Sunday, July 29, 2012

Keto Pound Cake

I was baking, yeah thats right, I'm a lady, blah blah, got it. I just like to bake, lay off.
Anyway, while I was using my tasty skills, I decided I wanted to share these cause they weren't pretty looking, they were pretty fucking awesome.  Done.

It's not crumbly if you let it cool, but it's spongy inside. Yum!



makes 4 in personal cake tins

3/4c butter softened
4 oz cream cheese softened
12-16 pkts of stevia or aspartame
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp almond
3 eggs
1 c coconut flour 

1. preheat oven to 325
2. grease your tins
3. mix your butter, cream cheese, sugar sub., vanilla, and almond extract with a hand mixer until 
    creamed together
4. Add one egg at a time alternating egg and flour until both are in the batter. Add flour slowly as it can  
    make the batter thick, use less flour if necessary, if you've already put it all in and it's too thick, add
    almond milk until cream cheese consistency- this will never be a liquid batter. 
5. Place in tins to top, this will not be a rising batter. 
6. Bake for 45 mins, but check after 30, your top will be golden, a toothpick will come out clean, and 
    on touch, the cake will spring back.
7. Let cool and enjoy, come up with a topping for it, or just add raspberries and whipped cream!

Week 6 Meal Plan:

Sorry for the lateness, but as you can tell I was busy posting recipes of my own!
I do cook a lot of things I come up with but just havet had a chance to post them online, so here they are! I would love to hear from you all about suggestions for next week, and would love to do a reader suggested meal plan combining some of the best keto foods you've ever had.
Anyway for this week:

Mon: Easy Pizza
Tues: Mushroom chicken and Sausage Casserole
Wed: Beef Stroganoff with 'rice' cauliflower (steam cauliflower 'riced' with a fork)
Thurs: Stuffed Peppers
Fri: Keto Coconut Shrimp with broccoli
Sat: am: Big Ass Omelette 
pm: Burger and Avocado Fries  and Keto Spritz cookies (replace sugar and flour with splenda and coconut flour)
Sun: am: Eggs Benedict!
pm: Smoked Salmon Quiche with Dill


Grocery List


Produce
cauliflower
1 lb mushrooms
garlic cloves
2 medium onions
green onion or chives
celery
2 green peppers (1 for each person)
2 avocados


Baking/ Spices
beef bouillon cube
marjoram
parsley
vanilla
coconut flour (found at health stores or amazon)
dill
paprika
unsweetened coconut flakes
canola oil
Flat Out Light Spinach Wraps
tomato sauce
garlic salt
pepper
almond meal
cumin
cayenne pepper
crushed pork rinds (or crush em yourself)
lemon juice (so 1 lemon)



Meats
1lb braising steak (chuck or round steak is a good replacement)
8oz package of smoked salmon
1.5lbs chicken breasts
pork sausage
22ct medium uncooked shrimp
pepperoni
bacon
pastrami
1lb ground beef


Frozen
16oz bag cauliflower
2 16 oz broccoli
spinach



Dairy
butter
sour cream
3 pkgs cream cheese (use 8oz for cookies)
2 pkgs eggs
heavy cream
8 oz monterey jack cheese
2-8 oz cheddar cheese
mozzarella
cheese for omelette


Great Find!

This. At Target. That is all.


Keto Pizza

We all know the holy grail pizza, but sometimes, I'm just too damn tired
to make it after work. Yeah, I may sit in a chair, but mental tiredness is worse
than physical tiredness.
Anyway, this is a good quick and tasty way to make pizza in like 10 mins.

I'm trying to hide the rest of my kitchen this way....


We use the Flat Out Light Spinach Wraps, which can be found at any grocery store and are oblong and green.... Then I use a medium spoonful of sauce and spread it round, then add LOTS of cheese, and pepperoni (I get deli pepperoni cause it's great with cheese for lunch).
That's it, oh, you bake it till the cheese is melted, cry me a river.

Cheez its.

I love anything salty- I eat cheese at least twice a day, and LOVE pickles, ALL things pickles or pickled.  Cheez-its were my favorite snack, and I bet if left to my own devices, I would've eaten a box in a sitting. Well, when I found the baller recipe for keto cheez-its I was excited, 'cept the microwave thing didn't work out so well for me. So I baked em, and it came out amazing.

I use a ton of cheese I shredded, place parchment paper on a cookie sheet and cover it, bake it until it bubbles, pat down some of the grease, salt em, and use a pizza wheel to cut it into squares.
Yeah, it's awesome.
The lighting is never right on my phone (I know) so I used a filter to get close.


Big Ass Omelette

Not much explanation here, just enjoy it.

The ever popular ingredients picture

In progress.
Eggs (2 per person min.)
Broccoli
spinach
cheese(s) - I was at my parent's otherwise wouldn't have used shredded.
Bacon
Pastrami
Sour Cream(beaten into the eggs, and added on top)
garlic salt
pepper
salt

1. Make it.
2. Cook it.
3. Eat it.

Keto Stuffed Peppers

After finding and identifying my love for meats and cream cheese, I figured out this recipe. It's pretty baller, and easily impresses your less awesome-inclined friends.
The only thing I have to note is the carbs in red pepper, I discovered it's a little high while eating this, so the solution is to use green pepper instead.

Spread cream cheese in the bottom of both the peppers and my jalapenos- for jalapeno poppers.

The meat mixture- round beef, garlic salt, cayenne, cream cheese, red pepper.

Unlike most lazy asses, I shred my own cheese to make sure no flour is anywhere near that!

I filled the peppers with the meat mixture, and the tinfoil is to help prop up a leaning pepper.

I covered the filled peppers, so the meat and insides would steam, and the edges wouldn't burn.

I have biscuit rings, so we tried to keep the egg in....

Jalapeno poppers out of the oven.

Finished product, egg on top makes everything better.

Stuffed jalapenos!
2 green peppers (read my above epiphany)
1 lb ground beef
8oz cream cheese
1/2 block cheddar cheese (or less, its for topping)
2 eggs

1. Cut your peppers near the top- like a lid, and empty the contents.
2. Start coking up your ground beef and once cooked, add in 4 oz of cream cheese
     and any left pieces of pepper from your pepper top.
3. Preheat your oven to 350.
4.  Spread remaining cream cheese inside the peppers.
5. Once cream cheese has melted into your ground beef, pour the mixture into your
    peppers, which are now sitting on a tin foiled and sprayed cookie sheet.
6. Loosely tin foil the top of the peppers, and bake in oven for about 20-30 mins.
7. Start lightly frying eggs when close to taking out the peppers.
8. Remove, add egg on top, put on fancy presentation plate with a bed of lettuce
    and some other thing rich people eat.
8. Serve and watch your friends and ladies swoon at your feet.