A New LC Recipe

Pistachio Crusted Wild Salmon

Hello my fellow foodies, friends and low carbers. I thought some of you might enjoy this new LC recipe I just posted on Healthy Fellow. It adds an unexpected twist to your typical fillet o' salmon meal. As always, good nutrition is at the forefront as well. I truly hope you enjoy it if you give it a try.

Here's a link to the cooking directions, nutritional content and recipe: Click Me, Por Favor

24 Hours of LCing

It's been a long time since I've posted a full day's menu. So I thought I'd post one in case it's of interest and/or value to anyone out there. As a frame of reference, my weight is remaining stable - at about the 185 lbs mark. My original goal weight represents an 80 - 85 lbs total weight loss from my highest weight.

Friday, August 6th 2010

Breakfast: 1 cup of organic cottage cheese, 1 Tbs of Nature's Hollow (Sugar-Free) Strawberry Fruit Preserves and 1/3 cup of organic, raw walnuts

Lunch: Braised Brussels sprouts, naturally cured prosciutto & salami and a few spoonfuls of organic sour cream - I like to put a small dollop of sour cream on thinly sliced cured meat and eat it like a roll up.

Dinner: Roasted artichoke hearts with a creamy herb dip, a rib eye steak, sauteed Parmesan spinach and a glass of red wine (Syrah). Also, a bite of Mad's crab cake - with little to no bread crumbs.

Late Night Snack: 1 cup of Greek yogurt, 1 Tbs of NH Apricot Fruit Preserves and 1/3 cup of organic, raw walnuts

I also had several cups of organic coffee throughout the day. Some of it was "black" and some of it included some added organic cinnamon powder and unsweetened, vanilla almond milk (Blue Diamond).

I hope y'all have a wonderful weekend. Ours started out well by seeing "Inception" in IMAX and going out for an LC dinner last night. Good times. :-)

PS - I just documented our recent trip to Martha's Vineyard here: LC Trippin'. I discussed a few strategies we used to stick with our preferred diet plan and examples of what we ate for breakfast, lunch and dinner while away.

Avocado Frozen Yogurt Heads Up

"Custardy" & "Lemony" LC Avocado Frozen Yogurt

A new (and admittedly strange sounding) new low carb recipe: Avocado Frozen Yogurt. That said, we think it tastes great. The nutrition rocks as well. I'll post the details on the Tuesday edition of Healthy Fellow and will provide a link here. Until then ... an image will have to do. :-)

Link to Recipe: Low Carb Avocado Frozen Yogurt

Martha's Vineyard 2010

We just wanted to share a few photos from our recent work trip to Martha's Vineyard. It was a very busy time. But it was sprinkled with quite a lot of beauty and joy along the way. We'll remember it fondly, I suspect.

PS - I almost forgot the most important part ... we both lost a few pounds on the trip! We ate plenty of LC-friendly food (homemade and at restaurants) and enjoyed it immensely. Lots of fresh veggies, great seafood, the occasional glass of organic red wine and a fair share of running around ... literally.

Heads Up - Ceviche Recipe to Come

Healthy Fellow Summer Ceviche

Ladies and Gents,

We just made a delicious, LC-compatible ceviche recipe last night. I'll post the details tomorrow after I put up the full column on Healthy Fellow. Just wanted to get the word out about it. Mad isn't a ceviche fan in the least. But she loved this version. I did too. I hope you will as well if you try it out.

I hope you're all doing well and enjoying your summer so far. We're staying very busy but are otherwise well. Fingers crossed but things may slow down a bit starting next week. That would be a welcome change.

Update: Here's a link to my Summer Ceviche recipe.

Quick Breakfast Post

My current favorite breakfast: organic cottage cheese + all-natural (sugar-free) fruit preserves * and raw, organic walnut halves. Couldn't be easier to throw together. Super nutritious and relatively low-carb. Love the taste and texture. The walnuts give it a granola-type crunch without the empty calories.

* We use the Nature's Hollow brand of xylitol-sweetened fruit preserves. All the flavors rock, IMO.

Lemon Blueberry Muffins

I whipped up a new recipe on Saturday. I was inspired to do so after walking down the isles of a local health food store and market earlier in the week. That got me thinking about what I used to eat and that lead me down the "create a better monster" culinary route. And since Mad's out of town at the moment, I had some extra time to go crazy in the kitchen.

Correction: Come to think of it, the true genesis of this recipe probably had more to do with a blog I read recently by a fellow low-carber, October. She mentioned feeling bored with some of her everyday food selections. That + my fond memories of eating blueberry muffins in my younger years = this new recipe.

The actual recipe and directions will be posted tomorrow on the Healthy Fellow site. Did the muffins turn out well? Let me put it this way ... they're all gone. It took all of three days to polish off 10 muffins. No guilt though. The nutritional profile is pretty solid. Plus, I was on a bachelors diet - I ate whatever was left in the house.

Edit: Here's a direct link to the recipe: Low Carb Lemon Blueberry Muffins

I'm going to keep this post short because I'm not certain if anyone's actually reading this. And typing to oneself can't possibly be a very healthy endeavor. After all, it's not quite like keeping a diary.

One last thing though. Starting next Wednesday, I'll post a series of questions and answers featuring Dr. Richard Feinman of the Nutrition and Metabolism Society. He's such a fantastic advocate and resource for anyone interested in low carbohydrate nutrition. I highly recommend following the NMS Twitter feed.