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Last weekend I had a few friends over for an early Friendsgiving.  If your not familiar, Friendsgiving is a made up holiday where you gather all of your friends together and eat Thanksgiving like food since you all might be spending actual Thanksgiving with relatives. …

We just got back from Jamaica and so I’ve been on a mission to recreate a good jerk chicken.  To go along with it I’ve been making scratch cole slaw which is surprisingly simple to make. Here is the finished product! Start by discarding the …

So the other day I was stuck eating at a chain Mexican restaurant. Not the most ideal for keto but I’ve gotten pretty good at adapting.  When reading the menu, I came upon Camarones Brochette!  The description was shrimp, stuffed with jalapenos and cheese, and …

In my last post I was trying to recreate hash browns using Rutabagas. Today I will recreate the old standby, mashed potatoes.  Even though the Rutabaga is not quite as low carb as I thought it was, its still a decent vegetable for this process.  …

One of the items often missed by those on the keto diet are potatoes.  This starchy vegetable comes in so many different arrangements: fries, hash browns, tots, baked potatoes, mashed potatoes, etc. I made the standard cauliflower mashed potatoes but for me they were missing …

So I got a new kitchen gadget and I wanted to do something cool with it. That gadget? A potato ricer.  In my head, I thought that this device would squeeze out little bits of cauliflower and I would fry it into rice! Well, it …

Its always good to get some fiber in your diet.  The good thing about keto is that fiber can always be wrapped in juicy bacon! This one is pretty simple, just wash the Asparagus, cut off the end, and wrap with bacon.  I used about …