Crockpot and pork loin

This week I made crock pot corned beef brisket on Monday, with carrots and onions. I’ve made this once before and Joe LOVED it. So I saw it on sale again and bought that up fast! I chopped up an entire package of carrots along with 2 onions, poured in a can of beer, a cup of water, rubbed the seasonings on the corned beef, put in the crockpot. Then in a small bowl I mixed about two tbs of yellow mustard, a couple tbs of splenda and 1/8 c molasses and rubbed it on top of the brisket. Crock pot on low for 8 hours. Joe ate it monday, took it to work on tuesday, and has another serving for tomorrow for lunch.

Sunday I made pancakes out of atkins bake mix. whipped up some whipped cream and topped with some frozen berries tossed in splenda.

Tonight for dinner I made some fired squash. I love fried squash, but this just wasn’t quite doing it for me. Joe was good sport, he ate four.

Then I made a pork loin as well. I know it looks pink, but it was cooked until the internal temperature was 160…so we ate it. I’ll be making something using these left overs thursday and I suppose tomorrow as well.

See I was planning on having left over corned beef, but its not looking like there is going to be any left…

Shredded beef recipe.

I had a friend ask if the shredded beef was good, if so could I give her the recipe.

It was delicious and easy. I put all the ingredients in my crockpot the naught before. Threw it in the fridge, then in the morning put it in the crock pot for eight hours. When i got home from work I just shredded the roast with a fork, cut up the lettuce and served.


2 pound roast
2 tablespoons oil
1 small onion, diced
4 ounces canned chopped green chiles
14 ounces beef broth
14.5 ounce can diced tomatoes, undrained
2 jalapeño peppers, chopped( I left these out)
2 tablespoons chili powder
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon onion powder (I didn't have any so i subbedi in onion salt and reduced the amount of regular salt i used)
1 teaspoon cumin
Salt and pepper, to taste
1 green pepper, chopped.

We'll get eight generous servings out of this. I actually put two servings in a freezer bag, and we'll have this again some other time. I feel like we're not that good at eating leftovera in general, so I tend to freeze a lot, so I'm not wasting it.

Hope you enjoy!

twice in one week…yep, I’m pretty consistent.

So last post, I tacked on the crockpot meal I was starting for Monday. Monday’s are going to start being crockpot nights bc I get home from work at 6, to have class at 6:30, so I can’t really make a meal. but anyhoo, this is shredded beef for our taco salad. It was DELISH!

and here’s the salad all put together

Joe took it for lucnh today at work, and he said it was even better the second time around!

So then tonight I got home and made Crab macaroni and cheese(with Dreamfields pasta) It was pretty good. I bought this special smoked cheddar cheese and had to hand shred it

It took quite a bit of time, and I couldn’t really taste any difference. I just added in canned white crab, if I make this again which I think I will, I’ll use lump crab meat. the canned white crab was fine, tasted like crab, but made ALL of the macaroni kinda taste like crab. It I used lump meat, it wouldn’t clearly just be the lumps tasting like crab.

Before                                           After

And up close

Then I found sugar free vanilla wafers, picked up a box of sugar free banana pudding, and bananas were 40 cents a pound this week. Do using Carb Countdown milk, I made banana pudding.

Now bananas in general are VERY high in carbs. So I only used one banana and sliced it SUPER thin.

So I got a layer of wafers, bananas, pudding

 

bananas, and another  pudding.

Yay for low carb cooking.

What I’ve been up to…

 

Genaw.com is where virtually all of these recipes are from. DELICIOUS.

 

Egg/cheese pizza crust! you’d never know it wasn’t really dough.

topped with a bit of sauce, a bit of cheese(not too much bc the crust had so much cheese) bacon(my favorite) italian sausage, and hamburger.

Bacon cheeseburger quiche. I used left over hamburger and bacon from the pizza and eggs, and swiss and cheddar cheeses.

fried “rice” I probably won’t make this again. it was pretty good, but I couldn’t get Joe to eat it. Its shredded cauliflower instead of the rice. I think I maybe shredded it too small. but pretty good.

I made this to go with

Seoul chicken. It said to use chicken thigh’s I had some drumsticks hanging out in my freezer, so I used those. This was pretty good. Joe and I have been on a HUGE asian food kick, this didn’t quite take care of that craving. but pretty good nonetheless.

This is actually for dinner TOMORROW night. I start grad school tomorrow so I needed a crock pot meal so I didn’t have to cook. This will turn into shredded beef we’ll put ontop of lettuce for a taco salad. then top it with guacamole, sourcream, and cheese. Hopefully I’ll post a picture of how it looks tomorrow.

 

I’ve also decided that my pictures suck. It isn’t that I can’t take good pictures, well maybe it is, but I attribute it to the fact that I’m cooking/serving and Joe and I are starving, so I just rush the picture taking. Perhaps I’ll get better.

 

Once again, all of these recipes are found at genaw.com its awesome!

Updates

Garlic salmon, roasted garlic rosemary new potatoes, roasted asparagus. YUM!

So Joseph use to LOVE Jones green apple soda,well they don't make diet:( So I found this sugar free sour apple martini mix for ZERO carbs, mixed with sugar free diet tonic water(IDK what this is, but its carbonated, is it different than club soda? I don't know) but tastes like a carbonated jolly rancher, pretty daggon close to Jones green apple soda. We also got some other drink mixers, including sweet and sour and hurricane. All SUGAR free with ZERO CARBS! woo

So my friend got married recently, and Joseph and I looked good, so i took pictures...

This is a rutabaga. Awhile ago I made mashed rutabaga and steak. I actually took one regular sized potato, and one rutabaga(clearly bigger than my fist) and boiled, then mashed with heavy cream. Rutabaga are a much lower carb option. It was good, but next time I would probably add garlic or cheese and more salt, i feel like I ALWAYS under salt everything. And recently I was making some spaghetti(dreamfields of course) and WAY over salted. But anyways the mashed rutabaga almost had a sweet cabbage-ie taste.

I made these peanut butter cupcakes with chocolate icing from this blog. Joe wasn't the biggest fan and I couldn't figure out why, so i got really upset thinking he hated my baking(these cupcakes took alot of work ok?) and finally he informed me that he isn't the biggest fan of peanut butter. So problem solved. I thought they were pretty good though

Best breakfast for dinner ever!!!

Low carb Chocolate Chip pancakes, scrambled eggs with cheese, and sausage patties! YUM.

I adjusted a recipe I found online here

Ingredients:

• 3/4 c almond meal( I just used blanched slivered almond and ground them in my coffee grinder )
• 1/2 c golden flaxseed meal
• 1/4 c all purpose flour
• 3 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 tablespoon splenda
• 3/4 c half & half
• 3/4 c water
• 3 tablespoons melted butter
• 1 egg
• 1/4 cup mini chocolate chip

1. Mix all the dry ingredients together, well.
2. Add in the melted butter, h&h, and water
3. Whisk egg first, then add to batter.
4. Mix well. Finally add the chocolate chips.
5. Use 1/8 cup to pour onto griddle.

I served them with the left over whipped cream from my last post, and torani sugar free chocolate syrup

Joe and I decided that we prefer it with just the whipped cream. I think the syrup made them too soggy.

Yes, that is milk in our wine glasses

I have recently found this blog that has some great ideas. I read a lot about it, and I have come to the conclusion that my low carb stuff always tastes low carb, bc it is the LOWEST carbage possible. For instances, the pancake recipe made 18 pancakes with 5 carbs in each pancake. Had I left out the all purpose flour, the pancake would have had less than 3 carbs/pancake. But by including a bit of flour( 1/4 cup, 23 carbs) it produced more normal textured pancakes. I also think that adding the chocolate chips saved this for Joe. Not because it wasn’t good without them, but because it helped the texture even more. He could attribute any crunches(which may have been not fully ground almonds, which he wouldn’t have likes) or a larger flaxseed to a chocolate chip.

Over all very delicious meal, would definitely do it again.

fish soup/lowages/lowcarb strawberry shortcake

o i mentioned in my last post that I was planning on making some fish soup from a friends recipe, but subbing in celery root for potatos...well the recipe didn't actually call for potatos, but i still used celery root.

My recipe

• 1/4 HUGE onion, diced finely
• 3 carrots, chopped
• 2 tsp olive oil
• 1 can diced tomatoes
• 1/2 celery root cubed
• 1/2 tsp garlic powder
• 1 tsp dried parsley
• 3 tilapia fillets (or other mild fish, I used frozen, don’t worry about chopping)
• 2 TBSP tomato paste (optional)
• 2 TBSP lime juice (optional)
• pinch of black pepper
• 4 cups seafood stock
• 2 cups water

Saute onions, carrots, and celery root until onions are slightly clear. Add everything EXCEPT for fish and bring to a boil. Boil for 10 minutes, add in fish(I used frozen, and threw it in frozen) boil for an addition 12 minutes.

I then served them with low carb croutons from her recipe as well, just subbed in low carb bread

1. Cut bread into cubes (day old bread would probably work awesomely)
2. Heat 2 tsp. olive oil in a pan, add bread once oil is hot
3. Sprinkle on seasonings (I used a garlic/parsley salt blend)
4. Shake pan until bread cubes are toasted

This meal, Joseph took a few bites, and decided that was enough for him. I ate it all the first night, but the next day reheated it tasted like a pond.

That was also the night Joe started a new insulin pen, he took 10 units before dinner. didn't eat, and started feeling really low about thirty minutes laters. He took his BS and it was 58! yikes! so he ate a half a bag of m&ms a peanut butter english muffin, a cinnamon sugar english muffin, took his BS and he was 46!!! What the what?! seriously. Drank some pepsi, milk, juice. finally he stopped feeling low, but I was really really nervous. We attributed this lowage to not eating dinner. But then friday we went to eat at Wings and Rings(the BEST place for buffalo wings) he took 7 units, we ordered 25 wings with very little carbs and a FULL ORDER A FRENCH FRIES which was HUGE. Joseph ate more than a portion of the french fries. but as we were leaving he said he was feeling low. so I drove. we ended up driving through MacDonalds and got an oreo McFlurry bc he was that low. So now we are attributing the lowage to new insulin, we think he might have used his old insulin pen longer than the month it stays good. So hes lowered his doses some.

On to starwberry shortcake!

We went grocery shopping today, something i love doing, and Meijer had strawberrys 5lbs/$5(also 1lb/$1) so i impulsively bought a pound thinking we needed a fruit this week anyway. , Then i thought of strawberry shortcake! YUMMY! but i had to find a way to do it low carb, bc shortcakes are not considered low carb. I have a bag a carbquik and so i googled carbquik shortcake. and found with the recipe below

Carbquik Strawberry shortcake

Ingredients

• 2 1/3 carbquik
• 3 tbs splenda
• 1/2 c crb countdown milk( i subbed 1/4c cream 1/4c water)
• 3 tbs melted butter

Cut strawberrys and toss in 1/4 water and a splash of sugar free starbucks vanilla syrup. Refridgerate and let them soak! YUM.

Well when we got to the milk section, another one of my meals this week(low carb chicken tetrazzini, hopefully i'll post about it) needed cream,
and i knew I had some sugar free starbucks vanilla syrup, so i thought whipped cream and strawberries sounded delicious.

For the whipped cream I used 1 cup of heavy whipping cream, and 3 pumps SF starbucks vanilla syrup. Whipped.

I mixed dry ingredients with a fork, added in wets. Make into 6 shortcakes. Bake @ 375 for 20 minutes, if they start browning loosely cover with foil.


I always cut my shortcakes in half and layer shortcake, strawberry, whipped cream, repeat.
Pretty good overall. Next time I would probably put some SF vanilla in the shortcakes.