I am getting brave and COOKING!!!

[Heidi3]

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aaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwww spreading the love

[jsj0305]

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Heidi, I know, I'm lovin it!!!!!! I'm just soakin it all up!

You guys are so great!

Not2, An intentional dummy recipe, THAT'S messed up!!!
Lady, Yea, I'm 20...but I wanna be able to cook good foods for Joey and DH. Joey can have table foods soon and it'll be so nice to start him off right. That way he'll never have to go through what we went through. Do it right from the beginning!!!I even limit the Gerber dinners, b/c they have extra sugars in them. I like beechnut, they have less additives! LOL. Hey, DH is VERY different from his family, THANK GOD! LOL

[sombersusie]

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i am so lucky my dh likes to cook! He makes the BEST low carb fried chicken and hotwings....mmmmmmm wings drooooollll
Have fun cooking!

[Heidi3]

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i am so lucky my dh likes to cook! He makes the BEST low carb fried chicken and hotwings....mmmmmmm wings drooooollll
Have fun cooking!

would he share his recipes with us?

[sombersusie]

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certainly, i'll have him post them when he gets home

[allierw26]

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Steph, I have so been there....my MIL lived with us for awhile and she was the same way with cooking! What a shame that she has to be that way instead of bonding with you. We are so here to help you if you need us!

[Kent]

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My recipe is rather simple, but it has served well. The real trick with any fried food is to have hot oil and lots of it. Other than that, a simple breading recipe is enough.
Wings are simple.
Buy good wings (not drummettes precut for you as they are typically smaller and less meaty.
I prefer to bread my wings rather than leave them naked. Breading for wings can either be crushed spicy hot pork rinds, grated parmesan cheese, or both. Spice the breading mix up with Paprika and Cayenne Pepper. Dump 'em in the hot oil - 375 degrees. (I prefer corn due to cost, but peanut oil is the best.) The sauce is really the best part.
1/2 cup Franks Hot Sauce
3 TBS Butter
2-3 tsp of good hot sauce (Cholula)
1 tsp of Apple Cider Vinegar
1 or 2 packets of Splenda

Simmer for awhile on low heat, and toss cooked wings (10-12 minutes).


Great fried chicked starts again with good fryer chickens. Tyson is not a producer of good chicken IMHO (I used to work for the company, so I might be a little jaded.) Salt, pepper, and throw a bit of poultry seasoning on the cut chicken pieces. I like to double coat my chicken. You can either use the breading as for the wings or my preference is to use bit higher carb one. Here's that recipe:
2-3 cups Carbsense ZeroCarb Low Carb Baking Mix or Carbquik
2 TBS Regular Salt
2 TBS Black Pepper
1 TBS Paprika
2 tsp Garlic Powder
1 tsp Poultry Seasoning

Egg Wash (approximates)
2 eggs
Heavy Cream
Water

Toss each piece once in breading. Throw piece in Egg bath, and then place in breading again. Allow to rest for 15-30 minutes. Once oil reaches 375 place the chicken inside. Make sure to shake the basket to ensure no cold spots every 5 minutes. Breasts will take about 17 minutes to finish in a quality fryer.

Nothing fancy, but simply very good low carb eats...

[killerbombshell]

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I have been cooking so much now that I'm on Atkins--unfortunately, it's been very hit and miss for me! I can't count the number of recipes that just turned out disasterous (my danish turning out liquid for one thing!) even when I followed the recipe. I think it just takes practice to figure out what you like and what stuff you're going to like when combined.

I made a great zucchini lasagna last night--the trick was using good sauce (pre-made Trader Joe's 3 cheese marinara) and browning 2 different "grades" of hamburger meat generously using dried onions and adobe seasoning salt. Let me know if you'd ever like the recipe, it's so easy and it's a ton of food (two pounds of ground beef better be!), and imho, ricotta cheese is the key to life!

[jsj0305]

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OMG Killer, are are my long lost pal!!! Ricotta is MY key to life!!! LOL I love it soooo much!
I would LOVE the recipe!!! Please!!! It sounds yummy, thanks so much!

Your pic look beautiful too, BTW. It's nice to put a face with a name You are very pretty and look at them collar bones girl!! You look so skinny!

[killerbombshell]

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Awww, thank you!! You are so sweet!!

Ok I haven't done this on fitday so someone will have to help me out. It's about an hour of prep time but this will seriously feed you forever.

1 1/2 bottles of Trader Joes sauce (you can use whatever you like, but like I said, this is my favourite)
2 large-ist sized zucchini
mozarella and parmesan cheese (not the can kind, the shreddied/dried kind) for sprinkling
15 ounces (or about half of a large container) whole milk ricotta cheese
2 eggs
salt, dried onions, whatever you like for the meat
2 pounds of ground beef (one 90 percent lean one 85 or 80)

Start out by browning the ground beef, crumpling it up into little bits (it's easier to do this with your hands instead of once it's in the pan) frying it until it's all brown. Add as much of the onion, seasoning salt, and regular salt as you like; but meat REALLY absorbs all that so be very very very generous to give it flavour. Do it a pound at a time, and then when it's all cooked up pat the excess grease off on several paper towels (it will be very greasy!).

Slice up the zucchini the best you can, relatively flat. It's ok if it's in pieces or halves: if you don't have some sort of a slicer it's a real pain in the @ss and don't worry about it being perfect. Use a large to medium sized cassarole dish and place a layer of zucchini on the bottom of the dish. Sprinkle generously a layer of parmesan cheese (zuchhini releases a ton of water when it cooks, parmesan helps absorb it).

Layer about half the meat on top of it. Mix the different grades together.

Mix up the ricotta cheese with the two eggs (this will give it some structure). Layer the cheese on top of the meat, and then pour on the sauce (depends on how much you like tomatoes and how many carbs you're willing to risk for amount). Again, tomato sauce cooks off so you can be generous if you like it.

Repeat the layering, more zucchini, parmesan, meat, ricotta, sauce. I usually only get two layers out of it, but I don't have a large dish. On the top of the sauce, sprinkle liberally mozarella and parmesan that'll cook to a nice crust.

Cover with aluminum foil, cook for about 45 minutes at 375. The cooking is going to melt the cheese and make the zucchini squishy like noodles so this'll vary.

When it's done, just keep in mind that it's going to be sort of like a meat/cheese/zucchini extravaganza, it won't be until you refrigerate it that it hardens into layers.

And enjoy!!

[Heidi3]

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"Tyson is not a producer of good chicken IMHO (I used to work for the company, so I might be a little jaded.)"

KENT you are not jaded you are right ..I do not buy chicken from these big companies they just don't look right or taste right

[Heidi3]

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Killerbomb ...
even if some recipes are a disaster the fact that you said this

"I have been cooking so much now that I'm on Atkins"

is just so exciting!!!!!!

one happy mama over here that is for sure look at these girls!!!!

[not2late]

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Ricotta recipes? Here's one I adapted from a recipe in the original Dr. Atkins Diet cookbook for gnocchi. The original recipe had you drain the ricotta overnight, then poach the gnocchi in boiling water----way to complicated! I bake the mixture in a square baking dish then slice it into rectangular box-shapes

Ricotta "Macaroni"
1 pound ricotta cheese
2 eggs
1/4 cup grated Parmesan (optional)
1/2 teaspoon garlic or onion powder (optional)
1 teaspoon crushed dried Italian herb mix (optional)

Butter an 8 x 8 square pan. Set aside. Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees F.

In a large bowl, combine all the ingredients together. Mix well. Pour into the baking dish, even out the mixture. Bake for 20-30 minutes or until a knife inserted into the center comes out clean. Remove from oven and cool.

Cut into rectangular pieces. To serve, heat in microwave and serve with tomato sauce on top or toss with butter.

[killerbombshell]

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Oh man, Megs, that sounds sooooo good! I wish I hadn't used up all my ricotta on that lasagna, I really want to try this. I make make a tiny bit with what I have left.

[jsj0305]

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This is so much fun!!!! I LOVE this! LOL I made bunless chili dogs lastnight and they were yummy. I had more fun making them than I did eating them! LOL

I am making Shrimp "Alfredo" tonight, which I am so excited about. Tomorrow night is Your lasagna, Killer!!!

Hmm, they Sunday is Not2's recipe!!

Everything sounds so delicious. Thanks for posting your great recipes here. That's so cool.
I feel like a big, bad cooking MACHINE!!