Juicy John Dory June...what did you keto today thread

[Shinita]

Pretty!
I need to figure out how to make not too bad photos with a tablet as the old half-professional camera has a super tiny depth of field I actually love that and I can use it for macro photos (as I shot flowers, mostly, sometimes insects on flowers, I can do many shots so the sharpness will be at the right place sometimes…) and I am sure it can be used for food photography well too but it has conditions and I am pants at food photography, it can’t even interest me enough but WHY? Food is important for me…

Oh well. Your photo is very pretty. Even the arrangement in its not ordered but very aesthetic way Nice colors, not too many, in harmony… No nice golden sunlight and the lighting is still works for it.
(I am bad even for a hobby photographer, the camera isn’t mine either but I have some aesthetic sense or what is it called. I am good at criticizing drawings close to the styles I am familiar with though. I never could criticize abstract things beyond some very very basic level.)

I’m still too shy for the Carnivore thread lol

Oh don’t be You should take some boldness from me, I have way too much for poor thread!
We always like to see carni food there

[Pjam]

and I am sure it can be used for food photography

I worked as a photographer for many years

[robintemplin]

Dirty, maybe….?
Yummy, absolutely.

I say go for it. Unless it triggers cravings.

[coopdawg]

A very tasty one tonight…albeit a weird concoction that i made up as I went along.
Chinese style pork chops laid on a base of smoked bacon rashers:

I added seasoning, pickled hot chilli peppers and pickled garlic cloves:

Covered and put in the oven for half hr or so.

[coopdawg]

Then I had a jar of pickled cockles from my replenished stash…because I was getting hangry!

With the hangriness sorted, went about sorting the side.
Sauted mushrooms, spinach, and cream cheese.
I also added some celery salt, garlic granules, Worcesterhire Sauce, Soy Sauce, and a level teasponnful of Parsley gravy granules as a thickener:

[coopdawg]

Finished article served up; 1 for tonight 1 for tomorrow.
Those hot peppers made it interesting as did the cheese and bacon. I’d use non smoked bacon next time as too many flavours competing.

[coopdawg]

Spoilt myself tonight, but it’s OK as I didn’t have anything during the day.
So as well as the above I had the old failthful raspberries, blueberries, creme fraiche and chia seeds.

[Pjam]

Phwoar Coop I could very very easily eat from your table … maybe not the hearts

I’d use non smoked bacon

I find they put more sugar, and chemicals, in the the smoked. But you know that

[coopdawg]

LOL, cheers mate!

Back in the day at this stage I would have grabbed a bag of crisps or two in the evening to watch TV and chill…but thankfully these days with keto i don’t feel the need.

I do like the berries and cream ocasionally though.

[Pjam]

Back in the day at this stage I would have grabbed a bag of crisps

Hey Coop, that was me only 4 months ago! It’s been a blast!

[Shinita]

If I feel bad about my photography skills nowadays, is it okay to bring my best hummingbird hawk-moth shot I wonder… Probably yes, this thread has mostly food pics but not only. And hummingbird hawk-moths are adorable. And tricky to shot with my equipment.

But no, I have a food pic! Fried pork, nothing new and it wasn’t even properly fried at this point. I ate some and fried it some more I can’t make everything into scratchings (especially not somewhat lean pork. it was fresh ham and some fatty parts of pork shoulder combined, mostly the former but a fatty slab. LIDL sells fatty slabs, the local supermarket sells lean and super tiny slabs. I could choose between 650g and 780g today. I would prefer, like, 3000g ones and I don’t even have a proper oven, only a mini grill. but it’s a very good oven, perfect for roasting meat and baking bread and other things. I do have a high-carber SO so breads still happen) but I still want to fry my meat well. It was LOVELY as usual.

@coopdawg: Oh, do you still get hangry? But maybe keto doesn’t take that away. I wasn’t hangry on high-carb to begin with but my hunger drastically changed when I got fat adapted. And almost getting rid of plants helped even more. Or maybe adding meat. I did the two at once so I don’t know but probably both mattered.

I keep forgetting to add chia seeds when I eat fruit with cream, not like I feel the need but why not to try it…? Creamy and crunchy, it may be very nice. We have a lot of chia seeds and barely ever use it… Chia pudding looks fun but it’s not so great. Not bad but not so good.

I got rid of chips about 13 years ago. I did fancy potatoes again after 5 years, I made my own chips a few times… But even those times are over now.
I am into scratchings and sometimes cheese whisps now. Potato flavor is unique and irreplaceable, I just don’t need it anymore. I do need my crunchy items though On keto I had oily seed wafers, those were crunchy too.

[MiKetoAF]

This looks really good. Do the chia seeds have a “purpose” or do you just enjoy them?

[robintemplin]

I am impressed at all the effort you put into cooking. Well worth it, from the looks of it!

[Pjam]

Bit predictable - Lamb Ribs added to yesterdays Bone broth. Can’t wait

[Shinita]

@Pjam: Pretty, even the colors in the background are complimenting the dish/photo (except the red fights for the focus a bit. but we like the food so it can’t win) and I love the tight crop.

Meanwhile I just have my usual boring photo of my usual boring pork It’s a new cut though and it’s NOT boring to eat it, I assure everyone.

This thing (belly muscle. abs of the pig, without the thick fat layer of pork belly. fatty as there is fat between muscles but it’s thin) is to blame for my inability to track. I tried to track my lunch (probably OMAD)… I got 1500 kcal, 1860 kcal and 2800 kcal depending on what data I used for the meat (I didn’t even eat this all). 2800 kcal happened when I used the the data for this very cut but it’s wrong, obviously. I have experiences, I know what super fatty meat does when fried. It releases lard. It didn’t. Yes, hard fat tissue tend not to release much but this one didn’t have that and anyway, it didn’t look like it was super fatty. I can vaguely feel the fattiness anyway.
Oh well, I don’t like tracking anyway. I am just curious.

[coopdawg]

The chia seeds add texture, taste and are easily consumed. A good compliment to the dessert.
They also have impressive nutritional qualities. Low carb, high fibre, high protein, high nutritional fats (including Omega 3).

[Pjam]

Simple but effective - Bacon & Cheese Meatballs (little spring onion)
Raw

cooked

[robintemplin]

@Pjam Jesse Louise! Do you do carry out?

[Pjam]

Uber Eats have just collected … they say it’ll be about 19hrs lol

[coopdawg]

For brunch today, really simple ultra low carb snack.
So, these are simply little gem lettuce leaves smeared with a little chilli philadelphia soft cheese, topped with slabs of chicken liver pâté.

I gave some to carly…so had to replenish the plate lol. No seafood today…yet.
I’m going to combine the remaining pâté and soft cheese into a sauce tonight for bell peppers, mushrooms and red onion; to compliment the garlic & rosemary lamb leg steaks I picked up half price today.