Tag Archives: Tomato Recipes

Low-Carb Lesson #64: Mustard Butter Flank Steak

Now, while I eat more chicken than anything else, I love steak. In general, I'm too cheap to buy steak at full price, so I keep an eagle eye on the "used meat bin" at the grocery store and always snap up any good steaks that I find there. I've never gotten a bad piece of meat from the "used meat bin," but I do make certain that I either cook the meat immediately or put it into the freezer as soon as I get home.

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Low-Carb Lesson #63: Low Carb Comfort Food Scramble For Two

In the United States eggs are traditionally a breakfast food, but I like eggs just about anytime. And I like eggs just cooked just about any way you can think of: scrambled, deviled, fried, poached, hard-boiled ... any way but raw. Eggs are quick, they're easy, they're cheap, and they always seem like comfort food to me. Eggs for dinner are particularly good when you're crunched for time or for when the food budget for the week is shot.

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Lesson #44: Lamb (Or Veal) Patties Dijon

I like lamb. I like lamb A LOT. But as fate would have it, I am married to a non-lamb-loving man. He doesn't hate it, exactly, but he does nothing more than tolerate it unless I jazz it up with some sauce of some kind. Sauces he likes - the more sauce of any kind, the better. He likes it best when there's so much sauce that he can barely see the meat or fish under it.

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Lesson #22: Low Carb Veal Parmesan Burgers

Once you've been low carbing a while, you find that you get a bit bored with plain meat and vegetables. (Well, maybe not steak!) This is when the smart low carbers turn to their spice racks to jazz up their meals without adding a lot of empty carbohydrates. Tonight's meal will satisfy your bored taste buds with the zip of Italian seasonings.

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