So you can have a starter, main course and a pudding (if you eat pudding… or another savoury course if you don’t - but something you think would lend itself to eating after dinner). What are your favourite dishes, be specific, so don’t say cheese board, list the varieties of cheese please and say what sides you would have with your main course if any.
Add a fish course and a soup course too if you’re that way inclined and you have enough cutlery to lay the table for five courses.
Perhaps you don’t normally eat three courses but this is a game, so try to get in the spirit of things! Also in the spirit of the game please try to post low carb food!!
I’d get the ball rolling myself but I’m still deciding on the starter, it’s a tie between duck liver parfait and prawn cocktail….. I’m also going to try to dig out photos.
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😂 Yes I wanted a photo with three cloches, one for each of the three courses, then I saw three cloches with a massive lump of butter.... seemed more topical. 🧈
The perfect is the enemy of the good. I have no favourite dishes that spring to mind, but I am sure I could build a few menus I would like. If you would loosen the terms you could create two menus with each of your starters.
And I would say "cheese board". Even back in the pre-keto days, if my partner was ordering a dessert and I still had room, if there wasn't tarte citron on the menu, I was much more likely to order a cheese board than another dessert. I was not picky about the constituents, happy to taste a random assortment. Even happier if there were unfamiliar cheeses.
For a special occasion, I think I'd have to say a steak. A proper steak, mind, not the disastrous stuff they sell in supermarkets. With a nice selection of veg, some sort of cream-based sauce (not picky about which one), and of course a bottle of wine.
Mushroom soup to start would be good. Or asparagus, maybe. I'd also be happy with a salad of some sort.
For dessert I'd like Eton mess with fresh raspberries. It's not exactly low-carb, but it's close.
And coffee.
I do like a cheeseboard, but more in the way of nibbles than dessert.
I have seen these Subtle_badger. I don't know a lot about butchery but it seems to me the difference is they have left the bone very long so that we can feel like cave people whilst eating them.
Well I'm also a massive Ottolenghi fan! It would take me about half an hour of feeling overwhelmed and a few glasses wine to choose a meal from this menu.
But anyway I'm not 100% sure this isn't cheating Subtle_badger. ....
I'm making some of his salads this weekend...... Lots to love that is LCHF about Ottolenghi's work ...... the big piles of delicious cakes in the window are a bit of a problem for me to resist though.... he has a millionaire shortbread with a halva layer!
I am always looking for new treats, so I googled the mints; is that the bittermint? If so, it's more than half sugar 🤯 You are welcome to have one, of course. If we are having sugar, I may replace my Armagnac with Cointreau 😋
Or can I make a batch of truffles without hazelnut but with added peppermint extract?
Solved my starter dilemma by adding a fish course;
Starter; chicken or duck liver parfait
Fish course ; prawn cocktail
Main; cote de boeuf - a big one, flame grilled and seasoned with smoked salt, sliced at the table for sharing. Creamed spinach and plain spinach. Grilled bone marrow. Blue cheese sauce.
Cheese course; tunworth, gorgonzola, and a really old stinky frech goats cheese with some mould.
Ok, I'm a bit ashamed of my dessert choice. But I'm trying to stick with the brief and if I'm really honest with myself, rather than cooking something inventive myself I want one of these:
I have a keto baking book. It produces delicious stuff. Which was not good because i ate it. With gusto. Note it is possible to put on weight in ketosis. Book only used for birthdays now.
Yes, I'm pretty new to keto style baking and still discovering how it works. My main culprits for weight gain historically have been too much wine and having too many exceptions, like baking an actual cake in all it's carbohydratey glory, for a special occasion or having pasta once a month. It all adds up, especially the wine! I'm now in a position where I'm trying to loose some weight so I'm trying to cut back on exceptions.
Does the Keto baking book have anything like this Keto Carmel Shortbread in it? I have often stared at the ingredients (whilst licking out the little plastic tub - I really love them) and thought how the hell do they make this yummy little thing from this strange list of ingredients.....
I can fully imagine really getting very into Keto baking as I'm quite taken with cooking that involves an element of challenge or a puzzle that needs solving.
Do you think the book can help me piece these ingredients;
Maybe it's best I don't know how to make them though..... as I said they are very expensive which is a good deterrent. I have only eaten three this year 😇
I think that is wise. You couldn't only make three of them, so you'd end up with a trayful, that you'd have to eat. Probably the ingredients for the trayful wouldn't be much less than 3 bars.
That's just a jumping off point. You can leave out the nuts, and add whatever you want. I made a sugar free version with 27 g 100% chocolate, 12g erythritol and 80g double cream.
Delicious. Didn't bother to roll it into balls, just kept in in a pot in the fridge with a teaspoon. No binge possible with those quantities.
Steamed artichoke filled with a prawn cocktail sounds amazing Happyman.
I'm a bit of a fan of a stuffed vegetable and for some reason it never occurred to me to stuff an artichoke but actually they are a nice bowl shape. Feel a bit silly for not noticing this.
I also have quite an interest in middle eastern food as you can probably tell. My rose water is arriving later for the panna cotta at the weekend. The chef Subtle_Badger mentions above also uses a lot of middle eastern ingredients - his restaurants are pretty expensive!! but his cook books aren't - in-fact most Ottolenghi receipts are online too - and it's all very easily recreated at home!
Luckily I don't have anything other than the seeded crackers and butter in the house or I might not be able to stop myself making it now. Blue cheese and fennel!
No expense spared - I love it.
Starter:- A really coarse pate de compagne
Main :- Has to be fish with green veg
Desert:- chocolate mousse with raspberries and whipped cream.
Don't like the sound of an almond or coconut flour pie crust for a savoury pie.... and I can't think of a replacement for chips so I guess a pile of pie filling? Sounds nice AwfulToad.
Good point though. We have all gone for quite high end stuff.... but then again, with this game the only limit is your imagination and it's not an everyday meal.
Now I think about it a coconut pie crust with something to bind it might be nice with a spicy filling - not sure it would work in terms of the physics though.
A bit of googling turned up this recipe for flaky "pastry". It uses some rather exotic ingredients, but it would probably make a fine pie crust and/or cover:
I think I'd want to swap out more of the almond flour for coconut flour, though.
I've tried making 'chips' with underripe papaya (ie., more yellow/orange than green). Parboil, then fry in butter+oil. They're absolutely nothing like potato chips - the flavour and texture is more like glazed carrots - but they go well with savoury beef dishes. Carb count is also about the same as carrots.
I watched the video and my main takeaway is that it's ok to add vodka, rum and bourbon to all pastry and it makes it more flakey. I like flakey and I like drinking so it's win win for me. Best tip of the week!
I'm a fan of the overlap between cooking and science.
and I'm impressed with the keto puff in the pictures included with the recipe ..... I might try a keto pie and see if mine looks anything like the picture. I will add vodka rum and bourbon though.... a glaring omission from the recipe.
Two Aldi pork sausages patties with a slice of cheese between and a fried egg (with a few tomatoes if I am pushing the boat out) is my go to quick meal. That seems close to pie and chips.
Somebody well-meaning bought me a bag of salt and vinegar pork scratchings last week - they were actually very nice! I miss salt and vinegar crisps, not the crisps themselves but the idea of a salty/acidic snack. I agree about home/chef made ones though 🤤
Now this has had me thinking and this is the banquet (i have lots of cutlery) i would love to sit down to:
Broccoli & cauliflower with Danish blue cheese soup;
Mackerel in bbq sauce on steamed cabbage, baked egg in the middlr and and grated red leicester cheese on top;
Salmon fillet marinated in EVO, lime juice and black pepper served on a bed of butter fried white cabbage;
Sirloin steak with a blue cheese topping, celeriac chunky chips with a side salad of red peppers, black olives, mangetout and cooked mushrooms dressed with a mix of EVO, balsamic vinegar and mustard;
Raspberry and lemon mug cake.
To drink would be a glass of water and a pitcher of strawberry Pimms (I dont know if Pimms is carby but was my favourite tipple before i had to stop alcohol due to medication).
Anyone fancy joining me, i don't mind doing the cooking if you wash the pots 😂😂 xx
Ps Professor Yaffle, Would you mind if i pinched this idea for one of my Food Glorious Food Daily Chats on the weight loss forum? x
Funny how food brings back memories. When I was a younger toad, there used to be a gastropub hidden away in the Staffordshire countryside that did an incredible version of that soup. It was our go-to place for proper food. We always seemed to be the only customers in there, and they closed down after a while.
I can only imagine what the British food landscape looks like now after a year's worth of sending "non-essential" businesses into bankruptcy.
Oh i'm glad its evoked pleasurable memories and what a shame in shut down. In the area i live on the border between north and west yorkshire i think most of the businesses have faired quite well. I don't think it will be the same in the cities unfortunately.
I'm busy building food memories as most of mine are from school meals or a generation that murdered all food by over cooking it 😂 xx
Yes, please do be inspired by this post and do something similar on the weight loss community.
I like the way you have taken the challenge seriously and come up with a 5 course menu. I like a menu that takes me on a journey. I will definitely join you and wash all the pots afterwards (and the five courses worth of cutlery😂).
Two fish courses feels like a real treat 😍🐟🐠. I will try the celeriac chips. I like celeriac a lot but I always get a bit bothered trying to wash and peel it 😬. How do you usually cook them?
Thanks Professor-Yaffle, i will do the challenge on the friday before the next bank holiday 😊.
My banquet is all about food discoveries on my journey. Things i'd never had, cooked or liked before, but love love love now. The mug cake just had to be added because i can have the whole cake and eat it 😂😂
You'd be very welcome at my table, i would probably do the drying too 😊 xx
My favorite LCHF meals are usually at a diner. I really like all day breakfast.
Coffee coffee coffee.
Omelette with seafood inside and hollandaise outside. Or filled with spinach, bacon and cream cheese.
Or Eggs Benedict on spinach, no muffin, extra hollandaise.
Or the same but with asparagus.
They will grill a side of fresh spinach to replace my toast....I've never even thought of needing something "to finish" besides a sunshiny day and a walk!
Thanks for sharing Ladylin151 and for bringing some amazing breakfast food to thread! Thinking of seafood omelette makes me long for a sunny holiday. 🦐🦀🏖️
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