Recipes

Clam Chowder

January 17, 2009

The last time I had clam chowder was at S&P Oyster Company, returning from a week on the Cape. It was so good that–as stupid as this sounds–I’ve passed it up at every chance since. That is, until I was thumbing through cookbooks and found a recipe for it in Heirloom Cooking With the Brass [...]

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Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

January 14, 2009

Low-carb desserts are. not. easy. Sure, making them isn’t all that hard, but recipes to create things that bear more than a passing resemblance to their namesakes are not easily found. That hurdle is what kept the beau and I locked in the kitchen last weekend, baking, analyzing, and brainstorming. And after two days of [...]

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Tomato Basil Soup

January 6, 2009

As far as fast food goes, my favorite restaurant has to be La Madeleine. When I was growing up, we would walk to the one just off St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans, and being surrounded by French-Acadian culture with trollies whizzing by, it never occurred to me that it might be part of a [...]

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Garlic Flax Flatbread

January 3, 2009

When I tell people that I eat low carb, they usually say something along the lines of, “Oh, so you don’t eat bread?” Au contraire. Sure, it means no wheat, but the end of gluten is where things just start to get interesting. This weekend we made tomato basil soup, a dish you really can’t [...]

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Chicken and Basil Roulades with Mustard Sauce

December 31, 2008

I have never been a fan of chicken breasts–they’re usually too dry, they have a rope-like texture, and they were always a part of my parents’ “healthy” dinners (boiled chicken, steamed broccoli, and a large helping of white rice). Indeed, experimenting with this recipe was the first time I’d bought a package of breasts in [...]

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Homemade Almond Flour

December 27, 2008

Almond flour is an essential part of low-carb or gluten-free baking, but buying it pre-milled can get unreasonably pricey. Grinding it at home is a fresher, less expensive alternative that has saved the LowCarbist a pretty penny this holiday season. To mill, you’ll need a food processor (or a blender) and a bag of almonds. [...]

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Five-Onion Gratin

December 14, 2008

This recipe combines every type of onion available at your average grocery, give or take an allium. The result is a creamy, sweet casserole with a tangy cheese crust. The interplay of the crunchy top and the sweet bottom isn’t unlike coffee cake, if that can be said about a dish with more than a [...]

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The Jalapeño Popper

December 3, 2008

Jalapeño poppers are the crown jewel of low carb entertaining. They’re tasty, Atkins induction friendly, and no one thinks of them as diet food. Not only that, but you can make a full oven of them for under $6. I made these long before I ever had a breaded, fried popper, and when I did [...]

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