Recipes

CarbSmart Magazine’s Budget Low Carb Cooking and I are pleased to bring you two recipes your family will happily devour, despite the dubious leftover turkey provenance. In fact, low carb Kentucky Hot Brown open faced sandwiches, and Hearty Curry Turkey Soup with French Green Beans, taste so fantastic we're going out on a limb and now call them Lucky Leftovers.

Cranberries, like most berries, are a low sugar fruit. A whole 12-ounce bag of fresh cranberries - that's what they sell in my grocery store, at any rate - has 167 calories, with 43 grams of carb, 14 of which are fiber. So that whole bag has 29 grams of usable carb in it. Making low carb cranberry sauce is quick and easy. Really, really quick and easy. Dana Carpender shows us how.

A Southern Thanksgiving necessitates not only that you must decide whether to smoke, roast, bake or fry the family turkey, but you must choose a side. You must choose whether you will serve bread dressing or cornbread dressing at the family Thanksgiving table. Fluffy Chix Susie T. Gibbs explains the dilemma and offers some low carb alternatives.

These cute little roasted pumpkins make a great, Halloween treat for serving all kinds of soups and stews. Don’t forget to roast the seeds that you scoop out of the pumpkins and save them for snacks.

Susie T. Gibbs has put together a couple of 4 Under $10 low carb meals for your fall and Halloween enjoyment. How about giving her Spooky Halloween Guts and Worms a try! It's pretty scary...but darn good!

August & September in Texas signals an end to the summer's crop of fresh tomatoes.  This is our signal to stock up on hearty, rich tasting, vine ripened tomatoes - and do that voodoo we do so well with them before the tasteless winter imposters make the scene. Susie T. Gibbs tells us that now is the time to freeze, can, make sauces, soups, pastes, juice, and chop these prize tomatoes and provides us with a host of recipe ideas.

Oven roasting tomatoes and garlic delivers a flavor packed fresh marinara sauce that doesn't require a can opener.

Basic vinaigrette dressing adds a vinegary, garlicy goodness to a simple side salad. Works with any cuisine!

Often, the key to successful weight loss doesn’t begin with our bellies or end with our brains. For many, the battle of the bulge actually begins and ends with our budget. How do you cook budget-friendly low carb meals on a shoestring? Let's stretch those budgets and see just how much we can squeeze out of every penny. In her new column, Budget Low Carb Cooking, Susie T. Gibbs gives us affordable options for your low carb lifestyle.

Dana's Bone Broth Recipe. Naked, picked clean of meat, bones are still tremendously nutritious and remarkably flavorful. How? You simmer them for broth.

Plan for success & you can navigate into the end zone & score a low carb win for the home team. Susie T. Gibbs lays out her tips for helping the whole family stay low carb during football season.

According to the Hallmark Channel Ultimate Holiday Site, today is Eat an Extra Dessert Day. I think we can all get behind - if we choose an extra low carb dessert.