Tag Archives: Veggies

Recipe Tried and True Granny’s 4 Bean Salad

Great with any food from the grill and great to take to a BBQ.   when I make it……. I put some of this and some of that in dishes. I think I did okay with this.  ———>>>    If … Continue reading

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Happy St. Patty’s Day………Corned Beef and Cabbage………My corned beef was too tender and fell apart towards the end of the night.

Way too busy to take a lot of photos sorry. We had such a good time but super busy.   Day before …………..And Day Of.   make Cole slaw…………………………….. (check) Get the large roaster from box and clean………………………..(check) I love … Continue reading

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Freezing SIX heads of Cauliflower for the freezer with my trusty FoodSaver.

  They had a great sale on Dole Cauliflower so we bought SIX heads. I will use the FoodSaver and put them in the freezer. If you have a FoodSaver, you can understand how exciting this is. If you don’t … Continue reading

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Friday Fish… Tastes like Lobster ( well almost)

  Baked Fish, served along with Broccoli and Cauliflower mix. Served with nice hot butter ( not strained)         A couple good sized salads and a couple small salads. Some with tom and cucumber and some without. Some … Continue reading

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Lower Carb Flat Iron Steaks, baked sweet potato and green beans with bacon. Split between THREE people.

Served along side is a crisp salad with onion, cucumber, grape tomatoes, and real bacon bits ( mine without please) . Salad dressing tonight…. Ranch     UPDATE…  and a loss next morning.        

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What’s for dinner? Large Chicken Salads with your choice of dressing.

This is what I do when I am so busy and need a fast dinner.with your choice of toppings.     I have the toppings in bowls…..you top your own salad….. ( most of the salads have one chicken breasts, but others … Continue reading

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Lower Carb Burger with swiss cheese, served with cauliflower and Vettetti Pro sweet potato cakes.

Sweet Potato cakes were made with my new Veggetti Pro ( NOT sponsored)     I don’t have a lot of photos because I was making different patties for different people. one…………. rare one……….. med well one……… with green peppers … Continue reading

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Sweet potato Cakes with onions….Yummy. I Starting to play with my Veggetti Pro .

      (This is NOT a sponsored post I bought this).           These can be made ahead and I am going to show you how……. keep reading         When you get done … Continue reading

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Lower Carb BBQ Chicken for dinner tonight….come back for photos

yum   with baked sweet pot or russet small salad with topping…. (they started devouring before I could grab the camera) roasted zucchini or with onions or cauliflower  ( I will decide later LOL)…… Zuke and onions it is !! 1 breast … Continue reading

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Thick Hot Stew on a cold yucky day. Served with bread of your choice.

     

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Pork Chops, Brown Rice and Green Beans. Along with a crisp salad….. Mmmmm

      Season the pork with your favorite spices. These two had a mixture of bbq seasoning garlic powder, paprika, salt and pepper. The others were just salt and pepper.     Homemade rice pilaf…Mmmmm     Two different … Continue reading

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Burgers and fries for dinner…. Jell-O and Pudding for dessert. Yum !

Burger with swiss cheese, Homemade Low Carb Ketchup, lettuce, tomato, and onion. All On one large wheat Pita cut in half ( makes two burgers) I ran out of sweet potatoes so I had to use a russet potato for … Continue reading

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Lower Carb Fish and Chips… Mmmm

        Here it is right out of the freezer. Have I mentioned how much I love my dying foodsaver? I have had them ever since they first came out. FoodSaver (NO I did not get paid for … Continue reading

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Baked Cod / Poor Man’s Lobster Low(er) Carb Mac and Cheese and Cauliflower. Yum !

I will come back with carb count after I get more posts up.   I have said it a million times with MY recipes… “ Taste as you go because MY LIKES might not be YOUR LIKES.”   I have … Continue reading

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Braised Beef with Roasted Sweet potatoes, onions, celery and carrots. Nice meal for a yucky day.

This ends up to be so tender that I got laughed at for setting the tables with knives. Ha Ha so funny huh?           I used my Lodge Pot on the stove.   Brown the roast … Continue reading

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Baby Back Ribs, loaded sweet potato slices, and cauliflower . Dinner is ready !

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Pork Roast , roasted potatoes and green beans. A little glaze on the side that I used from the top and we have dinner

When I cut a large whole pork loin I use the ends for either roasts, cubes, strip or even grinding. This was a nice roast.                            

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Salads for dinner. Pick your toppings from the platters and make your salad. Grab the dinner rolls and call it dinner.

Dressings were blue cheese buffalo sauce Ranch vinegar   Imitation crab, eggs, swiss cheese, green onions, tomatoes ( artichokes and olives on one of these but I can’t see them )     Chicken, cucumber, tomato, green onion cheddar ( bacon bits, … Continue reading

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Not much out of the garden today…

but enough for a yummy salad or pasta.

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Making the crudités plate to place on the table for snacking.

Did the fancy word impress you? No? Oh OK, I made a veggie plate. (wink) They love to nibble so this will hold them for a while. I cut enough to keep refilling and keep it from getting warm.   … Continue reading

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Homemade Vegetable Soup and homemade bread

        Here is the bread in the bread maker ….. can you smell it ?

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Big Huge Crockpot of Vegetable Beef Soup. I will make homemade bread later and slather the butter all over it. Slurp !

       

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From my garden

  More to come I hope .

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ONE of my favorite quick salads Sweet and Sour Cucumber Salad

This is one of my favorite “any time” salad. It can be thrown together so fast and for any entree. You can also double or triple or even cut the recipe in half. Ice cold and crispy….. Yum !   … Continue reading

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