Thursday I am planning on making Chicken Breast with Mushrooms Onions Dijon Mustard Sauce from a Family Feast

now doesn't that look yummy 

4 boneless skinless chicken breasts about 6 ounces each (1 ½ pounds)
¼ cup flour  to make low carb I will be using carbquick
½ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
4 cups sliced button mushrooms
1 cup sliced red onion
2 tablespoons fresh chopped rosemary
1 tablespoons whole grain mustard
2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
½ cup white wine
2 tablespoons fresh parsley chopped
¼ cup chicken stock
¼ cup heavy cream
2 tablespoons butter

Instructions
In a medium bowl, place four, salt and pepper and mix. Dredge chicken in four, shake excess and set aside.
In a large skillet heat oil over medium high heat until hot. Add chicken breasts and brown 3-4 minutes per side. If all four pieces will not fit, cook in two batches. Remove chicken to a platter and set aside.
Heat pan back up to high and add mushrooms and cook for about three minutes until just starting to brown. Reduce to medium high and add onions and rosemary. Cook for two to three minutes. The mushrooms will give up some liquid when the onions are added. Add both mustards, and wine and scrape up bottom. Add parsley, stock, cream and butter and mix to combine. Add chicken back in and cover with sauce. Reduce heat to a simmer and cook just until the chicken is cooked through (depending on size). Serve with sauce over each portion.

Turkey Chorizo Burgers

Here are my dinner plans for the rest of the week, well there could always be changes LOL. But I find if I have a meal plan in place I don't stress out so much as to what to fix for dinner and then do I have all the ingredients. Usually on Wednesday's I sit and plan the next weeks meals and do my grocery shopping lists at the same time. Then I have all the ingredients I need to make that weeks dishes. I also find that we have a lot less waste especially when it comes to the fresh veggies. And the most important part is to write it down LOL I have been know to buy ingredients and then forget what I wanted it for. Like a jar of artichoke hearts, haven't a clue why I needed them.

Tonight for dinner we are having I am kind of combining 3 recipes here.
   Turkey Chorizo Burgers original recipe here Table for Two Blog
   and seasonings from the recipe Tex Mex Turkey Burger recipe here on PackMomma and the sauce from this recipe Chorizo Burgers with Cool Ranch Pepper  Sauce on On Recipe.

Cool Ranch Pepper Sauce

• 1/2 cup buttermilk
• 1/2 cup mayonnaise
• 2 Tbl Buttermilk Ranch Seasoning
• 1 medium onion, chopped
• 1 whole roasted red pepper, seeds removed
• 1 Tbl butter
• 1 Tbl olive oil
• 1 tsp smoked paprika
• 1/2 tsp cayenne
• 1/2 tsp cumin
• 
  
• Instructions

1. Place the butter and oil in a medium skillet over medium heat.
2. Sauté until translucent and caramelized. ~10 minutes.
3. When the onions are done, place the onions (leaving behind the juices), roasted pepper, buttermilk, ranch, mayo, paprika, cayenne and cumin in a food processor pulsing until well combined.
4. Transfer to a lidded container and place in the fridge while the burgers cook.

Turkey Chorizo Burgers

Ingredients

• 1 pound ground turkey
• ½ pound chorizo sausage
• (seasons from Tex Mex Burger)
• 3 cloves garlic, minced
• 1/4 red onion, finely chopped
• 1/2 small bell pepper (any color), seeded and finely chopped
• 2 tsp ground cumin
• 1 tsp chili powder
• 2 tsp smoked paprika
• 1 tsp liquid smoke
• Salt and Pepper
• If you want your burgers on the hot spices side you can add these, I didn't don't do hot 
• 1 tsp sirracha sauce
• 1 1/2 tsp cayenne hot sauce
• 1 jalapeno pepper, seeded and finely chopped
• cheese of your choice, I am using American 

Instructions

I am cooking my on the stove as it is a bit too chill yet to grill outside. 

1. Preheat grill to high heat.
2. In a large bowl, gently combine ground turkey and chorizo and all the seasonings then form four ½ inch thick patties (mine were definitely way thicker than this so try to keep them on the thinner side so it won't be so hard/messy to eat) and using your thumb, press down the center of the burger to keep the patty from puffing up when grilling. Don't over mix 
3. In place the patties on the grill and cook for about 7-10 minutes or whenever the meat thermometer reads 165 degrees Fahrenheit in the center of the burger. Turn the grill to low heat and place the cheese slices on each patty and let it melt gently, about 1 minute

The Sauce is to die for, I give that 5 Stars. the Burger themselves weren't right, have to adjust the seasonings when I try them again. 3 Stars 

Jicama

I try jicama yesterday for the first time. I had read on the net that some of the low carbers use jicama in place of potatoes. So I wanted to see if they could replace potatoes cause I do know mashed cauliflower was gorgeous, I didn't like it at all.  So I try it using this recipe

ONION GRUYERE POTATO STACKS

I used one jicama in place of the potato in one of the tins, I also used the larger muffin tin to make them. I know jicama takes longer to cook than potatoes.  but it was really good. I enjoyed it. Also what I did different was since I was cooking the potatoes along with my ham I didn't cook my onions ahead of time. I chopped them fine, added in dry thyme, salt and pepper and the butter in a small dish. Then put a teaspoon in each layer when I was making them.  5 Stars

Ingredients

• 5 baking potatoes
• 2 onions, chopped
• 6 TBS butter
• 1 1/2 cups grated cheese, Gruyere or cheddar  I used Smoked Gouda with Bacon
•        Gruyere is quite expensive here. 
• kosher salt
• freshly ground pepper
• heavy cream or half and half
• cooking spray
• thyme sprigs

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
2. Thinly slice raw potatoes. I use a Mandoline but they can be carefully hand sliced into thin even slices. Set aside.
3. Melt butter (about 4 TBS) in a large skillet and saute onion over a low heat until translucent and slightly golden. Add 2-4 TBS butter in the pan and melt the butter. Set aside.
4. Grate cheese. Gruyere is my favorite but cheddar works great too! Set aside.
5. Spray all twelve muffin cups of a regular size muffin pan.
6. Add 1 slice of potato to the bottom of each muffin cup. Salt and pepper. Add 1 more slice of potato. Top each potato evenly with 1/2 TBS onion and butter. Add 2 more potato slices. Sprinkle 1/2 TBS grated cheese evenly over potatoes. Add 1 more potato slice and salt and pepper. Add 1 more potato slice and evenly add 1/2TBS of onion and butter. Add 1 or 2 potato slices and top evenly with remaining cheese.
7. Pour 1 TBS cream over each potato stack. Do this for each stack.
8. Bake for 35 minutes until potatoes are tender. Remove from oven and let rest for 5 minutes.
9. Run a sharp knife around the edges of each muffin cup and pop each stack out with a fork.
10. Garnish with thyme.

Chocolate Low Carb Doughnuts

I hope everyone had a Happy Easter, all was great here. I have found out if I could keep my butt off Pinterest I would have more time or enough time to blog every day LOL.

I finally have a low carb/high fat recipe of my own, well sort of LOL
How about some Chocolate Donuts. OMG they were so good. My 11 year old picky daughter really like them a lot. But told me next time not so much chocolate, cause they were really chocolaty, oh but so good.
Here is a picture of my doughnuts, not the pretties but you can eat them and that is all the mattered.

ignore the date on the picture my camera has issues 

The original recipe comes from here 

Buns in my Oven 

now this recipe is not low carb 

here is my recipe for this doughnut which is low carb 

Chocolate Low Carb Doughnuts 

For the donuts:

• 1 cup carbquick 
• 1/4 cup of Sugar Free Chocolate Syrup 
• 1/4 cup cocoa powder
• 1/4 cup mini chocolate chips (optional) didn't add these to my doughnuts
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 egg
• 6 tablespoons sour cream
• 1/4 cup heavy cream 
• 1/4 cup olive oil but you could use coconut oil 

For the glaze:  I didn't make the glaze cause my sugar replace is Agave and not fond of glazed doughnuts anyways 

• 2 cups powdered sugar
• 6 tablespoons whole milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

To make the donuts:

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
2. In a medium mixing bowl, combine the carbquick, cocoa powder, chocolate chips, and baking soda.
3. In a small bowl, beat together the vanilla, egg, sour cream, milk, SF chocolate syrup and oil.
4. Stir the wet ingredients into the dry until just combined.
5. Spoon in a greased donut pan.
6. Bake for 8 minutes or until the tops spring back when you touch them.
7. Let the donuts cool in the pan before glazing.

To make the glaze:

1. In a small saucepan over low heat, combine the sugar, milk, and vanilla until well combined. Remove from the heat.
2. Dunk the donuts in the glaze to fully coat and place on a wire rack to set.
• That is it, they are really easy to make, I got 9 doughnuts out of the batch. 

I have been pluggin' along with my life style change. For the most part it has been pretty good. I know one thing it has gotten me out of being lazy for fixing lunch and dinner. I know have veggies and lots of them at dinner before I would must eat meat and what ever side I fixed and it was usually a lot of the side LOL. Usually potatoes, rice or pasta.
I have  made some really good meals these last two weeks. One of our favorites is Orange Creole Chicken

this was really good. 

Another one I made last week was Campfire Burgers, these were really good too

just use either SF BBQ sauce or make your own and it's very low carb. Minus the bun of course. Very very tasty. 

I think my hardest part of this life style change is the fact that every time I turn around someone is saying something different about the Low Carb/High Fat life style. Who do you believe. Each diet/nutritionist say something different. Just two days ago on Dr. Oz, Chris Powell was on there say do high carbs one day for one meal and low carbs for the rest of the day and the next day do low carb Stitch on and off during the week. So who do you believe? I still having a problem with the sugar even contacted a couple places to try and get samples for their sweeteners and no they don't have samples. You would think that if they wanted your business they would have samples. I will tell you this thou, I email THM - Trim Healthy Mamas and the email I got back was no help to me what so ever. I asked about sampling their sugar and rice products but they don't do samples. I am not asking them to go out of their way for me but I am not buying 6 bags of rice and not like them. I can't afford it. I still have a family to feed. 

Today I am making this for lunch to have with my bbf and can't wait to chat with her today. 

Pork Dumplings and Dipping Sauce, they look so good 

UPDATE:  these were so good, we loved them.

and for dinner I making this 

Fried Cabbage

I am adding chicken sausage to make it one complete meal. I have been into fried cabbage of all of sudden and you know what else I have found out I LOVE fried corn. LOL It's soooooooooo good. 

UPDATE: These was really good too, I add fennel seeds too it besides by chicken sausage. It was really good. 

Tomorrow I am going to make haddock. 

This recipe is for Tilapia but I am going to use haddock, that is my favorite fish. 

Pan Fried Tilapia

 Doesn't that look just divine, I can't to have it tomorrow with a nice salad. 

 Tomorrow I will try to post next weeks recipes for the week. I have them all planned and groceries list done. I find it so much easier if I plan my meals for the week, then I don't have to think about it that night. If I have a plan then I know what I need to do.  

UPDATE: these was really good on Haddock, thou next time I won't use as much paprika, I love paprika but sometimes when you have to much of it, you lose the flavors of the other spices. Just going to cut back on it a bit. 

Didn't get a chance to post yesterday did some playing around in the kitchen since the kids had only a half day.
I found a really good desert or snack, cause I have to have something to eat before bed cause if I don't I am hungry all night long LOL.

Low Carb Cheesecake Desert by Food.com

SERVINGS 6 UNITS US
8 ounces cream cheese
1 cup heavy cream
1 cup cold water
1 (1 ounce) package sugar-free instant pudding mix (any flavor, I like white chocolate and cheesecake the best)

Beat all ingredients together. Enjoy on its own or top with fruit or sugar free jelly for a treat.

only 7.77 net carbs per serving. Taste really great too 

For dinner I made some Ranch Chicken Burgers, they were awesome 

Got the recipe from The Girl Whole Ate Everything, I changed it a bit to make it more carb friendly.

Ingredients

• 1 lb ground chicken
• 1/2 cup Panko bread crumbs (Japanese bread crumbs found by the regular bread crumbs)
• 1/4 cup Italian bread crumbs
• 1 Tablespoon dried onion (or use finely chopped fresh onion)
• 1 teaspoon seasoned salt
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1 Tablespoon dry Ranch dressing mix (unprepared)
• 4 slices cheddar cheese
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 4 hamburger buns
• Optional Toppings: lettuce, prepared Ranch dressing

I only used 1/4 cup Panko Bread Crumbs, no buns and no seasoning salt only cause I have a problem with too much sodium. 

Instructions

1. Preheat your grill to medium high or the broiler on your oven.
2. In a large bowl mix together the chicken, Panko crumbs, bread crumbs, onion, seasoned salt, garlic powder and dry ranch dressing.
3. Form chicken mixture into 4 patties. Place on oiled grill or greased broiler pan.
4. Grill/broil for 4-6 minutes on each side or until internal temp reaches 160 degrees. for the last minute of cooking place a slice of cheese on each burger to melt. Remove from grill/oven/
5. Spread butter on the inside of the buns. Place on broiler pan and broil for a few minutes until golden brown or on the grill for a couple of minutes. Put chicken burger on bun and top with additional prepared ranch dressing or desired condiment.

4.86 net carbs per burger. 

Zucchini Chips

INGREDIENTS

2 medium zucchini
Ingredients

2 Tablespoons olive oil
1/4 Teaspoon salt
1/4 Teaspoon black pepper
2 Tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese
DIRECTIONS

Cut zucchini into 1/4-inch slices (on a diagonal if they're small). Brush both sides with extra-virgin olive oil and season with salt, pepper and Parmesan (add whatever else strikes your fancy - garlic powder, Italian seasoning, rosemary or dill). The nutritionals include 2 tablespoons of Parmesan.
Instructions

Set on a baking sheet in a single layer and bake in a preheated 400°F oven for 10 minutes, turning once. Cool on a wire rack.

4 Servings, 2,3 net carbs per serving 

and of course I had to make some prerogies for my daughter and husband.

High Fat/Low Carb Lifestyle Beginning

I know it's been a month since I posted last. I have been concentrating on my new life style change and have gotten things started. So I am going to try hard and post ever day with my trials and tribulations of this new life style.

I do miss some things, and others I really don't. My biggest problem is the amount of eggs and cheese this style has.

The basics behind Low Carb High Fat life style is you eat very little NET carbs. Which are the bad ones like flour, bread, white rice, potatoes and pasta.
I do miss my bagels and English muffins terrible. My digestive system particular doesn't like too high fat so that I am not eating so much of. But I am eat lots of veggies and meat. I am have never been an egg person and where a lot of the things you make for breakfast have that eggie taste so I don't do too well with them.

I bought a book from Amazon for my kindle called What the Fork are you Eating by  Stefanie Sacks, MS, CNS, CDN.  It's a very interesting book and I learned a lot plus all the things I read on the web. In there she has a pancake recipe that her husband grew up on. They are really good, they remind me more a  crepe and that what his grandmother would make. It is a cross between a pancake and a crepe. I love them.  There is flour in it, I am waiting for my new bag of Almond flour to come to try it with just almond flour. The original Almond flour I bought I didn't care for. It's by Bob's Red Mill Almond Flour/Meal. I didn't like the texture at all. The new bag I am getting is from Honeyville which is suppose to be very fine. Hoping so.
I did however make the pancake/crepe using Splendid Gluten-Free Bake Mix by Jennifer Eloff Splendid Low Carbing.  I did substitute the coconut flour for more Almond Flour, my digestion doesn't like Coconut Flour what so ever, it gives me horrible problems so I am not using it anymore. If your interested in this style of eating check out Jennifer's blog cause she has some recipes.