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This Cake Is Not A Lie

So, low-starch/sugar birthday cake successfully made and frosted, and the first piece consumed!

With coffee and, eventually, French Vanilla ice cream, thank you very much.

As I mentioned yesterday on Facebook (took me some serious scrolling to find the original post, what with the way my Wall has been slammed by birthday greetings. For which, well – [...]

Cake kamikaze!

Wish me luck, kids. I am so going for it!

With my birthday coming up Wednesday I’ve decided to try to making this recipe for sour-cream chocolate cake, except substituting flaxseed meal for flour and Splenda for sugar. We’re talking seriously low starch, low sugar.

I was inspired by this flaxseed “foccacia” bread, which is very breadlike [...]

The triumphant return of...

Toast.

Yes, toast. Just now – for the first time in well over a year – I enjoyed a piece of toast. Warm, buttery, tasty toast.

And you know what’s really cool? I did not break my low starch/low sugar eating habit.

I didn’t even bend it. This toast is dead-center for la Vida Low-Starch which I am [...]

Eating carrots

No, seriously. How does anyone eat a whole raw carrot? It takes me an hour to chew my way through half a carrot. At the end of which my face needs a nap.

It also just took 10 minutes for the “Add New Post” page to load.

That’s it. I’m going DSL. Tomorrow it’s off to Southwest [...]

Reviving freezer-burned brats

I can’t promise this will bring back seriously freezer burned bratwurst; these were freezer-burned, but I don’t know how badly. How do you measure that, anyway?

At any rate, I defrosted them. Chopped up a quarter-onion or so and plopped it in water in a pot – enough to cover the brats, so there aren’t [...]

Victor’s heterodox chile con queso

Once again I prepare for my solitary (for now) ritual of watching the Superbowl and stuffing my face with my chile con queso.

Sure good eatin'!

Be forewarned: though my friend Joe would throw up his hands in despair I use Velveeta. Deal. It makes for nice and creamy CCQ. Whereas when I try using cheddar [...]

My red chile pumpkin soup recipe

Due to overwhelming popular demand (i.e., somebody asked) here it is.

3 cups chicken stock or broth
1 cup heavy or whipping cream
1 15-oz. can pure pumpkin
1 tbsp. Splenda/brown sugar blend
1 tsp. ground cumin
1 tbsp. red chile powder (I use “Hot”)
1/2 tsp. ground coriander
1/8 tsp. ground nutmeg

In a medium-sized pot, bring chicken stock and heavy [...]