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Low Carb Crustless Pumpkin Pie

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Low Carb Crustless Pumpkin Pie

This low carb pumpkin pie recipe is sort of a mix of 5 different recipes, including my mom's and turned out great!

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 1 hour

Total Time 1 hour 10 minutes

Servings 8

Calories 115 kcal

Ingredients

15 ounce Pumpkin canned
3 Eggs beaten
1/4 cup Truvia white sugar blend
1/4 tsp Salt
1 tsp Cinnamon ground
1/2 tsp Ginger ground
1/8 tsp Cloves ground
3/4 cup Heavy Cream

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
Spray a pie pan with Coconut Oil Spray or other non-stick spray. (Not olive oil!)
In a mixing bowl, combine all ingredients. It mixes well by hand. It helps if you beat the eggs before adding them.
Pour mixture into pie pan.
Bake for 60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the pie comes out clean.
Allow to cool at least two hours and then chill in the refrigerator.
Serve cool with a low carb whip cream or a modest amount of Reddi Whip (that is within your carb allowance).

Recipe Notes

I couldn't stop eating it!
It held its shape great!
I didn't miss the crust at all!
Honestly... I hoarded this!
This pie was traveling a long distance and so I used an aluminum pie tin. It worked fine and the sides did not adhere to it because of the non-stick spray.
There is another version of this I am going to try with another egg and more cream. I'll let you know how that goes!
Just double this recipe for two pies!

Nutrition Facts

Low Carb Crustless Pumpkin Pie

Amount Per Serving

Calories 115 Calories from Fat 81

% Daily Value*

Fat 9g14%

Saturated Fat 5g31%

Cholesterol 91mg30%

Sodium 105mg5%

Potassium 220mg6%

Carbohydrates 4g1%

Sugar 1g1%

Protein 3g6%

Iron 0.7mg4%

Calcium 38mg4%

Vitamin C 5mg6%

Vitamin A 4940IU99%

Net Carbs 4g8%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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Low Carb Almond Sandy Cookies

Low Carb Almond Sandy Cookies

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Low Carb Almond Sandy Cookies

A low carb almond flavored cookie. We always ate a Christmas tree shaped high carb version of these during the holidays, but this is good any time of the year!

Course Dessert

Cuisine World

Keyword Almond Cookie

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 25 minutes

Total Time 35 minutes

Servings 18

Calories 117 kcal

Ingredients

2 cups Almond Flour
1/4 cup Truvia white sugar blend
1/2 tsp Xanthan Gum (can use 1 egg instead)
1/2 cup Butter softened
1 tsp Vanilla Extract
1 tsp Almond Extract

Instructions

Preheat oven to 300 degrees Fahrenheit.
Mix all ingredients with a mixer. (I actually use my hands with food safe gloves on as I like how it feels gooshing through my fingers as it mixes.)
Evenly divide mixture to make 18 cookies.
Roll each piece into balls.
Flatten each dough ball with a fork making a criss-cross pattern. (The dough balls will not spread and so you have to flatten them.)
Bake for 25 minutes.
Let cool thoroughly. They will be crumbly until cooled.
ENJOY!

Recipe Notes

My family adores the cookie press almond trees at Christmas time. I was really sad at not being able to eat those. So, I set out to find some alternatives. This recipe is one and tastes JUST LIKE what we all loved so much.
These cookies brown a little better with Truvia than they do with other sugar alternatives, but not much.
I like Xanthan Gum better than using an egg. That is just me. Either works fine to keep cookie from crumbling so much without them.
This recipe yields cookies at 2 carbs per cookie. Compare that to say one of the better almond cookies on the market at 14 carbs per cookie!!!!
This is a win in the battle!

Nutrition Facts

Low Carb Almond Sandy Cookies

Amount Per Serving

Calories 117 Calories from Fat 99

% Daily Value*

Fat 11g17%

Saturated Fat 3g19%

Cholesterol 13mg4%

Sodium 47mg2%

Carbohydrates 2g1%

Fiber 1g4%

Protein 2g4%

Iron 0.5mg3%

Calcium 28mg3%

Vitamin A 160IU3%

Net Carbs 1g2%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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Thanksgiving Low Carb Menu

Holidays like Thanksgiving are tough on us low carbers… but here are some thoughts on changing things up a bit to make it low carb and still enjoyable for non low carbers.

Low Carb menu for Thanksgiving:

Turkey – Use your usual recipe.
Ham – Use your usual recipe.
Dressing – made with low carb almond flour “cornbread”. Follow the link for my recipe. You can make a regular one too for those not low carbing.
Mashed Cauliflower – the trick is to add in cream cheese and minimize liquid from the cauliflower. A blender does the trick. Save out some cauliflower to minimally process to create “lumps”. Try George Stella’s Mock Mashed Potatoes recipe. Follow the link for his recipe. You can make regular mashed potatoes for others not on low carb.
Green Bean Casserole – Use your usual recipe using crushed pork rinds for the onion topping. Or just make basic boiled green beans with seasoning.
Squash Casserole – Use your usual recipe using crushed pork rinds for the cracker topping. The bacon-ey goodness goes great with squash!
Spinach Casserole – Use your usual recipe using crushed pork rinds for the cracker topping. Again, what’s not to love about bacon-ey goodness?
Peas – Use your usual recipe or just basic boiled peas with seasoning. We avoided but kept in our menu for others not low carbing.
Cranberry Relish – We did two versions one with sugar for others and a low carb version with Truvia. Follow the link for my recipe.
Gravy – We did regular gravy for others. For our gravy we simply used the turkey drippings and simmered until reduced by half and then added heavy cream and simmered and reduced (8-10 minutes) until it coated the back of a spoon and then seasoned to taste. It worked, and there were no flour carbs!
Rolls – We avoided, but could have made low carb bread. Check out my Low Carb 4 Ever! Pinterest page full of low carb bread recipes that I like! Just follow the link.
Pumpkin Pie – we did two versions one for others and a low carb version. George Stella does a great low carb Praline Pumpkin Pie. Follow the link for his recipe.

We also had nuts out for munching. Here are the links for those recipes:

Cinnamon “Sugar” Pecans or any kind of nuts you like.
Savory Pecans or any kind of nuts you like.

A note about Sweet Potato Casserole. I haven’t found a recipe that I have tried so that I can post here nor have I adjusted my families’ recipes yet, but I am still looking and will see what I come up with for Christmas!

Hope all that helps.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Until next time… #lowcarb4ever

Dee

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Low Carb “Cornbread” Dressing Recipe

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Low Carb “Cornbread” Dressing

A delicious "cornbread" dressing combining my "cornbread" recipe and my mother's basic dressing recipe.

Prep Time 15 minutes

Cook Time 1 hour 30 minutes

Total Time 1 hour 45 minutes

Servings 16

Calories 237 kcal

Ingredients

"Cornbread"

2 cups Almond Flour
2 teaspoons Baking Powder
4 Eggs beaten
4 Tablespoons Heavy Cream
4 Tablespoons Water
1/4 teaspoon Salt
1 stick Butter melted

Dressing

2 cups Onion chopped
1 1/2 cups Celery chopped
1 stick Butter
1 teaspoon Salt
1/2 teaspoon Poultry Seasoning
1/4 teaspoon Pepper
1/2 teaspoon Sage dried
2 cups Chicken Stock
2 Eggs

Instructions

"Cornbread"

Preheat oven at 350 degrees.
Grease a 12-cup muffin tin.
Combine almond flour, baking powder and salt.
Add eggs, cream, water and extract (if used).
Add melted butter.
Option: Add 1/8th teaspoon of Popcorn Extract.
Divide evenly among muffin cups.
Bake. The muffins should be lightly browned on top and edges. They should be firm to the touch and if you insert a toothpick, it should come out clean.
Let cool.
Crumble "cornbread" into a large bowl.

Dressing

Preheat oven at 350 degrees.
Spray nonstick spray on a 8 x 11.5 glass baking dish.
Saute onions and celery in butter.
Add all ingredients to "cornbread" in bowl and mix together well.
Pour mixture into the baking dish and smooth out evenly.
Bake for an hour or until set firm, but still moist.

Recipe Notes

I worried that that it took so long to bake and that I might need to back off some liquid, but it turned out great. I may still experiment with that and will update this post when I do.
Another reader did this recipe with 1 1/2 cups chicken stock with good success. I will try this out too. Some like drier rather than wetter dressing. My family likes it a little wetter.
The Nutritional facts went a bit wonky on me. This recipe is calculated for 16 servings.

Nutrition Facts

Low Carb “Cornbread” Dressing

Amount Per Serving

Calories 237 Calories from Fat 189

% Daily Value*

Fat 21g32%

Saturated Fat 9g56%

Cholesterol 97mg32%

Sodium 359mg16%

Potassium 161mg5%

Carbohydrates 6g2%

Fiber 1g4%

Sugar 2g2%

Protein 6g12%

Iron 1mg6%

Calcium 75mg8%

Vitamin C 1.8mg2%

Vitamin A 540IU11%

Net Carbs 5g10%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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Cinnamon “Sugar” Pecans

Cinnamon “Sugar” Pecans

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Cinnamon "Sugar" Pecans

A low carb version of those wonderful cinnamon sugar nuts.

Course Appetizer

Cuisine Southern

Prep Time 5 minutes

Cook Time 15 minutes

Total Time 20 minutes

Servings 32

Calories 196 kcal

Ingredients

32 ounces Pecans halves
2 1/2 Tablespoons Water
3/4 cup Truvia
2 teaspoons Cinnamon ground
1/2 teaspoon Salt

Instructions

Preheat oven at 350 degrees.
Place pecans in a bowl. Add water. Mix with hands until all pecans are moistened.
In separate bowl, mix together Truvia, cinnamon and salt.
Pour Truvia mix over pecans and mix with hands making sure pecans are evenly coated.
Pour pecans onto a NON STICK foil lined baking sheet. Spread out evenly.
Bake 15 minutes, turning nuts half way through.
Remove from oven and cool.
Place in airtight plastic container or gallon size food storage bag.

Recipe Notes

I made these for Thanksgiving 2017 and no one could tell these weren't made entirely with sugar. Success!!!

Nutrition Facts

Cinnamon "Sugar" Pecans

Amount Per Serving

Calories 196 Calories from Fat 180

% Daily Value*

Fat 20g31%

Saturated Fat 1g6%

Sodium 36mg2%

Potassium 116mg3%

Carbohydrates 4g1%

Fiber 2g8%

Sugar 1g1%

Protein 2g4%

Iron 0.7mg4%

Calcium 21mg2%

Vitamin C 0.3mg0%

Vitamin A 15IU0%

Net Carbs 2g4%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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