This low carb pie crust is super simple, and bakes up flaky, yet strong enough to stand up to a solid filling!
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Low carb & gluten free baker |All around nerd | Card carrying hippie
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Okay, so it’s not anywhere near fall yet, but I’m really craving pumpkin right now. Any why not? Pumpkin is packed with vitamin A, B vitamins and potassium. Plus, it tastes like fall, which is a nice break from the 90 degree death box that my apartment has become. Continue reading Low Carb No Bake Pumpkin Cheesecake
Cinnamon might be my favorite dessert flavor. Truly, I could eat this stuff morning, noon and night without complaint. Aside from the taste, cinnamon is also excellent for supporting your cardiovascular system and controlling blood sugar. So yeah, it’s pretty great.
Lately, I’ve also been seeking out alternate ways to get in enough protein that don’t involve just eggs or cheese. Eggs and cheese get boring, especially in a low carb or ketogenic diet!
In light of these bits of info, I wanted to update my other low carb snickerdoodle recipe to have a little more protein content – and to be a little more cost effective. Macadamia nuts are a bit spendy. So, I’m using cashew butter here. Try not to freak out. Yes, it’s a little higher in carbs, but totally worth it if you’re able to eat a little on the higher side of the low-carb spectrum.
Shark week of all kinds is happening right now, and in this particular month – I want to eat EVERYTHING. I’ve also started eating carbier foods (seriously, yogurt was the gateway), and am now more or less off (okay, more) the low carb bandwagon. I do not feel great as a result. So, we’re back to full-time low carb, and I thought I’d make myself cookies as a result.
Continue reading 3 Ingredient Low Carb Peanut Butter Cookies
I promise I’ll start posting non-dessert recipes again soon, but these are just so good I can’t help myself! They’re made of coconut butter, coconut flour and a touch of maple syrup – seriously delicious, but not without nutritional benefit! And holy crap, it’s low carb, too (1 net carb per cookie)!
I know, there’s maple syrup – but don’t freak out! It’s just enough to help hold these together and give some flavor without adding any real amount of carbs. If you want to sub for a sugar free syrup, though, be my guest!
If you want a mineral-rich cookie with mild antibiotic properties (from both the coconut butter and the maple!) that is also rich and buttery and tastes like all that is amazing, then this is the cookie for you. Continue reading Low Carb Paleo Shortbread
I love chips, and crunchy salty things, but crunchy, salty chips tend to have carbs. Lots of them.
So, to solve my dilemma, I thought back to an old friend of mine: parmesan tuiles. Tuile means ’tile’ in French, but the culinary understanding of the word is a crispy wafer made of dough or cheese. We’re obviously going with the latter here.
Traditionally, a tuile is used as a garnish on another dish (I feel like I mostly saw these on cooking shows in the early 2000s), but we’ll be using it as the main attraction.
Well, I’m finally back. Where did I go for most of January, all of February and most of March? Mostly the doctor!
Apparently, I’m pretty allergic to carageenan (a food additive used as a thickener in non-dairy products, and also toothpaste and a few other things). Super random. I know.
Anyway, I developed these gives that turned into eczema and eventually had an anaphylactic reaction and was put on crazy high doses of prednisone.
Long story short, I finally figured out it was the carageenan in the new brand of almond milk I was buying, and eventually things cleared up…after two months of constant discomfort and pain. So, I’ll happily avoid that ingredient from now on! If you’re interested in reading more about carageenan (who wouldn’t be?) I’ll be posting about it at For Eat’s Sake sometime this week. Continue reading Coconut Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
So, you’ve probably noticed that I tend to only use stevia here, and you’ve probably wondered to yourself, “why would she use a sweetener in…
How do you add more flavor to a low carb or keto recipe without adding any additional carbs? No, the answer is not artificial sweeteners… it’s…
Continue reading Low Carb Baking Tip: Adding Flavor Without Carbs
Did I say “no bake?” Sure did! I used to prepare vegan food professionally, seriously. A lot of the desserts involved some finagling to get the…