[Mike Nolan]

I'm making keto-friendly egg custard tonight, using allulose instead of sugar and 1 part cream to 3 parts water.

[Mike Nolan]

We got a dusting of snow overnight, under 1/2 inch.

We had a rotisserie chicken for supper.

[Mike Nolan]

$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.)

[Mike Nolan]

I 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.

[Mike Nolan]

Since we postponed the lobster dinner to tomorrow, we settled for steaks tonight. 🙂

[Mike Nolan]

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.

[Mike Nolan]

We 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.

[Mike Nolan]

He had a long and productive life, and who of us could ask for more.

[Mike Nolan]

We had taco salads tonight, with some of the left over pork roast as the protein.

[Mike Nolan]

Usher 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.

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Diane'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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I made the 'tortilla' chips, they're quite good. I used part-skim mozzarella, because that's what I had, and I think that led to them browning more than I expected, so they're probably not quite as crisp as they should be.

But they go pretty well with cheese dip, with sour cream onion dip and even peanut butter! They're also pretty good with nacho cheese sauce and I think they'd be great with salsa.

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Oh how sad, though not entirely surprising.

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Len, have you tried making a cauliflower pizza crust yet?

[Mike Nolan]

I made a keto-friendly bread today (egg whites, almond flour and coconut flour, mostly), still waiting for it to cool to see how it is.

Followup:

Well, it came out looking more or less like the picture on the recipe, though maybe it could have stood a little longer in the oven. And using pasteurized egg whites is always a bit challenging, they don't whip up quite as high as fresh egg whites.

As to the taste, I've definitely had worse, toasted and with a little margarine and peanut butter it tasted mostly like peanut butter, and it had enough crunch and texture to feel like I was actually eating something close to a sandwich.

The real test is if I can use it for something like cheese toast or a BLT.

For a first try, it was somewhat better than expected, but I think I can improve upon it.

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