Recipes
We love sharing our favorite recipe development adventures with you! Our approach may be a little different than most bloggers, as we’re constantly tweaking and adjusting our recipes to suit our taste or to make them suitable for a variety of diets. We use this blog to note what we like and don’t like and where we plan to make adjustments in the future. So if you try something and have a suggestion, please let us know!
Fresh Orange Almond Cake (Gluten-free)
It's orange season here in California! And this is one of my new favorite ways to use our orange bounty. I don't have an orange tree, but my sister does, and when son Connor came home from her house with a bag full of these beauties, we started looking for ways to use...
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Spinach and Orzo Salad with Sun-dried Tomato and Kalamata Olives
This recipe is my potluck go-to if I'm charged with bringing a salad or side dish. It's an ideal dish to bring that can sit around for possibly hours and is good at room temperature, and doesn't include lettuces that easily wilt or things like mayo that may go bad if...
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Loaded Granola
Oats are good for you, right? High in fiber, gluten-free, a good source of plant-based protein and all that. So a good homemade granola must be a better breakfast than, say, a piece of toast (which I often resort to). So after a long haul of trying to do the low-carb...
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Twice-Baked Potatoes
Twice-baked potatoes go under the category of Family Favorites and Holiday Recipes since we always have these with Christmas dinner, and usually Easter as well. They are also often requested by son Connor, and our niece Kelsey for bday dinners. But despite the fact...
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Basil & Pine Nut Pesto
I always thought of pesto as a basil, garlic, Parmesan and pine nut thing, but it seems that a “pesto” can be a sauce made of other ingredients as well. Maybe a different herb, maybe even a fruit or another vegetable. Looking into the actual definition of the term...
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Spinach and Cheddar Egg Bake
Eggs, spinach, and cheese! Throw in a bit of sauteed onion. peppers. mushrooms or other veggies, and maybe a little ham or bacon if you like, and it's a great meal. Like a crustless quiche, it's low-carb and can be made perfectly Keto-friendly. It's an easy breakfast...
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Watermelon Pineapple Salsa
Well today was Taco Tuesday! And I had half a seedless watermelon and some leftover pineapple in the fridge that really needed to be used. And it was hot here in Northern California. I mean really hot, like 102 degrees. Even though it was the second official day of...
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Low-Carb Yellow Cake with Chocolate Buttercream Frosting
So recently one evening after dinner, dishes done, just sitting down to chill on the couch for a moment (a rare moment), hubby teases "You didn't happen to make a yellow cake with chocolate frosting, did you?" Hmmm.... now why on earth would I have done that? It it...
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Watermelon Cucumber Salad
I've never been a huge watermelon fan, that is at least, not a fan of chunks of watermelon eaten out of hand, but since I discovered watermelon salads I've realized what I've been missing! Watermelon chunks combined with herbs and another crunchy vegetable like...
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Low-Carb Savory Zucchini Pancakes
When the garden overfloweth with squash come July and August, we look for ways to use the abundance of zucchini and yellow summer squash. This recipe is one of my favorites, especially when following a lower-carb, ketogenic style diet. It’s a...
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Sugar-free Blackberry Peach Jam
Our little peach tree produced some gorgeous and delicious fruit this year, but as we're striving for a lower-carb diet, we're not eating as many as we normally would. However, I was super happy to discover that peaches are actually a lower-carb fruit, so why not...
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Cheesy Chicken & Zucchini Bake
This is total comfort food. A bit rich, but so delicious and creamy, and completely versatile. I started with an old recipe that used Campbell's Cream of Chicken Soup, but I just can't bring myself to use those processed soups anymore. But the idea was sound, so made...
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