After four years eating mostly real food, I'm having the opposite of junk food cravings. For awhile now, a lot of foods have no longer looked like food to me--noodles, pastry, cake, most snack foods that come in plastic bags. (Cookies and brownies still do.) Later, most fruit didn't smell good. I recently made the mistake of getting some shea butter liquid soap, not noticing "honey-citrus" on the label. It smells bad, but I'm too cheap to throw it out.
Pizza has long smelled like a wet dog, which is unpleasant but tolerable, but today the pizza in the break room smelled disgusting. So did the burnt toast. Has anyone else had this experience? I never imagined I'd prefer steak tartar to pizza, but steak tartar looks, smells and tastes great to me. A bonus: I've never eaten anything that sat so easily on my stomach. I get full, but it's like there's nothing in my stomach.
Pizza has long smelled like a wet dog, which is unpleasant but tolerable, but today the pizza in the break room smelled disgusting. So did the burnt toast. Has anyone else had this experience? I never imagined I'd prefer steak tartar to pizza, but steak tartar looks, smells and tastes great to me. A bonus: I've never eaten anything that sat so easily on my stomach. I get full, but it's like there's nothing in my stomach.
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| Steak tartar and salad with Doreen's dressing. Recipes from 500 Paleo Recipes and 500 Low-Carb Recipes, respectively, by Dana Carpender. |
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I agree there are lots of smells 'out there' that when walking past I try not to breath in ...always fail...and then have a coughing fit! Oh well!
I currently have a wonderful smell coming from our kitchen coffee perculating ...any one for a cup?
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All the best Jan
I like the smell of coffee, though. I never liked coffee until I started LC, then I craved it.
I don't think I have carbophobia, though. Even though wheat gives me acid reflux, allergy symptoms and an upset stomach, I don't panic at the sight of it; too much broccoli upsets my stomach, but I still eat a little of it now and then. As for french fries, they don't taste good to me anymore and don't sit well on my stomach. I'm not tempted to eat them.
I used about six ounces of chuck roast or rump roast with plenty of marbling to make the steak tartar. I get my beef from a ranch that raises its livestock traditionally (they feed the cattle corn and grass, but not antibiotics) and uses a mobile slaughtering unit. The cattle live and die in a relatively clean environment. I wouldn't eat raw CAFO meat and wouldn't eat raw hamburger from anywhere unless I ground it myself. Same with the egg yolk--I buy free range eggs and wouldn't eat a raw egg from a CAFO because chicken CAFOs are crowded and filthy.
Once you dice the meat (using a big, sharp knife), you add some spices to it, knead it like meatloaf, make a depression in the center and add the egg yolk. The meat tastes like it smells; the egg yolk tastes like the yolk of a lightly fried egg.