Ugh...the family is watching The Great British Baking Show


#21

Thanks, it’s so pretty! Sounds complicated and potentially tasty (it depends on the ingredients and the taste of the one in question, after all). I never make anything like this :smiley: I go for taste and low-carbness :slight_smile: But I gladly look at such beauties. And if I can do it without much effort, I try to make them pretty, yes. Lots of whipped egg white on top can be pretty enough, it’s a lovely fluff and not so much work. I am used to whipping egg whites many times a week due to my staple, my eggy sponge cake.

Baked goods and desserts are typically WAY too carby, very unnecessarily. The only type I can’t avoid much carbs is breads. The proper ones as I can make perfect sandwiches on carnivore too. But the bread texture requires starches as far as I could figure it out and I put much effort into it.
But cakes? We can use way tastier things as flour. Like walnut, my personal fav, of course it doesn’t always can be ALL walnut (I have a 1 minute cake that only has that as flour, it’s my best but it’s soft. it’s easy to make soft keto desserts, crunchy is the tricky one. and I have one with only poppy seed as flour, that would work with walnut too but I don’t like that, it’s my SO’s breakfast cake that makes him satiated for 8+ hours while doing physical work! his body works so differently from me… it’s lowish-carb and nutritious but still… I never could eat just cake as a main meal and I can’t get satiated for several hours with a not OMAD sized first meal anyway. it’s NOT pretty, by the way. just a dry dark gray brick. a soft, airy one though :wink: but it’s functional, I made it hundreds of times).

Poppy seed CAN used for beauty, mixed into whipped egg white. Or on top of bread but I use other seeds.


(Skip Cody) #22

I love this show, I have no problem wanting and making the crap! Why do I watch it? I live in the US and the country is so divided and mean to each other that this show gives me hope in the human population! The people are nice to each other, care about each other, cheer each other on, do not curse and cheer each other on!

We could all use a little niceness! :heart::pray:


(Robin) #23

I’m a fan too!


#24

Nice. Sometimes I see our cooking shows, well competitions. It’s INSANE. Stress, hating, blaming each other, I can’t watch it for long! It’s cooking, it should be nice if you ask me…

But I have my fav historical cooking channels on YT so all is well.


(KM) #25

Same here. My Hub’s a big fan of reality competitions, they’re a dose of the worst of people, on steroids, except for this lovely bright spot.


#26

I have not watched it recently but a few months ago I was very into one of those shows, I think it was the Christmas version (which is ironic since I do not celebrate!) I liked hearing people’s stories and striving to make their artistic versions. To me it does not look any different than watching a painting or craft show. I am not the least bit crafty but it is fun watching other people, same with this. Most of the desserts do not look like anything anyone would eat because they are so artistic


#27

I have this with various food (especially carby and/or vegan ones). My fav is Halloween treats and I always find something carnivore or near carnivore in a long video :wink: And simple ones as I may like to spend some time on food and art but I am lazy and have my limits anyway. Especially if it’s food I will eat up… But it’s great to see people making good looking, fun food, filmed skillfully… I like the very short, very eye candy things and historical cooking channels…
And somehow artistic sweets/desserts make more sense to me than overcomplicated main dishes… Even if I tend to make simple ones myself. Except gingerbread for Christmas but I am not good enough with that either. I consider that an art project but I prefer paint over icing, icing is problematic. I started to shift my tiny Christmas gifts being rock painting, they last longer anyway. I painted black and golden dragons last year, way easier but looks better than some simple icing pattern…