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January 27, 2006
Introducing: The Low Carb Apple Cinnamon Pizza!
Had a couple of friends over for dinner tonight for the first time. Wow, I had missed cooking so much! It was wonderful to have a receptive audience for my cuisine. I made:
kale salad with 50 g dino kale, 30 calories artichoke hearts, 100 g tomatoes, 50 g olives, and a dressing of sake wasabi mustard (5 cals per tablespoon) plus red wine vinegar to make a sake wasabi vinegarette.
Quorn tenders with bell peppers and Carolina Treet Carolina barbeque sauce -- food of the goddesses -- served over green beans with flax oil
dessert: a masterpiece! Apple Cinnamon Pizzas!
Trader Joe's low carb tortilla topped with 1/8 cup (that's two tablespoons -- I had to call MR's mom to find ot for sure that half of one fourth cup of fat free riccota would be two tablespoons -- yes, I did call my boyfriend's mother in Canada instead of doing a simple Google search. What can I say, I like to talk to people!) of fat free ricotta, dusted with Splenda and cinnamon, then topped with 100 g chopped green apples and cinnamon, then baked at 350 for a little while, cut down to 200 after about 20 mins, and baked till brown. After removing from the oven, I added 12 g almonds to the top of each tortilla. They were fantastic! A definite dessert success!
Friends brought over an excellent bottle of white, of which I had six ounces. I also had a Magic Hat Number Nine beer while cooking, so I had a higher calorie day due to alcohol... total of 1193. As I said earlier, I'm going to let my calories get a little higher on days when I'm drinking since I seem to be able to drop them so low when I'm not. 1193's not bad. Here's the crunch:
NUTRIENT TOTALS:
Abs. Values %RDA/SA
Calories 1193.39__cal 60%
Protein 76.31__gm 139% RDA
Total Fat 34.02__gm 52%
Sat. Fat 12.37__gm 62%
Mono. Fat 11.10__gm 38%
Poly. Fat 4.11__gm 62%
Carbohydrate 111.95__gm 37%
Fiber 23.24__gm 77%
Cholesterol 55.22__mg 18%
Vit. A 15378.55__IU 308% RDA
Vit. B6 1.03__mg 65% RDA
Vit. B12 1.52__mcg 76% RDA
Vit. C 272.00__mg 453% RDA
Vit. E 9.63__mg 120% RDA
Thiamine 0.54__mg 49% RDA
Folacin 234.72__mcg 130% RDA
Riboflavin 2.14__mg 164% RDA
Niacin 6.58__mg 44% RDA
Panto. Acid 2.14__mg 43% SA
Calcium 1167.41__mg 97% RDA
Copper 1.21__mg 60% SA
Iron 10.39__mg 69% RDA
Magnesium 246.53__mg 88% RDA
Manganese 2.87__mg 96% SA
Phosphorus 708.03__mg 59% RDA
Potassium 2581.23__mg 129% RDA
Selenium 60.89__mcg 111% RDA
Sodium 2485.64__mg 104% SA
Zinc 4.16__mg 35% RDA
Tyrosine 4.12__gm 430% RDA
Lysine 8.66__gm 1203% RDA
Phenylalanine 5.15__gm 537% RDA
Leucine 9.08__gm 945% RDA
Valine 6.33__gm 753% RDA
Methionine 2.96__gm 988% RDA
Cystine 1.64__gm 548% RDA
Tryptophan 1.32__gm 735% RDA
Threonine 4.84__gm 1008% RDA
Isoleucine 5.55__gm 771% RDA
Off to bed now, with visions of low carb tortilla desserts dancing in my head...
Posted by april at January 27, 2006 9:11 PM
Comments
I don't like anything sweet.
I mean, I never have liked anything that tastes sweet.
Is that weird? Chocolate, cakes, candy, ice-cream, even cerial don't mean anything to me. I don't like them and I don't want them. Never have, even when I was a kid. I hate anything sweet. I love salty, sour, spicy, neutral, but I don't like sweet.
So I can't appreciate your apple-cinnamon pizzas April dear, but I appreciated the rest of the dinner.
Good job!
Posted by: zeynep at January 27, 2006 7:59 PM