Satay sauce

 Satay sauce

Peanut butter, lime, chili, soy and fish sauce, (tamarind), sweetener, coriander, coconut milk (sesame oil) 

Left the chicken overnight in this with some cornflour. Then had some more afterwards... without the cornflour, more lime, for dipping. 

Thai fish cakes

• 1 lb / 500g white fish fillets , skinless and pin boned, cut into chunks - Basa etc
• 3 tbsp red curry paste (or much less for Rabbit)
• coriander
• fish sauce
• lime juice
• 1 egg

Wizz that lot until they get sticky. Then add

•  cornstarch 
• 6 green beans , finely sliced 

Then fry in scoops. Hot deep fry worked best, they poufed up. 

• Oil for frying (lots) 

Dipping Sauce 

• ·        60g (1/4 cup) sugar substitute
• ·        60ml (1/4 cup) fresh lime juice
• ·        1 tbsp fish sauce, extra
• ·        1/2 Lebanese cucumber, deseeded, finely chopped
• ·        1 small fresh red birdseye chilli, deseeded, thinly sliced

Keto Chocolate Mousse

  As a Moose, I approve. 

(Bunny complained that the regular martini glasses weren't big enough. It's not a perspective trick.) 

• 1 cup heavy whipping cream 
• 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder 
• 1/4 cup sweetner 
• vanilla extract 
• pinch of salt 

Sift the dry ingredients together and whip into a ... MOOSE... with the cream. Or whip the cream a bit and add the rest. Serve with generous amounts of Kahlua. Yet to find someone who doesn't like this. Takes about three minutes to make. 

Flash's Butter Chicken and Naan

 

Putting the pic here to remember to fill in the recipe. 

Buttermilk pancakes

 More like drop scones really but a bit tangy and different. Not sure if worth going out of the way and getting the buttermilk but anyway, it's a thing. 

• 2 cups plain flour 
• 2 tbs sugar 
• salt 
• baking poweder (1) 
• 480 ml buttermilk 
• 2 eggs
• 3 tbs melted butter 

Batter's pretty thick... or I may have got the measurements slightly wrong, I don't know, it was early in the morning. 

Keto-friendly stuff

 Had a few recently that were OK, jotting them down here. Will elaborate if we make again. 

Pizza: base out of LSA, egg, and some cheese (seems to help stick together). Toppings as suitable. This was very satisfactory, though it tastes like Ryvita or Graham crackers rather than dough but it's pretty moreish. Actually leaves one feeling full. Recommended. (Bunny devised) 

Meatballs with faux-spaghetti veg: just as it sounds. Reasonably satisfying, though not close to actual pasta, doable and not hard to make. Ribbon up carrots and courgettes to make the 'spag'. 

Satay pork skewers with steamed choi: a bit plain, but can spice up and sauce up (coconut and peanut is fine). Just have lots. 

Smoked cod, chopped spinach, poached egg: actually fairly satisfying. We even had this as a kids-together meal with kids having rice as well (and less huge quantities of spinach). Went down well with some. 

Half-avocado/banana lactose-free keffir shake: Standard Bunny breakfast these days. With the soy protein powder, it's pretty extreme but tasty. Works well, good filler.

Chicken or pork curry with spinach: I used mustard seeds, cumin, coriander, one fresh chili, garam masala, and a very large handful of curry leaves from our tree - so it's almos a vegetable. Popped the seeds and fried the aromatics, added the leaves and fried for another few seconds, added the meat (lots), i think there was one vegetable like courgette or aubergine. I think tomato paste, definitely coconut cream (mainly cream, not the water), and definitely lime and peanuts to finish. Serve stirred in with well-seasoned chopped spinach (lots). 

Carb subsitute to go with slabs of meat: aubergine fried with egg and LSA (no flour). A bit nutty but tasty. 

Crustless quiche: this was a thing before Keto anyway. 

Bunny's LSA bread: Not sure how he did this but I really enjoyed it. I think substituted LSA for flour, is all. 

Bunny's 'jibber-jabber' breads: this is from some animated Keto youtuber, and is based on almost meal and whipped egg whites. Tastes like sponge- as in, actual sponge you might use for a seat cover. it's possible that the weirdness comes from the cream of tartar he insisted on including, might be worth re-visiting with less revolting ingredients. I prefer Bunny's LSA bread. 

Bunny's Erythrodol muffins: I think these were muffins with LSA and erythrodol. Not sure. Nice and nutty, do-again. They're some 'Keto donut' recipe, there are lots, not sure which, Bunny subbed some LSA for some of the almond meal. Was nice. 

Something like this: 

Ingredients

• 1 cup / 100g almond flour ground almonds work as well
• 1/3 cup / 75g unsalted butter melted
• 1/4 cup / 50g granulated sweetener (So Nourished)
• 4 eggs medium, or 3 large
• 2 tbsp heavy / double cream
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp vanilla extract

Instructions

• Preheat your oven to 175 Celsius / 350 Fahrenheit. 
• Melt the butter. In a bowl or with a food processor, blend the butter, cream and sweetener until smooth. 
• Add the eggs and vanilla extract and blend until combined. Then add the almond flour and baking powder and mix. 
• Spoon the dough into a well-greased donut pan. I used a silicone mini donut pan. Do not overfill!
• Bake ca 15 minutes or until lightly browned. Remove from oven and let cool completely before removing from the pan.
• Roll in granulated sweetener.

Peanut butter cookies: again, from some online recipe Bunny found. Turned out remarkably unsweet (oddly enough). he's desperate for sweets though and something has to be done.

Peanut butter cups: non-sugar peanut butter, butter, erythrodol sweetner, melt together (about a third of butter and two thirds peanut butter). Leave to set in cupcake molds. Pour on melted 95% chocolate when set. Bloody good, this one. 

Chinese meantballs with greens: Do a nice gingery meatball. Does involve about a teaspoon of cornflour per person so a tiny trace there but was OK. Pork mince with five spice, seasoning, scallion greens, oyeter sauce etc. Roll the seasoned balls in cornstarch. Fry. Add sauce of soysauce, oyster, seasoning, rice wine etc and cook until meatballs done and sauce thickened. Serve with greens. 

Chicken soup: With honestly not much else. Whole chicken, stock with the bones (super-simmered),  soak the meat in brine meanwhile. We're talking serveral hours. Then a little carrot, celery, add stock, one chili, ginger (or whatever flavour is good for you), possibly wakame, the thigh meat, slow simmer. Just before serving add chopped scallion green, the breast meat, and lightly diced courgette. Does the job. 

Kefir Sourdough

 

So this was a hard-core home baking session. With home-made Kefir yoghurt starter, and hydrated with home-made Kefir, too. 

Starter: 

1.2-1 Kefir/flour, in a jar, with a cloth over the top to catch any extra yeast but keep out bugs. About 8 hours saw it triple in size - I was taken aback, I tell you. I used 100g of each but found I had to splosh in a bit more Kefir because it was too dry.

Combine: 

• 500g flour 
• The 200g - odd of starter 
• Salt 
• Sugar - about 2tblsp (not sure if I would use again, was pretty sweet) 
• about 300g more Keifr 
• Good glug-glug of olive oil 
• splash of water for extra as the dough was thick, might increase Kefir next time
• (Our flour consistently absorbs more moisture than in standard recipes)

First and second resting period: 

After about an hour, give it a good pummel. Put it back in it's comfy greased rising-bowl and cover until it's healthily doubled in size. This one took about 6 hours. 

Pummel massively. Not much more flour needed, pretty independent-minded dough, this. Line Dutch oven with baking paper, put formed loaf in. I greased too, just in case. Allow to rise again. (about 1.5h) then cut a couple of slashes over the top ('for steam', apparently, though I think it's more for looks) before putting it in to bake.

Bake for about 30 minutes, covered, in a 215 oven. I feel perhaps it could have done with a touch more, in retrospect, but it did sound hollow when tapped. 

Leave to cool for at least an hour before cutting, or it will be squishy. 

Fluffy, squishy, pretty moreish. Technically it is a 24-hour Thing (possibly more, depending on conditions) but not actually all that much prep time, just waiting for yeasty stuff to work. Kinda fun.