We split the last of the onion soup and then had salads. When I was cleaning out the freezer I found some frozen vegetable beef soup, so that'll be on the menu in the next day or two.
I'm getting ready to make a big pot of beef stock.
We probably have rotisserie chicken about once every other month, these days always from Sams. We didn't like the spices in the Costco one, though I've seen multiple online sources claiming the Costco one is better. I've usually found the hot foods at Whole Foods to be disappointing.
Never had one that was underdone, though. I would certainly let Whole Foods know, there could have been an equipment issue.
I usually buy the one that has the darkest skin, figuring it is fully roasted.
We had French Onion soup again.
I'm making another batch of custard tonight. We're going through them pretty quick, they're keto-friendly if you make them with allulose.
I've been defrosting a freezer the last two days, and I found a container of my onion soup, so we tried an experiment with French Onion Soup tonight, we used some parmesan crisps that they sell at Sams that are virtually carb-free, 19 of them is one carb. We used a half-dozen of those in place of the stale bread that traditionally goes on top, with whole milk mozzarella on top of that.
We tried one small test bowl, and both of us liked it well enough that we had full bowls of it (with one half using parmesan crisps and the other using a 25 gram slice of bread, just to complete the comparison test) for supper.
I need to work out the carbs on the soup, if you look onion soup up on the web you'll get numbers all over the map, from 8 carbs to over 45. My guess is the latter is assuming a big hunk of stale bread on top. I'm currently coming up with about 25 carbs/bowl, but I think that's probably overstating it a bit. But the ketogenic diet book I bought a while back has some sample meal plans and some of the dinners are in the 45-65 carb range, so a 35-40 carb meal is doing OK.
We had less than half of the soup from the freezer, so we've got another French Onion Soup dinner coming in the next few days. Yummy and probably reasonably keto-friendly. (I'll know for sure in the morning when I check my ketones.)
Gruyere cheese is traditional for French Onion Soup, but I've seen recipes that use paremesan or mozzarella. I've also used a four-cheese blend that we used to get at Sams that they sadly no longer carry, and I've used havarti with some mozzarella on top (because havarti will melt but it won't brown).
I'm baking one loaf of semolina bread, shaped longer than normal so each slice has a small cross section area, meaning fewer carbs. (We use the 50% rule on most breads, weigh it in grams and divide by 2 and that'll be within a few carbs.)
I'm making Swiss Steak for supper tonight, we'll probably have it with cauliflower rice, that's kind of been our go-to replacement for pasta, rice or potatoes.
Do they call it the 'bake of the year' because it takes a year to clean up afterwards?
We're making up for yesterday with cheese souffle tonight, under 4 carbs/serving.
We had meatballs in marinara on cauliflower rice (and a little shredded zucchini, just to see if we liked it--not really.) We had a slice of cheese toast made with Dave's Killer Good Seed bread.
A bit high on carbs for the meal, but some days you need to splurge a bit.
That's a really good cartoon, I'm passing it on to a few people.
We had tuna salad on tomatoes, mine was also on a bed of lettuce.
I've never been much of a breakfast person, so steak for breakfast sounds like a huge meal.
We're having tacos tonight (or taco salad without a taco shell.)
