Celebratory meal ideas?

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Hi Guys,

I'd like to make my husband a low-carb celebratory meal this evening, but trying to keep carbs low is still very new to us. Does anyone have any ideas?

I don't have an exact carb-amount in mind, but I do know that his BG levels spike badly with all the main starchy-carbs, and tomatoes so I'd like to avoid those. And he hates beans. Loves mushrooms, meat, and most veg though. Dairy is fine, but he can take-or-leave fish.

Also, have toddler, so limited time in the kitchen without all hell breaking loose.

I can't think of anything but steak + garlic mushrooms and salad! Help!?
 
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Re: Celebratory meal ides?

TBW said:
steak + garlic mushrooms and salad
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Your husband is a lucky man! Best thing about steak, is that you can "posh it up" with sauces. Mushroom sauce, ranch sauce, blue cheese dressing (my god - I love that on a steak!) - all very good.

I like chicken wrapped in bacon stuffed with cheese. Goes really nice with some fine string beans (with butter drizzled over them).

But, as a bloke, I'd always say go for the steak! :wink:
 
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Re: Celebratory meal ides?

Patch said:
TBW said:
steak + garlic mushrooms and salad
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Your husband is a lucky man! Best thing about steak, is that you can "posh it up" with sauces. Mushroom sauce, ranch sauce, blue cheese dressing (my god - I love that on a steak!) - all very good.

I like chicken wrapped in bacon stuffed with cheese. Goes really nice with some fine string beans (with butter drizzled over them).

But, as a bloke, I'd always say go for the steak! :wink:
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Good to know! I think I probably will do the steak - I have a nice bit of stilton that I can probably cobble a sauce from. I did bacon-wrapped chicken last week - with green beans from the garden, actually! Hopefully he's not sick of blue cheese today; he had a blue cheese and shrapnelised-bacon-shard salad for lunch.
 
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Re: Celebratory meal ides?

WhitbyJet said:
Thediabeticswife, enjoy your special dinner :D

I made special dinner last week, roast pork with a garlic, caraway seed rub, assembled a celeriac dauphinoise, shoved both into the oven and left them to it.
Later prepared - Mange tout sprinkled with sesame seeds, small amount buttered carrots. Dessert was coconut chocolate custard pots with fresh raspberries.
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It'll take us about 5 hours to drive to Whitby - can you have it done by then? :wink:
 
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Re: Celebratory meal ides?

thediabeticswife said:
WhitbyJet said:
Thediabeticswife, enjoy your special dinner :D

I made special dinner last week, roast pork with a garlic, caraway seed rub, assembled a celeriac dauphinoise, shoved both into the oven and left them to it.
Later prepared - Mange tout sprinkled with sesame seeds, small amount buttered carrots. Dessert was coconut chocolate custard pots with fresh raspberries.
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It'll take us about 5 hours to drive to Whitby - can you have it done by then? :wink:
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Good one
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God **** - that sounds good! Care to share the coc-choc pot recipe?
 
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That Low Carb Cooking NZ site is just the most inventive and delicious place for recipes. Most of my fancy ones come from there.
 
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I'm definitely going to be using it!

We did have steak in the end - lovely bit of sirloin with mushrooms, asparagus, and a stilton sauce that I made from low fat creme fraiche and as much stilton as I could get to melt into it.

I have now purchased some caraway seeds, and as soon as celeriac turns up in our local supermarket, it's game-on for WhitbyJ's pork dinner. (Mr DiabeticsWife's birthday is in August, as is my dad's, my grandmother's, Mr DBW's step-mother's, and a niece of ours - there will certainly be an occasion for it!)
 
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