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Monday, December 31, 2012

Whole Salmon

We bought this baby 2-3 pounder salmon to celebrate an upcoming new year. Supposedly, some asians eat fish the eve of a new year and leave some left over to bring prosperity and good luck for the new year the next day. We just bought the salmon cuz we saw them at a market. heh.
Chop up some veggies and slice up a couple of lemons.
My hubby re-descaled the salmon to ensure a less scaly salmon (since the supermarkets don't really de-scale their fishes completely). Then, it was stuffed with the lemon slices. The fish was also rubbed well with red and white hawaiian salt with garlic powder and pepper and coconut oil (the white gunky stuff is the harden coconut oil). Top the fish with butter so it'll melt over the fish and make it even more tastier. Add the chopped veggies on the side of the pan to catch the fish drippings. Salt and pepper them lightly.
Bake in preheated oven of 400F for thirty minutes. 
Serve on a plate. We ate ours with some rice and made up coconut gravy. The coconut gravy was somehow made with coconut flour, butter, white wine, water, heavy whipping cream and salt n pepper... maybe some other stuff too? We were trying to make a keto-friendly gravy. It wasn't great by itself, but man, it went really well over rice! We need to figure out what we did and make it again!

Sunday, December 30, 2012

Cheese n Sausage

So, we went on a rare trip to Target because I had rec'd a gift card. Yay for gift cards! :) 
I bought stuff and had a few dollars left over and decided on fontina cheese and hickory farms summer sausage. MM-mmmmm!

Omity om nom nom! The fontina cheese reminded me of a softer mozarella cheese. Super yummy!  We were going to use it to make fondue but we ended up just eating it all... that's how yummy it was! As usual, the sausage was really good too. It's also keto friendly (but not the honey mustard). We heart munchies <3 p="p">

Saturday, December 29, 2012

Starch for dinner!

Basically, it's potstickers, mini quiches, pasta in garlic sauce and potatoes au gratin! Super tasty and  super amazing in my tummy. :)

Friday, December 28, 2012

Soba Noodles n Potstickers

Simple yet delicious.

ps: It's great having frozen pork dumplings on hand, makes for super easy back up dinner when I don't feel like cooking or just don't have time on my hand.

Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Christmas Dinner


Christmas turkey

artichoke dip
nachos n chips, artichokes n crackers, cereal cookies and sugar cookies

swedish meatballs
twice baked mashed potatoes... LOVE
raspberry sorbet ginger ale soda






Christmas Breakfast

Le scrambled eggs

Super moist cornbread with to-die-for some kind of honey syrup = AH-mazing-ness

Le spam n turkey bacon

Omnity om nom nom...

Sunday, December 23, 2012

Stuffed pork loins w/ mash potatoes


Another super duper scrumptious holiday meal that makes me wish we were in Sacramento more often. :D As usual, the foods are to die for!

Saturday, December 22, 2012

Cinnamon Buns

From this doughy globby nothingness to
this delicious dessert... mmmmmmmm
We ate some :)

My uncle also bought a coffee crunch cake, which was super yummy too!

Friday, December 21, 2012

Chicken Parm.



For the Christmas week, we decided to stay with family in Sacramento. (They really know how to cook up a storm!


Salad with tangerines and special-made vinaigrette.



WAAAAAAAAAAAAY better than Olive Garden. Super fresh and homemade = major deliciousness in my tummy (w/o having to lift a finger... gotta love my cousin n aunt!!) 




Thursday, December 20, 2012

Pork belly n Eggs & Christmas Cookies

For dinner, we had pork belly and scrambled eggs. The dip is made with mayo and chipotle smoked hot sauce (super yum).

For dessert, we had some cookies, which were made exactly as the nestle tollhouse recipe instructed with the minor minor change of slightly decreased chocolate chips. I thought the cookies weren't that great (I prefer my cookies bready), but it's prolly just me as my fiance and my dad thinks it tasted normal and delicious. 

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Crumbly peanut butter cookies

Yup, these cookies sure do crumble easily. Maybe best to use as peanut butter crumble on top of some other delicious bakery. This is also keto friendly.
The above dough is made with 1 egg, 1 cup peanut natural butter, 1/4 cup splenda, 1/2 tsp vanilla extract, and 1 tbs coconut flour. Mix til well incorporated.

Scoop out a mountain high tablespoon and then flatten with fork. Bake in preheated oven of 350 F for about 12 minutes. Cookies will crumble! (Will try this again with 2 eggs to see if the cookies hold better)

They look pretty good. And it tastes pretty sweet too. Think I'll cut down on the splenda next time as well.