What have you eaten today? (Low carb forum)

I found the perfect new slow cooker in the thrift store for 10 euro's, and I'm so happy with it!
Granted, I had to buy new wicks as well, and had to improvise for the part where you put the pot, as this part turned out not to belong to the cooker so it was wobbly. But who cares, it's perfectly stable with the thing from my grill and I'll find a smaller grill-thing (what's it called in English?) which will fit better.

I now have a slow cooker to fit my Ginormous Pot instead of having to do balancing acts on the old one or borrowing (and cleaning!) the one from my neighbour
Usual sized pot, old cooker and small dog included in the picture for size

In the pot is tomorrow's meal (and many more subsequent meals).
Onion, garlic, bell pepper, couple of carrots, fennel, some celeriac, tomatoes, chilli peppers, ginger, leek, mushrooms, rosemary, thyme, bay leaves, concentrated tomato paste, herb stock cube, and 1.5 kilograms of oxtail.

Tomorrow I'll take the meat off the bones and freeze in portions.
I'll use it as a base for my favourite sauerkraut dish: I'll add sauerkraut, creme fraiche, normal cream (not sure which one it is in English, you seem to have different creams on your side of the Channel) and lots of paprika to make a dish reminding of Eastern Europe.
Let's hope I have enough freezer containers

(And for whoever missed my first oxtail adventure, yes I'm cooking in the bathroom. It has doors I can close so I'm sure no cats will make an oxtail and lamp-oil soup in my kitchen!)

edit: Oh, and wine! All wine not in that bottle anymore is in the pot! It's not like I'm chilling in my bathroom with a bottle of red or such!

@DJC3 happy anniversary
@Goonergal thrilled your boiler sorted ready for the winter ahead
@Antje77 congrats on your bargain slow cooker - I’ve got two different sized ones although they are electric and simmer away on a kitchen worktop rather than the bathroom. I’ve got an instant pot too but use slow cookers much more!
@MrsA2 totally understand about the cake I’m eating cake daily at moment - you could consider making room for keto friendly cake either home made or ready made eg deliciously guilt free.having said this I know that some guys can’t stick at small amounts of keto sweet stuff and or it creates old addictions so maybe just one odd full carb slip up may be better - you need to work out what’s best for you. DGF cakes in freezer work for me and make me feel less deprived.
@zauberflote your barre work sounds intriguing and enjoyable finding an exercise that suits us and we gain satisfaction from is very important
@Annb take care you sound like your health isn’t improving a good medical health review may be timely?
Breakfast swimming session again - really enjoyed but can’t go again until next Thursday as up at mums from this weekend. I find my swimming very calming and therapeutic.
Lunch toasted chaffle with one slice of bacon and egg followed by coffee and two montezumas 100% mini eggs
Dinner salmon in lemon butter with green beans and celeriac chips with glass of soda water with dry white followed by DGF choc brownie with a few garden berries and spoon of yoghurt and cream.

shelley262 said:

@Antje77 congrats on your bargain slow cooker - I’ve got two different sized ones although they are electric and simmer away on a kitchen worktop rather than the bathroom.

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No matter if electric or lamp-oil powered, they're brilliant!
Kitchen worktop is very much cat territory, and I'm not taking chances after all this peeling and chopping vegetables, and buying so much oxtail

@zauberflote Barre sounds like hard work - I think I'll just stick to the yoga.

@DJC3 Happy anniversary

Brunch - 2 boiled eggs mashed up in a cup with butter. Cup of earl grey and double cream.

Dinner out at Millar & Carter - mushrooms done in a cheese and spinach sauce. Steak with a small amount of bearnaise sauce and halloumi fries. Teaspoon of hubby's apple pie (yum)

Breakfast: my usual low carb coconut ‘porridge’ with strawberries and cream washed down with a black coffee.
Late morning: black coffee and white chocolate phd bar
Late Lunch: Babybels followed by Greek yoghurt, raspberries and vanilla and raspberry LC granola.
Dinner: prawn cocktail, leafy salad, coleslaw and a small packet of Cheesies followed by SF jelly, cream and LC chocolate granola.

@ANTJE too funny (NOT! I have BTDT type of cat+meat thing) about your cats/stew! I am glad to hear somebody else besides me has counter-cruising cats! In American English your grill-thing could be called a grill-thingie . It looks like what used to fit in the bottom of my mom's aluminum "pressure" cooker. So you could steam stuff maybe. I think my Instant Pot came with one, and maybe they called it, very generically, a rack. You could certainly cool cookies on it! Making it a cooling rack! You are the queen of ingenuity when it comes to the kitchen, er, bathroom....
@Mrs T 123 I took one yoga class in 2004, and dis-enjoyed it so much I doubt I'll ever try another. Nothing about it didn't hurt in a bad way! I want to try tai chi for quietness in my yammering brain!
@Rachox how're the tootsies?
Bfast pre-noon-barre class avocado, 2 boiled eggs, 1 Lindt 90%
Huge meal post-barre while feeding cats then packaging up sliced deli things in single-sandwich packets for freezer and MrZF: pecans, 1 Lindt, deconstructed turkey/swiss/swiss rollito, cats locked outside, flax crisps/dilute soyMilk
Supper should only be spinach/hm dressing and flax crisps, but Son#2 bought me a present of yesterday's (possibly last week's, judging by the smell...) salmon, so it's got steak rub on it while it sits on ice in the fridge, and I will grill it tonight and will have to taste it of course!, and probably some olives. And that's where I hope to stop!

Neil just brought along my photo and documents for my Blue Badge re-application - all digital of course. I knew I look bad these days, but I was horrified to see how right I was! As a teenager I looked older than my years, so was allowed to take responsibility for things which my friends were not. Great! From my 20s onwards I looked younger than my years so that when I was 50 people still thought I looked 30. Great! Now, in my 70s, I hate the damage life has wrought. I look 70 easily. It's all the little cancer thingies that cause it - and the scars left by the ones they cut out. but I hate it. This photo does me no service at all. No wonder I hate having my photo taken. I'm just vain. I always said that I wasn't and that I would bear the scars of the years gracefully, as medals won in a hard fought campaign. Wrong! I am vain and want to wear a bag over my head. Thank goodness for face coverings these days.

Felt sorry for myself, so made a quick pot of veg soup for consolation instead of the cottage cheese and pickle. The house is cold today anyway, so I needed to get warmed up.

Brunch of freshly laid eggs (still warm from the hen) with ham
Mid afternoon, 3 mouthfuls of an icecream i made hubby buy and eat
D: m&s curries with 2 tablespoons rice. 250ml rose wine (mini m&s bottle). Our last night treat on holiday as seem to be in decent pub deficit land aka mid North Devon.

Did a second visit to RHS Rosemoor garden in the day. Stunning garden, well worth a visit

Annb said:

Neil just brought along my photo and documents for my Blue Badge re-application - all digital of course. I knew I look bad these days, but I was horrified to see how right I was! As a teenager I looked older than my years, so was allowed to take responsibility for things which my friends were not. Great! From my 20s onwards I looked younger than my years so that when I was 50 people still thought I looked 30. Great! Now, in my 70s, I hate the damage life has wrought. I look 70 easily. It's all the little cancer thingies that cause it - and the scars left by the ones they cut out. but I hate it. This photo does me no service at all. No wonder I hate having my photo taken. I'm just vain. I always said that I wasn't and that I would bear the scars of the years gracefully, as medals won in a hard fought campaign. Wrong! I am vain and want to wear a bag over my head. Thank goodness for face coverings these days.

Felt sorry for myself, so made a quick pot of veg soup for consolation instead of the cottage cheese and pickle. The house is cold today anyway, so I needed to get warmed up.

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For a blue badge application one needs to look and act and be ,as aged and decrepit as possible. They dont award them to the young and healthy. I think you did the right thing

Found the link to the cauliflower cheese bready/savoury/thingy (must think of a better name)
https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/caulifower-cheese-bread.174150/
Think I've made it easier to remember since with 100g cauliflower riced and cooked, 100g ground almonds, 100g cheddar and 1 (or maybe 2 eggs)

zauberflote said:

@Rachox how're the tootsies?

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Doing ok thanks. Infection in the one foot has cleared, just need to complete the antibiotics tomorrow. Good to be back driving
Nerves are waking up, the surgery was to release nerves squashed by metalwork so discomfort will get worse before it gets better apparently

Rachox said:

Doing ok thanks. Infection in the one foot has cleared, just need to complete the antibiotics tomorrow. Good to be back driving
Nerves are waking up, the surgery was to release nerves squashed by metalwork so discomfort will get worse before it gets better apparently

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Not sure if this deserves a 'winner' or a 'hug', so here is both!

With my impressive oxtail dish slow cooking in the bathroom I more or less forgot to plan tonight's meal. I needed to have my car checked out because of alarming lights on my dashboard, and my car maintenance place is in a small city where they have a HEMA, and HEMA sells delicious hot sausages by the half, which I planned on treating myself with, and then I forgot.
I remembered halfway back, so I bought one of those sausages cold at my local butcher, thinking to have half with a tomato salad.

Tomorrow and subsequent days will be oxtail sauerkraut stew so what about the other half of my sausage?
Long story short, I saved myself the work of making tomato salad and convinced myself there's nothing wrong with a carnivore meal.
Very satisfying, even if I let it boil to hard, splitting the sausage

MrsA2 said:

Brunch of freshly laid eggs (still warm from the hen) with ham
Mid afternoon, 3 mouthfuls of an icecream i made hubby buy and eat
D: m&s curries with 2 tablespoons rice. 250ml rose wine (mini m&s bottle). Our last night treat on holiday as seem to be in decent pub deficit land aka mid North Devon.

Did a second visit to RHS Rosemoor garden in the day. Stunning garden, well worth a visit

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Eggs still warm from the hen? How wonderful!
Btw thanks for repeating the cauliflower bread recipe. It looks great.

Wednesday bed 6.3 FBG 6. @Chook - Millie looks so happy in that pond and definite bargain with the extended holiday. @zauberflote - the nerves are improving this week. We had a bad day to start on Monday but he's started making positive steps and is finally looking happy again. He's now asked to go in earlier in the mornings so he can play with his friends.
Wednesday food
B. TAG and a slice of LC toast with pate.
L. Nothing
D. 2 GF sausages, 2 fried eggs, veggie chips. Handful of cherries .

Good news! Lidl High Protein noodles are back on the shelves. It was a supply issue.

Mrs T 123 said:

@zauberflote Barre sounds like hard work - I think I'll just stick to the yoga.

@DJC3 Happy anniversary

Brunch - 2 boiled eggs mashed up in a cup with butter. Cup of earl grey and double cream.

Dinner out at Millar & Carter - mushrooms done in a cheese and spinach sauce. Steak with a small amount of bearnaise sauce and halloumi fries. Teaspoon of hubby's apple pie (yum)

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Thank you.
I love Miller & Carter but sadly there are no branches in Cornwall I know of. I always went for the blue cheese sauce but oh like the black garlic.

Thanks for anniversary wishes @zauberflote @Chook @Goonergal and @shelley262
Started with breakfast out: eggs bacon tons of mushrooms, 1/2 tomato and a sausage.
I hoped that would see me through to dinner but the Keeto bread arrived and by 3 pm the thought of roast and marmite was too tempting. The texture was a bit more elastic than normal bread but the flavour was good. They are not huge loaves and have around 12 slices each plus crust. It’ll be good to know I can have a sandwich or eggs on toast if I want. @PenguinMum have you tried it?
Dinner with most of the family was a Chinese takeaway. 1/4 crispy duck and I did my own stir fry veg to go with it. Wine to drink. It’s been a lovely day.
@DCUKMod I have started the first experimental batch of orange infused gin. The ziplock bags arrived today so it’s stewing in the IP now. Good thing I intended to start with a small batch - there was only a tiny bit of gin left in the bottle ( I’m sure it was 1/2 full last time I looked) tomorrow I will collect some blackberries and hope to make a sort of bramble gin like the Bombay Sapphire one.

Anyone had the DGF gingerbread cake? It’s the new limited edition variety. I still have plenty of others in the freezer but thought this might be nice for the colder weather ( and dare I say it - Christmas!)

DJC3 said:

Good thing I intended to start with a small batch - there was only a tiny bit of gin left in the bottle ( I’m sure it was 1/2 full last time I looked)

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No worries, it's completely normal. It's just the alcohol evaporating when you don't look!

@Annb, you know what? I don't think I'm vain until I look in the mirror. I look at least 5 years older than my 68. I have always hated having my picture taken because I always, always considered my face ugly. I look back at those teen and up to about 50 pics and realize that I'm sure not beautiful (bone structure not running in my family) but I was pretty once upon a time. I hate mirrors at face level! It is a standing American joke that your driver's license pic is apt to look worse than a mug shot would. I do, however, wear all my bodily scars with great pride. Hips, hysterectomy, hernia-- they all made me happier!
@MrsA2 glad you got to go back to Rosemoor! Thank you for finding your recipe. I can make that!!
@Rachox sure hope the "gets better" part comes quickly!
The salmon turned out really well. I put some kind of steak rub on it and just happened to cook it for precisely the right amount. Hard to check for doneness when it's dark out at the grill!

1 can of tuna in water
i didnt like the tuna in oil