Football game munchies

[Naja]

So the boyfriend was planning on watching the game with the roomies and all their buddies, who would of course be chowing down mercilessly on high carb foods right in front of him as they've been doing all week.

I had some time to spare, so I put together a selection of munchies that mitigated temptation considerably. There was rumaki with duck livers, bacon and slices of jicama to replace the higher carb water chestnuts. I made fried cheese "nachos", pepper dusted pork rinds and parmesan-flaxseed crackers with chili pepper seasoning to dip into a fresh salsa of cucumber, avocado, red peppers, crushed garlic and just a bit of tomato. There were slices of horseradish cheddar cheese on garlicky flaxseed "toasts", a whole roast duck with cinnamon-Splenda glaze, and a head of broccoli roasted in olive oil. For dessert I made a Mock Cinnamon Danish frosted with cream cheese.

I'm not thinking that any temptation to eat his buddies' breaded hot wings and French Fries is going to ensue, not with this spread going.

[killerbombshell]

Re: Football game munchies

Naja--you sound like you are an incredibly talented and ambitious chef!

Would you care to share the recipe for any of those flax crackers? I'm always looking to expand my flax repetoire!

[Heidi3]

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I thought waterchestnuts were very low in carbs?

well we had a huge dinner and everyone just got plates and helped themselves...I roasted capon salad and made marinara and regular pasta for everyone and tried my best to think that spaghetti squash was pasta and could not get past the fact it tasted just like squash but it was ok ....after we had fruit

my probelm was all the beer I was not very good at avoiding that during a game that the SEAHAWKS KICKED ASSSSS TO GO TO THE SUPERBOWL WOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !!!!!!!!

[Heidi3]

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PS pass the water I am going to be a good girl today ...however next weekend the bad returns

[Richt]

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I take it Seattle won then?

[Heidi3]

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I take it Seattle won then?

ROTFLMAO!!!!!! um yes

[Naja]

Re: Football game munchies

Water chestnuts are a bit higher in carbs than jicama, and I prefer not to use the canned kind anyhow as I've been thoroughly spoiled by tasting the fresh ones that you have to skin yourself. Jicama is what I had available and it worked wonderfully.

I use a combination of "flours" to get the best results in any low carb "baked" good. In this case I used pork rind "flour", flax meal and a bit of WPI along with shredded Parmesan and cheddar cheese to get a crackerbread texture. Ingredients were combined with water, rolled out fairly flat on buttered foil, and baked slowly. In the second run, I added beaten eggs and baking powder and made the dough a bit thicker.

In order to get a finer texture to pork rind flour, I add a few spoonfuls at a time of something like Atkins bake mix or WPI to the food processor. Same with nut flours. If you don't do that and you attempt a fine grind, you often get a solid ball of grease or nut butter. A minor addition of a dry ingredient (and it can be about any powder that will absorb some of the grease) will help a lot if the goal is a finely textured flour.

I'm sorry I don't have set recipes to share here; I always eyeball my proportions and tweak them as I go, cooking a bit here and a bit there and tasting the changes to see if they add something to the dish. If something works really, really well, then I do develop an actual recipe and measure what I'm putting into the batch that consistently works.