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Stupid Ad I Missed

"Good Mood Food?" Arby's cheap roast beef sandwiches and curly fries will somehow bring warring factions together, and promote peace, love and understanding?

I particularly like the one where the cute young man tells us that up till now, we've eating Angus beef (what is it with Angus beef, anyway?) the way "the man" wants us to, but now we're going to eat it our way, or something. 'Cause eating a cheap sandwich of what I suspect is ground and re-formed beef is sticking it to "the man," and a great way to express our individuality.

Yummy New Way To Serve Burgers

I was debating whether I should try this tonight, or just thaw out one of the freezer full of low carb slow cooker dishes I've got down in the cellar. When I described this idea to That Nice Boy I Married, he said, and I quote, "That."

So I took about a pound of ground chuck, and made it into two big burgers, about an inch thick. Put them in a heavy skillet over medium-low heat, so they'd get done enough in the middle before the outside was overdone.

Ads That Are Currently Tweaking Me

As long-time readers are aware, I have a mild obsession with food ads. I find myself analyzing them, even yelling back at them. Here are some food ads that are currently pinging my bullsh!t meter:

V8 V-Fusion: Funny how Nature just knows how to make things that are good for you. Uh-huh. Sure. Like, I dunno, typhoid and cholera bacteria. Rattlesnake venom. Tobacco. Parasites. Deadly nightshade.

Fritta-fle Lorraine

I have a truly ridiculous egg supply right now, what with my chickens going nuts with the lengthening days. So I figured an egg-based supper was in order. I came up with this hybrid between a Quiche Lorraine (the Swiss cheese/bacon thing), a frittata (the cooked in the skillet on the stove top, then under the broiler thing) and a souffle (the beat it till a bunch of air gets incorporated, so it puffs thing). Way yummy, and lower carb than a classic quiche, because there's no crust, and lower carb than a classic souffle, because there's no flour-thickened white sauce.

Dana's Low Carb For Life Ep 10 is Posted!

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"Turbo Low-Carb"

So we're at the grocery store, That Nice Boy I Married and I, picking up cocoa powder and cream of tartar so I could try making chocolate meringues. At the checkout there's the usual array of magazines, and on the cover of Women's World, one of the more inane of the women's magazines -- you know, one of the ones where nearly every headline throughout the magazine ends with an exclamation point: "Super-Easy, Super Delicious Family Suppers!" "Sense Your Way To Success!" Take The Work Out of Working Out!" Etc. The biggest, splashiest headline of all read TURBO LOW CARB!

Pork Steaks with Ranch Dip

Wanted to do something new and very low carb with pork steaks tonight. This is what I came up with. The dip would be great for any Ranch Dip-py purposes; to use it as a salad dressing you might thin it out a bit with heavy cream or water or something.

Pork with Ranch Dip
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1 pound pork shoulder steak
2 tablespoons liquid Barbecue Smoke®
1/2 tablespoon bacon grease
Salt and pepper
Ranch Dip (recipe below)

Hash Browns With Eggs for Supper

So I did a simple supper tonight, taking advantage of our ridiculous surplus of eggs. I peeled a turnip and 1/4 rutabaga I had in the fridge and whacked 'em into chunks about 1/2" x 1". Threw them in my microwave steamer (a hugely useful item), added a little water, covered them, and gave them 10 minutes on full power.

Will Compact Fluorescents Screw Up Your Blood Sugar?

I got into a discussion of light bulbs, of all things, on Facebook. A woman named Karen mentioned that, along with their other faults, compact fluorescents -- you know, twisty bulbs -- may raise blood sugar. (The word she used was "purported" -- ie, she was careful to let me know that she wasn't asserting this as proven fact.)

Dana's Low Carb For Life Ep 9 is Up!

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Asian Beef Noodle Salad

This was my supper tonight. At 16 grams of usable carb per serving, this is not an Induction recipe, but, on the other hand, it's a one-dish meal, so you don't need to add a thing to it. Too, I had some dressing left in the bowl, and that means some carbs were left behind. All told, about 45-50 minutes after supper, my blood sugar was at 117.

Since That Nice Boy I Married is out of town, this is a single serving recipe. Double, triple, quadruple at will.

More Images of Beauty

These are from a slide show I put together for my Low Carb High Life Cruise back in '01: Images of Beauty

Changing Standards of Beauty

I have long thought it edifying, not to mention cheering, to take a look at images of beauty through the ages, to remind one's self that twig girls with implants have not always been the standard of sex appeal, not even in Hollywood. Take a look at this clip (with documentary voice over) from the very first movie made of the story of Cleopatra, from 1915.

Smoothies Without Carb Countdown

Sharon Zimberoff writes:

Quick and Easy Low Carb Fettuccini Alfredo

Wanted a smallish dish, somewhere between a snack and a meal, so I did this:

Drained a packet of tofu shirataki, fettuccini style. Snipped across them a few times with my kitchen shears, 'cause they're too long. Put 'em in a microwaveable bowl, and nuked them for a couple of minutes. Re-drained them, then gave them another couple of minutes and drained them one more time. This gets out a lot of excess water, and keeps them from diluting your sauce.

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