My magic purple beans from the garden turn green when cooked! 
I included other garden produce with plenty of greens. Then I added 5 eggs and butter to make it a meal. Couldn’t quite finish, gotta love the satiety signals from real food!
What Did You Keto Today? Part IV
Hallie
(Butter Withaspoon)
#3733
velvet
#3734
I had the same happen with purple radishes - they turned a dirty white. Tasted fine though, as I am sure your beans did.
Hallie
(Butter Withaspoon)
#3735
I didn’t know that happened with radishes! Interesting. Yes the beans were really tasty. It’s a funny commentary on “Eat the Rainbow” really 
velvet
#3736
Purple asparagus stay purple, so does purple chard. I think it’s just some things that change.
Shinita
#3737
Yep, radishes fade, I almost never cook them though. Purple cabbage becomes dark blue and it makes scrambled eggs turquise, it’s so weird 
Beetroot loses some of its color but last time it was cooked for longer for a reason and it lost even more. It was dirty, gray-ish, still a bit purple but nothing like its original color.
I never saw purple beans but the change was shocking, it’s nothing like the original…
There is a funny mushroom that has a nice, shiny, grayish purple cap and it’s orange otherwise. I think it becomes some deep purple…? It changes drastically. Lots of mushrooms change color, like from yellow to bright light or dark blue after a cut…
Hallie
(Butter Withaspoon)
#3738
My purple asparagus always loses its colour with cooking! Makes the cooking juice an incredible magenta colour, but still… Ripped off!
velvet
#3739
I used to grow asparagus for our own use - a couple of kinds of green ones, and some purple and white ones. The white ones are a lot more labor intensive, but worth it to me. Our purple colored the liquids but still looked purple. Purple seemed the sweetest to me, white the juiciest and most delicate flavor, and while I still like green asparagus, they seemed to taste too much like chlorophyll - until the stand was several years old and the shoots were very thick. That improved flavor a lot.
Digital_Dave
#3740
Lunch… Ground Hamburger, with some Fried up Onions and Mushrooms, with Alfredo Sauce & Grated Parmesan on top. Cream Soda and some Sunflower Seeds.
Shinita
#3741
Bad light conditions met my bad gastro photo skills… But here is what I put together for today. What I ate isn’t exactly like this, of course.
I went for low-fat 
Did I mention I plan to be a blood plasma donor in the near future and low-carb day before donating is a requirement? It doesn’t need to be super low so I probably can pull it off (I can fast too but I usually like eating every day and in the afternoon so it doesn’t work that I eat at noon and donate a day later). But I always was interested what happens on a low-fat keto day (I had one but only one) but it’s tricky for me as I like my fat:protein ratio pretty much fixed. But even I like some leaner stuff. Like liver! That wasn’t as dark as in the photo as usual…
Beef liver (I couldn’t eat it all), egg stew (I started this bowl yesterday and I barely touched it today…), cheesy egg white things (I find them boring at this point especially without sausage but that would defeat the purpose and it’s quick to eat them, mostly egg whites, after all. 2 remained), quark dessert (I finished this and made another half portion). Not in the picture: some experimental and pretty much failed but edible “sponge cakes” (they were flat like a harmonium in The sirens of Titan. sometimes I don’t fully think through my experiments and I totally blame my new microwave too. the oven was busy :)). That’s 4 more eggs.
Alas, I never can show what and how much I ate unless I recreate it afterwards.
But I didn’t eat this little since long and I wasn’t this stuffed since ages. I do it better the next time.
Digital_Dave
#3744
Dinner… With the Wife not feeling well & the Son eating some left-overs from last night, I just did some simple Chaffles again. One with Smoked Vienna’s and the other Ham, Cheese, Hard Salami and Mayo.
Hallie
(Butter Withaspoon)
#3745
I did it! I ate chopped liver. I’ve been wanting to try more non-muscle meats but faced my resistance with the unfamiliar. I’m pleased I achieved both the cooking and eating for the fastbreak meal today. While I didn’t love the taste, I made sure the sauce and accompanying things were very tasty- yoghurt, lemon juice, salt, olive oil, tomatoes, zucchini flowers and onion because I can eat more veg/carbs than others.
The most interesting thing is that it is highly satiating! More than anything I’ve had and this is not a big plate. I was out for dinner last night and I could feel my metabolism being affected, but not too much. I resisted the birthday cake (because it didn’t look that nice, and the baker mentioned there were 3 cups of sugar in the icing recipe ).
Whatever my body craved today it got it.
Shinita
#3746
Pretty food!
Congrats! Liver is very common food here, I can get it anywhere, at least chicken or pork liver (while I need to travel a lot for some beef, for example. or arrive when the butcher’s shop opens in the morning, maybe).
I like liver but some onions do good indeed, especially when the liver is bitter. I feel it a bit bitter except beef liver, that’s quite sweet to me.
It’s satiating indeed though I never could get satiated with the little amount of liver I can eat. A little goes a long way and spice up my eating, helping with satiation in the process
But I like the taste unlike many others. Not my fav meat but something special and I have it almost every week.
But I thought about eating it differently from just frying it or making it into pâté… Sauce, you say? I am not familiar with sauces except tomato sauce with pizza sauce and onions in it, my eggs in purgatory are great in that, that dish is combining some of my biggest favs!
Yogurt is just water with some sugar to me and liver is already lean so I could start with some sour cream or whipping cream, maybe…
velvet
#3747
If you add salt, make sure you add it after cooking. It tends to make liver hard and dry. Try soaking it in some cream for a while before cooking for better texture. And don’t overcook it. Liver can be really tender. And, yes, it’s the most satiating food out there, I agree. And the one and only superfood, chuck-full of wonderful nutrients.
And if you have dogs or cats, the cream left after soaking over their food is a much appreciated and healthy additive.
Digital_Dave
#3748
Lunch… Beef Liver, Fried Onions and Fried Eggs. Also an Almond Milk and some Sunflower Seeds.
Digital_Dave
#3751
Well, spent half the day down in DC, taking the Wife to see the surgeon that will be performing surgery on her in the next couple weeks… GOD DO I HATE DC!!! 
… So when we got home, I made up a snack plate before making Hamburgers. (Sausage Links, Patties, Bacon & Cheese) 2 Chaffle Burgers.
