What is the Keto Life?? Enjoying healthy foods to enhance your quality of life. Food on the Keto diet is dense in protein, nutrition, and healthy fats, so you will feel full for the most of the day. Avoiding processed food, all things with sugar, and carbs will eliminate food cravings and hunger. Eating slowly and truly savoring your food with friends and family is “Bonum Animam Viventem” Living the Good Life!!!
Banish Those Winter Blues with the Perfect Keto Brunch…….
What to buy?? A charcuterie board, wooden bowls, miso soup spoons, and colorful ceramic dishes will liven up the darkest of winter days. Amazon https://www.amazon.com/ has a wide array of reasonable priced charcuterie boards, miso spoons, and small decorative bowls. Small ceramic plates and pretty cocktail napkins at Tuesday Morning.com https://www.tuesdaymorning.com/ add a fun pop of color!! Play some chill music from Pandora https://www.pandora.com/( pony up the $5 month to eliminate adds) such as “Glass Animals” , ” Chill Radio”, “French Cooking Music” or “Hipster Cocktail Party.” Feel those winter blues melt away!!
Pickles and Sausages Oh My!!!
As a child, I would visit my uncle’s deli in Philadelphia and eagerly dip my fingers in the huge pickle barrel. Then, my dad would fish out a delicious dill pickle for my lunch!! Organic sausages such as Cajun, turkey, venison, Kielbasa, apple, cheese, and Italian sausage are all delicious on your tray……. Cut the sausage into smaller pieces and bake in the oven for 20 minutes at 400 degrees until brown ( but not burnt). Add pickles, olives, celery, cherry tomatoes, blue cheese dressing, and mustards. I love the Old South pickled asparagus from Walmart. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Old-South-Pickled-Asparagus-16-fl-oz/45791
Did you say Bloody Mary??
How to survive the cold, dark winter days??? A Bloody Mary Brunch Bar!! Zing Zang Bloody Mary Mix, Tito’s vodka, kosher salt, limes, green olives, cocktail spears, celery, and pickled asparagus are the ingredients for a perfect Bloody Mary bar….. Cocktail shrimp and bacon add protein to your drink.. To make a Bloody Mary, pour kosher salt on a plate, squeeze a lime half around the rim of the glass, dip the glass in the salt, add ice, 1 1/2 ounces of Tito’s vodka, 4 ounces of Zing Zang Bloody Mary mix, and let your guests add their favorite yummies!!
“Shrimp is the fruit of the sea, you can barbecue it, boil it , broil it, bake it, or sauté it”
However you decide to cook it, shrimp, is always a crowd pleaser!! Kroger https://www.kroger.com/p/great-american-seafood-16-20-raw-peeled-tail-on-white-shrimp-approximate-delivery-is-3-6-days-/0082994409512 has the best quality and prices. I keep a bag of frozen shrimp in my freezer, then boil water, add one TB Old Bay Seasoning and boil the shrimp until pink ( 3 minutes). Let the shrimp cool in a bowl of ice in your fridge, when the ice has melted, drain the water, dry the shrimp off, and keep in a plastic storage bag. Then add hard boiled eggs, pickled asparagus, and sliced tomatoes topped with Kalamata olives, feta cheese, and extra virgin olive oil.
Boiled shrimp
