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What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

Managed to skip breakfast today by staying in bed reading until my 9:45 online yoga class.
Lunch was smoked mackerel hotpot adapted from a recipe I've had for years. It was very rich and sustaining.
Dinner was a beef burger that although supposedly top of the range was full of gristle. Just a small green salad with it.
Cooked some of the caulifower savoury thingy but used 25%blue cheese and ground my own almonds as its proving expensive to buy them as almond flour. I left the skins on so the whole thing is quite textured and chunky. It's very nice and tastes carby yet has almost none. Looking forward to having some more tomorrow
 
MrsA2 said:
ground my own almonds as its proving expensive to buy them as almond flour.
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Ground almonds are usually available in most supermarkets and much cheaper than almond flour. Asda almost always has a 3 for £3 offer on Whitworth’s ground almonds and there are own label versions in the main supermarkets. The cheapest I’ve found is this size of bag in Sainsbury’s (although the Asda Whitworth’s offer is cheaper still).

https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/nuts---seeds/sainsburys-ground-almonds-500g
 
MrsA2 said:
Managed to skip breakfast today by staying in bed reading until my 9:45 online yoga class.
Lunch was smoked mackerel hotpot adapted from a recipe I've had for years. It was very rich and sustaining.
Dinner was a beef burger that although supposedly top of the range was full of gristle. Just a small green salad with it.
Cooked some of the caulifower savoury thingy but used 25%blue cheese and ground my own almonds as its proving expensive to buy them as almond flour. I left the skins on so the whole thing is quite textured and chunky. It's very nice and tastes carby yet has almost none. Looking forward to having some more tomorrow
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MrsA2, we never buy burgers; preferring to make our own - then we know what's in there.

We quite often do this one: https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/splendidly_spicy_beef_28887 however, once done a few times, we also just wing it. How the burgers hang together depends on how well the mixture is "massaged".

A meat patty, seasoned, then a dollop of cheese hidden in the middle is another tasty, filling option.

We'll normally make in batches and freeze them.

Could you share the mackerel hotpot recipe, please? That sounds interesting.
 
Linda McCartney mozzarella burgers are quite meaty tasting - they fooled Mr C the first time he had then AND another plus is that they don't shrink.

Our plans for today to re-arrange and re-plant the front garden has been scuppered by the rain. :rolleyes:

Breakfast: usual Sunday morning brunch cooked by Mr C - chaffle, fried eggs, mushrooms and 100g baked beans
Lunch: just Actimel drink
Dinner: Roast chicken dinner (with Quorn fillets subbed for chicken on my dinner) - roast parsnips, carrots, cauliflower, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, h/m no sugar cranberry sauce and gravy.
Dessert: strawberries
 
Evening all.

Copied @Brunneria and had lc hot chocolate for breakfast. Very good too.
Lunch was cold lamb leftover from yesterday with a bit of Red Leicester cheese and a couple of pickled onions.
Dinner started as a tin of wild Alaskan coho salmon mixed with Greek yoghurt. Hmm. Tasted ok but texture off and didn’t taste of much, so ditched it in favour of more lamb followed by a small tub of the yoghurt on its own. Yeo Valley organic Greek yoghurt - very creamy with a nice tang to it.

Also after some suggestions. I bought some frozen whitebait with my recent shop. Have never cooked them before. Will shallow frying do the job? Was thinking that with a lemon butter sauce and maybe some crayfish tails (also bought on a whim) mixed in.
 
Goonergal said:
Evening all.

Copied @Brunneria and had lc hot chocolate for breakfast. Very good too.
Lunch was cold lamb leftover from yesterday with a bit of Red Leicester cheese and a couple of pickled onions.
Dinner started as a tin of wild Alaskan coho salmon mixed with Greek yoghurt. Hmm. Tasted ok but texture off and didn’t taste of much, so ditched it in favour of more lamb followed by a small tub of the yoghurt on its own. Yeo Valley organic Greek yoghurt - very creamy with a nice tang to it.

Also after some suggestions. I bought some frozen whitebait with my recent shop. Have never cooked them before. Will shallow frying do the job? Was thinking that with a lemon butter sauce and maybe some crayfish tails (also bought on a whim) mixed in.
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Whitebait are usually deep fried and crisp (normally because they have flour on them first but some other coating would do the job). Sounds good with the crayfish tails and lemon. Never had it with lemon butter sauce, might be a bit greasy for that. Lucky you, being able to get them at all. I miss them - nobody has them here and anyway, I think they are caught around the south coast, not in these cold northern waters. Since no-one really here is used to eating whitebait, we can't get frozen ones either.
 
Cold and wet for a coffee meet up outdoors in a friend’s garden - set up when it was like Spain here! In the event on the day I had to wear jumper and rain hat! Good to see and catch up with a couple of close friends - we’ve met on Zoom but it’s really not the same - even though we can’t Get closer than 2m and can’t hug but I loved being just near to them.
No breakfast as rushing off to outdoor coffee meetup had black coffee
Lunch mushrooms and cheese omelette with a few lc seeded crackers
Dinner beef casserole with roasted celeriac and asparagus with glass of dry red wine followed by lc lemon mousse with yoghurt.
 
Goonergal said:
Thanks. @DCUKMod @maglil55 do you think the rotating basket thing meant for chips with the Lidl airfryer would work for whitebait?
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Ah. The turning basket. That went to a "special place" in a very high cupboard after one outing!

I'm sure it'd be fine for whitebait, but in your shoes, I'd stop it, maybe 60% of the way through and check the whitebait weren't disintegrating during the tumbling.

Edited to add, you'd definitely want to ensure they were "oiled" before starting. I tend to put the oil on my hands and apply that way, as oil misters don't seem to work as they should for me!
 
We have just had the most delicious roast leg of lamb, with lots of bits.

With it, I have a fizzy white wine. No. No. Not prosecco or champers, just a common or garden white wine, carbonated in my Soda Splash. Excellent fun, but not quite as striking as the blackberry, nitro-infused, gin I made in 5 minutes last night.

This new toy may mean my liver takes a pounding. Ooops.
 
B: sausage and egg
L: none
D: duck legs. Used the IP to cook them, then the AF to crisp them, while I drank the juices as delicious duck broth. Tomorrow I will bone broth the leg bones.

That’ll be good mileage from 4 duck legs. Have meat left over from one leg which will go nicely with the broth. The dogs and I shared the other 3 today. Well, when I say ‘shared’, they attempted to mesmerise me into dropping large chunks of duck. What they actually got were the cartilagy bits from the bone ends.

back to work tomorrow
 
Still at Mum’s. The challenge today was to cook a roast dinner in an unfamiliar cooker!
Breakfast: strawberries and cream with black coffee.
Mid morning: black coffee and birthday cake phd bar
Lunch: 2 x Babybels and leafy salad followed by Greek yoghurt and coffee chia pudding.
Dinner: lamb roasted with rosemary and garlic, one tiny toast potato and mixed veg followed by two small profiteroles.
 
Goonergal said:
Ground almonds are usually available in most supermarkets and much cheaper than almond flour. Asda almost always has a 3 for £3 offer on Whitworth’s ground almonds and there are own label versions in the main supermarkets. The cheapest I’ve found is this size of bag in Sainsbury’s (although the Asda Whitworth’s offer is cheaper still).

https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/nuts---seeds/sainsburys-ground-almonds-500g
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Asda whole are cheaper (when no Sainsburys nearby) and then I grind only the amount I need at a time
https://groceries.asda.com/product/raw-nuts/asda-almonds/1000003092950
I often find them in the International or Asian aisle in bigger packets if there in person but having to cope with deliveries still
 
B. Greek yogurt, chia seeds and 3 strawberries for breakfast
L. Some of the smoked mackerel hotpot served cold as a salad ( and still more left for another day) 2 bits of blue cheese cauliflower bread thingy
D. Roast pork, green beans, cabbage and carrots. Plus sin and try of the week was next doors homemade Yorkshire. Limited myself to 1 this time and anxiously awaiting meter result.
Tried sewing a mask (face covering) today. It's not as easy as YouTube would have me believe. This one is a reject. Will try again
 
Tea, tea and tea until 1.30 pm and then a sausage and some roasted veg from yesterday with 2 fried eggs.

Spent the afternoon making faggots and pork terrine. Terrine is still in the oven and the faggots are done - pic below. Enough of the terrine mixture left to make 3 fairly big pork and liver patties which I will freeze in a few minutes. Only trouble is, I don't feel hungry, so the faggots are getting cold and I probably shan't eat them this evening - don't really think they are a breakfast dishfaggots & gravy.JPG .

After all my moaning, I actually managed to make the Zoom thing work yesterday evening. I came to the conclusion that it was the way I was touching the screen which made it decide to ignore me. We'll see if it works again tomorrow.
 
Breakfast at 9.30 this morning: 2 slices of pork terrine with some little silverskin pickled onions.

I've put quite a lot of the faggots in the freezer but have left some out for a meal later on in the day, with some buttered cabbage. (The coloured bits and pieces in the terrine are tomatoes, some bits of apricot and some spring onions.)

PORK TERRINE.JPG
 
DCUKMod said:
Ah. The turning basket. That went to a "special place" in a very high cupboard after one outing!

I'm sure it'd be fine for whitebait, but in your shoes, I'd stop it, maybe 60% of the way through and check the whitebait weren't disintegrating during the tumbling.

Edited to add, you'd definitely want to ensure they were "oiled" before starting. I tend to put the oil on my hands and apply that way, as oil misters don't seem to work as they should for me!
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I agree. Whitebait are oily little beggars anyway but a gentle rub in olive oil and a dusting of (I'd use oat fibre or bamboo fibre) then, as @DCUKMod suggests, keep an eye on it.
The alternative would be to use the trays. I'd go this route. Still oil them but put on the trays with a square of greaseproof under them. Turn half way through the cooking. I use this method a lot.
 
Day trip out to Bakewell and Matlock- Bakewell is a lovely place, pretty river and well kept town. All the cafes were open for takeaway, loads of shops selling Bakewell tarts, Bakewell puddings (I never knew there was two separate Bakewell desserts) and loads of fabulous looking pies and quiches. Nothing low carb and very little veggie. Worse, ALL the toilets were shut. Decided to postpone having a coffee until we'd found me a loo. 90 minutes of driving up and down virtually vertical Derbyshire Dale lanes and through pretty little villages looking for a loo and I decided any concealed spot would do for an al fresco tiddle. Finally found the perfect location - trouble was I'd overestimated how capable my arthritic knees are for bending .... and fell over backwards. Very elegant! Luckily the only thing that was wounded was my pride. :rolleyes::shifty:

Next stop was Matlock for a coffee. Matlock's shops and cafes (the ones that aren't shut for Covid) all were shut at 3pm and the whole place had a sort of defeated air about it. By the time we got there it was 3.15 - so no shops open and no coffee or tea available! So we gave up and came home.

We will definitely go back to Bakewell again (after Covid) but not Matlock.

Breakfast: scrambled eggs and kimchi
Lunch: bottle of water
Dinner: bubble and squeak (celeriac, swede and Brussels sprouts), Quorn savoury eggs and pickled veg and different chutneys
 
Evening all.

@maglil55 and @DCUKMod thanks for the whitebait tips. Think I’ll go for the trays - sounds a whole lot easier.
@Chook I’ve got very good at spotting ‘hiding’ places while out on very long walks. Just as well London has a fair amount of green space - and I’ve found one or two places that have proper loos open too. When it was a lot colder and jackets were needed, my bright orange one wasn’t the best tactic though :D

Breakfast today was M&S Arbroath kippers (found some at the weekend).
‘Lunch’ was almond butter (some more seems to have snuck into the flat) with cream.
Dinner was a disappointing batch of oxtail - cooked for the usual time in the IP but was tough.

Editing to say that with @Antje77 ’s post, we could have a whole new thread on weeing during Covid. Definitely one or two spots I wouldn’t want to admit to :oops:
 
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