Lamb and broccolie

From Kylie's Quick Keto Kitchen:

Quick rating: 2.5/5 - 

What's in it:

- thin sliced lamb shoulder from an Asian grocery - defrosted 1 min

- garlic scapes (I admit I'm finding mixed info as to the carbs in these, likely too yummy to be low carb , I'll likely omit in future, swap for asparagus? ) ditto - rinse and then use paring knife to cut into small 1 inch or less lengths ( I just cut into the same bowl I'll later be eating out of)

- 1/2 a head of fresh broccoli - rinse under water, and tear into small bits with hands/paring knife.

No need to bother with cutting board ect.

- 2 tbsp. coconut aminos

- butter

- Pink him. salt + pepper

-1 tbsp. pre frozen/ chopped onions

- 2 whole garlic cloves

- smoked paprika to taste

- cayenne pepper to taste

- 1/4 - 1/2 cup water

Steps:

- melt butter with aminoes, and all spices, onion, in pan, medium heat.

-once melted, add meat, stir occasionally till brown, approx. 2-3 minutes. This is super thin, it cooks up fast.

- reduce heat

-Add water

-add veggies, stir to coat, cover, let steam 2 mins or so. stir, turn off heat once veggies are bright vivid green, cover and let sit 1-2 minutes.

- Enjoy. It was one of the most delicious things I've made in months!! Make lots!

Snacks...

Just a snacks hack. . I cut my quest bars up into little cubes. Keep track of quantity if you combine flavors.  And divide cubes into little snack packs.  They remind me of the various fruit or gummy snacks for their size, and you can eat them like a hard candy letting them dissolve in your mouth a bit. Overall, makes them last longer and you feel like you're eating more.

Kwicky Keto Kitchen

Ramblings on how to have quick meal prep, especially for those who don't like prepping much ahead of time!

Tools I have that I love (that I get that most people don't have, but find useful)

-A working but basic dehydrator
Recent uses: Dehydrate sauteed mushrooms, tomato, ginger slices, and anything else that always seems to either go bad, or that I run out of, that's a pain in the a$$ to always have on hand.
Also: dried red pepper is friggen amazing! It's keto version of licorice you never knew you loved! Dry in julienned strips. you won't regret it.

- a second hand Omega single masticating juicer - I love this thing
Recent uses: Grinding above mentioned dried mushrooms, tomatoes, ect, so that I have ready to use mushroom powder, tomato powder ect on hand, when my fridge is shamefully lacking. Also great for grinding your own nuts and seeds to make your own flours and seed crackers. Or, for making "ice cream" out of frozen raspberries, ices chips, mint leaves and whatever else your heart desires. If you're off keto, try a mix of frozen banana, berries, and shaved chocolate. you might hate me from hereon in.

-A soda stream for making my own carbonated water.

-A dutch oven bought during a  black Friday/boxing week sale from Canadian tire, on steep discount. It's sunshine yellow. I love it. Note on dutch ovens: review recommended getting one with "dimples" in the lid for good circulation of moisture. Double check to make sure the dimples are well coated with lacquer before lugging it home, especially if you take a bus, otherwise you'll ended up like me and cursing Murphy, and having to trudge out again in -20 weather to return a 10 lb dish because your pot will more likely fail and rust in the next few years due to the shoddy lacquer jobs. grumble grumble. Get one with lid-dimples. Otherwise moisture just drips down the inside, and doesn't work as hard at keeping your food succulent. 

Things I try to have prepped to make food making quick:

-frozen homemade chicken stock
-dehydrated and pulverized via omega juicer lots of things  (mushroom, tomato, in chuncks and pulverized)
- Pre-chopped frozen union chunks, "fresh" and  sauteed
-pre cooked, or at least pre-prepped frozen meat, often in fast-cook "crumbled" form, aka crumbled ground beef, turkey, cut up cooked sausage ect. I try to freeze "loose" food on a baking tray first, and then transfer to a freezer baggie or two. I try  at much as possible to make sure the food in bags does not clump to reduce sticking together, I try to lie bags flat and seperate food bits, to make it easier to use just what I want at a later time.

IE Breakfast:

The night before I put into a small glass mason jar:
-2 cracked eggs
-salt/pepper/garlic powder, or other spices/green onion as desired
- a bit of water

In the morning I plop a pat of butter in my frying pan, grab some pre-cooked meat-crumble from the freezer, take egg-mix jar from the fridge, give it a good shake, and throw everything into the pan on low-medium heat. I got to other am prep things, go back to the stove to give it a stir, go to other prep things, return, turn off heat, stire, and before I walk out the door , put the egg/sausage into a mason jar, and eat once at work. Quick breakfast!

Kylie's Kwicky Keto Kitchen #1 Cabbage Hamburger "chilie"

Allo allo.
So. Diving slowly back in. The last two days I've mainly stayed in the "keto safe" food area, however I havn't been couting, and honestly the first two days I cheated as I still had desirable lying around. But.. at the very least, last night I flushed the last of 3 peppermint chocolate bark squared down the toilet, this from the person who despises letting decent food be tossed.

So: KKKK recipe update:

Ingredients:
Disclaimer, I don't really measure, I just pour. So. Do what you think will be good.

Into the pot goes:
@ Medium heat:
- 1 medium freezer baggie of homemade chicken soup stock ( I make about 3/4 full in freezer baggies, then lie flat. Makes it quick to thaw/remove later. I removed from freezer, ran under hot water a few seconds until I could break it up with my hands, then threw in the pot to melt.)
-various herbs and spices as you see fit (salt/pepper, dried red pepper bits, dried ground sauteed cremini mushrooms, onion powder, garlic powder, and defrosted, pulled into bits hamburger defrosted raw ground hamburger pattie.
-Once there's no read meat left, reduce head.

- add .5 - 1 full bag of  bagged coleslaw/cabbage salad mix ( I used 3/4)
-shredded geriatric cheese. Okay. 2 year old Balderson in this case. But only once the meat is cooked, on lower heat. If the cheese gets too hot, it'll clump. But hey, if that's your thing. Amount to preference, I would say mine had about 1/4 cup.
A bit  more water if you like.

Let it simmer as you please. I try to stop the heat when veggies are still medium firm, so they don't mush on re-heat. You didn't think I was making just one meal did you?!

Voila! I think this is something akin to a chunky chili, sans carbo-beans.

Time: Uhm.. I should have paid more attention. Short enough that I wasn't annoyed at being in my kitchen. 12 minutes or so for assemblage, and then let simmer for 10 odd minutes and turn heat off. I shredded the cheese while the bits of ground hamburger were cooking.

Keto Foods: Bacon Walnut Brussel Sprouts

Figuring out what I can stand to take the time to cook, and then to eat... is a massive part of my challenge. I'm the size I am for a reason: Cereal, grilled cheese or KD for dinner? One Pot? Simple? Yes please!

I'm very rearely allowed to buy cereal any more. Because it WILL be gone in 2 days. Maybe.

So: Most recent:

Heat pan, but bacon fat from fridge into pan. As needed.
Get brussel sprouts. Rince, cut off the ends, and chop in half. Add to pan.
Salt / Pepper
chopped garlic
Once sprouts are nicely caramelized on one side, flip, and add handful of walnut pieces
Cook until slightly soft. Never mush your vegetables! Should be tender, not squishy!
If preparing for leftovers, remove a portion now, so wont much on reheat.

Optional add ons:
- Parmesan cheese
-blue cheese
-whatever the hell else you want
-Onions/caramelized onions
- bacon bits

It's so delish it's become an easy go to!

Book List

Books, sites, and other things I find useful:

Weight loss/goals tracking journal:
I looked high and low before finally finding the perfect journal: It's small and purse sized, has a two day spread for each day, and doesn't follow any particular restrictions. it comes with stickers, and a weighloss tracking chart grid that is a lot of fun to use!
The Ultimate Pocket Diet Journal  - Alex Lluch.

Keto/weight loss/food or Recipes:

http://mariamindbodyhealth.com/

Brains: 

The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science - by Norman Doidge 

Self emotional healing books: 

Tapping into success
The Dark side of the light chasers

Virtual places I like: 

www.pepperplate.com -- best online storage for the recipes you come across

Keto-focused

With recent reading I've learned:

- Your brain is very much malleable and can be reshaped/trained to work in new ways

- Sugar and glucose have the same effect on your brain and body as cocaine and alcohol, you can very easily be addicted to sugar. 

-Ever food/beverage producer in the world knows this, and so makes their products as addictive as possible

- The health pyramid is a fraud: and they care dick all for your health.. it's just your dollars they want. Basically, nearly everything they say is a lie. Instead of taglines like "How to eat healthy"... they should reaveal their plans to be: "How to stay addicted to foods and develop diabetes". If you're here.. you might already know.. grains of any type convert to sugar/glucose/make you addicted/fuck up your system. Avoid them. If you want change in your life. 

So... With this in mind.. forward onto owning my body... and kicking all the ill-meaning corporations out of it. 

I have joined a group on Facebook .. Keto for weight-loss. I am seeing remarkable results from these people in very short time periods! So... to battle my friends!