LCHF Burger

LCHF Burger

LCHF Burger
All beef patty
Green leaf lettuce
Tomatoes
Pickles
Mayonaise - ALOT
Ketchup -  a couple of drops for flavor (ketchup has a lot of carbs even the less sugar and salt ones)
Mustard - a couple of drops for flavor (Swedish mustard tends to be on the sweeter side)

You can use the lettuce leaves to wrap up the burger to hold it, or use a fork and knife to eat it. 


We were lazy and super hungry yesterday so we bought frozen beef burger patties.  I was glad I looked at the carb info since the ones we usually buy had 6g of carbs per 90g patty.  I found a Tulip brand American Size all beef 110g patty with 0g carbs in it.  So we went with that one, and it was really good. 

LCHF Breakfast Bread by Lifezone

There's no point in taking a picture of the one I made since I took mine out the bowl too early and it broke in half.  This is the original recipe here LCHF Breakfast Bread by Lifezone, please view the page.  I didn't have coconut flour at home, but have a lot of shredded coconut, so I put some in the food processor and mixed away.  This little easy bread tastes pretty good, even my man who isn't doing LCHF liked it. 

2 breads / 1 portion

1 large egg
3 Tbsp almond flour (or coconut flour)
pinch of salt
25 g melted butter.

Whisk egg, salt and flour in a bowl using a fork. Melt butter and add to the mixture. Divide into two smaller bowls (like a cereal bowl) and microwave for 2 minutes. Remove from bowl and allow to cool a bit.

Snacks for LCHF

The options for snacking while on LCHF are very slim.  It's easy to avoid the temptation of snacking when you're alone, but when you have guests over or your dearest is snacking next to you it becomes tempting. 

Luckly there are some things you can snack on and feel pretty guilt free while on LCHF.  For example :

Beef Jerky or any type of jerky - make sure it's low in sugar, or you can make your own.
Pork Rind/flæskesvær - It's the only time in my life I can eat them without any guilt.  Thank god for the Danes and their flæskesvær it's heaven sent.
Cheese slices/pieces - with butter or cream cheese on it.  The higher the fat content the better.
Celerey - with butter or cream cheese.
Boiled Eggs - with butter or cream cheese or mayonaise.
Ham slices - with butter or cream cheese
1 piece Chocolate - 70% or higher.  I eat 86% dark chocolate since it is really low in carbs compared to 70%.
Brazil nuts - has only 3.8g of carbs per 100g.
Coconut butter mixed with Cocoa powder, cinnamon and heavy cream. 
Parmesan cheese chips - or any cheese chips  http://lowcarbdiets.about.com/od/snacks/r/cheesecrisps.htm
Heavy whipped cream - with cocoa poweder, vanilla powder, or with a little raspberries.
Meat chips - in Sweden there are moose and deer meat chips, in Germany there is pork chips.  Or take some ham slices and bake them in the oven.
Ölkorv/Salami - type meats sausages, make sure to check the carb amount.
Bacon strips - with cream cheese spread on top (one of my personal favorites).
High fat yoghurt - with shredded coconut or cinnamon.

Japanese green tea and cream

Tonight we're drinking Japanese green tea (Ocha) , the real kind from Japan.  I haven't drank any green tea since I started LCHF, since I usually drink it with a  sweet or salty snack of some sort.  The snacks are usually something carb based, and well that's history now.

I don't munch with LCHF or get to really have desserts, I tend to drink coffee with heavy cream with vanilla and cinnamon.  For me it's sort of like a lil treat and it helps with the whole not snacking thing while my guy is munching away on chips, chocolates and candies. 

Instead of drinking the green tea plain like I usually do, I thought of the japanese sweet green tea au lait thing I tried before.  So I poured me a nice cup of green tea then topped it off with some heavy cream.  It tastes really similar to Matcha ice cream minus the sugar.  I love Matcha ice cream!  I think this Japanese green tea and cream will be my new favorite drink. (^.^)

LCHF Müesli

 Freshly baked müesli

LCHF Müesli
Metric
1 dl flax seeds
1 dl psyllium seeds
1.5 dl coconut flakes/shredded coconut
.5 dl almond flakes
.5 dl dehulled sunflower seeds
.25 dl crushed walnuts

1 dl water
1/2 teaspoon vanilla powder
1 tablespoon cinnamon
1 dash cardamom
50g butter (melted)

US measurement
1/2 cup flax seeds
1/2 cup psyllium seeds
3/4 cup coconut flakes/shredded coconut
1/4 cup almond flakes
1/4 cup dehulled sunflower seeds
1/8 cup crushed walnuts

1/2 cup water
1/2 teaspoon vanilla powder
1 tablespoon cinnamon
1 dash cardamom
1/4 cup butter (melted)

Preheat oven to 200°C (400°F).
Throw ingredients together in a large bowl and allow it to sit for ten minutes.
Place mixture on a cookie sheet/ oven pan/ etc.
Place in oven for 10 minutes.
Then mix the müesli and allow to cook for another 5-10 minutes until the surface is light golden brown and shiny.
Allow the müesli to cool down.
Store it in a tupperware or glass container.
Enjoy the müesli with some high fat yoghurt or crème fraîche.


I became pretty bored of eating eggs for breakfast every morning.  You can only do so many different versions of omelettes, fried eggs, and scrambled eggs.  Having a nice crunchy textured breakfast is a nice change.  The major plus of baking the müesli in the oven is that the smell fills up the whole house for hours, it reminds me of kanelbullar (Swedish cinnamon rolls).  In order to keep the müesli as low carb as possible I used mainly flax seeds and psyllium seeds which are both 0g carbs, and coconut flakes which is 3.4g carbs per 100g.  The almond flakes, walnuts and sunflower seeds aren't low carb, so I used a little just for flavor. 

My LCHF Gyoza Meatballs

My LCHF Gyoza Meatballs

My LCHF Gyoza Meatballs

Metric

800g minced meat 50% beef/ 50% pork

2 eggs

1/2 medium onion

6 garlic cloves

4-7 cabbage leaves

1 dl soy sauce

pepper to taste

around 3-4 shakes of ground ginger

US measurement

1.76 lbs minced meat 50% beef/ 50% pork

2 eggs

1/2 medium onion

6 garlic cloves

4-7 cabbage leaves

.42 cup soy sauce

pepper to taste

around 3-4 shakes of ground ginger

Add onion, garlic, and cabbage leaves into a food processor and process until ingredients are fine texture. 

Place meat into a large bowl, then add cabbage mixture, eggs, soy sauce, pepper and ginger to the bowl. 

Mix ingredients well with hands.

The mixture should look like this.

Mold meat mixture into small balls and place in a hot frying pan with canola oil(or whatever oil of choice) over medium-high heat.

Flip the meatballs over when the bottom side is browned.  When all sides are browned they're ready to take out.

Gyoza Sauce

Gyoza Sauce  

Soy sauce

Vinegar

Rāyu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chili_oil)

for LCHF add Crème Fraîche

Mix ingredients in a bowl to taste.  Some people like their sauce more vinegary and some spicier.

To make the sauce LCHF, I put a couple of spoonfuls of crème fraîche into a bowl and then mixed in some of the gyoza sauce. 

LCHF Gyoza Sauce

I was really missing Asian food today.  This is the longest I've gone without eating something that wasn't an Asian dish.  Most Asian dishes are full of carbs like rice, noodles, and sugar.  So it's a cusine that's a mostly left out in LCHF.  I really love gyozas but their skin is made from dough.  But I was desperate today and made gyoza meatballs, and added crème fraîche to the sauce.  I ate my gyoza meatballs with some zucchini stir fry.  I wonder what other Asian dishes I can make into LCHF versions...   

LCHF Coconut Panna Cotta

LCHF Coconut Panna Cotta with Raspberries (with a lil extra vanilla)

 

LCHF Coconut Panna Cotta Recipe for 6 portions
Metric                                                                          
5 dl heavy cream                                                             
2 dl coconut flakes/shredded coconut                           
1 tablespoon coconut butter                                           
2 gelatin sheets (or 1 teaspoon gelatin powder)          
1/2-1 teaspoon vanilla powder                                       
Raspberries and Blueberries for garnish

US measurement
2.11 cup heavy cream
.85 cup shredded coconut
1 tablespoon coconut butter
2 gelatin sheets (or 1 teaspoon gelatin powder)
1/2-1 teaspoon vanilla powder
Raspberries and Blueberries for garnish


Place the gelatin sheets in water for 5 minutes, so they become soft.  Squeeze out the water from the sheets when they're soft.

Place the heavy cream and coconut butter in a pot and allow it to heat up.  Make sure you don't have the heat too high or else it'll burn.  Turn off the heat when it starts to boil (but don't move the pot) and add the shredded coconut.  Make sure that they don't boil over or burn.

Add the vanilla powder into the pot and take the pot off the stove.  Add the gelatin sheets and allow them to melt into the mixture while stirring.

Place the mixture into cute dessert glasses and allow them to chill for at least 3 hours in the fridge, the longer the better. 

Before serving, garnish the panna cotta with some raspberries and blueberries.


Friday night we had guests over for dinner.  So I decided to try out a dessert recipe I found earlier in the week from Liv Utan Socker.  I made mine according to the recipe, and made the rest with 250ml of sugar for the non-LCHFers.  When I added the sugar I took a pinky tip taste and it was delicious.  Though at dessert time mine tasted ok, but I got really bored of it soon.  Everyone else was enjoying their Coconut Panna Cotta very much, there were ohhhs and ahhhs and yums.  I felt that we weren't all experiencing the same dessert.  Maybe I should have never taken a lil taste test of the sugar one to see if it was sweet enough for the non-LCHFers, since I kept comparing my panna cotta with the taste test.