NEW IDEAS: What's for Dinner?

Okay folks, post your best low-carb dinner suggestions here --

I myself am out of good ideas right now.  Just ordered a pressure cooker, and am hoping that it will make meat more tender and easier to swallow ....

So, what are your best suggestions for supper?

I found this website that seems to have some tasty looking recipes...

http://www.lowcarbcafe.com/

I've been looking for easy quiche and fritatta recipes and I found several here along with many more. Also, the catagories are easy to navigate.

I tend to go to the Atkins site they have recipes for everything! Tonite I'm having crab salad, my cleaning lady gave me a crab for Christmas instead of cookies! Now wasn't that thoughtful? I'm a salad junkie so I tend to throw my meat and veggies on my salad.

 Okay, I don't eat shellfish so I have to ask .... was this a live crab?  Do you have to take care of it before eating it?

To which I would have to say ... I guess it's better than a puppy!

Nope it was a very dead but tasty crab. It was cleaned, had the top shell taken off and washed the unneccesary "gunk" out of it. All I had to do was crack the shell on the legs and enjoy the yumminess. Definately better or at least cleaner than a puppy.

Hello everyone!

Tonight I'm having a burger topped with cheddar, sauteed onions and peppers.

Often I make meat in the crockpot. It comes out tender and I can make various kinds of sugar-free sauces to go with it.

I also make a lot of meatballs and sliders (mini hamburgers). I use ground beef, pork and chicken. I put in all kinds of stuff like Thai sliders - garlic, ginger and corriander; Italian meatballs - parmesan cheese, tomatoe paste, oregano; Florentine meatballs - ground chicken, chopped spinach, garlic, parmesan, nutmeg in swedish meatball sauce (made with beef broth, heavy cream, sour cream, parsley, salt and pepper).

I just discovered spaghetti squash and have been making a lot of homemade sauce to go on it.

This is a very livable diet/lifestyle....

Omigosh I love, love, LOVE spaghetti squash!

It's even tastier when I decide I'm not using it as a substitute for real spaghetti -- Just deliciousness topped with butter, and a little salt and pepper ..... 

Thanks, now I have to go make some!


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I have never mastered the art of Spaghetti squash.  I have tried to cook it, but can never get the noodles to look like spaghetti.  PLEASE share how to cook it with me.  I know I would like it, but i quit trying to cook it because it was always to soft and mushy when I got finished.  Not at all like spaghetti.

The first thing is to get rid of the idea that it's a spaghetti substitute.  This squash is its own wonderful self, and it doesn't really turn out to look like spaghetti,.  It's just that when it's appropriately steamed, it separates out into spaghetti-like strands.

Soooooooo .... here is a link that explains it all very well:

http://homecooking.about.com/od/vegetablerecipes/ss/spagsquashsbs.htm

I tend to do the same thing, but in the microwave.

Sometimes this has to do with the maturity or ripeness of the squash you're getting -- and I don't know where Tennessee produce is produced!  If it's been sitting in cold storage or a year or more, it can get starchy and weird.

I slice my spaghetti squash lengthwise, place it cut side down on a baking sheet and bake it for about an hour at 350. Comes out perfectly every time.

I agree with WhackaDoodle not to think of it so much as a substitute for spaghetti. It's great!