Our Little Onion Experiment

Remember this little onion we started sprouting on my kitchen cabinet? 

After two weeks, this little sprout is now ready for planting. 

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Crustless Quiche

This recipe is low-carb, vegetarian, keto, and delicious. The basic recipe can be spiced up with all kinds of things once you’ve got it down.

Ingredients:


3 eggs

1 cup milk

1 cup mayonnaise
2 cups shredded cheddar cheese

1/2 cup chopped spinach, broccoli, kale
, or peas
1/2 tsp garlic powder



Bake at 375 for 45 minutes. Remove from oven, turn oven off, sprinkle remaining 1 cup of cheese on top, put back in warm oven to melt. Cool 30 minutes before serving.

If making a dessert quiche, leave out the vegetables and garlic powder. Add 1/4 cup stevia and 1/2 tsp cinnamon. After baking, remove from oven and cool. Cut and plate. Top each piece with Walden Farms Zero Carb Strawberry Spread or syrup. Makes a great topping.

To make it a little spicy, add chipotle mayonnaise instead of plain.


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Can you eat beans on a low carb diet?

There are a number of reasons why you might want to eat beans. They are a cheap source of protein, are fairly high in fiber, and have varied and delicious flavors. There are also some good reasons not to eat them. They are quite high in lectins, a substance which causes a lot of inflammation in the body, and are the reason why beans cause so many digestive upsets. Also because of the perception that they are high in carbohydrates.




Which of these beans, if any, can be eaten on a low carbohydrate diet?

In order lowest to highest net carbs per half cup, this is how they rank:

Mung brand - 0.34 grams
Green beans - 0.12 grams
Yellow snap beans - 0.6 grams
Black beans -  3.27 grams
Red kidney beans - 3.56 grams
Fava beans - 6.48 grams
Lima beans - 7.5 grams
Pinto beans - 7.3 grams
Calico or red beans - 9.1 grams
Navy beans - 13.39 grams
Great Northern beans - 14.75 grams
White beans - 16.14 grams
Garbanzo beans (chickpeas) - 16.54 grams

It would appear that Navy beans, Great Northerns, White beans and Garbanzo beans have as many carbs as one slice of bread. So if you don’t bread on your diet, you should probably avoid those four varieties as well. It looks like Green beans, Black beans, and red kidney beans might have acceptable levels for a low carb diet, as long as they are kept to 1/2 cup or less. The beans in the middle of the list might be acceptable if kept to a quarter cup or less, perhaps just enough to toss them into a salad.

But definitely, I would not try to eat these as a protein substitute because the small amounts allowed on a low carb diet would provide insufficient daily protein.

If you are trying to reduce the amount of inflammatory foods you are eating, beans should probably be avoided altogether.

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Easy Hearty Weeknight Dinner - Crockpot Chicken Corn Chowder

For an easy, hearty weeknight dinner, you can’t go wrong 

with Chicken Corn Chowder. 

Recipe:

3 boneless skinless chicken breasts

2 cups water

2 cans whole kernel corn, drained

3 green onions

1 8 oz block cream cheese

3/4 of a cup uncooked elbow macaroni

1 tsp salt

1/2 tsp ground black pepper

1 tsp tumeric

Place whole chicken breasts and water in crock pot. Cover and cook on high three hours. Remove chicken to a plate and shred chicken. Remove about 1 cup of water from crock pot. Return chicken to pot. Chop green peppers and add. Cut cream cheese into small cubes and add. Drain whole kernel corn and add. Stir in seasonings. Add elbow macaroni and stir in, making sure all macaroni is submerged. Cover and cook for one hour. 

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Growing Onions on Your Kitchen Cabinet

You will never need to buy onions again if you grow them in your own kitchen. 

Start with what’s left of a green onion after you snipped off the tops to cook with. Insert some toothpicks. 





Add a little water to a shallow cup or dish.

Place the onion in the dish, making sure the bottom is submerged in the water. Now we will wait to see how many days it will take to sprout and grow. Check back soon to see what happens. 

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Why Use All Organic Herbs and Spices?

Why should we use all certified organic herbs and spices in our cooking? There are a number of different reasons, ranging from health concerns and political concerns to flavor concerns.

First, the health concerns. The major reason is, we don’t want poisonous pesticides in our foods because these chemicals are known carcinogens. But this is not the only reason. During the manufacturing process, most herbs and spices are irradiated to kill any possible bacteria. The irradiation process, however, also leaves behind by-products which can be carcinogenic. Sometimes a toxic chemical called ethylene oxide is used which has been shown to cause central nervous system problems and cancer in workers exposed to it on a regular basis. Certified organic herbs and spices aren’t subjected to these dangers processes.

The cheapest and safest way to procure these herbs and spices is to grow them yourself. Most herbs can easily be grown on your kitchen counter or window sill. Later we will share our our herb growing journey. The one spice we can’t really grow ourselves is cinnamon.

My recommendation if you aren’t going to grow them yourselves is to buy Simply Organic brand. Cinnamon needs to be Ceylon Cinnamon rather than Cassia Cinnamon. Most Cassia Cinnamon is grown in China whereas most Ceylon is grown in Sri Lanka. Simply Organic sells an actual Ceylon Cinnamon. 

Chinese products tend to be less safe to consume because their products are often adulterated with unsafe additives. And you may be one of those individuals that tries to avoid Chinese products altogether for political reasons.

Ceylon Cinnamon is preferable to Cassia Cinnamon because Cassia Cinnamon contains high levels of naturally occurring Coumadin, which is a blood thinner. If you need to take blood thinners, then perhaps that’s something for you to look into. But the average person does not need blood thinners. Cassia contains about 1200 times the Coumadin that Ceylon contains. 

The flavor of Ceylon is also sweeter and more delicate than Cassia.

I hope you will consider using certified organic herbs and spices in all your cooking.

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