Goes Well With Everything! Good old versatile cauliflower. Where would we be without it? One of the staples of a low carb diet is cauliflower mash! It's almost a rite of passage making your first batch. There are lots of ways to prepare it, yielding slightly different results. Each method involves cooking the cauliflower and blending [...]
Authentic Low Carb Flavor at Home! We've recently started going out more for dinner, which is great! Whether it's for birthdays or because of a lack of groceries, we find ourselves sampling more great restaurants in NYC! We noticed we've really been leaning more towards Asian cuisines, as they're so full of flavor and color. [...]
Easy Low Carb Dinner for Two! One of our go-to meals for busy weeknights is a simple Pan Seared Salmon with sauteed veggies. This week, we just happened to have lots of mushrooms and spinach on hand and decided to create a simple dish out of them. These veggies would pair perfectly with our favorite [...]
Fresh is Best! For the holidays, we got a small rosemary plant as a gift and didn't hesitate to take a knife to it right away and cook up some low carb rosemary dishes! One of the recipes we came up with was this keto rosemary apple pork chops recipe! It's a simple recipe that used a basic, [...]
Nice & Crispy! If we were to ever rename our blog, it'd probably be Spiceaholics. We absolutely love spicy foods. We love the burn and the flavor hot peppers bring to dishes like omelettes, fish, and even chocolate pudding! We also love eating the peppers themselves- stuffed with cream cheese and wrapped in bacon, of [...]
Low Carb, Paleo & Gluten-free! Chicken Kiev, or kotleta po kievski as we say in Russian, is something we used to love as children. Imagine chicken breast but dripping in butter and seasoned to perfection. The chicken breast you think you know is a lie! When prepared right, it's mouthwateringly juicy and moist. As kids, we [...]
Portable Low Carb Lunches! Eating a low carb diet can sometimes be quite a challenge. This is especially true when you are looking for a delicious, low carb meal that you can take with you, preparing it in your kitchen and then eating it on the road. This challenge comes up a lot around lunches [...]
Summer Grillin'! If there's one thing that crosses my mind when I see a grill, it's "I gotta throw some mushrooms on there!" Living in an apartment in Brooklyn doesn't allow for much grilling in the summer but we've got friends in rural places. Whenever we visit our Staten Islanders we're chopping veggies and marinating [...]
An Easy Low Carb Guacamole Recipe for Any Dinner! What could be better than a dollop of guacamole on any dinner? Nothing. That's why you should always have some homemade keto guacamole on hand! And having an easy guacamole recipe under your belt can come in very handy. Guacamole is easy to make and can [...]
Low Carb Breakfast Muffins! We love breakfasts on the go (mostly because we love sleeping in!). Breakfast muffins are one of the most versatile breakfasts we can imagine. They're easy to make, easy to carry, can be tailored to anyone's tastes and store perfectly in the freezer. It's so convenient to make a batch of muffins [...]
Fresh Herbs are the Best Herbs. Pesto is a great addition to any meat dish! We love smothering chicken breast in it or a nice lime marinated skirt steak. We've also experimented with adding it to our morning omelette with feta cheese. This result? One awesome feta & pesto omelette! It's traditionally made with basil [...]
Keto Meatballs With a Twist! We love eating new foods, but it's more challenging to make new foods! When you think of meatballs, you probably think of classic Italian meatballs in marinara sauce and a pile of spaghetti. Not to mention, those meatballs are full of milk and bread crumbs! We discovered a new way of [...]
Nothing Better Than a Keto Iced Tea on a Hot Day... It's more important than ever to stay hydrated in the summer. Sweat flushes out a lot of water and may leave us dehydrated and tired. Remember, you can get the keto flu even if you're keto-adapted! Replenish your electrolytes by eating a healthy diet, [...]
We All Scream For Ice Cream! No one can resist the whimsical tune that the New York ice cream trucks jingle on their way down the block. The Mister Softee theme song is the anthem of childhood summers and sends all the kids running to their parents begging for a dollar to buy an ice [...]
Chocolate. Even the word looks delicious. Chocolate gets a bad rep for causing weight gain, acne, and a boatload of other ailments. Sure, when you cram a cup of sugar into each bar, that'll run you into some problems. If you put poison into an apple and ate it, would you blame the apple? Real [...]
You Gotta Love Eggs Benedict! Low carb style! Eggs are one of the most versatile foods on Earth! Fried, poached, boiled, emulsified, beaten, whipped, baked, separated, souffled or eaten raw- eggs are a must! They're full of fat and protein, with very little carbs, which makes them perfect for anyone on a ketogenic diet. The average [...]
A Flavorful Fishy Feast With so much seafood variety in our freezer, we couldn’t pick just one meat to have for dinner. We decided to throw all our marine life into a beautiful and delicious seafood soup! Soups are a fantastic low-carb option as they tend to contain mostly keto-friendly broths and seasonings. Of course, [...]
Feeding Your Coffee Addiction! It’s a given that everyone has different tastes in coffee. Some people prefer a dark roast served pure black, while others will pour everything imaginable into their cup, from sugar to cream to cocoa or even peanut butter, also known by some as keto coffee or keto-friendly coffee, as this is [...]
Keto, Spice & Everything Nice. Sometimes, you just want to break the regular chicken or steak dinner streak for something more delicate and light. Cod is an extremely soft and adaptable fish. It will take on the flavors of what you cook it in and work really well with it. You can make cod taste [...]
Beef Stew Made Easy. So many times, after a dinner of a roasted whole chicken or a t-bone steak, we've made the mistake of throwing out the animal bones, when we could have made some delicious bone broth! Not to mention the delicious treat that is sucking some marrow out of a giant bone after [...]
