New Years Resolution.. FIND YOUR TRUE LOVE,.. AGAIN!

CookingWithCarlo.com ^ | Dec.31, 2002 | Carlo3b Dad, Chef, Author, and FReeper lover

[IGOTMINE]

OK...so SHE hasn't signed up. How about her friends? Friends of her friends?

[carlo3b]

"If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, hunt them down and kick their butt."

No, no, no, I think you'll get a lot further if you think like this.. Rolling eyes.. :)

"A relationship is like a rose, How long it lasts, no one knows; Love can erase an awful past, Love can be yours, you'll see at last; To feel that love, it makes you sigh, To have it leave, you'd rather die; You hope you've found that special rose, 'Cause you love and care for the one you chose."
-Rob Cella

[carlo3b]

Thanks for helping find love.. you get a special prize..

LOWCARB Garlic Chicken PIZZA

• 4 ounces cream cheese, softened
• 1/4 cup sour cream
• 2 cloves garlic, mashed
• 1 cup boned and skinned chicken breast halves, cooked and diced
• 1/2 red onion, cut in rings
• 1/2 tomato, diced
• 1 tsp. oregano
• 1/2 cup mushrooms, sliced
• season with salt and pepper
• 1 cup mozzarella cheese, shredded
• parmesan cheese
• 1 recipe Meat Crust (see below)

1) Mix together cream cheese, sour cream and mashed garlic until smooth.
2) Spread on pizza crust, top with oregano, chicken, onion, tomato and mushrooms, salt and pepper and cheese.
Bake in a 350 oven for 15 minutes until cheese is melted.
Top with parmesan cheese.
 

Meat Crust

• 1/2 lb ground beef
• 1/2 lb sausage (hot or italian)
• Garlic powder to taste
• Onion powder to taste
• (You can use Italian seasoning or any other seasonings you wish)
• 1 large egg
• 1/4 cup soy protein powder (to help hold it together)

1) Mix all together and press out thin in a greased metal pan (I use a 9X13 cake pan)
Bake at 350 for approx.. 25-30 minutes (till done), pouring off the excess grease that accumulates as it cooks. Then take out and spread a thin layer of tomato sauce (watch the labels for carbs here) and whatever toppings you like and put back in for another 10 - 15 minutes.
The thing about this crust is that it tastes just as good warmed up the next day as it did when made the first day. Enjoy.

[Lady Jag]

"Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons."

[carlo3b]

"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul."
-Judy Garland

[kimmie7]

While walking in an antique mall with my darling husband (true love) one day, I ran into 'Steve' (first love). Turns out he and his lovely wife, 'Lynn', live within 2 miles of us. After a couple years of dinners at each others' houses, shopping trips with 'Lynn' and the guys getting to be good friends we found out we were going to have a baby. We told 'Lynn and Steve' about it Thanksgiving week after a particularly nice dinner. They looked so surprised. They had been planning to tell us the same news. Lynn and I were preggers at the same time, our babies due within a month of each other. Due to toxemia, I had my son first (3 months early). One month and one week later, they had their son.

The boys are now the very best of friends -- as are their parents. Funny how life works. (And no, there's no funny-business going on...lol)

[carlo3b]

"There is only one terminal dignity -- love."

-Helen Hayes

... :)

[Lady Jag]

Those quotes are wonderful, Carlo. Here's an old one but one I still believe should be striven for:

LIVING

You gotta dance like nobody's watching,
dream like you will live forever,
live like your going to die tomorrow
and love like it's never going to hurt.

     - Meme Grifsters

[carlo3b]

LowCarb Chinese Hot Peanut Wings

• 12 wings or 24 "drummettes" (half chicken wings)
• 1/4 cup soy sauce
• 3 Tbs. sugarless sweetener, such as Splenda
• 3 Tbs. natural peanut butter
• 2 Tbs. dry sherry
• 1 Tbs. peanut oil (another bland oil will do.)
• 1 Tbs. apple cider vinegar
• 2 tsp. Chinese Five Spice Powder (available in the Chinese food section of big grocery stores)
• 1/4 tap. red pepper flakes, (more or less if you want)
• 1 clove garlic, smashed


Preheat oven to 325
1) Put everything but the wings in a blender or food processor, and blend well.
(If you have whole chicken wings, and want to, you can cut them into "drummettes" -- if you do this, remember that those pointy tips you're cutting off make the best chicken broth in the world!)
2) Arrange the wings in a large baking pan, and pour the sauce over them, then turn them over to coat them on all sides.
3) Let them sit for at least a half an hour; an hour won't hurt.
4) Bake wings for an hour, turning twice (at 20 and 40 minutes) during baking.
5) When they're done, put the wings on a serving platter, then scrape the sauce from the pan back into the blender or food processor, and blend again for just a moment to make it smooth, and serve with the wings.

Approx. 15 g. of usable carb in the entire recipe.

[carlo3b]

Happy New Year.. :)

LowCarb Italian Sponge Cake

• 5 eggs, separated
• 1 Tbls. plus 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 3 Tbls. Soya powder or soy flour*
• 1/2 tsp cream of tartar
• 5 Tbls. Splenda
• 1 tsp. grated lemon peel, (zest)
• 4 Tbls. heavy cream

Preheat oven to 325°F.
1) Place egg yolks and Splenda in a bowl. Beat with electric mixer until well blended.
2) Add vanilla extract and lemon peel. Continue to beat and add soy flour one tablespoon at a time.
3) Stir in heavy cream. Beat egg whites in fresh bowl with cream of tartar until stiff but not dry.
4) Fold yolk mixture into egg whites. Be careful not to break down egg whites - so fold carefully and slowly.
Turn into greased 9" cake pan and bake at 325°F for 30 minutes or until cake tests done.
* Soya Powder is much finer than soy flour, so a lighter cake will result.

Makes 9 servings.
6 grams of carbohydrate per serving.
 

[labowski]

Yeah, I'm working on the friends angle as well. It's been about sixteen years and we went to different High Schools so last names of friends are a bit hazy.
I may have to pay to sign up for Classmates so I can post and see if anyone knows what she's up to or where she lives now.

[kimmie7]

The true love is now snoring peacefully on the couch after a rather largish lunch of home-made chicken and dumplins, lol. He's been on vacation since 12/19. True love or not, it will be only bittersweet for him to go back to work 1/6.

The other part of my heart fell asleep in 5 minutes after protesting, "But I'm not sleepy at alllll...zzzzzzzzzzzzzz!"

[carlo3b]

My dear Kimmie, your story is so beautiful, and proves that old adage, you just never know what's going to happen in life, but one thing is clear.. good things, usually happen to good people.. Happy New Year.. :)

[carlo3b]

Here's dinner Saturday..

LowCarb Twice Cooked Pork Chops with a Lemon Chive Cream Sauce

• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon ground white pepper
• 1 shallots, crushed
• 3 pounds pork chops (4 large chops)

Cream Sauce

• 1 cup whipping cream
• 1/4 teaspoon lemon extract
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/8 teaspoon ground white pepper
• 1/4 cup minced fresh chives

1) Using a shallow pan, stir together oil, salt, pepper, and shallots. Place pork chops in pan, coat with marinade on both sides, and let rest for 15 to 30 minutes.

Cream Sauce:
2) In a small saucepan over medium heat, place cream and lemon extract. Simmer until reduced by about one third; keep warm over low heat. Just before serving, season with salt and pepper, then stir chives into warm cream sauce.
3) Prepare a charcoal fire or preheat broiler. Place pork chops on grill or under broiler, about 4 inches from heat, and cook until browned on one side (about 4 minutes). Turn and cook second side until lightly browned and slightly firm.
Serve immediately, with sauce.
Yields 4 servings.

[jellybean]

There is only one terminal dignity -- love."

I'm not sure I understand your quote. My interpretation is: "Love kills!" I believe it's true.

[Ditter]

Congratulate me. Over Christmas I *lost* a pound.

[reformed_democrat]

Was my first "true love" at the age of 6? Was it the first one after puberty? Or after I became an adult?

I was just wondering that, myself. I'm guessing my first love is my husband (the unreformed_republican), because I can't imagine life without him.

Oh well. If he's not the first, he's certainly the last.

[carlo3b]

STANDING OVATION!!!!!! You get an Attagirl.. :)

[Gabz]

If I had any ground beef or turkey in the freezer I would have made it tonight, it sounds that yummy and I'm in a soup mood. I'm making onion soup instead.

When I replied to her question of what I was cooking, my 5yo reacted "OH GROSS!" Until she was told about the bread and cheese with it. Now she's bouncing around the house chanting "onion soup is yummy." Of course letting her add the wine and worcestershire sauce and do some stirring always helps, she thinks she made dinner!!!

[kimmie7]

Yummmmmm...I'll make that right after whiskey marinaded pork loin!

Happy New Year to you as well, my dear.
XOXO