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Ingredients

• 2 pieces of celery
• 1 big onion, or 3 small onions
• 1 big carrot
• half a celeriac
• 4 gloves of garlic
• 1 leek
• quarter cauliflower
• 200 gr green beans, cleaned and cut in two
• 1 tin can of chopped tomatoes
• 3 cubes of chicken stock
• kale, i had one whole piece
• 2 red bell peppers
• Italian herbs
• 500 gr minced meat
• 1 egg
• 2 tablespoons almond flour (non-keto bread crumbs)

Preparation

1. first put the two bell peppers in the oven at 200ºC for half ab hour at least, when ready take them out and let them cool down
2. cut up the celery, onion, carrot, celeriac, leek, garlic (in slices), cauliflower and green beans and stove them in olive oil
3. put the tomatoes with the vegetables, add three more tins with water, add the three chicken stock cubes
4. let this stove for an hour or so
5. skin and slice the bell peppers, the skin should come off easily, add to the soup
6. cut the kale in small pieces, add to the soup
7. add the egg and almond flour to the minced meat and mix, roll small balls and add to the soup
8. clean and slice the herbs and add to the soup
9. ready to serve!

Ingredients

• half a celeriac
• 4 tablespoons of olive oil
• 2 tablespoons of ground cumin
• 2 tablespoons of salt
• 2 cloves of garlic

Preparation

1. heat the stove to 200ºC
2. peal the celeriac, cut into slices of 1 cm width, then in strips of 1 cm wide
3. boil the strips in hot water for around 5 minutes
4. drain the strips
5. make a mixture of the last four ingredients, the olive oil, cumin, salt and garlic
6. cover the celeriac strips with the paste
7. bake the celeriac for half an hour on a piece of baking paper, spreading them out without touching each other
8. present them with mayonnaise or another spread to dip the strips in

I am still making several things for me, especially sweet ones. Today i made low-carb bounties. Easy. I made a paste with coconut rasp, coconut milk, coconut oil and some erythritol. Two hours in the freezer, then i covered it with a 90% chocolate from Lindt.

I first thought of making slagroomtruffels – cream truffels, not sure what the proper translation is for these. This uses more whip cream and butter. It is a bit more fatty. Saving this for another day!

Ingredients

• 1 large onion, diced
• 3 fat gloves of garlic, cut in slices
• 250 gram bacon
• 1 fennel, diced
• 1 bell pepper, diced
• 2 large peppers, diced
• stem of broccoli. diced
• 100 grams green beans, sliced in three
• 4 spring onions, diced
• 2 carrots, diced
• 1 can of tomato, cut up
• 15 grams basil, torn up
• 15 grams of dille, diced
• chicken stock, 2 liters, you can use any type you like, i used cubes

Preparation

1. Put the onions in a large pan with olive oil, add the bacon after a minute or so. Put the lid on the pan and let it bake for a couple of minutes
2. Add the carrot, fennel, bell pepper, peppers, broccoli stem, green beans, spring onions and tomato, let it simmer for around 10 minutes
3. Add the stock, let simmer for half an hour
4. Add the basil and dill
5. Ready to serve!

I put two servings in a jar with a top and set those in the fridge to keep it fresh. In the pan i left two servings for tomorrow.

On June 12 2019 i wrote my first post about the keto diet, called Keto chocolate chip almond flour cookies. I am on this journey for around three years now. From low carb to keto. And now i’m quite strict with myself. I don’t drink any alcohol, i buy a 90% chocolate bar once or twice a week, i stopped putting erythritol in my coffee, i don’t eat any bread. No pasta, no rice, no potatoes. I have some chorizo in my cupboard upstairs, walnuts. I make my own dressing for salads. I breakfast with a bulletproof coffee, a double espresso with a knob of butter and some cream. I lunch with a salad with mushrooms, bell peppers, cucumber, tomatoes, and either an egg or feta or smoked salmon. My dinner is usually a baked sausage or chicken thigh and veggies like spinach or cauliflower or another salad.

I did measure my glucose before i wrote this post, it is 6,0 mmol/L, which is fine. A month ago i measure it for around a week multiple times a day, it was between 5 and 6 the whole time.

Over the weekend i came across the following video Buddha Sushi Bowl with Orange Sesame Sauce. It stuck in my mind. So this Tuesday morning i propoed to make this dish. Or rather, a dish like this one. I went to the marke and got some vegetables, to the eco shop to get tempeh and sesame seeds.

Ingredients
For the sushi rice :
450g rice
60g apple vinegar
2 tbsp beet sugar
1 tsp salt

For the orange sesame sauce :
1 orange
40g soy sauce
40g olive oil
40g toasted white sesame seeds
1/2 tsp salt

400g tempeh

1 broccoli
1 winter carrot
1 bush spring onions
250g mushroom
edamame beans
olive oil
salt and pepper

2 sheets nori
2 avocado’s

Instructions

1. make sushi rice. in a small cup, combine rice vinegar, beet sugar and salt then set aside until it dissolves. cook rice and then pour sushi vinegar over the rice and mix well.
2. in a blender, mix all the ingredients for the orange sesame sauce. pour some of it over tempeh.
3. cut vegetables in a bite size and drizzle olive oil and sprinkle salt and pepper. put them with tempeh in an oven and bake at 356F/180C for 30 minutes.
4. Plate sushi rice, nori sheets, avocado, vegetables, tempeh, spring onions, sesame seeds. drizzle orange sesame sauce or soy sauce as you like.
5. Enjoy!

I am cooking a going away dinner today. Yesterday i did all the shopping for it. I will make a coq au vin, or rather, poulet au vin. There are many recipes for this dish online. I have checked quite a few, and decided to make my one based on all of them. So yesterday evening i poured red wine over the chicken things with bones and let it sit in the fridge for the whole night. Around four this afternoon i will start preparing the dish. Bake the chicken in a pan in butter together with thinly sliced onion and a couple of carrots also sliced. After that cook the bacon, the shallots and the mushrooms. Hmm, maybe i better blanch the shallots first in boiling water. Yes! Deglaze the pot with a chicken stock. Add a bit of flour. Add some rosemary. Put everything in the pot and let it simmer for a while. Add the red wine, bay leaves, put in the oven for one and a half hour.

With this dish i will bake potatoes and boil carrots with some butter and a bit of brown sugar. I hope i will make some photos of the dish once it is ready!

The dessert is simple: strawberries and whipped cream with a bit of vanilla paste. Yum 🙂