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5 Dynamite Low Carb Breakfasts

Fake French Toast

Ingredients
2 eggs

4 T ricotta (or cream cheese)
dash cinnamon and nutmeg
2 pkt Splenda

Heat frying pan. Mix all ingredients together. Melt some butter in small frying pan and pour batter in, spreading a little. Brown on one side, and flip, and brown other side.

Serves 1 big eater @ 4 carbs

This tasted more like a pancake than French toast, but was great, especially with maple syrup. if it’s difficult to flip, cut the pancake in half.

Luscious Ricotta Pancakes

Ingredients
3 eggs

1 cup cottage or ricotta cheese

1/4 cup soy protein isolate
dash salt
little water

Beat eggs well. Add cottage cheese and beat. Add soy powder and salt. Mix well. Stir in a little water, so the batter is not quite so thick. Heat oil in a frying pan, and when hot, spoon pancake batter in. Spread it around a little so pancakes are not too thick. When bubbly on top, turn, and cook until bottoms are done.

Serves 2 @ 5 carb each

Sausage and Egg “Muffin”

Ingredients
6 oz Ital. sausage

6 eggs

1/8 cup heavy cream
3 oz cheese

OPTIONAL: salsa, bacon, onion

Preheat oven 350. Spray 3 super large muffin tins with PAM. Cut up links and put two in bottom of each tin. Mix eggs and cream and salt & pepper. Pour some in each tin. Sprinkle with half the cheese. Pour remaining egg mixture in and sprinkle with rest of cheese. Bake about 20 min.(time may vary) until eggs are done and golden. Remove from oven and let sit few minutes. Use spoon to remove “muffins”.

Serves 3 @ 2.3 carbs
W/O Sausage: 3 @ 1.6 carb
These puffed up about 2″ and were really tasty

Fake French Toast II

Ingredients
2 eggs

dash cream, dash water
dash cinnamon
1 pkt Splenda

1 oz pork rinds (about 1/2 2.25 oz pkg)

Beat all ingredients except rinds. Crumble rinds and let soak in egg mixture until thick gloppy batter. Heat butter in frying pan, and pour in batter, spreading around pan. Fry until brown on one side, flip and brown other side. Serve with maple syrup.
Serves 1 @ 2.3 carbs
This was pretty good, but if you hate pork rinds, don’t try it. The flavor is not real strong, but it’s there.

Almond Vanilla Pancakes

Ingredients
5 Tbsp. almond flour (you could also use other nut flours or even soy flour
1 Tbsp. sour cream
1 Tbsp.water
1 egg
1/2 tsp. baking powder
couple of pinches Splenda
1 Tbsp of Vanilla Syrup
2 Tbsp. Oil

Mix all the above together. If the consistency is too thick for your personal taste, splash on a bit more Vanilla Syrup. Pour on nonstick griddle surface (spray spatula with Pam, because they can be a bit difficult to turn). Recipe makes 2 large pancakes. You can use butter or maple syrup on them.

Mia LaCron is the founder of low-carb-diet-blog.info - http://www.low-carb-diet-blog.info - devoted to helping individuals eat a low carb diet.

History of Coffee Timeline!

In the Beginning:

In the Coffee Timeline, myth has it that roughly around the ninth century an Abyssinian goat herder named Kaldi discovered some of coffees stimulant properties.

History of Coffee Timeline:

An unusual timeline of coffee and history for you’re viewing pleasure.

Before 1000 A.D.: When the people of the Galla tribe in Ethiopia, mixed a particular berry ground up with animal fat they noticed a rise in their energy.

1000 A.D.: when Arab traders first brought the coffee bean back to their homeland to farm the bean first time. Also made a drink out of the coffee bean that they called “qahwa”.

1453: Ottoman Turks pioneered coffees for the first time. A little unknown possible fact is that if a Turkish man doesn’t give his wife a daily portion of coffee she can divorce him.

1475: Legend has it that the first known coffees diner opened in Kiva Han making this is one more to add to the history of coffees legend.

1511: The foul Governor Khair Beg of the land of Mecca attempted a ban on coffee for fear of a riot against him. For this act the King of Mecca made coffee sacred and had Khair Beg put to death.

1607: Its believed that North America was introduced to coffees by Capt. John Smith at the Jamestown colony in Virginia.

1615: The Pope Clement the VIII heard of Italian merchant selling coffee and was informed by his priests that coffee was the tool of the devil. Clement, not to be foolish, requested a sample of the coffee and in doing so fell in love with it, so he baptized it and made it a “truly Christian Beverage.”

1645: It’s believed that the first coffee diner opened in Italy.

1652: The first coffee house opens in England. By popular demand more coffee diners open for the rich and commoners. Due to quality discussions the coffee shops were labeled “Penny Universities” because of the price of coffee.

1668: Beer: New York’s City’s favorite breakfast drink was replaced by coffee.

1668: Lloyd’s of London almost the most purchased insurance provider in London became famous from when it first opened as a coffee diner. That travel merchants and insurance salesman frequented.

1672: The first Paris coffee diner opens.

1675: When Franz Georg Kolschitzky escaped the Rebel Turkish Soldier’s in Vienna to lead military aid back to the city. The skedaddling Turkish rebels left behind a bag of coffee grounds. Snatching the grounds as his reward, Franz used the grounds to open Europe’s first coffee diner and in doing so refined the method of filtering the grounds and adding sugar for sweetener.

1690: The Dutch smuggled a coffee plant out of the Arab port “Mocha” for transplantation and cultivation. This is where the name “Java” comes from which is one of the cities that opened a plantation.

1713: Gabriel Mathieu do Clieu in 1723 steals a seedling from France. Within 50 years an estimated 19 million coffee plants, 90 percent of the world’s coffee spreads from this plant.

1721: Berlins’ first coffee diner opens.

1727: Lieutenant colonel Francisco de Melo Palheta woos France’s Governor of Guiana’s wife into stealing and smuggling germinated coffee seedlings in a flowers basket for him. He returns to Brazil from which he was dispatched to settle a feud between the French and Dutch about country border lines, only to have successfully stolen coffee and also settling the dispute.

1732: Johann Sebastian Bach’s famous one-act operetta, the “Coffee Cantata,” was a not so liked operatic criticism of the extraordinary lengths the royal and upperclass took to keep commoners from drinking coffee.

1773: In America the Boston Tea Party allowed the experimentation with and also a popular form of protest when drinking coffee.

1775: As “Prussia’s” Frederick the Greats wealth is diminished trying to stop imports of coffee and the public scorn’s his foolishness he has a change of heart.

1886: Wholesale grocer Joel Cheek names a coffee blend “Maxwell House,” after the hotel in Nashville, TN where it was served.

Early 1900’s: In Germany,”Kaffee klatsch” is coined to describe women’s gossip. At these affairs afternoon coffee becomes a standard occasion.

1900: When the Hills Brothers start packaging coffee in metal tins, they half heartedly kill the coffee shop diners and mills.

1901: Satori Kato Japanese-American chemist of Chicago invents instant coffee.

1903: Sanka is introduced to the United States in 1923. Ludwig Roselius admits a batch of destroyed coffee beans over to chemist’s, who remove caffeine from the coffee beans without losing the flavor. Then sells it as the brand name “Sanka.”

1906: George Constant Washington, an English chemist living in Guatemala, notices a powdery condensation forming on the spout of his silver coffee holder. After experimentation, he creates the first mass-produced instant coffee (his brand is called Red E Coffee).

1920: United States institute prohibition, and coffee sales explode.

1938: Having been asked by Brazil to help find a solution to their coffee surpluses, Nestle company invents freeze-dried coffee. Nestle develops Nescafe and introduces it in Switzerland.

1940: The US imports 70 percent of the worlds coffee.

1942: During W.W.II, American soldiers are issued instant Maxwell House coffee in their ration kits. Back home, widespread hoarding leads to coffee rationing.

1946: Achilles Gaggia finishes his espresso machine In Italy. Cappuccino is named for the resemblance of its color to the robes of the monks of the Capuchin monastery.

1969: One week before Woodstock premier the Manson Family murders coffee mogul Abigail Folger as she visits film maker Roman Polanski with Sharon Tate.

1971: The first Starbucks opens in Seattle’s Pike Place public market.

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About the Author

Randy works with his son on Ultimate Coffees Info and daughter on Making Homemade Soap. Randy owned and operated a very successful storefront/mailorder business from 1988 to 2003. Currently full time owner/operator of several online businesses.

Make Your Favors Sweet

Couples planning to get married who are stuck for an idea about what gifts to hand out to their guests should consider supplying edible wedding favors. Normally they are of the sweet variety but there is no reason why savory favors cannot be supplied. If you have a special wrapper made up it will look that little bit special and even a simple bar of chocolate will be a popular choice. Filled chocolate whether white, plain or milk will always be a favorite but you can improve on this by having a peanut or almond center. Many companies exist that can create special wrappers that should have details of the wedding printed on them even if everything else is from a standard template.

If you are going as far as personalizing the wrapper, then why not have your picture printed on the wrapper to really impress your guests! Why not have a tin filled with different types of candy as your edible wedding favor to your guests. Guests are more likely to hold onto the tin as a keepsake if there is a reminder of where they were given it so placing the wedding details on the tin makes sense. Tins are always useful so once the candy has been eaten, it can be used to store many small items that might be lost otherwise. Candy is still the most popular choice of edible wedding favor and it will probably continue to be whilst we all enjoy sweet foods.

People that cannot make up their minds how to present the candy should consider placing it decorative bowl n the center of the table. Otherwise a small container, which can be themed if appropriate, can be used instead. Then the guests can fill their containers with the candy before they leave the reception later. A good alternative to candy as an edible wedding favor like these Fortune Cookies Favors which most people enjoy. These can also be presented in a box or a tin with details of the wedding printed on them as a special keepsake for the guests.

Kowloon Duckling

1/2 c Soy sauce
1 Duckling, 4 to 5 lbs. 2 tb Honey
6 Green onions, cut up 2 tb Lemon juice
6 Parsley sprigs 1 Recipe Plum Sauce
1 Garlic clove, minced

———————————PLUM SAUCE———————————
1 cn Plums, 17 oz. 2 tb Sugar
1/4 c Syrup from plums 1/2 ts Worcestershire sauce
1/4 ts Orange peel, grated 1/4 ts Cinnamon, ground
3 tb Orange juice

Stuff cavity of duckling with onion, parsley, and garlic. Skewer neck and
body cavities closed; tie securely with cord. In saucepan, heat soy sauce,
honey, and lemon juice. Sprinkle dampened hickory chips over slow coals.
Arrange coals away from duckling. Place duckling on foil baking pan; place
atop grill. Close hood and roast for 2 1/4 to 2 1/2 hours, adding dampened
hickory chips every 30 minutes and basting frequently with soy sauce
mixture. Remove grease as needed. Serve with Plum Sauce.
******************Plum Sauce********************
Drain one 17-oz can purple plums, reserving 1/4 cup syrup. Force plums
through sieve. In saucepan, combine sieved plums, plum syrup, orange peel,
orange juice, sugar, worcestershire sauce and cinnamon. Heat to boiling;
simmer 10 minutes.
Makes 1 1/4 cup.

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