Low-carb celebrity TV cooking king George Stella

If you are a fan of the culinary side of livin’ la vida low-carb, then no doubt you are already familiar with the supercharged energy of George Stella. As for the former television star of the show “Low Carb and Lovin’ It” on The Food Network, today George has expanded his audience even further by sharing deliciously healthy low-carb recipes with well over a million viewers each week on QVC. Tune in to “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore” on Wednesday to hear one of my most unique podcast interviews ever with the one and only George Stella.

But since this is Thanksgiving week, George wanted to treat “Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb” fans with a special selection of his favorite low-carb recipes for the holiday season. He’s confident you will be able to stick with your healthy low-carb lifestyle even through the holidays if you choose better alternatives like the ones I’m about to share with you today that come from his bestselling books George Stella’s Livin’ Low Carb: Family Recipes Stella Style and Eating Stella Style: Low-Carb Recipes for Healthy Living.

Click here to enjoy your special low-carb meal on Turkey Day a little better with these oh-so-amazing dishes! THANK YOU George Stella and Happy Thanksgiving to all!

Julian Bakery breads make for some fantastic low-carb recipes

Earlier this year, I told you about one of the best low-carb breads I have ever tasted from a company called Julian Bakery. Their Smart Carb #1 regular bread has just 1g net carb along with 12g fiber and 12g protein and their Smart Carb #2 cinnamon almond raisin bread contains only 2g net carbs, 13g fiber, and 16g protein. These low-carb breads are indeed the real deal and I’ve enjoyed incorporating them into my healthy low-carb lifestyle over the past few months.

In Episode 77 of “Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb On YouTube”, Christine and I wanted to show you a couple of creative recipes that include the Julian Bakery Smart Carb breads to show you what you can do with this spectacular bread. We’ll provide the details about the recipes after the video, but we wanted to take you into our kitchen to show you how to make your very own homemade French toast for breakfast and then some mouthwatering grilled cheese sandwiches for lunch.

Click here to watch today’s video to see how these turned out for us along with the complete recipe for both dishes. ENJOY!

Fresh strawberries make this cheesecake crepes dish delightful!

Making a deliciously healthy low-carb dessert that is both decadent and tastes great even for people who aren’t livin’ la vida low-carb can sometimes be difficult to accomplish. I know I’ve made sugar-free, low-carb recipes for people before and they’ve turned their noses up at it after just one bite. You can’t win ‘em all, I suppose. But something tells me this recipe I’m sharing today will be a hit with anyone who puts it in their mouth!

Once again our friends from Low-Carb Connoisseur have come up with a simple, yet elegant low-carb dessert recipe that includes fresh strawberries, low-carb cheesecake, and French crepes. It’s one of those dessert dishes that looks all fancy schmancy, so you can WOW your guests with a great-looking display while serving them something a whole heckuva lot healthier than the sugary carbage their accustomed to eating after a meal. Make this one for your family and friends and dazzle them with your culinary excellence!

Click here to access the ingredients and directions for this Strawberry Cheesecake Low-Carb French Crepes Recipe.

Everything you could ever want in a refreshing summer salad

With the hot summer weather upon us, it’s nice to have some cool low-carb recipes that will keep your body energized with the fuel it needs without needlessly heating up your kitchen to unbearable levels with cooking up meals. And what better way to keep the oven and burners off than a fantastic salad with all your favorite low-carb fixins!

This recipe is compliments of our friends at Low-Carb Connoisseur and they suggest using whatever low-carb vegetables you happen to have in your refrigerator or are in season at your local farmer’s market and backyard garden. Things like chopped mushrooms, diced zucchini, sliced celery and anything else that fits within your healthy low-carb lifestyle are PERFECT for this Cobb salad. Let this awesome low-carb recipe keep you and your house cool all summer long!

Click here to see what’s in this amazing low-carb Cobb salad, how to make it, and what the outstanding nutritional panel looks like. ENJOY!

‘m always in awe at the incredible creativity that so many of my readers possess when it comes to creating delicious low-carb recipes out of ingredients that are acceptable when you are livin’ la vida low-carb. Sometimes it just takes a little experimentation in the kitchen to come up with something fabulous to eat and a recent submission by one of my regular “Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb” blog readers proves this point exactly. It’s an ingenious pasta-less low-carb eggplant lasagna that will blow your mind.

Here’s what she said about it after she made it for her family recently:

I just made a low-carb lasagna that my kids didn’t even realize didn’t have noodles! If you like eggplant, then this is for you. It’s very time-consuming but well worth it because the leftovers last for days.

So, I’ll stop teasing you with this recipe and just share it with you now! ENJOY!

PASTA-LESS LOW-CARB EGGPLANT LASAGNA
1 or 2 eggplants
Eggs
Grated Parmesan cheese
One large can of no sugar added tomato sauce
2 pounds ground beef
Packet of dry Italian dressing seasoning
Your favorite cheeses
Garlic powder, salt, pepper to taste

Click here to check out how to making this tantalizing low-carb alternative to a traditionally high-carb dish!

These low-carb fish sticks ain’t coming in a frozen box!

I don’t know about what you ate in your family when you were a kid, but fish sticks were a pretty big mainstay in our household. They were conveniently packaged in a box you could shove into your freezer and then nuke ‘em for a couple of minutes in the microwave when you were ready to eat them. Of course, they tasted a little better when you baked them in the oven, but that used to take so long that my brother Kevin and I hardly ever bothered.

This “food” was about as disgusting as they come now that I look back on it through the eyes of my healthy low-carb lifestyle. Sure, the “fish” (what DID they put in those sticks?) was pretty good for you with healthy fats and protein in it, but that breading was absolutely LOADED with carbohydrates galore! And when you cooked these frozen fish sticks in the microwave, they came out all soggy and nasty. Ahhhh the memories of growing up as a fat kid totally oblivious to what I was doing to myself at the time!

The good thing is that there are better options when it comes to making fish sticks. Thanks to our friends at Low-Carb Connoisseur, there is a wonderful recipe for homemade low-carb fish sticks that is super-quick to prepare and cook that tastes a MILLION times better than that frozen junk you used to eat with a whole lot less carbs and taste that will have your tastebuds doing the Macarena! WOO HOO! ENJOY!

HOMEMADE LOW-CARB FISH STICKS
1/4 cup light olive or canola oil
1 cup Dixie Carb Counters bread crumbs
1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1/2 teaspoon each garlic powder, black pepper, and paprika
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup CarbQuik
2 large eggs, beaten
1 pound white fish fillets such as cod or tilapia, cut into “fish-stick-size” strips (about 3 inches by 1 inch)
Lemon wedges
Duke’s Tartar Sauce
Heinz One Carb Ketchup

Click here to find out the directions for making these amazing homemade low-carb fish sticks!

This is all the carbs you could be saving by switching to low-carb bread

Last month I announced a special recipe contest encouraging my readers to use that amazing Julian Bakery Smart Carb bread. The deadline for entries was yesterday and I received several very innovative and delicious low-carb recipes utilizing this unique bread. After much deliberation on the taste, creative use of the bread, and aesthetics, I have now chosen a winner: Shari W. from Tennessee!

As you can see from that photo of her dish at the top of this post, Shari took advantage of a pretty popular television ad for Geico insurance using a stack of money with eyeballs on it to create her own take with the Julian Bakery bread. Her ingenious line “This is all the carbs you could be saving by switching to Julian Bakery Smart Carb bread” is a spoof of “This is all the money you could be saving by switching to Geico.” Here’s the original commercial in case you haven’t seen it yet.

So, CONGRATULATIONS to Shari W. from Tennessee for being the winner of the ONE-MONTH SUPPLY of Julian Bakery Smart Carb breads, including one loaf of the original and one loaf of the cinnamon almond raisin for four weeks in a row. WOO HOO! Way to go, Shari, and enjoy coming up with even more creative recipes.

Click here to access SHARI’S LOW-CARB GRILLED CHICKEN WITH SMOKED BACON SANDWICH recipe for yourself. ENJOY!

Strawberries make the perfect ingredient to this delicious low-carb pie!

Who doesn’t like berries? These natural morsels of low-carb goodness are packaged in small, sweet balls of nutritious and scrumptiousness–and they are PERFECT for anyone who is livin’ la vida low-carb! The phytonutrients in berries alone are worth adding them to your healthy diet from time to time and have I got an amazing dessert recipe to share with you today that includes the wholesome nutrition that comes from consuming strawberries.

Just one 8-berry serving of medium-sized strawberries contains more vitamin C than a whole orange! Did you know that little diddy of a fact? Plus, they offer up 20 percent of your RDA for getting your baby-friendly folic acid, have only 8g net carbs, and are high in fiber! Plus, they are very low in calories–LESS THAN 50–for each serving. All in all, these are a good addition to your low-carb lifestyle.

Our friends at Low-Carb Connoisseur have shared this sensationally succulent low-carb strawberry pie recipe that is out of this world. It even includes a nut-based crust so you can surprise even your most skeptical friends and family members with this unassuming low-carb dessert option. As the days get hotter, a nice refreshingly healthy dish like this served up ice cold will certainly hit the spot. ENJOY!

LOW-CARB STRAWBERRY PIE

Crust:
1 cup NOW almond flour
1/4 cup Splenda or equivalent sweetener
4 Tablespoons butter, melted

Melt butter in a small bowl. Add almond flour and Splenda. Mix well. Press firmly into bottom and up sides of 8 or 9 inch pie plate and refrigerate until firm.

Pie filling:
3/4 cup boiling water
1 package (4-serving size) SUGAR-FREE strawberry-flavored gelatin
1/2 cup Da Vinci Sugar Free Strawberry Syrup
1 1/2 cups heavy whipping cream
3/4 cup Truvia sweetener
2 cups strawberries, pureed in blender
Whipped cream, if desired
Strawberry halves, if desired

CLICK HERE for the low-carb strawberry pie recipe instructions and nutritional information.

May 5th is a time to celebrate with some delicious low-carb food

The tradition of Cinco de Mayo has transcended the American culture in recent years and has become as much a part of our lives as many other festive holidays celebrated in the United States replete with fun, fellowship, and, of course, food! And who says that just because you are livin’ la vida low-carb that you can’t enjoy some truly delicious low-carb food on this special day? Thanks to our friends at Low-Carb Connoisseur, we’ve got you covered with a uniquely low-carb recipe for spicy fish tacos. EAT UP!

LOW-CARB SPICY FISH TACOS

CLICK HERE to find out the ingredients and the instructions for making these low-carb spicy fish tacos for Cinco de Mayo!

This low-carb lemon cheesecake dessert is perfect anytime

The weather is getting warmer outside and we are definitely experiencing all the wonders of the Spring season with vibrant colors of the leaves blooming on the trees. I love this time of year because it is the beginning of a new period of growth and vitality outside while people begin to experience the beauty of God’s creation for what it is. It’s the part of life that makes me smile the most.

I’ve got a recipe for you today that matches the aesthetic backdrop of this time of year with a delicious and low-carb nutritious dessert you’ll definitely want to sink your teeth into. It’s a gorgeous lemon-on-lemon cheesecake that will be both eye and taste bud pleasing, I can promise you that! Special THANKS to our friends at Low-Carb Connoisseur, I’m privileged to offer this recipe complete with the perfect low-carb crust to my readers today. ENJOY!

CLICK HERE to access the ingredients and directions for this delectably delicious low-carb dessert recipe!