Steak Me Home Tonight: Pan Fried Garlic Butter Steak

We eat a lot of steak, it is one of our favourite dishes to make. Pretty much all of our favourite veg
options go perfectly and a good steak does not need much for seasoning.

One of the big problems we have in our tiny apartment is that we do not have room for a grill or barbecue, our favourite ways to cook steak. We have to pan fry all of our steaks.

This pan-fried garlic butter steak is incredibly quick and easy to make, we have it at least once a week. Sometimes we add a little ghost pepper salt just to spice things up.

The side dish I have pictured with the steak is prosciutto wrapped asparagus, a super easy side. It is perfect for someone who is trying to get into eating more vegetables. 

Ingredients:
-1 steak of your choice
-1 tbsp garlic butter
-season to taste with salt and pepper



Procedure:
1. Heat garlic butter on medium until it has melted and the pan is throughly hot.
2. Season each side to taste and fry on each side for 3 minutes this should give you a medium-rare steak (times may vary depending on stove and how you like steak cooked).
3. Let the steak rest for five minutes and then enjoy!

Nutritional Information:
To Come

My First Bacon Weave

I am so excited!

I made my first bacon weave yesterday for a recipe I was testing out. My recipe is still in the works, I have been in a breakfast coma all weekend after this recipe, it was amazing.

Bacon weaves are definitely a treat, very high in calories but full of taste. This bacon weave uses 5 slices of thick bacon and 5 slices of maple bacon. We love maple bacon but the only brand our new grocer sells is pretty thin and falls apart. I wanted full on maple flavour, so I used half our crappy (but very tasty) maple bacon and half thick cut bacon.

It worked like a charm. I wish I would have taken a photo of the finished product before I continued on with the recipe... next time!

Ingredients:
10 slices of bacon

Procedure:
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
2. I placed the five slices of maple bacon on the pan horizontally and then weaved in the thick bacon horizontally (over one and then under one).
3. Cook in oven for around 28 minutes.
4. Towel off grease.

Low Carb Ice Cream-Style Floats

I love ice cream floats.

With the Crush rainbow pack of 'diet' pop you can easily make four different types of floats that taste just like ice cream floats without the carbs. This is one of the easiest treats out there to make! With the rainbow pack you can make cream soda, grape, orange or root beer floats.  You can use any diet pop when you make these faux floats.

Ingredients:
1 can of your favourite flavour of diet pop (soda)
1 teaspoon of vanilla
1 teaspoon of coffee cream

Procedure:
1. Empty one or bottle of your favourite pop (soda) into a cup that has about an inch-and-a-half of free space.
2. Pour one teaspoon of vanilla into the pop.
3. Mix in the coffee cream.
4. Enjoy!

Nutritional Information:
Calories: 29
Fat: 1.9g
Carbs: 1.1g
Sugar: 1.0g
Protein: 0.1g

Dark Chocolate Walnut Cookies

I love these cookies. They are very filling and relatively easy to make. I have experimented with how to deal with the dark chocolate, I tend to like to have the big chunks on top of the cookies to melt over the cookie. Even eating the cookie dough is amazing! 

I will take better pictures the next time I make the cookies, hopefully soon! 

Ingredients:
3 cups of almond flour
1/2 cup of chopped walnuts
1/2 cup of melted unsalted butter
1/2 cup of powdered sweetener (I use splenda or stevia)
1 teaspoon of baking powder
1 teaspoon of Cocoa powder
1/4 teaspoon of salt
2 eggs
1 tablespoon of unsweetened almond milk
4 teaspoons of vanilla
1 90% Cocoa Lindt chocolate bar (you will use most of it)

Procedure:
1. Preheat oven to 350F.
2. Combine salt and powdered sweetener.
3. Whisk eggs and vanilla into the melted butter.
4. Stir in salt and sweetener mixture to the butter mixture.
5. Mix the rest of the dry ingredients together and then add to dry mixture.
6. Chop up the walnuts and dark chocolate bar (I save a few of the squares so that I don't use the entire bar, it is a little much). As you can see I am a little lazy about chopping...
7. Grease the pan with coconut oil.
8. Shape dough into 12 equal sized balls.
9. Bake for 12 minutes (if you have a small oven it may be less).

Nutritional Info (rough numbers on per cookie):
Calories: 296
Total Fat: 27.9g
Carbs: 7.8g
Fiber: 3.8g
Sugars: 1.8g
Protein: 8.3g

Carbquik Waffles

I really miss super carby breakfasts with crepes, pancakes and waffles. After moving and going through a big transition period where it has been easiest to stick to bacon and eggs we finally got out shit together this morning and made waffles for the first time in months. Boy, were they ever good. 

I don't normally like to post about products that you have to purchase that are hard to find but this morning I am just so happy to have had a special breakfast treat that I have to post about it. Carbquik is expensive, but so worth it to have to make things (easily) that you miss while cutting carbs, like waffles. 

Yum.



The best thing about having a box of Carbquick around the house is how easy it is to make all of the Carbquik recipes. I use the waffle recipe on the back of the box and then add a little bit more vanilla and sugar-free caramel syrup (if I have it). Sometimes we add a scoop of protein powder to the mix too!

Dark Chocolate Walnut Cookies are in the Oven

Really excited to have a few I these bad boys in my belly in about 10 minutes time! 

The batter was surprisingly delicious, usually I am not a fan of almond flour batters, but this one is really good.

Almond Flour Chicken Strips

We make these bad boys all the time, they are so easy and quick to make. Perfect for after work or a quick lunch. We usually cut up chicken breasts into strips but you can also use pre-cut chicken from your grocer too (this tends to be more expensive). We like them to be a little spicy, so we add a teaspoon of chili powder to the mix, if you are making this for children you may want to nix that part of the recipe. 

When we started making these chicken strips we would give them an egg bath, but we have actually found that it doesn't help breading them and that it is just as easy to dip them in almond flour. 

Ingredients: 

2 Chicken Breasts 

2/3 Cup of Almond Flour

1 Teaspoon of Chili Powder (optional)

Salt & Pepper to Taste

Procedure:

1. Cut chicken into strips or bites, whatever size you would like. 

2. Heat coconut oil in a pan on medium heat.

3. Mix almond flour and seasoning in a medium bowl. 

4. Press both sides of each chicken strip in the dry mixture. 

5. Fry in coconut oil until full cooked inside and golden on the outside. 

These are great with pretty much any dipping sauce! 

Nutritional Information (per serving, makes two servings):

Calories: 355

Fat: 21.7g

Carbs: 8g

Fibre: 4g 

Sugar: 1.3g

Protein: 34.7g  

Dark Chocolate Almond Butter Personal Pies

This is still a work in progress... Thanksgiving Day I was jones-ing for pies and this was my best option at the time with the amount of ingredients I had around the house. I will be the first to admit these pies are a work and progress, not exactly a traditional replacement for pies. But, I will continue to make them tastier... I would love a low carb fruit personal pie (it is my current project).

Add some sugar free whipped cream and these pies should hit the spot in a pie craving. 

This recipe should make four personal pies. 

I found my Wilton personal pie presses at the dollar store, I am betting you can also find them at Bed Bath and Beyond. 

Crusts

1 1/4 cups almond flour

1/2 cup butter, chilled and diced

1/4 cup ice water

1/4 teaspoon salt

1 egg (for egg wash)

1. Combine almond flour and salt. Cut in butter until mixture, large chunks that look should form. Stir in water, a tablespoon at a time, until mixture forms a ball. Wrap in plastic and refrigerate for 4 hours or overnight.
2. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. I used a non-stick pan greased with coconut oil to bake these pies. 
3. Spread pie crust over press, or into pan. I used Wilton 'Mini Pie Presses' to make my personal pies. 
4. Fill the inside of the personal pie with 2 tablespoons of filling.
5. Brush dough edges with egg wash.
6. Bake or fry your personal pies. I baked mine for 15 minutes. 

Filling

1/2 90% dark chocolate bar

2 tablespoons of unsweetened almond butter

1/2 cup of heavy cream

1/2 cup of sweetener (this time I used boxed Twin)

1/2 teaspoon of salt

     1. Chop up chocolate in a medium bowl.

     2. In a sauce pan combine almond butter, cream, sweetener and salt.

     3. Stir until smooth, and the sweetener and salt have dissolved. 

     4. Stir this mixture into chopped up chocolate.

     5. Let sit for 10 minutes.

     6. Refrigerate until ready to use in the pies. 

Nutritional Information:

To Come... 

Low Carb Saganaki

Fried Cheese? Sign me up. 

At first we thought we couldn't make this treat but quickly started to think outside the gluten box and got almond flour involved.

This one is really simple. We have only made it once, I think it will be a common appetizer for our meals from now on. 

We used Krinos frying cheese to make this saganaki. We changed up the traditional recipe a little bit, no flames were involved. The next time we make it we will try using olive oil and let you know how that goes.

Ingredients

-One 110g block of sheep's milk grilling cheese

-1/2 cup of almond meal/flour 

-1/4 cup of butter for frying

-1 tsp. of chili pepper

-1 xl egg

-a dash of salt & pepper

Procedure

1. Add all of your dry ingredients in a bowl.

2. Crack an XL egg and whip it in a small bowl.

3. Dip the block of cheese in the egg.

4. Heat butter on high in pan.

5. Coat your dipped block of cheese in flour and seasoning mixture.

6. Fry until golden brown on both sides. 

Nutritional Information per Serving (makes 4 servings):
Calories: 202.5
Fat: 16.75g
Carbs: 4.1g
Fibre: 1.5g
Sugar: 0.6g
Protein: 12.57g

Lettuce Wrapped Tacos

This is a super easy taco fix, perfect when you need to pig out and eat six tacos and not feel too guilty for cheating. Not much to tell on this one, not an original post (most people can figure this one out on their own).

Ingredients:
-1lb ground beef
-1 Head of Boston lettuce
-Shredded Cheese (I use tex mex)
-Sour Cream (optional)
-Salsa (optional)
-Seasonings for meat (to taste):
   -chili peppers
   -salt
   -pepper
   -cheyenne peppers
-Hot Sauce
-Toppings to taste

Procedure:
-Fry up the beef and then season to taste in the pan with seasonings and hot sauce.
-Remove from heat and let cool for 5 minutes.
-Grate cheese.
-Separate lettuce leaves on a plate.
-Add meat and your favourite toppings and sauces to the lettuce.

You can switch up the meat you use to, we have also made tacos with pulled pork (pictured below).
If you need a pulled pork recipe click here.