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stevenpiziks) wrote2019-06-16 01:50 pm
stevenpiziks) wrote2019-06-16 01:50 pm
Benefiting from the Keto Craze
The currently craze for the keto diet (which is basically the Adkins diet in a new package) is giving Darwin and me some benefits. The craze makes a whole bunch of low-carb, high-protein raw ingredients and recipes available for diabetics. Now that Darwin is serious about eating right, I've been turning the kitchen into a keto factory.
Apparently, my best friends are almond flour with a dash of coconut flour, xantham gum, and eggs. Almond flour has no gluten in it, which means it doesn't rise well, though it'll puff up a bit with some help from eggs. Xantham gum helps it hold together during this process. Another plus: Internet shopping. The grocery store doesn't carry a lot of the weirder ingredients, but on-line stores do. They even carry the stuff in bulk. This makes everything a WHOLE lot easier.
My latest experiment was with bread. Darwin misses bread terribly, and I was determined to find a substitute for him. An edible substitute. After some searching, I found what looked to be a decent bread recipe. It's a quick bread--yeast doesn't play nicely with almond flour--but it looked pretty and wouldn't be difficult to make.
I mixed up a batch and baked it. The loaf was low, maybe half the height of normal bread, but it wasn't overly dense. It has a slight nutty flavor to it--the almond flour at work--but it was quite tasty and Darwin deemed it a wonderful bread substitute. So we'll keep this one.
And keep benefiting from the keto craze.
Apparently, my best friends are almond flour with a dash of coconut flour, xantham gum, and eggs. Almond flour has no gluten in it, which means it doesn't rise well, though it'll puff up a bit with some help from eggs. Xantham gum helps it hold together during this process. Another plus: Internet shopping. The grocery store doesn't carry a lot of the weirder ingredients, but on-line stores do. They even carry the stuff in bulk. This makes everything a WHOLE lot easier.
My latest experiment was with bread. Darwin misses bread terribly, and I was determined to find a substitute for him. An edible substitute. After some searching, I found what looked to be a decent bread recipe. It's a quick bread--yeast doesn't play nicely with almond flour--but it looked pretty and wouldn't be difficult to make.
I mixed up a batch and baked it. The loaf was low, maybe half the height of normal bread, but it wasn't overly dense. It has a slight nutty flavor to it--the almond flour at work--but it was quite tasty and Darwin deemed it a wonderful bread substitute. So we'll keep this one.
And keep benefiting from the keto craze.