I believe I have nailed keto pasta

(Judy chosewood) #207

Carl, I made your pasta last night, and love it! It was easy and delicious, topped it with Raos Marinara sauce and ground beef with butter. Could not believe how delicious your noodles taste! Bring on winter, I have my new comfort food!

(Wendy) #208

I canā€™t find my Bzoodles cookbook? I know I down loaded it because I had read some of it before. I also donā€™t have any of the updated recipes. When I looked for the emails I only find one from PayPal with my receipt.
Iā€™ve been looking for Carlā€™s email address to contact him but canā€™t find it listed anywhere. Iā€™ve heard him give it on the podcast but I canā€™t remember it. Something @. Carl?
If anyone can help me Iā€™d really appreciate it.
Not sure where to post this. Help!

(PJ) #209

Will send it to you DM Wendy

(Nicci) #210

Yes, I know an old conversation.
But I have a question. Hopefully Carl will see this and respond, or even someone who has knowledge of Transglutaminase and Sodium alginate.
Anyone whose looked up Ann on YouTube and her noodle recipes, knows the base of her recipe is egg yolks and lupin flour, a KETO-friendly alternative to wheat flour.
But for her ā€œhardener,ā€ she uses Sodium alginate to gell the mixture together.
So my question is, could Sodium alginate be substituted for the Transglutaminase?
Iā€™d love to know if anyone has tried this. I love Annā€™s noodles, but would now like to try Carls. They seem simpler to make, and with less carbs than the Lupin flour would present.
Thanks for reading KETOtarians. If anyone has any thoughts on this, Iā€™d love to hear. :slight_smile:

#211

Sodium Alginate works like a gum / thickener, basically like Xanthan gum does, TG literally glues proteins together, hence the ā€œmeat glueā€ nickname. I remember Carl talking about how he tried basically EVERYTHING during all his trials to get them right and thatā€™s what he landed on, but thereā€™s only one way to find out, you may be able to dig up that episode where he talked about them, assuming Bazoodles was in the title or shownotes, should be easy enough to find. I only made them twice, pretty decent though.

(carl) #212

As a reminder, you can now download the Bzoodle cookbook for free at https://bzoodles.com/

(Bob M) #213

Well, they certainly look great. And like pizza crust, which has no good alternatives, there are no good fake noodles Iā€™ve found.

Will put this on my list of things to tryā€¦

(Bob M) #214

Canā€™t find the original transglutaminase, at least not the small size. Can find larger sizes, but they are expensive.

https://www.amazon.sg/Ajinomoto-Transglutaminase-RM-3-5-Ounce/dp/B00BI0M9HS

Bummer.

(carl) #215
(Alec) #216

I have always hated pasta, and in the past only ate it under protest. Now being a carni, I am glad to say I will never eat anything like pasta again in my life.

Each to his own. I prefer steak.

(KM) #217

The link to the bzoodle recipe isnā€™t working for me. One link gives me a 404 error and the other just takes me back to itself.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #218

If you ever decide you want to get rid of me, just drive a steak through my heart. Iā€™ll die happy! :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

(Bob M) #219

i was on a Pritikin (super low fat diet) for a long, long time, and ate pasta daily, sometimes twice a day, for years. Many years. And my dad and his family were Italian. They had pasta all the time.

I donā€™t miss pasta that much, but there are times when I could have some pasta-like noodles, say under my normal beef+sausage+Raos or maybe when I make a nice hunk of meat with sauce by braising. The other noodle options are not great.

(carl) #220

Does this link work? https://bzoodles.com/#section-products

(Alec) #221

One of the (many) things that has surprised on carni is how my liking for steak has just grown and grown over time. Far from getting bored with it, I feel I am travelling in the direction of becoming a steak connoisseur. At the moment, my regular steak intake is from a whole rump purchased from the local butcher every fortnight. It really is outstanding stuff!

Pasta? Meh. :joy:

(Alec) #222

I also was on a close to zero fat diet for some months in one of my many attempts to lose bodyfat. It worked (only for a short time of course), but God only knows what damage it did to my body. I must have been close to diabetic eating that low fat non-food. I blame that diet for the (small amount of) coronary calcium that I have :joy::joy:

(KM) #223

Work-ish. I have to copy and paste the link and my phone tells me itā€™s not secure, but I eventually get there. Thanks!

(carl) #224

Thatā€™s odd. I built that site and own the DNS. It works on my phone just fine.

(KM) #225

Must be my phone then. It frustrates me in multiple ways, this is just one more. Thank you for the link.