Hi
@Chook,
Thank you and all the others (
@Goonergal,
@Brunneria,
@maglil55,
@mo53) for the warm welcome.
I spent the day outside today. I had two decaffeinated double espressos with cream and xylitol today before leaving and then nothing until 6 p.m. We then went to a tapas place where I ordered two glasses of red wine, two of small skewers of lamb and some chicken with honey sauce. I figured there probably won't be much of the sauce that would stick to the chicken since most of the sauce was left in the dish. Seems I was wrong -- blood sugar soared to 6.8 (which is much higher than I am used to) half an hour after the meal and in spite of the red wine. Now two and a half hours later blood sugars are back to 4.4.
The roles are easy to make. It takes about 20 minutes to mix all the ingredients and form the roles and another hour and a half in the oven. The recipe is from diet doctor.com (
www.dietdoctor.com/recipes/the-low-carb-bread). The recipe says to use five quarter cups of almond flour and a little bit more than a quarter cup of psyllium husks, salt, a cup of hot water, 3 egg whites, baking powder and vinegar.
I have replaced some of the almond flour with linseed flour, coconut flour, hemp flour and lupine flour, which are even lower carb, I also add sesame and chia seeds. Spices include nigella seeds, caraway seeds and ground coriander seeds and some salt. I found I don't need the egg whites. I also replaced the vinegar with cream of tartar. Because some of the flours absorb more water than almond flour, I found I need to add about 2 1/2 cups of boiling water.
I make a batch of about 6 or 7 roles about once a week. When I have one of the roles with butter, it doesn't seem to raise my blood sugars at all. It's also helpful to have the roles around when I get home from work. Due to a long commute, I often spend 12 to 14 hours away from home and don't feel like cooking when I get home.
