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Home Mary's Journal Recipes Meal & Snack Ideas Restaurant Tips The Active Life Fittness & Exercise Guide Around the Web	Some Recipes:   Pancakes 1/4 c almond flour - 6.5 1 sc protein powder or soy flour - 1 1 egg - .8 4 tbsp cream - 1 water Mix ingredients except water. Add water until consistency is perfect for making pancakes, not too thin and not too thick. Cook on a grill or pan like regular pancakes. Serve with butter and lowcarb syrup or fruit. Depending on the flavor of protein powder, the cakes can be used for savory entrees too. Total Carbs: ~9 Modified version of Almond Pancake recipe From www.lowcarbluxury.com Almond Cookies - Amazing! 2 cups almond flour 1/2 c splenda 1/2 c butter soft 1 tsp vanilla extract 1 tsp almond extract Preheat oven 300 degree F. Combine ingredients. Drop 18 walnut sized dough balls onto a greased cookie sheet. Bake for 5 minutes, press lightly and flatten cookies with a fork. Continue to bake for another 15 minutes. Let cookies cool. Total Carbs: ~48.6 Servings: 18 | 2.7g carb/cookie From www.lowcarbluxury.com Creamed Spinach 1 Tbs olive oil 1 Pkg Frozen Spinach or 1lb of Fresh Stemmed Spinach 1/3 cup heavy cream 1 tsp butter 1 tsp grated Parmesan cheese Heat the olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. When it's hot, add the spinach and flip it in the oil, using tongs,for 2 minutes. Remove the spinach to a nest of paper towels and squeeze it dry, Chop it. Add to the skillet the remaining ingredients and cool them down over high heat for a minute or two, until you have a little sauce. Add the chopped spinach and mix well with the sauce. Serve immediately. protein:1g fat:23.4g carbs:2.1g Servings:2 Recommended by an I-Villager Caprese Salad 2 oz Fresh Mozerella Soaked in Water 2 Fresh Chopped Basil Leaves 2 Fresh Tomatos 1 tbsp Olive Oil 1/2 tbsp Balsamiv Vinegar Black Pepper Slice Mozerella and tomatoes. Place cheese on top of tomatoe slices. Drizzel oil and vinegar and sprinkle with pepper and basil. A classic italian salad. Servings: 2 Mushroom and Cheddar Cheese Soup dried porcini mushrooms 2 tbsp butter fresh shitake or other type of mushrooms, no stems and sliced green onions, chopped broth, beef or chicken cream cheddar cheese, grated parsley I excluded quantities, because soups are meant to be made with whatever you happen to have in the kitchen. Its a really quick dish and tastes great. You can even add some meat and other vegetables. Fast Roast Lemon Chicken 1 whole chicken, 3 to 4 1bs 1 lemon salt and black pepper to taste Preheat oven to 450 degrees, and place a cast-iron or heavy oven proof pan on a rack set low in the oven. Rinse and season the chicken with salt and pepper. Stuff chicken with sliced up lemon. When oven is hot, place chicken breast site up, in the hot skillet. Roast, undisturbed, for 30 minutes or until temperature reaches 155 degrees. Remove, carve and serve. Servings: 4 New York Times Baked Chile Relleno de Picadillo 12 pablano chilies 1 tbsp vegetable oil 1 med onion 1 tsp salt 1/2 tsp black pepper 3 garlic cloves 1 1/2 1b of ground turkey or ground beef 1 tsp ground cinnamon 1/4 tsp ground cloves 8 canned italian plum tomatoes, drained and chopped 2 tbsp raisins 1 1/2 tbsp cider vinegar 3 c red salsa, warmed Prepare chilies With tongs, roast chilies over gas or electric burner, or on a tray under broiler. When the skin is charred, put chilies into a paper bag and close the top. Allow them to cool for about 15 minutes and then peel the skin off. Prepare Filling Heat oil in large heavy skillet over medium heat. Saute onion, salt and pepper until soft, about 5min. Add garlic, cook another 2min. Add meat and cook until brown. Add cinnamon, cloves, tomatoes, raisins and vinegar. Cook over low heat, stirring occasionally, until pan is nearly dry of liquid, about 20 - 25 minutes. Stuff Chilies Slit the side of each chili and scrape out seeds. Loosely stuff chilies with meat mixture (picadillo). Place chilies in a caserole dish into a 350degree oven and cook for 5 - 10 minutes. Serve with warmed salsa immediately. Servings: 6 ShapeCooks, Fall 1997 Antipasto Salad salad greens sliced provolone sliced prociutto sliced ham or mortadella sliced salami or pepperoni black kalamata olives olive oil, balsamic, red wine vinegar, black pepper This is a quick and filling salad to make for your self. Cut up the meat and cheese, place on lettuce and drizzel with oil and vinegar mixture.