Support and ideas for those on low-carb diet

It is a freezer / store cupboard day, so will use the monkfish tail that we bought and froze last week. Will do a Moro recipe with saffron, bay leaves, sherry, sultanas and pinenuts, but not sure what to have with it. We have some spinach in the garden, some slightly elderly cauliflower, jars of artichokes, an aubergine, red peppers, and tins of asparagus. Any ideas?

I have found a jar of chargrilled artichokes from Carluccio's in the back of the cupboard so we'll have Chicken and Artichoke Salad from Persiana tonight. I think I have all the other ingredients - there's quite a lot of them. It looks delicious!

DH has threatened to leave home if I give him any more leeks!!

Dinner tonight Hairy Bikers Old Fashioned Chicken and Vegetable Stew

Chicken legs
Smoked bacon
Onion
Celery
Chestnut mushrooms
Carrots
Leeks
Seasoned with thyme, black pepper and bay leaves

And served with spring greens.

Leaving out flour, will reduce to thicken.

Ours is nearly gone as well but the sprouting broccoli is nearly ready so we'll move on to that.

Love black kale. Grew loads but it's all gone now.

The fennel was delicious with grilled fish, leeks, green beans and grilled tomatoes.

Tonight we had salmon steaks lightly fried in oil (4 mins each side) on a bed of thinly sliced leeks and courgettes braised in white wine and creme fraiche with cavolo nero stir fried in goats butter.

Thanks Anya. Will do that tomorrow. Got some leeks in fridge.

PS dry the leeks between two sheets of kitchen paper or whizz dry in a lettuce dryer.

jingl if you want to substitute the cream, try crème fraiche instead. I use that in my spinach gratin or Pain Epinard as my DD likes to call it and it works a treat. Not tried it in the flan though.

Trying out low carb cake later this week. If any good will post it Rose

Thank you very much. I was sat here in my kitchen looking at this fennel bulb and wondering where to start

cheese and leek.

Roll out pastry thinly (instead of flour for non sticking try a sprinkling of ground almond, works a treat)
Bake blind for 15 minutes then remove blinding stuff and bake for another 5

Meanwhile chop leeks finely (after usual washing palaver) and cook in butter or whatever you like! for 5 minutes till soft.
Beat together eggs, cream.
Add the cheese and throw in a tspoon of thyme if you like (I do)
Add leeks and season
Pour into flan case (if you're feeling decadent grate a bit of Parmesan on top first)
Bake about 30-35 mins at Gas 4, 180oC or 160oC fan or till you think it's done.

Just leave out the carrots if you are in the early stages of the diet.

Braised Fennel (with baby carrots if you are back to eating root vegetables)
Rose Elliot - Veggie Chic

About 750g baby carrots
400g fennel
4 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
3 tbspns olive oil
large knob of butter
200mls water
100mls white wine
freshly squeezed lemon juice
salt and pepper to taste
chopped parsley to garnish

Serves 4

Just scrub the carrots if they are young - peel them if they are older but leave them whole.
If the fennel is young and tender just trim the tops. Slice larger fennel into wedges.
Put the carrots and fennel into a saucepan with the olive oil, garlic, water, lemon juice and wine.
Bring to the boil - cover and cook gently for about 30 mins, checking now and again to make sure they're not sticking. They're done when they're tender to the point of a knife.
Remove the lid and reduce to a syrupy golden glaze.
Season and serve with chopped parsley.

I use a small wok for cooking this and plonk any old lid that fits on top.

Rose I have a wonderful recipe for cake using no flour, no sugar and Orange Cream Cheese Frosting all over it! I'm saving that for Easter! I'll send you the 'how to do' on the Cheese & Leek Tart when you've lost your 7lbs sunshine
Anya you can send it whenever you like - I promise not to cheat!

I haven't even opened the DGD's Easter eggs!

Lunch today was salad leaves, avocado, tomatoes, cucumber, beetroot and smoked salmon in an oil and balsamic vinegar dressing, followed by apple and orange.

I think Anya's leek and cheese pie sounds delicious. Will do it tomorrow, but I will use half fat cheese, extra whole eggs instead of cream, and - maybe not necessary but I will do it anyway - substitute the butter for olive oil margarine. And use half and half flour (wholewheat and plain).

And where's that recipe for fennel gone? I wanted to do that tonight

Buggar!

Oh dear. I hope we can just let the dust settle a bit and then carry on supporting each other.

How can a sincere apology and explanation (eg this thread is about low or no carb and not about low fat) = being spoken to like a dimwit?!? What a shame.

I don't think I'll bother with this thread any more....Sorry Mamie. I'm sick of being spoken to like a dim-wit by granjura and the anti-diet clever dicks police on other threads are getting on my nerves.

I know I'm losing weight. I've gone down a size (in tops) and I know this diet works for me. I'm not obese, I only need to lose a stone and I'm a grown up so it's my choice how I do it.

Actually, it would be better if the title of this thread was Low Carb-High Protein and just not mention the F word.

Good luck everyone!

Raspberries and cream for breakfast now, sitting out in the sun (with a jumper on).

But I'm not really bothered.

Perhaps see if GNHQ will just chop off the high fat bit? Otherwise we might give the wrong impression and spend too much time fending off skeptics