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!
Low-Carb Persimmon Muffins
We have an over-achieving Fuyu persimmon tree that gives us loads of fruit every year. No matter how much we prune it back, or don’t prune it, it gives us amazing fruit, each and every year. So, I’m always looking for ways to use the persimmons. We have always enjoyed...
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Low-Carb Persimmon Pancakes
Being absolutely inundated with Fuyu persimmons this year from our over-achieving tree, I've been experimenting with adding them to a variety of recipes. Now that January, and the frosty nights are with us, the persimmons still hanging on the tree are starting to...
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Easy Stuffed COTF Chicken Breasts
Necessity truly is the Mother of invention, especially in the kitchen! For me, that means finding a way to use ingredients, leftovers, and other items before they need to be tossed. The other night my son Connor came home with the remnants of a meal at one of our...
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Sugar-free Chocolate Cloud Cakes
When we get a craving for a chocolate cake, this recipe fits the bill. Based on a souffle recipe, we found it didn’t really rise up to souffle status, but was still deliciously light and fluffy, and satisfied that craving for a chocolate dessert. [tasty-recipe...
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Ketofied Bagels
Since hubby started on a "Keto" style diet, I've tried to avoid buying or baking much bread, and have tried to follow a "lower-carb" diet as well. But we love bread, especially chewy, dense bagels. I was pleasantly surprised to discover several recipes for low-carb...
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Butternut Chipotle Soup
When cooler weather comes to NorCal, I immediately turn to warming soups to keep the chill at bay. I love soup. All kinds of soup. But I've become especially partial to winter squash soups. Butternut squash and pumpkin in particular make amazing, hearty, satisfying...
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Low-Carb Pumpkin Cream Cheese Cookies
Ah, ’tis the season for pumpkin spice everything, which set me off on a mission to discover and/or develop some tasty and healthful (i.e. low-carb) pumpkin treats. I loved making pumpkin thumbprint cookies, but was searching for lower-carb treats, I was so excited to...
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Low-carb Pumpkin Custards
Pumpkin custard is simply pumpkin pie without the crust. And I find that my family typically leaves most of the crust in a pumpkin pie anyway, so who really needs it? Without the crust and sugar, and using heavy cream instead of evaporated milk, you can make it super...
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Ketofied Cheesecake for a Crowd
My hubby Jose loves cheesecake. It’s always been one of his favorite desserts, so I’ve collected quite a few good recipes and become pretty adept at cheesecake making. But recently he decided to try the Keto thing, so no sugar, no grains; low-carb is it. Fortunately,...
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