Keto Jew's Philly Roll

For me this is all comfort food.  Odd I know.  It combines the best of my Jewish heritage, lox and cream cheese on bagels at Canter's, with a rice cooker and seaweed breakfast at my Korean elementary school friend Hanna's house before school, wrapped around the all American celery stick.

Simple really!  All these ingredients can be found in your local Trader Joe's or other yuppy market.

Oh yeah, and celery.  But you got that.

I find it best to lay the seaweed on a paper towel to keep it dry and provide a little more grip than my cutting board.  Make an anchor of cream cheese at each end to help it stick when rolled up.

Stuff the lox in the celery stick!

Lay it down and roll it up.

Arrange on your best Asian fusion hipster looking white plate from the 99 Cents Only store!

Hope you enjoy making these at your next party or at 3am when you are alone and want all the LA nightlife of bagels and sushi without the bread and rice.

I love bacon

Bacon broccolini and enoki mushrooms sautéed in sesame oil.  yummy!!!

LCHF cinnamon walnut cake

Okay so I'm standing in the kitchen eating this cake and having this intellectual argument with myself.  I should not be on my third piece of this cake that came out of the oven less than an hour ago.  This is not healthy.  This is not good for me.  I am going to be fat and have a blood sugar of 400.  And then I just keep reminding of myself each ingredient in this cake.

Then I look down at my CGM.  (This is my continuous glucose monitor for those uninitiated). My blood sugar is still 109...

My blood sugar is still 109?!?!

This cake is made from things I can eat!

And it's so moist and delicious.

If you want to sub an ingredient go for it, comment and tell me what you did and how it came out!

Preheat 350

Season cast iron or butter pan

1 and 1/2 cups almond meal

1/2 cup coconut flour

1/2 cup flaxseed meal

3eggs

1 and 1/2 cup Splenda

2/3 cup canola oil

2/3 cup HWC

3tspn cinnamon or to taste

2tspn salt or so, to taste, I go heavy you might not

A cup or so of walnuts to the texture you prefer.

Go liberal with bakin soda, maybe 1-2 tbsp

Bake 350 well, maybe 45-50 min

Sausage mushroom zucchini and miracle noodles

Miracle noodles, made from shiritaki or konjak root, are an interesting thing to cook with.

This is just a simple sauté of what I had on hand, some pork and herb sausage, shitaki mushrooms and zucchini, but I wanted to fill it out with the noodles.

You can't really "cook" miracle noodles or they get sticky easily, so you have to rinse them warm for a good while.

After the warm rinse I added soy sauce to the noodles right in the colander until they were coated, letting the excess flow out.

Then I added them to the site at the very end, stirring just long enough to combine and make sure they were warm enough to eat.

Delicious!

LCHF Muffins

I've been working on some LCHF muffins for about a week or so.  This is maybe my fourth or fifth batch.  Turned out quite good but I think I need some nuts or some sort of sugar free chocolate chunk or something for texture, maybe a ricotta center, we will see.

These are very nice and fluffy and not oily.

2 cups almond meal

3 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder

1 scoop vanilla protein powder, or chocolate if you have it.

4 eggs

1/2 cup flaxseed meal

1/2 cup canola or vegetable oil

1/2 heavy whipping cream

1 1/4 cup Splenda

Dash vanilla extract

1tspn baking soda not powder!

1/2 tspn salt (I dunno I don't measure)

350 for 25min or so, until a toothpick removes clean

Hello and welcome to 2016!

This is my first "blog" but in a way it feels so old school.  This reminds me of being a kid and setting up my Angelfire homepage, complete with animated gifs of flames.

For a while friends have been saying to me here and there "hey Kat you should make a blog of all the food you cook!"  And I always shrug it off with some excuse.

But I've decided to aim for brevity and basically do what I'm already doing on Facebook here in blog format, post a simple picture and description or recipe of things I cook!

No overlong life story at the beginning.

Sometimes I'll be lazy and use my iPhone.

Mostly I will be cooking for LCHF or Keto eating, meaning low or limited carbs, but not always.  I will also cook for friends and family so I may still make carb items as sides, no internet blog rules, just post the food I cook.

Let's enjoy the year!

Kat