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| Stella says "Hello" and wants a treat |
After a long hiatus, I've decided to get back to blogging. Just for giggles.
Since I've been gone, I've gone low carb. Not no-carb, not keto, not carnivore. But no sugar, for sure. I occasionally have white or processed carbs, but on a splurgy day, like when I go out for a burger craving. But mostly not. So, no white bread and no white rice and no regular pasta.
I've substituted whole grain foods for the "white carbs" but I limit those, as well. What does that leave? Well, meat, eggs, dairy, vegetables and fruits (in moderation with the fruits, too.) I eat well, and now it's become a habit, so it's a whole lot easier than it was at first. And my doctor is happy.
For many of the foods that could be carby in their original form, I simply remove the carbs. Chinese food that's not sitting on top of rice, for example. Or I turn a sandwich into a salad. Or a charcuterie nosh.
On this blog, I might do some recipes or review some cookbooks with an eye on what recipes are naturally low carb because that's where I am now.
There are also lots of low carb substitutes for things like pasta and rice that I've been checking out, so you'll get my opinions on those.
The one good thing about cutting sugar entirely is that things taste sweet to me that other people would say are not sweet. Like unsweetened whipped cream. So, that's a plus. Then again, actually sweet things make me shudder, just to think about them. Glazed donut? No thanks. Nope.
Also, in the past few years, my sweet dog Snickers passed away, and now I have Stella. For the first few weeks I had Stella, it was tough. She was a small white demon with too much energy and negligible training. Now, she's a weirdo sweetheart snugglebug, and I'm happy she's here. Like Snickers, she came from the Longmont Humane Society.
I'm also reviewing like crazy, mostly for The Spruce Eats, but I'll be dropping reviews here as well. There are plenty of things that The Spruce doesn't want to review, but I'm curious. So, they'll get dropped here. I'm also going to review things that may not have anything to do with food, like, oh, maybe some dog things. Because we have a lot of those. Or maybe not. And I'm going to drag some things out of the cabinets that I use all the time, but have never gotten around to reviewing.
In short, it's gonna be what I want, when I wanna, and the heck with the algorythms, and SEO. We'll see how that goes, eh?
