[Mike Nolan]

I put the recipe into Carb Manager (I'm using both that and Nutritionix these days, Carb Manager has a more readily accessible food library, though it appears to have both user-entered foods and curated ones. IMHO it is a bit harder to use, and the recipe manager is a tad clumsy as there's no cut-and-paste option to build a recipe like in Nutritionix.)

Unmodified, it comes out per muffin (yield of 12) as:

31.8 total carbs, 1.5 fiber, 30.3 net carbs
4.1 grams protein
3.4 grams fat
171 calories

A mini-muffin is usually about 1/4 the size of a full muffin, so that'd be around 8 total carbs per mini-muffin, pretty similar to what banana muffins come in at.

Thinking about tweaking the recipe, as we are not coffee drinkers, I'd probably leave that out, maybe increase the cinnamon.

If I use carbalose and allulose instead of flour and sugar, that cuts total carbs (disregarding allulose) to 4.2 and net carbs (subtracting fiber) to 3.1

What I'm leaning towards is making a batch as mini-muffins leaving out the coffee but otherwise unchanged. Then if we like those I may play with the keto-friendly recipe a bit.

[Mike Nolan]

We had no-bread tuna melts again for supper. The tomatoes were all around 4 ounces, so I wound up using 4 of them. I doubt I will get a lot more tomatoes out of the garden, no fruit appears to be setting and the vines are pretty picked out. Still a number of small tomatoes (cherry/grape size) but probably nothing larger than 3 ounces and not many of those.

I'm going to try an experimental hydroponics setup for tomatoes over the winter, growing Italian Heirloom and something like Better Bush, both determinates. I planted the Italian Heirloom under the lights last week, they're doing fairly well, I need to start the other plants this week. This will be a Deep Water Culture system. (Aerogarden is also a DWC system, but a lot more automated.) I'll post photos when I get it set up.

I also started 12 more lettuce plants in the Aerogarden on Friday, they've all sprouted already.

[Mike Nolan]

I think the original concept was someone picks a recipe they have NOT done, makes it available to everybody else and then we all try it and share our results--what worked, what didn't, what we tinkered with, etc. (With our keto regimen, there are few recipes that I haven't had to tinker with to make keto-friendlier.)

Other concepts are also feasible. Make suggestions and let's see how others feel about it.

[Mike Nolan]

I'm making a batch of chicken stock from the remains of the rotisserie chicken.

[Mike Nolan]

I'm OK with that, but someone still needs to step forward and say they're doing something (including picking a category) for November. 🙂

[Mike Nolan]

The response to this post is disappointing. Doesn't anybody want to step forward and say, "I'll do November"?

[Mike Nolan]

We did do smoked pork chops on the grill, but instead of applesauce or apple butter we used some of the tomato relish I made a few days ago. Changes the flavor profile a bit but it works very well with the pork.

[Mike Nolan]

We had the rest of yesterday's pizza for supper tonight.

[Mike Nolan]

I made the tomato relish using a little extra pepper and onion and no sugar, tastes great that way. Had it on hot dogs for lunch today, less than 2 carbs per tablespoon of relish.

[Mike Nolan]

Friday is turning into Pizza day here, I did another tonight, this time I put the pizza steel on the lowest rack level and dropped the temperature in the oven when I put the pizza in. The bottom was much more done than the top, as I was hoping, but not quite crisp yet, so I'll play with this some more next time.

[Mike Nolan]

I picked more tomatoes and had enough medium sized ones that I'm making a batch of tomato relish (https://mynebraskakitchen.com/wordpress/forums/topic/tomato-relish/) instead of more tomato sauce.

[Mike Nolan]

I had a tomato and salami sandwich and Diane had salami and tomato on a salad.

[Mike Nolan]

He seems comfortable today, though not happy with having to take pills. He's eating well but may be getting tired of the food flavor he's liked most the last few weeks, so I got a few other options to try. He's wearing an e-collar for two weeks which makes it a bit more challenging to eat or drink without the cone getting in the way.

We talked to an Animal Control officer last night, abusing an animal falls under their jurisdiction but discharging a weapon inside city limits is a police matter, so they coordinate with each other. It is unlikely they'll have any solid leads as to who did this, but it does make me wonder whether I have neighbors I should not trust. Could be kids, which raises additional complications.

Reports of people shooting animals inside city limits with a bb gun are not common, thankfully.

[Mike Nolan]

A late dinner because I was picking up the cat at the vet. I had some of the spaghetti squash 'lasagna' and Diane had some salami, cheese and fruit.

[Mike Nolan]

Jack is back home. The vet tech said they took an x-ray just before discharging him to see if they could figure out what happened, and it appears he got shot with a bb gun. the bb is still in his neck area, whether or not it causes additional complications down the road remains to be seen.

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