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Low-Carb Lesson #62: A Low Carb Menu For Casual Entertaining

Since I didn't want to spend an inordinate amount of time in the kitchen, our meals revolved around some type of meat on the grill, deviled eggs, a vegetable relish plate with dip, and a fruit plate. I made the deviled eggs, the vegetable relish plate, and the fruit plate up at the beginning of the week and replenished them daily as we ate all of certain items. So when dinnertime rolled around each day, I simply had to turn on the grill to cook the meat and bring out the various plates of side dishes.

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Low Carb Easter Peep Recipe

Did you know that older eggs peel easier than really fresh eggs? So for this Low Carb Easter Peep Recipe, if you have some eggs that you need to use that have been in the fridge for a week or so - Use 'em up and use the fresh ones for dipping and dying!

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Lesson #61: Mariachi Pork Chops

My mother, rest her soul, had a phobia about pork. She was absolutely certain that if she did not incinerate it until it looked like an old, discarded boot we would all get trichinosis and die. So she did what she was supposed to do - PROTECTED HER FAMILY - and happily cremated pork throughout her life.

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Low Carb Asparagus with Toasted Walnut Butter

It's Easter a very special time for celebration, family, friends and food! It's also a time to do a "double check" on counting carbs, fats and calories. No, Easter does not give you permission to stuff a whole box of those little yellow Easter chicks in your mouth! What's that got to do with Asparagus with Toasted Walnut Butter? Nothing, so let's get cookin' this special dish that is oh so easy... be ready for, "may I have this recipe?"

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Low-Carb Lesson #59: Easy Low Carb Greek Feast

I don't know a whole lot about Greece except that Greece is the birthplace of Western civilization, that every photograph of Greece I have seen is absolutely beautiful, and that the Greeks were fierce resistance fighters during World War II. Oh, and I can sing the Greek alphabet to the tune of "Anchors Aweigh."

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Lesson #58: Grilled Teriyaki Pork Shoulder Steaks

We moved into a new home last month (finally!), and my husband bought a new grill to celebrate the occasion. It's a mammoth thing, all stainless steel and shiny, and looks something like a not-so-miniature aircraft carrier. This is a "manly man's" grill, huge and professional-looking, containing all the bells and whistles. The problem is, my husband can't cook.

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Lesson #57: Citrus Chicken Salad

Low Carb Cooking 101 This evening’s dinner is in honor my move from Cincinnati, Ohio to Deltona, Florida. We are moved out of our interim duplex and into our new house – finally! Sometimes I didn’t think we’d ever get here. I still have a garage full of boxes to …

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