New low-carb thread for post lockdown.

We are pondering tandoori chicken for tomorrow but might do lemon chicken and greek salad.

The peppers were very good - the photo makes them look dark and dry. I will use the same recipe for courgettes next time.

Right now I have chicken thighs & drumsticks marinating in spicy yoghurt (cumin, coriander, chilli & turmeric) basically tandoori chicken.

As ever Mamie your menus sound fab!

The stuffed pepper looks great. We celebrated Bastille Day with home-made pizza (pissaladière and Margarita), Wednesday was flash-fried chorizo, squid, prawn and courgette with lemon quarters and tonight is bolognese with courgetti. Lots of salads for lunch.
Glad everyone is doing well. ?

They look very appetising Riverwalk. I use the Hairy Biker’s recipe with hazelnuts and feta.

As ever the real thing looks a bit different from the glossy photos!

That looks a delicious recipe Riverwalk and within my capabilities, just!

You can send OH over here to our kitchen Mamie

Today I'm making a variation on this stuffed peppers recipe, minus the rice of course:

Stuffed peppers

I even have the pine nuts, and dried cranberries to hand which I've never used before.

Not all me Greeneyedgirl. Last night DH cooked veal (ethically raised "sous maman") with mushrooms and cream. We had it with a big helping of spinach from the garden and a couple of tiny new potatoes. Tonight will be leftover veal with leftover courgette from Friday. ? Have just made a smoked salmon salad and realised I am down to my last jar of horseradish. This is a disaster because despite the alleged existence of "raifort" it is pretty impossible to find in the shops. Will have to try and make it to the UK soon. ?

Haven’t weighed myself (don’t dare!) but I know I’ve put on weight during lockdown, despite daily walks. Too much snacking!

One low carb (or at least no bread, potatoes, rice, pasta etc.) lunch I’ve enjoyed lately is half a big bag of spinach, wilted down, with lemon juice, and half a normal sized pack of halloumi, sliced and fried (just a quick wipe of oil in the pan, obviously.).

I’m trying to keep off bread anyway - at least the heavily seeded brown we usually have - lately it blows me up like a balloon.

OMG Mamie. You don’t do B&B do you? What a domestic goddess you must be.

We had an Indian TA last night. Special birthday treat with friends, but good job I don’t normally eat like this. Put on 3lbs overnight! Just don’t tolerate too many carbs, or ???.

“Riverwalk* I make a complete list of all meals for a week. I add some low carb nibbles, take account of what we have in the garden and add some carbs for DH. That is what I then order. We often go ‘off list’, but never run out of stuff. I started doing this when I began low carb eating. Works very well for us

The duck and fig skewers sound delicious, and very decadent!

After three weeks I've lost the 5lbs lockdown weight - just have to keep it off

My fridge/freezer is a bit bare so have no idea what's on the menu in the coming days.

It is slightly cooler today so we are having skewers of duck magret (is that breast or fillet in English?) cut into cubes with dried figs soaked in brandy which is my favourite barbecue. I have just made a huge courgette agrodolce with shallot, garlic, sultanas, pine nuts and balsamic vinegar to go with it and last a couple of days.

Well it's not 30C here Mamie! The weekend and coming weeks are forecast to be sunny though

I've been eating autumnal food e.g. beef bourguignon and today will have a curry from the freezer.

Breakfast was a large mushroom & cheddar frittata with a sprinkling of zaatar.

We had salad niçoise for lunch and dinner is the Zaitoun stuffed courgette recipe again. It is 30° out there so too hot to barbecue. ?

Last night we had chicken with an aubergine, feta and mint gratin, and green beans. Tonight it was supposed to be cod with lettuce and peas, but I found a curry in the freezer so we had that. I had porridge with blueberries for lunch. Just fancied it, and it is low GI ?

Thank you Riverwalk the curry was delicious. Today we had a quick cheese and tomato lunch and as it is barbecue weather we had sausages and salads for dinner. Weather is getting hotter, 28° tomorrow they say. The nights are still cool though.

Hope you enjoyed your 'takeaway' curry Mamie. I use Patak's curry paste for mine - they're so useful and seemingly authentic. I make curry quite thick so it's not begging for naan or rice! Usually served with yoghurt & mint.

Today breakfast was smoked salmon and scrambled eggs, lunch will be odds & ends from the fridge and after the Ocado delivery will be making beef bourguignon - fitting for a gloomy grey day.

So tonight is what passes for convenience food in rural France. I always bring back a selection of the wonderful Spice Tailor curry sauces from the UK. I kept them carefully in reserve through lockdown, but tonight we are splashing out and having butter chicken curry. The side dish is chopped aubergine and courgette in turmeric, cayenne and cumin, cooked with a splash of oil in the oven. Brinjal pickle with it; Supplies are getting a bit low, a reason to visit to the UK (along with seeing the family ?).

Yum yum.
We should have a GN low carb, tried and tested menu ideas book. ??????

Last night we had roast chicken with cream and tarragon and spinach. Tonight I am just doing a simple chicken salad.

Last night we had salmon with stir fried mangetout, courgette and hazel nuts. Tonight it is roast pork with cabbage and apple. DH may have a roast potato with that., as he has no blood sugar problems.

After two weeks of no snacking and low carbing I've lost 3 of the 5 pounds lockdown gain - amazing what a bit of discipline can do!

Lunch will be salad nicoise, using tinned tuna and dinner the last of the lamb & aubergine from the freezer.

I think that must be it. Every time he has a referral for something his medical history is included and says "type 2 entirely controlled by diet". He has had a lot of tests with different "ologues" but all good. She insisted on an eye test locally at the hospital as she didn't think an English optician was good enough; DH said the tests were just the same, but the glasses would be twice as expensive (will still go to Specsavers when we can get to England ?).

Mamie You posed an interesting question up thread about once being diagnosed as diabetic or pre diabetic are you always in that category, and which Riverwalk answered.
I hadn’t thought about it before, but a friend who was diagnosed and lost weight and now has normal blood sugar readings, still attends diabetic clinic, but I don’t.

I suppose that if for some reason the pancreas doesn’t produce adequate insulin then basically, you give it less work to do by eating fewer carb and sugary foods, but the condition hasn’t gone away. Is just in remission, and could return ?