Friday, February 22, 2008

Raven's Amazing Sausage Mushroom Gravy

I made this gravy to go over Chicken-Fried Steak-- yummmmy!!!!

Ingredients:

2 tablespoons grease and drippings from fried meat (ex.,fried chicken, or Chicken Fried Steak.)

¼ pound ground sausage, made into 4 patties

4 mushrooms, sliced thin

½ cup heavy whipping cream

¼ cup grated (Kraft's in canister) Parmesan Cheese


Method:


Saute sausage patties till brown on one side, add mushrooms.


Finish sautéing till sausage is done, and mushrooms are browning.


Chop sausage into small bits with spatula.


Drain the grease from the pan, lower heat.


Pour in heavy whipping cream slowly, then add Parmesan cheese.


Stir till smooth, thick and brown. Add more cream if sauce is too thick.


Pour over meat. (See above)


Nutritional Information

Sausage- 0 grams
Mushrooms 0.5675 grams
Cream - 1.66
Parmesan Cheese 2.03

TTL Recipe 4.0 (Rounded off. )

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

WHAT TO DO FOR LUNCH???!!!

A common question is what to have for bagged lunches. When you eat a “normal” diet, you get used to the convenience of processed foods, sandwiches, or just going out and getting junk food.

On a low carb diet, that gets to be a bit of a hassle, and it's expensive and unsatisfying. And I like knowing what's in my food, too. So-- over the years, I've come up with some bagged lunch choices that work-- without having to have as fridge or a microwave.

Here are some of those lunches choices...

Scotch Eggs are AWESOME!!! They travel well, and are good cold.

I boil up some eggs-- I like them medium, and cool them and peel them.

Then I completely cover them in Jimmy Dean sausage, and roll them in either pork rinds (crushed), or protein powder (keeps them from sticking). ( So basically, they are eggs encased in sausage balls)

I place them in a baking pan and bake at 350 degrees for about 45 minutes.

Slice in half and eat. Take some to work!

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These are lunches I've had in the last few weeks...

*The above mentioned Scotch Eggs

*turkey/swiss cheese rolls

*small meat balls

*mushrooms stuffed with sausage

*parmesan cheese and pork rinds (crushed)

*Oven fried chicken strips (coated w grated parmesan)

*Catfish nuggets,done same way

*no bread quesadilla (two pieces of turkey ham with cheese, fried up the way you'd do a quesadilla,sliced into quarters...


*Celery stuffed with Gorgonzola cheese or blue cheese

*Cream Cheese and Lox spread with pork rinds

*Bacon-wrapped shrimp and or Catfish

*No sugar,nitrate free chicken sausages,cut in quarters

*Country style Pork Ribs cut in Bite size pieces

*Homemade Quiche

*Egg/cheese/ sausage mini quiche-muffins

*Shiritaki Noodle stir-fry using Leftovers...

* Just plain old Leftovers!!! !

If I'm caught without a lunch to take to work-- I generally go to QFC (my nearest grocer) and get 1/2 pound "Boars Head Oven Roast Turkey Breast"(0 carbs, all natural) sliced medium, and 1/2 pound of some sort of aged, hard cheese, sliced. I make roll ups from these, dipping them in deli mustard.

My lunches are designed to be eaten with minimal mess (finger food, mostly) and without needing either microwave or fridge.

I also like to keep "Liptons Green Tea to Go" packs to add to bottled water.
I try not to go over 2 per day.

Happy Eating!