-
Guest, the forum is undergoing some upgrades and so the usual themes will be unavailable for a few days. In the meantime, you can use the forum like normal. We'd love to know what you think about the forum! Take the 2025 Survey »
What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)
- Thread starter Administrator
- Start Date
OK then, all you Hotel Chocolate fans; how many of you just watched the docu "Chocolate Dreams - Inside Hotel Chocolat" on Channel 5 a little while ago? Of course for desciples, it is available on the 5 player.
This evening, I did a part pork tenderloin (part of a pork tenderloin as opposed to some odd concoction). I had just vac packed it with salt and pepper and a decent coating of wholegrain mustard. SV for an hour or so (there's always a bit of approximation when I cook!), then seared in a very hot cast iron. Delicious.
I had also lobbed some asparagus at the same time. Bagged with home made garlic butter, it was probably my best attempt with the SV and asparagus.
Next time, I reckon I'll use the meat cooking juices, with the garlic butter with some cream to create a rich sauce.
Work in progress,......... always.
This evening, I did a part pork tenderloin (part of a pork tenderloin as opposed to some odd concoction). I had just vac packed it with salt and pepper and a decent coating of wholegrain mustard. SV for an hour or so (there's always a bit of approximation when I cook!), then seared in a very hot cast iron. Delicious.
I had also lobbed some asparagus at the same time. Bagged with home made garlic butter, it was probably my best attempt with the SV and asparagus.
Next time, I reckon I'll use the meat cooking juices, with the garlic butter with some cream to create a rich sauce.
Work in progress,......... always.
shelley262
Expert
Must watch that prog shattered tonight but one to put on this weeks list! Thank you
I may have accidentally drunk a pret a manger (small) hot choc at 10.30am
Funny how that happens.
Then it was water until 8pm when i had a good portion of instant pot ribs.
New recipe. Will definitely do it again, since it didn’t need to be finished in the oven.
Funny how that happens.
Then it was water until 8pm when i had a good portion of instant pot ribs.
New recipe. Will definitely do it again, since it didn’t need to be finished in the oven.
Last edited:
ianpspurs
Oracle
Forced me to eat some cheese with my cracker after the game. There was me thinking you were meant to put the ball wide of the goalie not hit him
That is why this squad and Poch will never win anything.
maglil55
Expert
For one minute I thought you were going to say you coated the pork tenderloin in chocolate! I know the Mexicans use it but it's never appealed to me.
ianpspurs
Oracle
Had some cheese and Brady is filleting The Chargers. Hopefully next game will be more competitive.So have you found a consolation snack or distracting yourself from the disappointment by cheering on the Patriots?
Last edited:
maglil55
Expert
Did you feel sad too? For someone who had so much he cut quite a lonely figure. I know there's some dramatic liberties taken but I suspect there's some truth in it.
Breakfast out (away from home so no coconut ‘porridge’ ): two eggs scrambled, 2 rashers of bacon, mushrooms and 1/2 tomato.
Mid morning: coffee with cream with a mint carb killa bar.
Late lunch at Nando’s: 1/2 chicken in lemon and herb sauce with char grilled veg and side salad.
Snacks on coach home: pork scratchings and raspberry phd bar.
): two eggs scrambled, 2 rashers of bacon, mushrooms and 1/2 tomato.Mid morning: coffee with cream with a mint carb killa bar.
Late lunch at Nando’s: 1/2 chicken in lemon and herb sauce with char grilled veg and side salad.
Snacks on coach home: pork scratchings and raspberry phd bar.
Maglil, I'm one of those weirdos who just doesn't do chocolate. In fact I was trying to work out yesterday when I'd last had any, and made a guestimate. As I wasn't at home at the time, I looked at my chocolate stash (that is a couple of squares of 85% in a fridge pocket), to see the date on the wrapper. Allegedly, it would have been best before June 2015 (yes, that last number is a 5). I think that's a fair sign it doesn't need to be there. My OH has his own stash.
Just to add, the fridge has been cleaned multiple times without inspecting the chocolate. It has now gone to chocolate heaven - not because I think chocolate goes off, but just because it's just not being eaten, and I feel confident my OH would give me some shavings of his if I wanted it. Obviously that's the equivalent of his last Rolo.
I do have a little miniature bottle of HC Cocoa Gin which I wll try in the interest of science. In fact I might try a snifter tonight.
BibaBee
Well-Known Member
Breakfast: Chocolate cherry chia pudding (natural cherry flavouring, vanilla extract, cocoa). Fresh coffee with cream.
Lunch: Ended up being second breakfast or brunch at a local café. Bacon, egg, sausage, black pudding, tomato, mushroom. I had a Derbyshire oatcake with mine (couldn't resist, Mr B kept it very low carb and had extra bacon and egg. Big mugs of tea.
Dinner: Roast chicken dinner at 'the rentals' with Savoy cabbage, heritage carrots, roast celeriac and a couple of small roast spuds. Mr B passed on the roast spuds and went easy on the carrots. All pretty low carb. Bless my mum, she'd even made sugar free cranberry sauce to go with the chuck. She always roasts plenty celeriac for us too. I took homemade lemon posset with a few raspberries for dessert. The plan was to make some LC almond and lemon biscuits to serve alongside. I ran out of time, so baked a few of the Ottolenghi LC swiss cookies that I had stashed in the freezer. For those of you that haven't tried making it, posset is super easy to make, just switch out the sugar for your sweetner of choice to make it LC. I used this recipe for the posset: https://www.bbc.com/food/recipes/lemonpossetwithlemon_85812
Lunch: Ended up being second breakfast or brunch at a local café. Bacon, egg, sausage, black pudding, tomato, mushroom. I had a Derbyshire oatcake with mine (couldn't resist, Mr B kept it very low carb and had extra bacon and egg. Big mugs of tea.
Dinner: Roast chicken dinner at 'the rentals' with Savoy cabbage, heritage carrots, roast celeriac and a couple of small roast spuds. Mr B passed on the roast spuds and went easy on the carrots. All pretty low carb. Bless my mum, she'd even made sugar free cranberry sauce to go with the chuck. She always roasts plenty celeriac for us too. I took homemade lemon posset with a few raspberries for dessert. The plan was to make some LC almond and lemon biscuits to serve alongside. I ran out of time, so baked a few of the Ottolenghi LC swiss cookies that I had stashed in the freezer. For those of you that haven't tried making it, posset is super easy to make, just switch out the sugar for your sweetner of choice to make it LC. I used this recipe for the posset: https://www.bbc.com/food/recipes/lemonpossetwithlemon_85812
dunelm
Master
Glad it tickled a good memory for you. Yes, it can only be real butter, fiddled about stuff is not really food.That's brought back a lovely childhood memory. Both my grandmother and Mum would do that for me for a snack when I got in from school. One soft boiled egg mashed with butter and served up in a teacup with a teaspoon. We always had "proper" butter - stork margarine was for the large amounts of home baking they did.
DJC3
Master
Yes I think you’re right, sad really but so many of the larger than life figures are tortured souls at heart and seem easily manipulated by greedy parasites.
So many great songs though - and yes I remember Live Aid well.
shelley262
Expert
Interested in what you think about the gin I happened to be looking at a bottle of that recently and wondering what it would be like looks low carb too.
It was pleasant enough. I tasted a nip neat, and that had some real cocao aftertones. I then made a G&T, but as well as the slimline tonic, I put in a couple of slices of (hime) dehydrated orange slices. Very nice.
As I have said before, I don't "do" chocolate, but this was nice as a once in a while option. The website publishes it as 0gr carb, and being a non-sweet (no sweeter than Bombay or Gordon's say) spirit, I'd be inclined to believe that.
OK, theoretically I might have added something in with the orange slices, but we're talking about two slices at maybe 2mm each (dehydrated). That's fine by me.
I'm not looking up my nearest HC, but if it were on offer somewhere I'd have it again.
DJC3
Master
I’ve got some of the HC cocoa gin ( natch!)
I love it. I have it neat with ice and a twist of orange peel sometimes.
They opened a small bottle of it for me to taste when I was pondering over it in the shop before Christmas which I thought was jolly nice of them.
Chook
Expert
All this chat about gin... I used to love it (any flavour) then I had a really awful tummy bug and haven't been able to touch or smell it since. 
. IT's very annoying, especially as a new gin parlour(?) has opened a couple of villages away. In fact I'm like it with all spirits now.
Today
Breakfast: bulletproof coffee
Lunch: Nothing
Dinner: Trout fillets, asparagus and broccoli with lots of garlic butter drizzled over and a squeeze of lemon
Pudding: Greek Yoghurt with chia seeds and chopped pecan nuts
Drinks - the usual - am: black decaff coffee, pm: Asda apple crumble tea or plain water, evening: just water
. IT's very annoying, especially as a new gin parlour(?) has opened a couple of villages away. In fact I'm like it with all spirits now.Today
Breakfast: bulletproof coffee
Lunch: Nothing
Dinner: Trout fillets, asparagus and broccoli with lots of garlic butter drizzled over and a squeeze of lemon
Pudding: Greek Yoghurt with chia seeds and chopped pecan nuts
Drinks - the usual - am: black decaff coffee, pm: Asda apple crumble tea or plain water, evening: just water
All this chat about gin... I used to love it (any flavour) then I had a really awful tummy bug and haven't been able to touch or smell it since.
Today
Breakfast: bulletproof coffee
Lunch: Nothing
Dinner: Trout fillets, asparagus and broccoli with lots of garlic butter drizzled over and a squeeze of lemon
Pudding: Greek Yoghurt with chia seeds and chopped pecan nuts
Drinks - the usual - am: black decaff coffee, pm: Asda apple crumble tea or plain water, evening: just water
I've had all manner of fun infusing my own fins over the last 7 or 8 months. I made very small batches (200ml, max), often using seasonal fruit or just something that seemed like a good idea.
I did strwberry, raspberry, pineapple, mango, rhubarb, giner, cinnamon and so on. It is worth saying some were better than others! I rather cheated, using the sous vide, to hasten the process from several weeks to less than a handful of hours.
shelley262
Expert
PenguinMum
Expert
Childhood memory for me too...a soft boiled egg chopped against the side of a cup was used when weaning. Since I am the eldest I can still hear that sound....That's brought back a lovely childhood memory. Both my grandmother and Mum would do that for me for a snack when I got in from school. One soft boiled egg mashed with butter and served up in a teacup with a teaspoon. We always had "proper" butter - stork margarine was for the large amounts of home baking they did.
