Super Bowl Carnita Sliders

A few years ago, I never knew what Pork Carnitas were.  But… one day, I decided to order them at my favorite Mexican Food restaurant, and my taste buds were delighted.  Now, I still order carnitas any time I have opportunity, not just because they taste so good, but because they are a good Keto diet choice, and the basic meat can be used for a variety of meals and menus.  

  

What are carnitas?  They are braised or roasted pork seasoned with really great spices and when served it is crispened either under the broiler or fry pan.

For Super Bowl, I wanted to make Carnitas without really knowing a specific recipe that would be knock down, drag out, phenomenal, so that all ages of eaters would enjoy them.  I searched and searched recipes and came up with one that has what I feel are the best combination of herbs, spices, and more, to make my own Carnitas really yummy!

Most of the ingredients can be bought at Costco, including the meat, however the specific cut I use, cant be bought at Costco.  Substitutions of Pork roasts can work just as well, however I chose to use pork shoulder or Boston Butt Boneless roasts.  A good Costco Substitution would be Pork Tenderloin, Pork sirloin roasts.  I chose the shoulder or butt, because I think more fat tends to season and add flavor to the meat.  After it is cooked, it can be trimmed and discarded, but especially cooking in a crock pot, I wanted the extra flavor.

Without further ado,  Here is the recipe that I came up with and I was cooking for a crowd, so used two 4 lb. roasts.

Katies Crock Pot  Carnitas

INGREDIENTS:

·         2 Boston Butt or Shoulder Roast (Boneless)

·         2 Tablespoon Olive Oil

·         1 large onion (sliced)

·         2 Oranges (juiced)

·         2 Limes (juiced)

·         1 1/3 Cup Water

·         4 Tablespoons Knorr brand Caldo Con Sabor DePollo or Chicken flavor Bullion

·         4 Teaspoons chopped garlic

·         2 (4 oz) mild diced green chilis

·         8 bay leaves

RUB INGREDIENTS:

·         2 Tablespoon Chili powder

·         2 Tablespoon Ancho Chile Pepper

·         2 Tablespoon kosher salt

·         2 teaspoon Lawry’s Seasoning Salt

·         2 teaspoons Course ground pepper

·         3 teaspoons cumin

·         2 teaspoons dried oregano leaves

DIRECRIONS:

1.      Pan prep: In a large cast ironskillet, drizzle Olive oil, then rub inside of pan with the oil.

2.       Mix all Rub spices in a small bowl and blend.  Rub spices evenly over all sides of the roasts.  I cut up my roasts into 4 pieces, and it made it easier to cover with spices.

3.      Heat oil prepped skillet, and add one of the roasts, or 4 pieces.  Brown on all sides of the seasoned roast, then place browned roast chunks into the mixture in the crock pot. 

4.      Set timer for 8 hours and cook on low.  I usually do this in the evening, so by morning I awake to the most glorious aroma, and my roasts are ready to shred. 

5.      Remove roast pieces from the crock pot, and set on a plate or cutting board, ready to shred.  Be sure to keep the juice or liquid!!!

6.      Now you can shred the pork, and put it on a baking sheet.  Broil for about 5 minutes or until it gets crispy.  Now take out of the oven and pour about a quarter cup of the liquid over the Pork, and put back in the oven again.  It is now ready to serve.

7.      The rest of the juice can be served on the side of the Carnitas, if people want to use it to dip.

How do you serve your Carnitas?

•        Carnitas Nachos w/ Cheese, Pico de guillo or Salsa
• ·         FrenchsDip Carnita Sandwiches
• ·         Carnitas with Rice, Beans & Cheese
• ·         Carnitas Tacos
• ·         Carnitas Salad w/ sr. cream, Avocados
• ·         Carnitas Sliders on mini Rolls, slice of cheese and a side of Home made Ranch dip. 

Costco Product Highlight - Sweet Peppers

Windset Farms Sweet Mini Peppers

Folios Cheese Wraps from Costco

 I have been slowly getting back to my blogging, and thought I would catch up with my morning post about breakfast.  Yes all this food came from Costco, my favorite $200 store.  I have really enjoyed preparing meals with the Folios Cheese Wraps.  Only 2 grams Carbohydrates, and yummy, these cheese tortiallas add so much flavor to every meal I use them with.  Today, for breakfast, I made my version of Breakfast tacos.  Here is the Recipe:

Breakfast Tacos for 2

1 Red Bell pepper (sliced and cubed)
3 Eggs
2 Sausage Pattys (Browned and cubed)
2 Tablespoons Whipping Cream
1/2 Cup Cheddar Cheese
2 Folios Cheese Wraps

Optional:  Sauted onions, green onions, tomatoes, spinach or anything else you can think of or that you have in your refrigerator.

DIRECTIONS:

1. Brown Sausage and set aside.  Drain oil from pan and remove crusties but reserve oil.
2. Pour oil back into pan and add cubed red bell peppers.  Cook until they are still crisp but getting tender, or about 3 minutes.  Remove from pan and let drain on a paper towel.
3. Prepare eggs by drizzling a small amount of Olive Oil in a pan and adding your 3 eggs. Add the Whipping cream.   Break yolks and scramble with cream.  While still cooking, add Cheddar cheese if desired.  The Folio wraps are really cheesy anyway, but if you want to add softness, color and more flavor to eggs, add the cheddar cheese.
4. Salt and pepper.
5. Prepare Folios cheese wraps by putting one tortilla with the parchment paper on a microwavable safe plate, into the microwave and bake for 1 minute.  Mine comes out gently brown and sort of crispy around the edges.  Drain on paper towel on both sides. 
6. Prepare breakfast tacos, by laywering the Cooked Eggs, and Sausage and Peppers on top of your wrap.  
7. If you want more veggies or a more filling taco, add any of the optional items or any you may enjoy.  My husband loves salsa and Hot sauce on everything, but I like to enjoy the flavor blend without spicing it up.  Enjoy!

(One more note I must add... My husband and I are on a Keto or Low Carb diet, but eating this meal the way it is prepared will make anyone happy, and not even know it is Keto friendly.  Very low carbs, in fact without checking there are only about 3 or 4g carbs per serving in this meal. )

 

One more thing I must add.  I have gotten a bit lazy or maybe I should say, I love things to be easy and convenient, so I use paper plates with many of my meals.  You have probably figured that out by looking at my photo images of my food creations.  I use to use stoneware with each meal, and still do when I have company, but I have tried to ease up on my workload and spend less time doing dishes, thus the paper plates.  Costco has great paper plates, and several different kinds and sizes to choose from.  They always have some cute Holiday sets for Thanksgiving, 4th of July, Christmas and sometimes other occasions, but I can always count on them being in bulk when I need them.  I love to use them when the Grand kids are visiting, and I can spend more time with my fun grandkids, than spending time doing dishes!  YES! Some may say I'm being lazy, and I'm too informal, but honey, lighten up and live a little easier!  Paper products are the way to go when cooking for two or more than two, and nobody has complained at my house.

Just a little note about Costco.  My husband and I are at the age where we are empty nesters, and do not have children living at home anymore, so when we shop Costco, we usually end up with more food than what we can use.  I am pretty sure that others have had this same dilema.  We love Costco, so we have found several solutions to using up all we buy.

1. Dividing the contents and Freezing the rest for later.
2. Sharing our produce and large quantities with our children.
3. Donating the extra to someone we think could use it.
4. Making up recipes that use it up and freezing them for heating up for dinner on a later date.

Costco is such a blast to shop at.  They have anything and everything that you could ever have or want.  They make it fun, adding new products all the time, and then during the holidays, and season change, more new and fun things, that help you to spend your money.  I have found that the quality of the products they sale are top notch, and they also provide a lower and competitive price for them.  I look at Costco before I ever go anywhere else, just to see if they have what I am looking for in stock and I will always purchase it there.  It is a one stop shopping center.  Yes, the little things that are extra you will need to prepare meals, you will need to make a trip to another grocery store, or for that matter shop online and have it delivered to your house, but for the most part, they have most of what I am looking for and needing. 

Katie's Low Carb Pizza

 

As I have written before, I am not only a Costco Shopper, but I am in the process of changing my food style to Keto.  I don't like to say the "D" word because I have been on so many diets that I hate that word.  I have totally changed the way I look at food, and eat it because it sustains life, and for me, I am eating to lose weight.  I have another very big reason for change, and that is my Diabetes has gotten out of control, and I needed to get my insulin levels back in check.  This change I am making not only has helped me to lose some weight, but lowering my carbohydrates have changed my body so much, I no longer require insulin.  That's right, losing weight and being very low or no carb, stopped me from injecting myself, several times a day with insulin.  Woo hoo!  The same is with my husband and he has not only stopped his insulin, but he isn't taking Metforman anymore either.  BIG changes!!!!

So, I wanted to tell you that tonight's meal was Pizza!  Yep, crust and all and it was very low carb.  I know you are saying, Yeah right, how can pizza crust worth eating, be low carb? I have found that there are many ways to do things, and my whole way of thinking is cooking with the least amount of carbs in my food, as possible. I have been hearing about this crazy dough that is made out of cheeses, that looks like dough, tastes like dough, and guess what folks... It's dough!  It is just a different kind of dough, but this dough recipe is so yummy because combined with all the other yummy things you top your pizza with, it blends to taste so much like regular pizza, you wouldn't know you were eating something different.

My husband has been a Guinnie pig for all my cooking and recipes, and is starting to really enjoy eating low carb.  Tonight was proof positive, as he loved the pizza.  I probably should have not told him what t he ingredients were in the pizza dough, and he would never have known.  My pizza tasted just like thin crust pizza.

Now I must plug Costco, because ALL, yes I said ALL my ingredients were purchased at Costco. Let me share my pizza recipe with you, and you tell me that there is much difference than what regular pizza has for it's ingredients.  I googled Keto Pizza Dough recipe and the following recipe came up from this link.  I always tweek my recipes a little or a lot, but this time, I didn't do much other than doubling the recipe.  If I'm going to go to all the effort to cook, I am going to make it last for at least two meals, which isn't too hard for me because I cook for 2.

So, you can make 2 pizzas with this dough recipe. By the way, I have no idea why the term "Fat head" was given to this dough, unless it is made mostly from cheese which has a lot of fat in it, but this dough is perfect for people who follow a low carb or Keto food plan. For the Pizza dough recipe, there is no egg added, though some people might want to.  I say no, follow this recipe, and it will be less sticky and much easier to work with.   It is  very low carbs, especially compared to regular pizza dough in fact, it is only 2g of carbs if you slice your pizza for serving 8. (8 slices)

Katies Thin Crust Pizza using Fat Head Pizza Dough
(The Best Low-Carb Pizza Crust)

INGREDIENTS: 

• 1 & 1/2  Cup Almond Flour (Costco)
• 4 Cups grated Mozzarella cheese (Costco)
• 4 Tablespoons cream cheese (Costco)
• 3/4 teaspoon Salt (Costco)

DIRECTIONS:

1. Preheat oven to  350 degrees .  Cut 3 sheets of parchment paper large enough to cover the baking sheet you will use.  
2. In a microwavable glass bowl, add both cheeses, and heat for one minute on high.  Turn and heat one more minute to melt the cheese.  This will be enough time, and it won't get so hot, it will be hard to work with. 
3. Stir to blend cheese into a sticky ball of dough.  Sprinkle the Almond flour and salt on top of the dough and begin working it into the dough until it is well incorporated.  May take about 4 minutes or so.  Yes, it will be sticky, but less sticky after adding the flour.
4. Split the dough in two pieces, and set one of those dough balls on a piece of parchment paper.  Place another piece of parchment paper over the top, and roll out to be about 1/4 to a little thicker inches thick.  Don't worry if it isn't perfectly round, and looks a bit skewompus, but no matter, because once you get the toppings on your pizza dough, you will not care what shape it is in.
5. Remove the top sheet of parchment and set aside to use to roll out your second dough ball. Prick your crust with a fork, and put it in a preheated oven.   Bake for 10 - 11 minutes or until parts of it begins to look pretty and golden.  It will cook some more when you top it and bake, so don't over bake the crust. 
6. Once done, take out of oven and let sit for about 5 minutes before you begin topping this pizza crust.  Pat yourself on the back for baking such a pretty crust.  It looks yummy, and I had to restrain myself from taking a big bite, or slapping on a dab of butter and having a taste.  I didn't!
7. Now add the following toppings, or the toppings of your choice, just being careful to not add too many more carbs to your pizza.  It is amazing how little things like peppers have carbs in it that you didn't know about.  Also watch the pizza sauce too.  Load on the Mushrooms because one whole cup of raw mushrooms are only 1g carb, and 12 black olives are also 1 carb.  4 Tablespoons of Cream cheese are 4 carbs and 2 cups part skim Mozzarella are 13 grams.  Add to that your pizza sauce, and as you can see the carbs do add up, however if you consider that the full amount of carbs is divided into 8 slices, then you will see, this pizza, largely due to the low carb crust, is a low carb food you really can eat and enjoy! 

PIZZA TOPPINGS: (all can be purchased from Costco)

• Pizza Sauce of your choice, or I use Spaghetti sauce.
• 1/2 lb ground sausage or 4 sausage patties crumbled or sliced into cubes.
• Pepperoni
•  1 - 1/2 Cup Mozzarella Cheese
• Parmesan Cheese (to sprinkle)
• Black olives
• Mushrooms (1 cup sliced) 
• 1 Green or red bell pepper chopped
• 1 Small Onion (chopped and marinated
• Red chili pepper flakes 

You can go crazy creating just about whatever kind of pizza you like, by changing up the ingredients.  Instead of a Red sauce, try a Alfredo sauce made from canned milk, butter, Parmesan cheese and garlic powder. Top with Chicken, ground chicken or turkey burger, and get creative with the vegetables, but be sure to add them.  Spinach is wonderful with an alfredo base, and so is artichoke hearts, mushrooms, and more.  Just remember that everything you add, will also probably have a few carbs in it, so if you are making this to be low carb, watch what you add.

ENJOY!

What is the deal about Keto?

There is a new revolution if that is what  you want to call it, but people all over the world call it Keto.  It is a new way of eating and thinking about food.  In a nutshell, Keto is about eating very low or no carbohydrates, high fat of the right kind, proteins, green vegetables and if you want to know more, just google it!  I googled it because I saw my daughter in law losing weight and reshaping her whole body by going Keto, and since seeing is believing, I wanted to do it too. 

I have diabetes and so does my husband and when I realized that if I cut way down on my daily carb intake, or cut out my carbs all together in my diet, it could significantly help me get in control of diabetes, and lose weight.  We were all on board, and without much study into Keto, we just cut out most of the carbs we ate in our meals. Did it help?  You are darn tootin it did!  We began to see our blood sugar levels drop down into normal ranges, to the point that we didn't need to be on insullin.  If we took our insullin, we found that we became hypoglycemic, which is essentially too low blood sugar, and we began to feel sick, nauseated, extremely fatigues, and just plain crappy! 

We continue to eat low carbohydrates and do our best to maintain this balance through not eating anything that has flour or sugar in it.  You have to understand, that both of us were raised on Breads, pastas, rice, and sweets of all kinds.  We loved it and actually still do, but we finally get the fact that if we eat those thing, we will have to go back on insullin, and our blood sugar levels will rise.  Those types of foods are also addicting, and it makes it difficult to eat just one.  A handful of M&M's turns into a whole bag by the end of the day.  One sweet roll turns into finishing the entire pan of sweet rolls by the end of the week.  It is an addiction of the worst kind, and the result can be a myriad of health issues.

Eating keto is just a different way to cook, and it isn't icky, it's just different.  You can have breads, but not made from wheat flour.  Almond meal and Coconut flour becomes the replacement because of the low amount of carbs they contain.  Normally I would have stayed away from these foods, because of the calories, but in Keto, calories aren't not what you are counting, its the carbs. There is a learning curb to creating delicious meals this way, and I have also found that my taste buds have changed because if introducing this different but very healthy way of eating. 

There is more to Keto than this little bit of information and practical experience I have provided, but if you have a desire to learn more, google it.  It is all over the internet, Pinterest pins, people are talking about it, Instagram pictures galore of people losing weight on the Keto diet. 

What I want to do now is to share some of the good meals I have created while wanting to get healthy, get in control of my diabetes, and not starve in the process.  A Keto type meal plan has provided me just that.  I have found quite a few good things are happening to me as a result:

• Weight loss.  So far I have lost almost 20 lbs. For me it's slow, but I see it
• My stomach is shrinking.  I believe 100% it was the carbohydrates in my diet that made my stomach balloon because when I stopped eating Carbs my stomach began to shrink and flatten.  I'm not there yet, and it will take a while, but it is happening and I am very pleased! The same results are happening with my husband.
• I am finally getting back some energy.  I use to feel like I wanted to take a nap daily, but now days, the fatigue isn't there, and I can make it through the day, and into the evening til bedtime before feeling tired.  This folks is a miracle.  I have found that now if I can get my 8 hours of sleep nightly, I can make it through the day, and not need a nap.
• I am completely off my insulin and so is my husband.  If we were to take it, we find ourselves getting hypoglycemic, which is low blood sugar.  By just not having many carbohydrates during the day, we can maintain healthy blood sugar levels.  What a blessing! We are still on Metformin, but we hope one day, we will no longer need that to maintain our health and that diabetes, though we will still have it, will not be something that will take our health and well being down to our graves. We are also staying close to our doctors recommendations, but He continually tells us that what we are doing it helping us, so keep it up.  
• Lastly, I am learning how to cook some really delicious meals, and as my husband calls them... "Resturaunt quality."  They taste wonderful, are very  healthy for us, use the freshest ingredients, mostly all from Costco, and look so pretty plated!  If I cooked for someone who didn't know my meal was Keto based, they would love and enjoy it as would they for any other meal.  Mine would definitely be healthier.

I will be sharing many of the recipes I come up with and some that I find through other means, and it has been an eye opener to me that most if not all the ingredients can be purchased at Costco.  With careful planning, anyone can utilize the bulk goods that Costco provides, without much if any waste.  This is what I do, and yes it is what I call the $200 store, because I can't get out of there without spending at least that much, but I have learned to use it, and enjoy cooking again with such fresh, good products.  

My next post is one of my favorite Costco product recipes!

Two Costco Product Highlights - Sweet Mini Peppers and French Green Beans

How many times in your growing years, did your Mother tell you, "Eat your Vegetables?"  I bet we all were told that more than we like but we were also told that we are a product of what we eat, RIGHT?  I was told that so much, but gratefully eating vegetables was instilled in me just like music, cooking and other talents and skills.  I grew up in a home where most of our back yard of our 1/4 acre home, was filled with a garden. We had more vegetables than we ever needed, and my Dad would always say, "Mother, all those vegetables could feed an Army."  Guess what, they did, and not just the army of my family that lived in my house, but neighbors, friends and anyone my mother thought could benefit from our garden.  

Mom grew a lot of different kinds of vegetables.  Some of them were experiments to see what she could get her kids to eat, but eventually and after a few years, she figured it out.  She learned that her family enjoyed Green beans, sweet peppers, raspberries, fruit from fruit trees, grapes from vines, and lots and lots of tomatoes.  Now along with those kinds of plants, our garden grew other kinds of plants, commonly called weeds and guess who you think got the glorious job to pull those weeds?  You guessed it, her kids.  We had at times as many weeds to pull as there were plants planted in the garden.  One time, my brother in his youth, found some weed spray that was guaranteed to kill anything it touched.  He thought he would make our lives easier, by spraying the weeds and then they would just shrivel up and die.  He proceeded, without the permission of either of our parents, and went around the perimeter of the garden, spraying.  A few days later, we all noticed that the weeds were shriveling up, which was great, but we also noticed that the plants were shriveling up too.  My Mother couldn't figure it out for the longest time, why she watered and watered them, but they just continued to shrivel up and die.  

Finally one day, a few weeks had gone by when my Mother received a knock at our door.  She answered it to see a very angry neighbor, Mr. Shafter, almost frothing at the mouth, with his brow so scrunched up that it looked like furrows in the soil.  He began to yell and scream saying, Someone in your family has killed my Pyracantha bushes all along the backside of his home, that boardered with our garden.  He said that he had spent 20 years growing them, pruning them and making them a thing of beauty, but someone has killed his plants.  Of course my mother knew nothing of it, and as gracefully as she could, tried to quail his anger by offering him a bunch of her fresh garden produce and said she would get to the bottom of it.  Mr. Shafter didn't want any of her produce, he just wanted the head of the person who killed his Pyracantha bushes.  

After Mr. Shafter left, Mother gathered her quaking children around her and asked if any of us knew what happened to Mr. Shafters bushes?  Somehow it came out that my brother had spayed the weeds around the perimeter of our garden, and maybe got some of the spray on his bushes.  Marching my brother outside to see about those bushes, Mother and my brother somehow figured out a way to make up for the huge and innocent mistake he had made.  I'd have to ask him to know how they rectified 20 years of growing and manicuring and trimming, to make up for killing them, but somehow things were set aright.  I do know that Mr. Shafter never spoke to us again, but that was ok with most of us, because he wasn't a very kind and friendly man anyway.

One good thing did come of my brothers gargantuan mistake with the weed killer, and that was that my mother would only let us eat part of the produce in the garden that was not very close to where he sprayed, for fear it would poison us all, and many of the plants in our garden died along with Mr. Shafters Pyracantha bushes.  

Well, that is my veggie story but my current one is that I have found some beautiful, and delicious produce in Costco.  Let me first start with their green beans.  They have these 2 lb bags of french cut green beans, you know the ones that are straight, long and slim, but look so uniform in size, unlike the bumpy warty kind that most people grow in their gardens.  My mother grew the warty kinds, and they never tasted as good as the ones that Costco sells.  I will buy a whole bag of these, and steam them, just until they are tender, and then quickly rinse them under the water in the kitchen tap.  This prevents them from cooking any longer and becoming soggy and overcooked, but also greens them up.  Steaming and cooking turns the color of beans from a bright green color to more of a dull green, but rinse them under cold water, and they magically resume their natural before cooking color, and maybe even a little brighter.  

My husband and I will then enjoy eating them with meals, add them to soups and stir frys,but my favorite is to snack on them.  That's right, snack on cold green beans is such a treat.  Simply get a dollup or two of mayonaise (which you can also buy at Costco) and set it on your plate, and start dipping your cold green beans in it.  The taste to me is much like a steamed artichoke, which is another favorite vegetable of mine, and Costco carries those during certain seasons.

The other veggie that I absolutely love that Costco carries year round is the Windset Farms sweet mini peppers.  When I first spotted them in the store, I thought, "Why would I want to buy those, they aren't even fully developed. "  Actually they are, and as a result of being mini peppers, they are so much more sweet than their cousin, sweet bell peppers.  These come in 3 different colors, Red, which are my favorite, yellow and orange, and surprisingly, their flavor varies as well. It  takes me about 2 weeks to use a whole bag of them up, but they last and don't begin rotting if they are kept refrigerated in the vege compartment.  

I use these cute little peppers in so many of my recipes, from Scrambled egg breakfast meals, to soups, and stir fries, and my favorite.... snacking.  These sweet and crisp little mini peppers are perfect to dip in either home made ranch dressing dip or regular salad ranch dressing, which by the way, also is sold at Costco!  I also serve them with different cheeses and my favorite is the soft cheeses, from plain Philadelphia Cream cheese sold in a large tub at Costco, but other soft cheeses like Brie and seasoned ones, also sold in the cheese section at Costco.  

I highly recommend everyone try them, and learn to enjoy the sweetness of natural vegetables, and get a little healthier.  I won't go into the different vitamins and minerals that they contain, and you will benefit from, but you can do that by going to the internet and googling it.  Enjoy! 

New Product at my Costco, Folios Cheese Wraps

I have a new favorite Costco product, that is helping to not only stay on my Keto meal plan, but makes coming up with great meals, very easy.  I have used these for the past 2 weeks, and my husband has loved them.  They are so versatile, and I have Created some great recipes to share with you.  

These Folios cheese wraps are essentially made of cheese, and all you have to do is to take one out of the package, put it in the microwave, on it's own piece of parchment like paper that is included in the package, and microwave.  I'm pretty sure you would need to adjust the baking time depending on how powerful your microwave is, but for me, I set it for 30 seconds.  Once it has stopped, I add another 30 seconds or less.  1 minute for me, generally crispens them and slightly browns them around the edges.

Once they are cooked, you need to let them rest and cool for a few minutes, or they will act like cheese does when it is hot, and not keep it's wrap shape.  Once cooled, slowly peel it from the parchment, and put it on your plate.  The oils comes out of the cheese, so I usually blot off most of that with a paper towel, and that my friends is all there is to making this wrap.  

I have made so many yummy recipes with these wraps, beginning with the very first recipe I created on my Keto meal plan, and that was what I call Katie's Veggie Egg Burrito/Taco.   Here is the recipe for you to try, and I know you will really love the taste.

All the ingredients for this recipe can be found at Costco and if you want to get technical, everything else can be found there too such as, the pans I cooked it in, the food processor and even the paper plates and paper towels I like to use in the microwave.  

Katie’s Keto Egg Tacos

·        2-4 Eggs (Costco)

·        Olive Oil (Costco)

·        Generous Sprinkle of Cheddar Jack Cheese (Costco)

·        Small slice of Philly Cream Cheese. (Costco)

·        2 Folio Cheese Wraps (Costco)

·        1 Tablespoon of butter (Costco)

·        Fresh Ground Salt and Pepper (Costco)

      4 pieces of cooked bacon

DIRECTIONS:

1.     Cook your eggs in olive oil, and scramble them.  Be sure to salt and pepper them for extra flavor, or not, depending on your own personal taste or if you are on a low sodium diet.

2.     Just before your egg is fully scrambled, add your sprinkle of Cheddar Cheese and your small slice of Philly Cream Cheese.  Shut off heat, put the lid on the skillet and remove from the heating element on your stove.  Over the next few minutes your cheese will melt and the egg will finnish cooking. 

3.     Stir melted cheese around in your egg, which brings a huge amount of flavor to them.  Set aside. ( I keep my eggs in the microwave on a microwave safe plate, to keep warm until I am finished with the rest of the recipe.)

More Ingredients: 

·        1 Zucchini 

·        2 Mini Sweet Red Peppers (Costco)

·        Fresh Ground Salt and Pepper (Costco)

·        1 Tablespoon of butter (Costco)

DIRECTIONS:

• Clean out the fry pan you used for cooking your eggs, rinse out and dry.  Heat and melt 1 Tablespoon of Butter. 
• Prepare the vegetables in a chopper or Food processor. I found a small one at Costco!  (I don't mind letting it sit out on my counter-top, because I use it so often.)  Add to melted butter in fry pan and salt and pepper to taste.
• Moisture will cook out, and that is what you want, so you don’t have soggy eggs. Those juices strengthen the flavor, so don't drain them, just let them cook out.  Sauté your veges for about 4 – 5 minutes stirring, and when most of the juices are gone, they are ready.  In the mean time, you need to follow the directions on the wraps to prepare and microwave cook, to crispen the wrap sheets.  When they are done, they will look lacy and crispy…. Yum! I pat the excess oil off, just because I don’t like so much oil, but it isn’t necessary for the Keto diet.

Now, lawyer the cooked ingredients in this order:

1.     Wrap on bottom layer.

2.     Add Cooked cheesy scrambled eggs.

3.     Add cooked veggies

4.     Top with 2 slices of crisp cooked bacon.

There you have it!  It looks like restaurant quality and the taste is amazing.  It has a sweet quality from the vegetables, not to mention that they boost the healthiness of your breakfast meal.  I ate mine this way, but my husband has to add hot sauce or salsa to his for an added spicy bite.  Either way, these are so yummy, and a totally different taste than what you are use to having in any burrito.  Enjoy!

I like to write, thus you won't see me adding a calorie or nutrient value list for any of my recipes.  You can easily calculateyour own nutritional information as you go by using one of the many food calculators that are available online.  I happend to locate this one first, so I am sharing the link:

https://caloriecontrol.org/healthy-weight-tool-kit/food-calorie-calculator/

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