Low Carb Kitchen

August 2016
I was at a local restaurant for lunch recently and was served a chicken salad on a very large plate containing an equally large flour tortilla baked into the shape of a ridged bowl...

July 2016
The key, glycemicly speaking, is knowing the difference between “good” and “bad” flours. A low-carb diet demands that one eliminate the grain mill and all its by-products, meaning milled grain flours.

June 2016
One of my favorite dishes growing up was my mom’s Friday night scalloped potatoes. Coming from a big family, casseroles of all kinds were a staple in our household...

May 2016
In the spirit of this month’s Cinco de Mayo celebrations, I decided to revisit a favorite dish of my own childhood, which I continued to make occasionally as an adult until I had to start counting carbs.

April 2016
There is nothing quite like a warming bowl of soup for lunch on a chilly day or, in the case of the iconic chicken noodle soup, for medicinal purposes curled up on the couch trying to combat a nasty cold.

March 2016
Most varieties of white rice have off the chart glycemic scores, averaging 89 (GI) and 43 (GL), putting this grain on the No Fly List for all diabetics and anyone watching their daily intake of carbs.

February 2016
One of the things I remember most clearly about the day that my doctor informed me that I had won the Type 2 Diabetes lottery, was an example she used in describing the disease’s impact on my diet going forward...

January 2016
On a low-carb diet watch and need to know what dishes to avoid? Just do a Google search for “popular comfort foods in U.S.” to get a list of the most scrumptious group of tempting delights imaginable --

December 2015
‘Tis the season of party platters brimming with an assortment of tempting guilty pleasures that beg us to try just one bite.