Meeting went well - any time a full-page agenda can be cranked through in a bit less than one hour represents a well-run meeting.
Had an idea for dinner tonight so went ahead and made it - Lulu and I are both on a low-carb diet and having a lot of fun with it. With the possible advent of the Crossroads food trailer, I have been thinking about some of the classical sandwiches and the BLT is one of the top ones in my pantheon. Only problem is that this is not the part of the nation to count on really good tomatoes for more than a few weeks in August and September.
The acid of the tomato balances the fat of the bacon so I was thinking what else would be good. Since I am incorporating smoked turkey as the protein, how about cranberry sauce. Commercial cranberry sauce has a ton of sugar in it - two ounces has 25 grams of carbohydrates. Considering that one ounce of pure sugar has 28 grams of carbs, the sauce is almost half sugar. I used commercial sauce for tonight's meal but have some of last fall's berries in the freezer and will try a version with stevia glycerite (the best formulation to use for cooking) tomorrow. The stuff is expensive but incredibly concentrated and I want the cranberry sauce to be really tart to counteract the fat of the bacon so I will not be using very much - a tablespoon or so.
For the fun of it, I picked up a pack of spring-roll wraps - they show a high carb level but they use a very large sample size (85 grams) and the individual wraps are only about eight grams of carbs. Our target is no more than 60 grams per day, hopefully less, so this is right on target to do a BLC spring roll - had three of them tonight for dinner and they were delicious! 2oz smoked turkey, a leaf or two of lettuce, a full slice of bacon cut in half and a good dollop of cranberry sauce (love the stuff!) and wrap it up. Simple and classic. A light yellow mustard-rice vinegar dipping sauce or some thousand island dressing would be a nice compliment.
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