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February 17, 2024 at 12:09 pm in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of February 11, 2024? #41886
I see it as a challenge, how can I make an edible bread that is still keto-friendly.
My weight is down about 5 pounds in two weeks, so the keto diet is working for me, and my wife's blood sugar numbers have been really good, especially no overnight spikes, so it's working for her that way, and her weight is down some.
February 17, 2024 at 10:08 am in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of February 11, 2024? #41884Haven't tried it yet,but it's a bit crumbly, a big corner of it broke off as I was handling it. But given that it didn't have any gluten or a gum (like xanthan) for structure, that may not be surprising. I will try slicing it at lunchtime.
I've ordered a bag of King Arthur's new keto flour, we'll see how it works, but it's really expensive.
February 16, 2024 at 9:39 pm in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of February 11, 2024? #41883The custards taste like custard, though they could probably have used a little more allulose. (Allulose is about 75% as sweet as sucrose.) Diane thinks more vanilla would help.
They did dome a bit in the middle, something I've never seen custard do before, but they collapsed as they cooled.
The keto friendly bread that I made 6 days ago was gone, so I'm trying another keto-friendly recipe tonight. This one uses 4 whole eggs and some ground flaxseed. It's in the oven, but it says not to slice it until it's cool, so I probably won't taste it until morning.
This recipe recommends keeping it in the refrigerator or slicing and freezing it. The other one didn't.
February 16, 2024 at 8:01 pm in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of February 11, 2024? #41881I'm making keto-friendly egg custard tonight, using allulose instead of sugar and 1 part cream to 3 parts water.
February 16, 2024 at 6:56 pm in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of February 11, 2024? #41880We got a dusting of snow overnight, under 1/2 inch.
We had a rotisserie chicken for supper.
February 15, 2024 at 6:58 pm in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of February 11, 2024? #41876$2.19-$2.29 is what I'm seeing for eggs at places like Aldi and Walmart, $2.89 is what I'm seeing in other grocery stores.
Tonight's butter-poached lobster was very good, the low-carb gnocchi was OK, but felt a bit gritty, maybe that's the almond flour. I made an alfredo sauce to go with the gnocchi, I think it clashed with the lobster, the original recipe recommended a lemon-butter-tarragon sauce; we tried a few with lemon-butter from the lobsters, that was an improvement.
I also made a low carb hot fudge sauce to go with some reduced sugar ice cream for dessert in a while. I think it'll be OK on the ice cream with some strawberries, but it isn't the same as real hot fudge sauce. (I've yet to find a recipe for hot fudge sauce that matches what I get through soda fountain suppliers. Of the ones at the grocery store, Mrs. Richardson's hot fudge sauce is the one I like best.)
February 14, 2024 at 10:32 pm in reply to: What are you Baking the Week of February 11, 2024? #41872I tried another half-batch of peanut butter cookies, this time the only change I made was substituting almond flour for the wheat flour. (I did accidentally put in a whole egg rather than a half egg, and that made the cookies flatten out a bit more.)
They're pretty good, the almond flour changes the taste a little, but they taste good enough that Diane had two this evening. And they're somewhere around 6 carbs each as opposed to 9 carbs for the originals.
February 14, 2024 at 6:03 pm in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of February 11, 2024? #41866Since we postponed the lobster dinner to tomorrow, we settled for steaks tonight. 🙂
I tried making peanut butter cookies using almond flour with monkfruit and erythritol (corrected) as the sweetener. Erythritol tends to leave a 'cool' sensation on the tongue and there was kind of an aftertaste as well, which may be from the monkfruit. The texture was off, but that's more easily fixed than taste issues. So I call this one a fail.
I may see what happens if I use allulose, which browns faster than sucrose, so I'll have to watch for that.
February 13, 2024 at 9:26 pm in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of February 11, 2024? #41860We had fish and broccoli tonight.
We're having our Valentine's Day dinner on Thursday rather than tomorrow due to my dentist appointment and my wife's ballet ticket for tomorrow night; on Thursday it will be lobster and possibly some keto-friendly gnocchi with some kind of sauce, possibly alfredo.
I did get her some flowers today, alstroemerias in purple and white.
He had a long and productive life, and who of us could ask for more.
February 12, 2024 at 7:40 pm in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of February 11, 2024? #41851We had taco salads tonight, with some of the left over pork roast as the protein.
February 12, 2024 at 3:07 pm in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of February 11, 2024? #41849Usher was better than I expected, though I didn't recognize most of the other artists he had on stage with him.
And the game was a good one, though I was hoping the 49ers would win. But Mahomes is a force to be reckoned with late in the game, especially in playoffs.
The commercials weren't particularly exciting, some were silly, none were really great or memorable, the Budweiser clydesdales one was probably the best of the bunch, and they've done better ones in the past. I did like the preview for the movie of Wicked, though. That's one I'm likely to go see.
February 11, 2024 at 5:11 pm in reply to: What are you Cooking the Week of February 11, 2024? #41842Diane's not really into the Super Bowl. She may watch the ads, but even those don't really grab her any more. She's got a massage scheduled at 5:30.
We've got some keto-friendly (more or less) snacks ready, but there's a limit to how much of those I can eat, and I'll probably have a bowl of vegetable beef soup at halftime. (I don't care for most of the acts recently, including Usher.)
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