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  • in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of May 12, 2024? #42660
    Mike Nolan
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      in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of May 12, 2024? #42636
      Mike Nolan
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        We had salads again, I put some of the left over pork roast on mine.

        in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of May 12, 2024? #42632
        Mike Nolan
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          I looked at Rick Bayless's recipe for mole. Aside from the fact that it called for several ingredients I've never seen in a store (even the ones that cater to the Hispanic community here), it was a very complicated recipe with lots of ingredients.

          I've had his mole at his Chicago restaurant; it is very good, but I doubt I'd have the patience to make it. Mole from a jar seems good enough for me.

          in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of May 12, 2024? #42626
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            I haven't made a carrot soup with it, but I have a juicer that does a pretty good job grinding up the carrots, making it easier and faster to cook them. I have used the juicer to make vegetable stock. (I strained out the pulp from the veggies afterwards.)

            I've mainly used the carrot juice to make carrot vinegar and have used the carrot pulp in a carrot cake that was really good. (That'd be a tricky thing to make low-carb, though.)

            in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of May 12, 2024? #42625
            Mike Nolan
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              Dinner tonight was a salad (mine had tuna), two deviled eggs and a slice of cheesecake.

              in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of May 12, 2024? #42624
              Mike Nolan
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                If he likes cheesecake, the on-the-stove cheesecake filling I used for my keto-friendly cheesecake (using allulose instead of sugar) is a good recipe, and if you allow it to warm up to room temperature it is really soft. Just skip the crust for him. (I sprinkled a few chopped pecans on the excess filling, Diane loved it.)

                The recipe is on this YouTube page. Turn off your sound first, the soundtrack is really annoying.

                in reply to: Where I Have Been #42618
                Mike Nolan
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                  One of my wife's favorite comfort foods when she's not feeling good is baked custard, which has protein from eggs and milk.

                  They need to be kept in the fridge, but you can let them sit out for a bit to warm back up to room temperature.

                  in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of May 12, 2024? #42617
                  Mike Nolan
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                    We had the keto-friendly pizzas for supper tonight.

                    in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of May 12, 2024? #42611
                    Mike Nolan
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                      I blinked last week and most of my asparagus went to seed already. I did get a few stalks and might get a few more, but the bulk of them were already 2 feet tall and branched out.

                      I didn't plant this asparagus patch, I planted one in the back yard and it didn't take, but one showed up in the front yard a few years later, probably courtesy of the birds.

                      in reply to: Birds sighted #42606
                      Mike Nolan
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                        My wife has participated in several of the feeder bird counts, she usually gets 20-25 species in about 4 hours, although the last one was on a cold rainy day and she got very few birds at all. (I think her year-long list is closer to 50 species.)

                        We have a number of woodpeckers in the yard, they were calling at each other this afternoon. We have some flickers as well--similar to woodpeckers but somewhat larger, they can eat from the suet feeder but not from the thistle feeders, their claws won't let them grab hold. Some of the starlings and grackles were able to figure out how to hold on to the suet feeder.

                        in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of May 5, 2024? #42605
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                          Technically not baking, since the filling is cooked on the stove, but I made another keto cheesecake today. That'll be dessert tomorrow and throughout the week. (And I got some lobster tails for dinner tomorrow.)

                          And I ordered another set of 4 English Muffin rings, along with a silicone hot dog pan so I can try making some keto hot dog buns using the same recipe I used for the burger buns (or a minor variant of it.)

                          in reply to: Birds sighted #42604
                          Mike Nolan
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                            I got a good shot of one with my telephoto lens today, definitely a Baltimore oriole. We had both Baltimore orioles and orchard orioles a year or two ago, though.

                            I've seen at least two adult rabbits in the yard, but I haven't spotted a nest anywhere. Last summer we had a younger rabbit that discovered the water on the deck for the birds and was there for a drink frequently.

                            in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of May 5, 2024? #42602
                            Mike Nolan
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                              Taco/Taco salad tonight.

                              in reply to: Where I Have Been #42601
                              Mike Nolan
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                                All medical crises are stressing, even minor ones. Diane had what we think was a reaction to a stool softener the other day resulting in a blood sugar crash down to about 60 but with a quick rebound, fast enough that her CGM never sent an alert.

                                But we didn't figure that out until later, we just knew she felt really weak and I could not get a good BP reading for several minutes. Laying down for an hour helped.

                                I have a gum condition called lichen planus that my periodontist is watching but she doesn't think it is one that can become cancerous.

                                I hope your husband's recovery is without further incident.

                                in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of May 5, 2024? #42597
                                Mike Nolan
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                                  Dinner tonight was burgers on the grill, using the keto buns I made yesterday. The more I looked at them the more they looked like Big Mac buns, so I wound up slicing them in thirds and putting the middle portion in the freezer. This way Diane's got some bread ready for lunches and the carbs on the buns drops to 9, which is closer to what the previous batch was.

                                  I thought the burgers were just a little chewy, but the meat was a bit overdone, I almost always do that the first couple of times I crank up the grill each year, I need to get my timing back. But they did taste like burgers.

                                  Next time I might cut back on the psyillium husk powder a bit, though, the dough was pretty stiff during shaping. This dough has oat fiber, vital gluten and flax powder, no almond meal in this recipe.

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