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The Perfect Low Carb Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe

January 9th, 2010

After two or three years of messing around with the proportions, I’m pretty sure I’ve finally nailed the perfect low carb peanut butter cookie recipe. It’s difficult to get it right without any flour or sugar, as these ingredients generally lend chewiness and crispiness to peanut butter cookies.  But I think the following recipe is about as close as you can get without them, and when paired with a glass of milk they are tremendously satisfying.

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Homemade Low Carb Chicken Soup Recipe

October 9th, 2009

I’m not feeling very well this week. Last week I came down with something I’m pretty sure was swine flu, while Sara Kay was busy coming down with a wicked head cold. As usual, we each let our diseases run their course and then traded off to extend the fun. So now I’ve traded in H1N1 for a good old-fashioned rhinovirus.

Big soup in a tiny pot

Big soup in a tiny pot

I spent the morning in my least favorite class of the semester, and then went over to my friend and mentor’s office to work on planning our schedule for the upcoming Society of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis conference workshop. By the time I was done there my head just about felt like it was going to fall off, and my nose was running, and of course it was a cold and rainy day in Chicago, so I decided I absolutely needed a big pot of homemade chicken soup. » Read more: Homemade Low Carb Chicken Soup Recipe

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Two-Week Low Carb Detox

September 20th, 2009

West St., Annapolis: If you need this, you probably can't read thisThose of you who know me know that I follow a pretty low carb diet all the time. I don’t eat bread or potatoes or sweets (usually), and I generally manage to stay under 50 or 60 carbs a day.

Even so, when your better half is a sommelier, it gets pretty easy to put on extra weight. This is because the liver is largely responsible for metabolizing fat, and if you keep it busy processing wine it isn’t really able to do that very efficiently.

So the wife and I are following a strict 2-week low carb detox program in order to shed our unneeded fats and get our livers running full-speed again. Here’s what we’re doing:
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