Category: Meat Dishes

Thai Chicken Curry and Jasmine Basil Rice

This Thai Style Chicken Curry sounded delicious, and I had everything, especially since my garden peppers and basil are abundant.
Now my photos do not look appealing compared to theirs, but that is their job to market the recipe and to make you almost smell it from the page. I share my photos to show proof that I did make this. It is delicious! This is a different flavor to the chicken for us, and we enjoyed the change in our everyday go-to chicken recipes. My husband had the Jasmine rice with this dish, and I had cauliflower rice as I watch carbs.

We have plenty of leftovers as this made a lot, and it will last us for a couple more meals. I’ll share the recipe in the photos.

Chicken Cabbage Soup

I made the cabbage soup on page 52. Instead of frankfurters, I used chicken and bacon. This is delicious and filling. Not expensive to make, and makes a lot. Thank goodness, because my husband ate 3 bowls right away.

This is an oversized, big cookbook with vintage photos. I see so many recipes in this book I am going to make because they are every day ingredients we usually have in our kitchen. I’m not seeing unusual ingredients that I have to go to a specialty store to find, and the dishes sound yummy. I’ll update my review with more photos when I do make the other recipes that are tempting me as I browse this large book.

I enjoy the look of vintage cookbooks and the ease of ingredients.

Beet Borsch

There are many recipes I am curious about from this cookbook. Jim and I have never had Borsch. I juice beets for us on a weekly schedule, so I keep beets in the refrigerator drawer. We were pleasantly surprised at the taste. I knew we would be ok with this recipe, because all the ingredients were items we liked. I will say, adding sour cream to this definitely takes it to another level of flavor. When I added the sour cream, I was reminded of the flavors of tomato soup. This made a lot, so I stored the leftover in the refrigerator in large mason jars. The second day, the flavor was even better. This was a fun dish, and we are glad we gave it a try. It’s hard to get a nice enough photo of a red soup dish (tomatoes and beets), and I don’t know how the online photos get the sour cream to float on top to make the photo more attractive/tasty looking. My photo barely shows the cream due to it sinking right away.

I am now looking at an Irish pork dish called Griskins. I have all the ingredients, and we will prepare it for a St. Patrick’s Day meal.

Spaghetti Squash with Vegetable Tomato sauce

I collect older cookbooks, as well as the spiral bound church cookbooks. I especially like the books with notes near the recipes. I like to keep a page in the beginning part of books of recipes to try, based on reviews online, as well as the recipes I have made with my notes next to them.  

I added a lot of leftovers from the fridge. Just chop up whatever you have, follow the recipe loosely, and have fun with it. I added parmesan cheese and slivered almonds to the top, once I plated this. This is a delicious and very filling dish. We will definitely have this again.

Stuffed Eggplant & Ham Steak Cucumber Sauce

I enjoy taking old recipe books and recreating the recipes to work for a Keto and Low Carb Low Sugar Lifestyle. We enjoyed the Ham steak cucumber sauce; it was easy to throw together and I also used it as a dipping sauce for veggies.

I had never had eggplant, and after cutting it open, I was prepared to not like it, because it reminded me of Tofu. The texture, the smell, the feel of it; I thought, “I’m probably not going to care for this” We didn’t eat this the day I made it, because while preparing it, we filled up on other foods. So, I wrapped these and put them in the refrigerator overnight. The next day, I heated them in the microwave for 60 seconds. We were blown away by the flavor. We are seriously impressed, and this recipe is now added to my ‘make again file’. It is hard to take an appealing photo of eggplant dishes, but here ya go. I’m enjoying the recipes I’m finding in this book. The recipes are easy to convert to Keto Low Carb Low Sugar recipes.

1985 cookbook

1985

Supreme Pizza Soup

The first recipe I tried from this thick book was the Supreme Pizza soup; because I had everything, and it is raining and cold outside. Jim ate 4 bowls immediately. Jim said the pepperoni slices are what made him think pizza. This soup is delicious.

I look forward to making many more dishes. I have added tabs to several pages. This is a nice size book, with color photos of every recipe. The recipes sound easy and yummy. The ingredients are easy to come by, if they are not already on your shelf. Most of these ingredients are already on my shelf.

I first came across Kyndra Holley books at my library. After trying many recipes, I started ordering the books online. I enjoy her blog: peaceloveandlowcarb, and her recipe creations.

This book does not disappoint.

Asparagus Soup with Lemon and Parmesan

I had to do something with the Asparagus, because we got tired of it this past weekend after I made a large batch to go with our campfire foods. Jim did not want heavy cream in it, so I found this recipe on this blog called, “onceuponachef“

This is delicious! I added adobe chili pepper and chili pepper flakes to my bowl, and it was perfect! Jim said this was so pleasant with this weather. I poured it in jars for us to heat up for the next several meals.

This is her photo of what you need for this recipe

Cheesy Meat Taquitos, Horchata, and Zucchini Chaffles

Cheesy Beef Taquitos

Keto Celebrations: Low-Carb Dishes for Holidays and Special Occasions Paperback – July 14, 2020

by Mary Alexander 

I checked this book out from my library. The recipe called for chicken, but I had leftover hamburger to use up. I will definitely make this with chicken.

I am so impressed with the recipes in this book, I have ordered a copy so that I can make notes in it.

cheese wraps

Horchata

I added a side salad; cabbage/kale dish and a celery stick with sugar free peanut butter. What a pleasant meal.

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