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By: Ultimate Low-Carb Thanksgiving Recipes | Mark's Daily Apple

Ultimate Low-Carb Thanksgiving Recipes | Mark's Daily Apple — Mon, 18 May 2009 22:22:02 +0000

[...] Shrimp with Cocktail Sauce [...]

By: Anna

Anna — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:55:52 +0000

I like Dana Carpender’s low carb cookbooks for lots of sauces/dressings. I haven’t bought a bottle of salad dressing in I don’t know how long. I usually make mayo weekly, so that is a base for many dressings/sauces. It’s also not hard to make catsup at home.

By: Moon

Moon — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:19:53 +0000

Don’t most cocktail sauces contain sugar or HFCS? Are there any good do-it-yourself no sugar recipes that still give you that zingy-sweet flavor?

By: Judy

Judy — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:41:13 +0000

Oh, I know it’s largely just my family. Really, there is no way most of them would have touched the lamb chops (my dad would have tried anything though). And I guess they would eat the antipasto tray – we used to have something like that at holidays, but certainly not with “nitrate-free” meats.

My mom, especially, is very food-phobic, and will NOT try anything new. It’s part of the reason I wasn’t too reluctant to move 1,000 miles away from my family – I didn’t want my sons learning their eating habits (like my aunt and uncle, who eat at McDonald’s literally EVERY. SINGLE. DAY.)

By: Migraineur

Migraineur — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:59:39 +0000

It’s not just the rural midwest where people are unadventurous. I was talking to a vegetarian friend in Baltimore last night. He is lacto-ovo and eats some fish, but his lactose tolerance is low. I’ve been trying to encourage him to cut back somewhat on carbs to improve his health, which is quite bad. He is resistant, because he says, “There’d be nothing to eat but eggs!” (Turns out he’s trying to cut back on fish.) I said, “Well, I know a vegetarian trying to cut back on carbs would have less variety than an omnivore. But what about tofu, seitan, tempeh, and plain unsweetened yogurt?” (I knew from past conversations he can tolerate yogurt, though he always chooses the sugary ones.) His response was, basically, ick. Oh, well.

By: Sean Carley

Sean Carley — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:49:31 +0000

Judy, I would think the rural midwest would be happy with the lamb chops. I know my wife’s family (rural, union, Illinois & Missouri) would love the shrimp cocktail and would probably enjoy the vegetable trio. They even do things close enough to an antipasto tray that I don’t think they would blink twice at it. It is true, none of them would choose to make something that didn’t start with cream soup or cheese but most of these offerings wouldn’t shock them.

By: Anna

Anna — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 04:27:01 +0000

What time’s the party? Looks delish!

By: Judy

Judy — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:03:02 +0000

Hmmm … although almost all of those choices look yummy to me (I’m as much of a cheese freak as Wallace and Gromit, but I’ll pass on the lamb chops I think), if I were to serve most of the dishes to my rural midwestern family for a special occasion, I think they would all starve. But that is a family who thinks recipes have to start with a can of cream of X soup or velveeta “cheese” and a crockpot.