Dana Carpender
Dana Carpender, 46-year nutrition buff, 29-year low-carber, opinionated writer, congenital smarty pants, and low-carb recipe guru. Lives in Southern Indiana with Otis the Pug, Squeaky the Cat, and as always, That Nice Boy She Married.
Dana Carpender
June 22, 2022
Beef Main Dish Recipes, CarbSmart Magazine, Holidays & Seasons, Low-Carb Independence Day, Low-Carb Labor Day, Low-Carb Memorial Day, Low-Carb Summer, Recipes
How To Smoke A Slab of Ribs That Will Make a Grown Man Weep by Dana Carpender. A million rib joints attest to American’s love of barbecued spare ribs. They also suggest that many people aren’t sure how to turn out a killer slab at home. If you’re one of those people, I’m here to help.
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Dana Carpender
June 21, 2022
Beverage Recipes, Recipes
It is a wonder that hibiscus tea has not caught on in the United States. Hugely popular through the Caribbean, in Africa, Southeast Asia, and in the Middle East, it is a glorious, brilliant red with a tart and fruity flavor. Hibiscus tea also has health benefits, including but not limited to lowering blood pressure and blood sugar. It is also loaded with antioxidants.
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Dana Carpender
June 20, 2022
CarbSmart Magazine, Cookouts, Grilling & Picnics, Fish (Seafood) Main Dish Recipes, Holidays & Seasons, Low-Carb Independence Day, Low-Carb Labor Day, Low-Carb Memorial Day, Low-Carb Summer, Menu Planning, Recipes
Low-Carb Blue Trout Recipe (La Truite Au Bleu). Unless you have a really extraordinary fish market in town, you’ll need an angler to help you out on this one. But it’s a classic, classic recipe, and really very simple. Too, it neatly sidesteps all that messy, carby business of flour and cornmeal.
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Dana Carpender
June 17, 2022
Cookouts, Grilling & Picnics, Holidays & Seasons, Low-Carb Independence Day, Low-Carb Juneteenth, Low-Carb Labor Day, Low-Carb Summer, Recipes, Salad Recipes
Low-Carb Kaleidoscope Salad is beautiful, delicious, and makes a vat‑full! This is especially good with anything that has a Tex-Mex accent.
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Dana Carpender
June 17, 2022
Cookouts, Grilling & Picnics, Holidays & Seasons, Low-Carb Independence Day, Low-Carb Labor Day, Low-Carb Memorial Day, Low-Carb Summer, Recipes, Salad Recipes
Green and red and purple and yellow, plus a gorgeous salmon-pink dressing. You’ll make a big hit at the party with this, but you’ll be really happy to have it with the same old Tuesday chicken.
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Dana Carpender
June 17, 2022
Cookouts, Grilling & Picnics, Holidays & Seasons, Low-Carb Independence Day, Low-Carb Labor Day, Low-Carb Memorial Day, Low-Carb Summer, Recipes, Salad Recipes
A simple Low-Carb summer side dish that is made with steamed fresh green beans and tender carrots. A very tasty and definitely low-carb recipe, and one you can enjoy making during the summer or all year long!
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Dana Carpender
June 13, 2022
Dessert Recipes, Grain-Free Sugar-Free Living Cookbook, Recipes
Not only are they fun to eat, taste great, and give you a little nibble of something sweet, but they’re full of antioxidants from the hibiscus, while cinnamon lowers blood sugar and ginger settles a queasy tummy and is traditionally used for colds.
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Dana Carpender
May 24, 2022
Recipes, Snack Recipes
Keto Low-Carb Anchovy & Olive Crackers started with a recipe I saw in a Spanish cookbook. I wasn't going to use wheat flour, of course, but the flavor combination seemed interesting -- and it is!
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Dana Carpender
May 10, 2022
InnoFoods, Low Carb Food Brands & Low Carb Products, Low Carb Foods, Product Reviews, Reviews, Snacks
Of all the things people miss when they start eating low-carb/keto, perhaps the biggest gap is crunchy snacks. So when I saw InnoFoods Keto Crackers, and gluten-free Keto Crackers at that, at my local Aldi, I figured, “What the heck? Try ‘em.”
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Dana Carpender
April 21, 2022
Holidays & Seasons, Low-Carb Thanksgiving, Recipes, Side Dish Recipes
Do you know how much I love you guys? I love you so much that when I discovered that my Mastercook program had somehow eaten this recipe, I looked it up in 1001 Low-Carb Recipes and typed it all in again. This is a little carby, but so unusual, delicious, and seasonally appropriate that I wanted to get it to you while the little sugar pumpkins are still in the grocery stores. This would make a fine side dish with simple, warmed-up leftover turkey.
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Dana Carpender
April 20, 2022
Entertaining, Holidays & Seasons, Low-Carb Cinco De Mayo, Low-Carb Spring, Low-Carb Summer, Menu Planning
For a long time, my tipple of choice has been dry red wine–Cabernet, Shiraz, Malbec, and the like, the dryer the better. Also, the occasional quality tequila sipped slowly. However, pleasant though they may be, neither of these falls into the “long, cool drink” category. I have, as the weather warmed up, found myself drawn back to the good, old-fashioned highball–a shot of liquor and a mixer over ice. I have come up with a few I enjoy tremendously, and thought I would share.
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Dana Carpender
March 16, 2022
Fat Fast, Interviews, Ketogenic Diet, Ketone Production, Nutritional Ketosis, Research & Science
Why is Jacqueline Eberstein, RN the first Three-Question Interview? Because she ran Dr. Atkins’ clinic for thirty years, that why. She has more first-hand experience with ketogenic diets than anyone else I know. Who better to ask?
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