A quick and simple meal! Four Costco sausage patties, butter lettuce and red pepper with a bit of Primal Foods Ranch Dressing.
A nice Romaine lettuce salad with salami, orange pepper, red onions, olives and salsa mayo. A simple salad can be really good! The secret is to balance the mild lettuce with more “intense” flavours. In this case I added salami, olives, red onions and salsa (in the mayo).
Another bowl of “Chicken Soup for the Low-carb Soul.” I was going to make this batch with kimchee, but decided that I didn’t want to subject my friend to that much garlic the following morning! So I added napa cabbage, hot sauce and fish sauce instead. Awesomely delicious!
Spoon stands up in homemade stock! I had started to package the stock, then decided to try the spoon experiment! This is beef bone stock made in the Instant Pot with four beef feet from the Asian supermarket, a little vinegar (to pull out the minerals) and enough water to cover the bones. I…
I was going to make chicken soup again, but I had some chicken hearts that needed cooking, so I did that (dry fried with salt and garlic salt). Also heated up some braised red cabbage that was in the fridge. Finally, I decided to toast two slices of the low-carb bread that was still in…
Brunch with friends at White Spot, a family restaurant that’s been iconic in Vancouver since 1928. I had a Nat’s Hearty Breakfast, named after Nat Bailey, the original owner: two poached eggs, three sausages, grilled tomatoes. Normally it comes with “smashed” potatoes and a choice of toast, pancakes or waffle, but I asked for tomatoes…
Romaine lettuce, butter lettuce, deli meat, bacon, jalapeno pepper, red pepper, red onion, salsa mayo.
Made “Chicken Soup for the Low-carb Soul” today! Homemade chicken broth, canned chicken, onions, jalapeno pepper, Brussels sprouts, hot sauce, salt and pepper.
Had to use up some veggies lurking in fridge, so a big veggie-heavy meal on this day! Four Costco sausage patties, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower mash, broccoli, braised red cabbage, butter.
Eleven golden cups of delicious, gelatinous chicken stock made from the carcass of one roasted chicken and two packages of raw chicken feet. The colour is washed out in the photo; it’s deep gold, almost orange, in real life.