Beef

Instant Pot Beef Stew (Recipe Link)

Instant Pot beef stew with onions, celery and carrots. I’m on maintenance and experimenting occasionally with a few extra carbs, hence the carrots. This is a lovely stew! You can leave out the carrots and use mushrooms or other low carb veggies instead. Original recipe is from Amy and Jacky. They do a lot of…

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Cheeseburgers and Salad

Air-fried cheeseburgers (4 oz each) and Romaine lettuce salad with red onion, red pepper, baby tomatoes, a few raspberries, Balsamic mayo (1/2 T mayo, 1/2 T Balsamic salad dressing). I actually ate four burgers (see photo below). This was a delicious meal!

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Steak Salad with Balsamic and Fig Goat Cheese

“Inside Round Marinating Steak” (on sale at Walmart) marinated in Balsamic Salad Dressing and pan fried to medium-rare; Romaine lettuce salad with baby tomatoes, red onions, olives, “Woolwich Fig and Balsamic Goat Cheese” (5 gm carbs per 2 T, so a little carby, but you don’t need much to make a salad taste so delicious!).…

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Marinating Steak Know-how from CanadaBeef.ca

Today I bought a package of two Inside Round Marinating Steaks that were discounted at Walmart. I was a little nervous about cooking these guys, because I knew they would not be tender if I cooked them like a ribeye. Nevertheless, I also knew that thinly-sliced, quick-cooking, tougher cuts of beef like flank steak are…

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Cold Steak with Lots of Salt

Cold steak with lots of salt prior to donating blood (maybe… if I pass the height/weight test!). Going to try to donate blood today for the first time since I was in university in the 70s. It didn’t go well back then, but I feel confident I will be okay now.   However, they have…

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Chicken, Burger, Sausage, Carrots, Potato

One crispy chicken thigh, one English banger sausage, one 4 oz. beef patty; 100 gm. carrots (weighed raw), 1/2 small potato, 1 tsp butter. This meal was delicious! Also a bit high in carbs (26.5 gm) because of the carrots, but I’m on maintenance and can handle a few extra carbs now and then. Nevertheless, I…

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Stewed Beef, Parsnips, Potato

Stewed beef, mashed parsnips, half a small potato with butter. It’s cold and snowing again, no thaw in view, no snow tires, so could be trapped inside for days! Decided on a little comfort food! Therefore this meal is a wee bit carby.

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