Two Minute Microwave Coffee Cake

Last night's dinner was just dinner LOL no recipe, steak seasoned with all purpose seasoning salt, veggies in copy cat recipe of Olive Gardens dressing. Husband and daughter had salad. That is it, boring

For breakfast thou, getting a bit tired of eggs and bacon, there is only so many ways and they still end up being just eggs and bacon LOL. So I decided to try Ginny's two minute coffee cake.

5 star recipe, it's by Ginny's Low Carb Kitchen. She has some great 

recipes if you get  chance check out her blog. This was really good, but a bit 

sweet for me, next time I just need to cut the sugar in half. I really liked it. 

Low Carb bread

As you know this has been one of my missions since I have started this lifestyle. Now I am not biggest bread eater but I am a picky bread eater. I miss it most with my eggs in the morning. I have finally made a bread that I really like.  I can't take all the credit for the bread cause it started with someone's recipe.
The best part is that you cook it in the microwave. YES fast and easy can't be better than that. The original recipe French Toast in a Bowl by Brianna Thomas .
This is my recipe for the bread. I didn't think to take a picture, if I remember in the morning I will make another piece and take pics.

Microwave Low Carb Bread

3 T oat fiber

1 T ground golden flax - sometimes I use this, it gives a bit of texture. Most times I use 1 Tbsp of Psyllium Husk plain
½ tsp. baking powder

1/8 tsp  xanthan gum - this is used to make the bread not crumbly. It works 

1 egg
¼ cup water
1 T butter, softened

pitch of salt

I melt the butter a little bit, mix with the egg and water. Mix all the dry ingredient together then add the wet ingredients. Put in a square microwave container. I used a sandwich keeper, looks like a piece of bread. I cook my for a minute and 10 secs which is perfect in my microwave, you will have to see in yours how long it takes. Start at one minute and if the center isn't cook, put in for another 10 secs and keep going till it's cooked.  Try it's delicious 

Best Ever Baked Pork Chops

These were really good, very tasty pork chops. Now my husband said they were the best pork chops I have ever made, even my daughter ate them. She is the toughest critic to please. If you get a chance try them, they are good. 5 star

Recipe is from Sugar Spice and Spilled Milk

These are not low carb but you can make them that. Use Almond flour instead of the bread crumbs or low carb bread. 

Oh Bad Me

I have been lacking in the blogging mood lately, can't believe it's been over a month since I last posted. I have been busy crocheting and trying to clean my house, it's just so dirty full of crap. I haven't cooked too many recipes off pinterest, been cooking some favorites. Sometimes I go thru moods where I just don't feel like being creative. It's rather frustrating when you spend the time and money to make a recipes and it turns out just OK. Very disappointing

Now my husband is not a fan of veggies what so ever, he will eat broccoli but only when it's hot LOL. This has become his favorite veggie to eat this way thou. LOL

Roasted Cabbage with Onion Dijon Mustard Sauce  5 star recipe 

This is really good 

I was in the mood for a nice stuff pork roast, it's getting cooler here so that makes in the mood for hearty, hot meals. 

This is a 5 star recipe 

Stuffed Pork Loin Roast with Sausage, Cherries and Fennel

Will try to post more later, too tired this morning, going to take a nap. 

Baked Sour Cream Doughnuts

I had been craving some plain donuts, yes I am a very plain kind of girl. I love plain donuts. Couldn't find a recipe that was low carb and plain. I found this one. I love sour cream so I tried this recipe. These were good but way to sweet for me. I know the next time I make them I will cut the sugar in half. I did however take one of the donuts the next day and cut it in half and toasted it, then put egg, bacon and cheese on it. It was kind of like eating the McGrindle from McDonald's. It was sweet like that but mapley LOL, It was good thou. And I didn't put the glaze on the donuts either. I give it a 3 rating but will be back once I take half the sugar out and see how they are.

The recipe comes from Honest Cooking Blog 

Crispy Oven Fried Fish Bites

I love fish, I could eat it every other day, that along with chicken. These were good. The tarter sauce is awesome. I always made homemade tarter sauce but it was just mayo and sweet pickle relish, plain and simple. This one on the other hand was out standing. Loved it.  I give this recipe a 5 star. Now you can make this low carb by using almond flour or your own low carb flour of choice. My daughter on the other hand had other ideas, she wanted the panko for super crunchy fish and that is what I made for everyone.

The recipe is from Cooking and Beer Blog 

Spinach Chicken Parmesan Meatballs in Creamy Tomato Sauce

Haven't tried that many recipes in the last couple weeks. Sunday last week we had the spinach chicken Parmesan meatballs, with spaghetti. This was really good. I did make my meatballs a head of time and put them in the frig till it was time to cook them. Wanted them to meld flavors together. I am so cheated and put all the ingredients for the meat balls in the food processor since I had to grind up chicken for them anyways. My husband said to me, why are they green LMBO. I give this a 4 star rating.

The recipe is from Spoonful of Flavor Blog 

To make low carb use miracle noodles or you other low carb noodles. 

Huli-Huli Pork Steak

I absolutely love pork steak but get bored with just fixing it the same old way. Then I found this recipe and tried it. It's very good.

The recipe is from Home Cooking & Baking. I give this a 5 star rating. My family loved it. The pork was so tender and flavorful. I did make it low carb but replacing the brown sugar with my sugar substitute and 1 tbsp of molasses, low carb ketchup. It was delicious. 

Paleo Cinnamon Crunch “Granola”

My hardest part of  the Low Carb/High Fat life style is night time. I have to have a snack before I go to bed, if not I starve all night long, LOL. We eat an early dinner usually around 5 pm. I have since I was a child. So by 7 - 7:30 I am hungry. And I don't want a sweet snack or too salty of a snack, which makes this hard. It needs to fill me up so I tend to eat a lot of nuts but you get tired of them. Lots of celery and peanut butter too. Try a new recipe from Pinterst for a granola type snack. It's really good I do have to say that, it's a bit sweet for me, which the next time I make it I will figure out how to use less honey, or make sweetener water to use instead where as it's not as sweet.
Recipe is by Amee's Savory Dish.

It's very tasty right out of the oven LOL. Didn't add any dried fruit and not sure I will. Cause right now it's a bit high in carbs.  I give this a 4 stars and to be updated when I do it with less carbs. 

Italian Grilled Chicken Recipe

Recipe from Ciao Florentina, This is a really good recipe. I give it 4 stars. My husband and daughter really liked it. Made the roasted red pepper pesto too, to go with it. That was really good too. This one sure is one I will have again. I didn't do the lemon with brown sugar thou. This is a nice low carb tasty dish.

I paired this with a summer squash casserole. Which was supper yummy.

Squash Casserole by add a pinch

To make low carb just omit the ritz crackers. I used them for my family, I just took them off the top of mine. This was just so good. My husband who is not a fan of yellow squash and zucchini actually had seconds. Giving this a 5 star cause I could eat this a lot. LOL 

Low Carb Pizza

I have been trying and looking for an acceptable low carb pizza crust that I could whip up fast for lunch. I am not the biggest fan of lunch so if I have to cook it's very difficult for me. I am one of those people who use to live on peanut butter and jelly cause it was quick. I just don't care to cook just for me. So when Netrition had these ultra thin pizza crusts BOGO and I decided to try them.
They are by Golden Home Ultra Thin 16g Protein Pizza Crust, 3 crusts.

Nutrition Facts Serving Size: 1 Crust (42g) Servings Per Container: 3
		Amount Per Serving		% Daily Value*
	Total Calories	110
	Calories From Fat	10
	Total Fat	1	g	2%
	Saturated Fat	0	g	0%
	Trans Fat	0	g
	Cholesterol	5	mg	2%
	Sodium	260	mg	11%
	Total Carbohydrates	9	g	3%
	Dietary Fiber	1	g	4%
	Sugars	0	g
	Net Carbs Minus Fiber	8	g
	Protein	16	g
	Vitamin A			0%
	Vitamin C			0%
	Calcium			2%
	Iron			15%

These are really great, they taste awesome and they do bake up nice and crunchy crust.  I made a sausage and onion pizza which is my favorite, using my low carb sauce, which I haven't posted yet but I will. IT was awesome. These get a 5 plus Star rating. Can't wait to buy more.

Low Carb Pork Lo Mein

I tried Shiratake noodles for the first time last week.  I have seen recipes with these noodles since I started my Low Carb/ High Fat lifestyle read all the reviews, from all different blogs and web sites. I went by the reviews and wasn't going to try them. Then Netrition.com had a sale and I saw them for a cheaper price than anywhere else so I thought I would try them. I have a very good sense of smell, I mean I can tell when my neighbors are using their dryers. LOL I have really bad allergies so my nose is very sensitive. I opened the noodles and there was really no smell to them at all, a slight smell but nothing over whelming like others have said.  I rinsed them in water the temperature I normally do dishes in a few times and them left them in the strainer till I was ready for them. That is all I did to them I made up this recipe, Pork Lo Mein which is one of my very favorite Chinese dishes.  This recipe is from i Breathe I'm Hungry.

This was really really good. I did make the mistake of putting too much Sriracha hot sauce in it, it was a tad bit hot for me but I loved it. The flavor was awesome and so where the noodles. I really liked these noodles a lot. They reminded me a lot of rice noodles that the Chinese use. I will definitely be buying more of these noodles. I can't wait to try the ziti and fettuccine noodles. 5 star Recipe

Epic Failures This week

I have had to epic recipe failures this week. The first one I think is more my fault than the recipes.

Easiest & Best Chocolate Brownies.

Will admit my daughter loved them but me and husband however didn't. For me it's mostly cause I am not a fan of Cocoa powder, to me it's very strong. I over baked them a bit cause I forgot about them.  I might try them again adding less cocoa powder and baking them for the right amount of time. LOL 

Recipe is from Satisfying Eats  Giving it a 3 since some of it was my fault. 

I tried the Miracle Rice for the first time. Which I am sorry I wasted it on this recipe. I love, absolutely love rice pudding. The recipe comes fro, Shirataki Noodles Info Blog 

Now I don't know about any one else but this was absolutely GROSS. 

I followed the recipe and the only way I can explain it was it was so gloppy, have  you ever made anything using cornstarch to thicken and added way to much? That is the consistency of that, very thick and goopy.  I added more cinnamon, and nutmeg and that still didn't make it taste better. I threw the whole pan out. Not sure I will try this again, I think I will look for another recipe. This really needs a minus rating. 1 Star Recipe. 

Ranch Burgers with Secret Sauce

These were really good, I changed them a little bit thou. 

I added about a half pound of sausage to the hamburger along with all the other seasonings. I used Smokehouse Onion Cheddar Cheese, which I absolutely love. 

They were really good. They were juicy, and delicious. I give them a 5 Star rating. The special sauce really makes them great. Thou it's not that much a special sauce. LOL Try I think you guys will like them. 

Recipe is from lil' Luna. 

For Low Carb just omit the bun. Use reduce sugar ketchup. 

Bacon Bourbon BBQ Chicken

Have I got a recipe for you guys today. This recipe deserves more than 5 Stars, it's out of this world.

The recipe is from Host The Toast 

You have to make these, my husband couldn't stop raving about them. They were that good. I could go for eating them again today. 

To make low carb just substitute the sugars for your sweeteners, that is what I did plus use low carb bbq sauce. You all have to make these.

Raspberry Drop Scones

These by far are the easiest things to make and so delicious. 5 Stars for these.
Even my husband who isn't doing the High Fat/Low Carb lifestyle loved them.
I will admit they were a bit sweet for me, so next time I make them I will be reducing the sugar. And I didn't have any raspberries so I used blueberries, awesome .
Recipe is from The Dr. Oz show.

You have to make these cause they are great. Fast and easy too. 

Best-Ever Sticky Asian Ribs 5 stars

These where awesome. My family and I love the Asian flavors and thou we have had our fair share to yuckie ones, these were great. My husband was in heaven, that is what he said about them. Koodles for me. The recipe is from Apple of My Eye Blog.  I made my low carb by substituting the sugar for a sugar substitute and the ketchup for low carb ketchup.

Chicken Parmesan Burgers 5 Stars

These were the most awesome burgers I have ever made. I am not the biggest fan of chicken parmesan but these I could eat again and again.

The recipe is from Recipe Runner.

Now to make low carb I omitted the bun for me. I did how ever keep the panko bread crumbs. 

Per 1/4 cup - Calories: 100kcal | Fat: 1.00g | Carbs: 20.00g | Protein: 3.00g

which makes 4 burgers so there is 5 carbs from the panko bread crumbs. 

I made my own marinara sauce which I have to say turned out awesome. I will update the post later with the recipe.  I left it in the kitchen.

Broiled Tilapia with Seafood Wine Sauce 5 Stars

This recipe is from Buttoni's Low Carb Recipe Blog. 

Now this is a Five star recipe. We loved this a lot. 

I didn't use crawfish cause here in Upstate, NY they are expensive and cleaning them to get what little bit of meat from them isn't worth the work. LOL 

I used just crab meat instead.  Even the next day this was so good reheated. Will be making this again. 

Haven't felt much like posting lately. Been kind of depressed about my weight and everything else. Been really tired this week which doesn't help cause when I am over tired I am very emotional and could cry at the drop of a hat and I get upset so easily with anything LOL.
Meals haven't been too complicated cause it's been just too darn hot and humid here this week.

I decided I was going to try peanut flour cause I am still on that quest for the right English muffin for low carb. Let's just say I know why people don't use peanut flour for baking LMBO. The two things I made both came out rubbery and very very dry. GROSS.  So back to the drawing board and some day I will figure it out. One that toasts up great but doesn't taste gritty, that is my biggest problem. I don't like that gritty texture in my mouth.
This morning I tried a baking mix I found online. Basic Low Carb Flour Mix by Character Ink's blog. This was my second try with this mix. Yesterday I made a pumpkin chocolate muffin/cake and it was good, need way more spice for my liking but it was good. I like my pumpkin pie spicy. I got the recipe from Running with Spoons blog.  3 Stars

And them this morning I made Ginny's English muffin again, which seems to be my favorite to play around with.  You can get her recipe here on her blog 

Ginny's Low Carb Kitchen.

The only dinner recipe I tried this week from Pinterest was this one. I made Cuban Mojo Pork Sandwiches. They were good but I was a bit disappointed with the flavor. I would have like more of the marinate flavors in the meat. The pork however was very juicy and tender.  3 Stars

The recipe is from Recipe Tin Eats. 

I know it's been a while since I have posted been kind of lazy and kind of busy all at the same time. Also been in a mood too. Things haven't gone all that great with things.  My daughter has been away since last Thursday, she is spending a week with her Aunt in Rochester. Hopefully having a really great time. She loves going there. So just me and hubby and I have made some great meals where I only had to cook for us, half the time she won't eat what we are eating.

If you get a chance you have to have Korean BBQ, it is so good. Specially Bulgogi it is so so good. I cheated this week usually I make my own marinate but we had bought a jar of Korean BBQ sauce so I decided to use that and it was really good. Also cheated on my life style change cause we ordered Chinese's appetizers to go with the steak.

Friday night I made  Louisiana BBQ Shrimp, this was so good.  Really good my husband loved it. The recipe I used was by Wish Upon a Dish blog.

now doesn't that look divine. I boo booed with the recipe thought it said 1 1/2 TBSP of hot sauce but it was 1 1/2 tsp. But it wasn't too hot for me. I mean it had a kick to it, but I could stand it. You have to have a baguette to sop up the broth. It is delicious.

Saturday I decided to make my own pizzas Yes I have been very bad on my lifestyle change cause some of it has been being depressed. I am going to back to today, I have too cause my stomach bloated up really bad. 

My husband told me this morning that I made these best pizza he has ever had, now that is a compliment. I will agree it was the greatest pizza. I sued store bought pizza dough, and I buttered my cookie sheet before putting the dough on it. This made the crust nice and crispy, really good. I was so impressed. 

I found on Pinterst a low carb pizza sauce that is the bomb. I mean the bomb. 

I don't know where the recipe came from so I am sorry about that. And I was just able to find it the recipe is from Simply Scratch 

You simply have to make this sauce. 

I decided to make a fruit salad to go with the shrimp. I had my semi hot and spicy shrimp and my sweet, tasty fruit salad the best of both worlds. 

Rainbow Fruit Salad with Citrus-Honey Dressing and Fresh Mint by The Cozy Apron blog. This salad is so good, not too sweet just right but you do have to add the mint it makes the world of difference. We loved it. 

Yesterday we had BBQ chicken from the local volunteer fire department, its is the boom. I love it.    

White Sauce Wings

Sunday we had an early dinner cause we decided to take Kimberly to the drive in and see Inside Out it was a really cute movie.
I have wanted to try white BBQ sauce and so that is what I made. I used a recipe from the grillin' fools. These were awesome. It makes a lot of white sauce so I split it in half to use half another time.

I didn't have any horseradish so I just left it out. But added everything else and I could have eat these all night long.  Made salt potatoes to go with it. Awesome dinner 4 Stars

Cajun Marinated Chicken

Cajun Marinated Chicken this was really good too but I think the next time I make it I am going to let it marinate all day instead of just a couple hours.

Recipe is by STL Cooks blog  even my 11 year old daughter liked the chicken and that is a lot cause usually the only way she wants her chicken is Italian style. Boring LOL I paired this with some BBQ french fries for my husband and daughter and some yummy zucchini roll ups, recipe below.  5 Stars

GRILLED HERB AND CHEESE ZUCCHINI ROLL-UPS

recipe from Little Broken blog

I made a bit different, I added chives to the cream cheese, and used arugula instead of spinach cause I didn't have any, oh they were so good. I could have eaten all of them. 

Tropical Shrimp Lettuce Wraps

Now these were so good, I mean really really good. Even my husband whose body is allergic to vegetables LOL really liked them. This was such a light summer meal. Will definitely be making these again.
Recipe is from Lemon Tree Dwelling blog 5 Stars

Fish Tacos with Mango Salsa

Tuesday night I made fish tacos and OMG were they ever so good. I was in serious love with these. I had gotten a piece of cod from out local grocery store that was already bread with panko bread crumbs. Next time thou I will bread my own cause most of the panko fell off before getting them in the tacos. LOL  I used 3 different recipes for my fish tacos and I didn't not take a pic of my tacos but they looked similar to these, except on hand my on lettuce cups. Keeping with the low carb lifestyle.  5 Stars
Fish Tacos with Mango Salsa by Annie Eats 

I didn't use your sauce cause my husband is not a fan of avocado.

I used Life's Ambrosia Spicy Slaw, wicked good 

and then for the sauce I used a recipe from Soup Addict Wickedly Good Fish Taco Sauce and it was wickedly good. 

except I don't like cilantro cause I don't like it. These you diffidently need to make they are so so good.  

Steak with Balsamic Mushroom Sauce

Monday I made this for dinner and it was good. My husband really enjoyed the mushroom sauce, for me it was just a bit too beefy, heavy I would have preferred a lighter sauce. Recipe is from Meal Planning 101  3 Stars

really good meal. Give it a try. 

I paired this with a low carb Broccoli salad for me and a ranch pasta salad for my husband and daughter.  

Thoughts

I don't normal post messages on here or facebook about my personal dramas. But have decided that I need an outlet to write my thoughts and figure things out. So if you don't want to read this (I don't have anyone reading my blog anyways) don't read it.
I have been going to a lot of stuff lately and it seems that people (my family) particular just don't and don't want to understand. This is just something I am trying to deal with.
On Tuesday my only child, my baby daughter graduated 6th grade. Now I was so excited to go see her graduation and bound and determined to go no matter what. I have issues leaving my house, fear mostly, anxiety and panic attacks. The only think I could think about for 2 days was all the things that could go wrong. I am an obese  person with really bad knees, consistent pain in my knees and feet. So all I think about is if I fall how will I get up cause I can't put any kind of pressure on my knees. The last 2 times I feel I had to call the Fire Department to come help me out, if that isn't embarrassing enough. In Jan I decided that I was going to change things and lose some of this weight. My doctor suggest I give up pasta, rice, white bread. So I went online and found the Low Carb/High Fat life sytle and this sounded like something I could actually follow. I have always sucked at diets, hence being very obese. I told my sister-in-law about my plan and she said she would like to do it with me. So I waited around for her to get in touch with me and that never happened. In Feb I started slowing removing carbs from my diet. I had already started getting rid of processed foods from my families diets and started making things home made. This life style change to start off cost some bucks. From getting all the different flours, protein and sugars. I tired several different all natural sugars with no luck, my pallet can't stand them. Once that stay gets on my tongue it doesn't go away no matter what I do, even brush my teeth. I finally got things going with the life style change and for the most part I am good with it. There are some things I miss like bagels and English muffins. Eggs are not my favorite thing in the world to eat and this diet requires them big time.
Since starting this life style change in June I went to the Doctors and found out I had lost 50 pounds, I was so excited and not happy at the same time. If I have lost all this weight, why am I so tired. The Doctor tells me I am borderline anemic and that he thinks I have a ulcer which might be slowly bleeding cause the anemic. So I go and see a gastroenteritis and they are going to do the up and lower viewing of my insides. And that doesn't get done till Sept 15th.
So for the next two months I have to live with being so tired, some days aren't so bad but other days they are really bad, I am so tired, I can't deal with people I am so shorted tempered.  I just really can't deal with anything. I am so tired of being tired and not being able to do the simplest things without being exhausted. All I want to do is have the energy to sweep and mop my disgusting kitchen floor. That is all I want to be able to do and catch mustard up enough energy.

Chicken Breasts with Mushroom and Onion Dijon Sauce

No cooking dinner Wednesday night, it the celebrator Graduation, report card dinner and Mc Donalds. That is where she wanted to go. I really don't care anymore for McDonalds.
Last night for dinner I made one of my favorite dishes. Since it was suppose to rain here yesterday I decided to make a chicken dish. This dish is the greatest. I just love it.  Chicken Breasts with Mushroom and Onion Dijon Sauce from A Family Feast. Is just awesome. 5 Stars