Post by 3cows on May 30, 2018 13:05:39 GMT -5
3cows could you start a new thread with your recipes? You have some really good ones that I would love to try. Also, could some of you other wonderful cooks out there share your food ideas also? That pizza sounds great!
I really don't do much recipe cooking now (which I secretly consider another perk to this way of eating!) Pizza (or Meatza) is just any type of cooked, cubed or crumbled meats with some bacon and pepperoni then covered with cheese and some pizza spices and baked until the cheese melts.
We do a lot of omelets, with meat or seafood and cheese as filling. I don't like ZC pancakes at all, (taste too sweet to me) put a lot of ZC'ers make batter out 2 eggs beaten and blended with 2 ounces of softened cream cheese and then cooked like pancakes in a buttered skillet or grill. They use them for wraps or eat them with warm with butter or as side dishes.
A lot of people grind up pork rinds until they are dust and use that to dredge chicken, pork or deer when frying, along with an egg wash to make the coating stick. It's a good option for those occasions when you just want something a little different.
Chicken thighs (or whole cut up chicken) is very tasty when just salted, patted dry and then fried in cast-iron with a half-inch of bacon grease, lard, or even butter.
There are people who eat this way who still bake a cheesecake from eggs, sour cream and cream cheese with no sweeteners or sugars and just a pinch of cinnamon or orange or lemon peel instead. They say it tastes sweet. To be honest, I have never made one. Yet.
This link is the cheesecake recipe, and the links below will take you to some recipes that some ZC-ers use:
www.zerocarbhealth.com/index.php/2018/02/17/zero-carb-carnivore-crockpot-orange-cheesecake/
www.zerocarbhealth.com/index.php/category/recipes/
https://www.reddit.com/r/zerocarb/comments/50qzn8/zc_ice_cream_custard_cheesecake/
Truthfully, though, there is no boredom to eating this way, because you lose all those cravings for sweet, salty, etc. within just a few days. And there is no more desire to snack, other than an occasional glass of cold milk or a bite of cheese or a hardboiled egg. Most no longer feel actual hunger pangs, and instead notice a slight headache, growing irritability, or a slight empty or weak feeling if they wait too long to eat. And when that happens, you just want a piece of meat on a plate as fast as possible.
Our typical menus for example: breakfast for the two of us is splitting a pound of pork sausage, along with either a half ham steak or some fresh or cured bacon, along with 3-4 eggs for him and one or none for me.
Lunch for him is things like leftover roast, brisket, burgers, meatza or chops because he wants something pre-cooked that he can keep in his freezer and then nuke in ten seconds at work and eat on the go. He keeps a bag of pork rinds, a bottle of mustard, and store-bought single-serve string cheeses in his work fridge for snacks, or to go with his lunch. I typically eat 3/4 lb of hamburger in the middle of the day sometime. (I get up between 2-3 am, he gets up at 430 am to be at work by 6am. So lunch is usually around 11 for him and noon for me. Then we eat supper somewhere between 4 and 6 pm)
Supper is almost always 1.5 pounds of very rare steak each, usually sirloin, tbone, ribeye, porterhouse, or even rump or chuck roast cut into steaks, sometimes with a side of pan-seared shrimp or scallops. About twice a week, we will have some combination of pork, deer, chicken, seafood, or fish. Smoked turkey wings are a favorite cold lunch treat that we sometimes have on the weekends. That's about the extent of the cooking I do now.
To be honest, I haven't used a cooking pot or casserole dish in over a year for cooking at home and a lot of my favorite cooking utensils and equipment now resides in the kitchens of my kids. All my canned goods except a few tins of tuna and spam were given away, along with most all my spices, and baking supplies. Shopping is a quick run to the meat aisle to see if there are any good specials to add to my freezer (Kroger had bone-in rib eye for $6.99 a pound last week, so I stocked up a little), grabbing some bags of frozen sea food and fish, and a quick stop at the coffee and paper products aisle. Ten minutes and one or two bags, at most.
When you start thinking about eating this way, you really feel like you will be giving up your favorite foods. But what actually happens is that your tastes change and those treats that you once craved no longer call out to you. I was once a dark chocoholic and loved just having a small piece every day. Can't even imagine it now and the same with ice cream. Now my idea of ice cream is to mix espresso with a cup of whole milk and a cup of cream and freeze it till its slushy and then eating it with a spoon. And I rarely even want that. If you eat plenty of meat, your body is satiated and the cravings are just gone. Sadly, I am losing my taste for coffee too, and where we once used two pounds of coffee a week, we use less than a single pound now...
ETA: For clarity, we eat any form of meat we like(except breaded or meat with sauces, sugars, starches, or coatings), eggs, raw dairy products including milk, cream, and cheeses. We still drink coffee and hubs still drinks unsweetened tea. We use sea salt, black pepper, and a little dried garlic. We do not use any other forms of plants or plant oils, or any form of sweetener, sugar, sodas, etc.