -- off a one-pound chunk, and about 2 tablespoons of chopped sun-dried tomatoes in oil. And it was quite nice. Next time I might add some thin-sliced red onion, too.
Daily Menu, February 16th, 2009
Submitted by Dana on Tue, 2009-02-17 12:40Breakfast:
I had a chicken drumstick left over from the night before, so I stripped the meat off, mixed it with a little diced celery, red onion, and mayo, and made a chicken salad omelet with Monterey Jack cheese. And quite yummy it was, too.
Lunch:
Leftover roasted chicken leg and thigh
Dinner:
Three medium-boiled eggs. All I had room for.
MY GOLDEN FLAKE PORK CRACKLIN'S CAME!
Submitted by Dana on Tue, 2009-02-17 12:30Color me happy! My yummy, yummy pork cracklin' strips came! They are SO GOOD! I immediately ripped the box open and ate about 2/3 of a bag! (Which, considering that the label says 1 bag is 8 servings, was a real gorge. A real gorge with zero carbs, I might add.)
I barely had any appetite for dinner, but since I got a good 30 grams or so of protein from the pork cracklin' strips, it's no big deal. Try that with your low fat pretzels!
Daily Menu February 15th, 2009
Submitted by Dana on Mon, 2009-02-16 13:50Breakfast:
Leftover coffee cheesecake with chocolate sauce
Later on, three fried eggs
Lunch:
Didn't really have one, because of the snacks, which were...
Snacks:
Pecans
Another teeny sliver of coffee cheesecake with chocolate sauce
Pork rinds with cream cheese and sweetened jalapeno slices
Dinner:
A roasted chicken thigh
Beverages:
Tea
Sparkling water
Dry red wine
Totals: 2178 Calories; 154g Fat ; 113g Protein; 37g Carbohydrate; 11g Dietary Fiber; 26 grams usable carb.
Why Reading the Low Carb Blogs is Really Important
Submitted by Dana on Sun, 2009-02-15 16:53An interesting article by Dr. Michael Eades, of Protein Power fame, about how, exactly, our brains make decisions on what temptations to resist and what to give in to, called Low-carb battles in your brain.
The Valentine's Dinner Menu
Submitted by Dana on Sat, 2009-02-14 17:54Here's what That Nice Boy I Married and I will be having for our Valentine's Day candlelight supper:
* Seared duck breast with apricot-mustard glaze
* Grilled asparagus
* Bayside Salad (this is a salad from 500 Low-Carb Recipes; it's basically a tossed salad with some bitter greens and some thin-sliced red onion, tossed with raspberry vinaigrette, and topped by crumbled bacon, crumbled blue cheese, and chopped toasted pecans)
* A nice bottle of pinot noir
Pork Chili Verde
Submitted by Dana on Sat, 2009-02-14 11:45Last night I once again threw together a supper from stuff that was around the house. I had a big hunk of pork loin in the freezer -- just over two pounds worth. I had bought a whole pork loin on sale several months back, stuffed and roasted a piece of it, and stashed the rest in the deep freeze. Pork has a pretty limited freezer life, so I needed to do something with it before it started tasting nasty. (Even well-wrapped pork shouldn't be left in the freezer more than 4-6 months at the very outside. It develops an off-flavor that all the spices and sauces in the world cannot hide.)
Golden Flake Pork Cracklin' Strips
Submitted by Dana on Tue, 2009-02-10 14:53When I got back from Jimmy Moore's Low Carb Cruise, I wrote about discovering new low carb snacks down south. In particular, I discovered that I much prefer "pork cracklin' strips" to the standard pork rinds.
What I'm Snacking On
Submitted by Dana on Mon, 2009-02-09 18:391/4 cup of salted peanuts -- 7 grams carb, 2 grams fiber -- mixed with a few Carb Smart sugar-free chocolate chips (see ad at the left of the screen.) Yummy!
Creating Soup From Leftover Pork
Submitted by Dana on Mon, 2009-02-09 15:46I roasted a pork picnic shoulder Saturday evening, so we've got leftover pork in the house. I also had a fresh pot of homemade chicken broth. So last night I improvised a pot of soup using leftover pork. Here's how it went:
I put some chicken broth in the pork roasting pan, and dissolved the nice brown pork drippings. Poured this into my big saucepan, and added about a quart or so of broth. Put this over medium-high heat, while I cut some leftover pork in strips -- probably between two and three cups full. Dumped that in, too.