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Don’t you just love those books which actually make you DO the nicest things?! Like baking pancakes and making fresh juices in the morning?

Especially when you woke up, and it’s raining agaín and you didn’t feel like doing anything..

Well this book of @chickslovefood is one of them! ❤️ #Food #Feelgood #Chickslovefood #Enjoy #Selfcare #Goodfood #Homemade #Fun #Justdoit #5orless #5orlesskookboek #Kookboek #Cookbook #Inspiration #Inspiratie #Healthyfood #Feelgoodfood

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UNFRIENDED (2015)

scary skype ad.

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WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS (2015)

immor(t)al romp.

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EX MACHINA (2015)

beautiful tech problems.

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LOW CARB EGGS BENNY

5 out of 5!

Yum yum. I don't know about you guys but I only discovered eggs Benedict when I moved over to the East Coast. And BOY was I happy! Yum yum (I know I am repeating myself, but it is so warranted). But yeah, it's bacon (yes), eggs (yes!) and a biscuit (mmm) all topped off with creamy, zesty buttery goodness! What more can you ask of breakfast??? Or lunch or dinner...

This is a PERFECT keto meal sans the biscuit! So I just threw that biddie away since honestly they are usually dry and flavorless and rockish anyways. So it's pretty simple but I thought I would write it up. 

So I have had TREMENDOUS difficultly making the Hollandaise sauce! Every time it "breaks" and is super liquidy. Past it wounding my cooking ego, I have stopped caring - it still tastes the same :) 

So this is literally the best I could do - please don't make fun of my swimming eggs X)

Makes 2 servings! 

Details:2.1 g carbs, 466 calories.

You'll need: 

4 slices bacon 5 eggs 1/2 stick butter 1 tablespoon lemon or lime juice a couple dashes paprika a couple dashes salt 1/2 teaspoon white vinegar

Directions: 

Get out a pot and a pan. Fill the pot with water and set it on the stove over high heat (we want it to boil!) and then pop your bacon on the pan over medium high heat. 

Make sure to keep an eye on those but for now you will want to put the yolk of one of those eggs in the blender with the lime juice, paprika and salt. Blend just to get them to mix up a bit. 

Now go ahead and pop that half stick of butter in the microwave in a bowl (I just used a coffee cup) until it is boiling (1 minute). You may want to flip the bacon at this point and the water probably won't be boiling yet. 

Start running the blender. Most blenders have some sort of small opening on the top so go ahead and open that and, while running, start to spoon the hot butter in. Very slowly. Should take about a minute or two to spoon it all out.

Let it continue to blend a bit. 

Now let's poach some eggs! The water should be about boiling now. You'll want to add the vinegar to the boiling water. Now stir the water with a big spoon so it starts to make a tunnel in the middle. As quick as you can: drop the spoon, crack your egg on the side and drop (from right above the water - not too high) the egg straight into the tunnel. 

Let sit and the egg whites will curl around the yolk. I prefer to do one at a time because it is less stressful so at this point you can check on the bacon again and maybe take it off if it's done :) 

After about two minutes in the boiling water, fish the egg out with a spoon with holes in it (get rid of the water). Set aside on a plate with your bacon if that's done. 

Go ahead and do the same with the other eggs: swirl, crack and wait. 

Spoon the eggs out and, on the plate with your bacon and eggs, pour the (hopefully thick) hollandaise sauce over them!! YUM!

Nutritional Facts: 

Calories: 466, Carbs: 2.1 g, Fat: 41.8 g, Protein: 21.2 g, Sodium: 903 mg, Sugar: 1.1 g. 

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Creamy Tomato Soup !

5 out of 5. 

I am so addicted to this ! I just gets better and better the more that you eat and I just LOVE tomato soup anyways. When I was in like sixth grade goldfish and tomato soup was like 60% of my meals. It was so cute! They were swimming in a little pond of tomato :) 

But anyways, I didn't realized for a long time how good fresh tomato soup can be and from the two that I've made it looks like it pretty easy to throw together ... heat and blend! This recipe says you can strain out the chunks to get a smoother soup but I think the chunks are fabulous. So don't strain! I also modified the recipe a bit to get a lower cal version and more of a tomatoey taste. Weirdly enough, even though I used like 150% of the tomatoes called for, it still isn't like POW TOMATO but I still love it - whatever it is :) 

Makes 6 servings YUM!

Details: 5.6 g carbs, 148 calories. 

You'll need: (these are my modifications on the real deal but all the same ingredients as the original) 

2 tablespoons olive oil 1 white onion, diced 4 cloves garlic 1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes Dash of salt and pepper 1/2 cup red wine 3 lbs fresh tomatoes, cut into large chunks 1 cup heavy whipping cream 16 fresh basil leaves (didn't have this so I did a couple sprinkles of thyme and oregano) Salt to taste

Nutrition Facts:

Calories: 148, Carbs: 5.6 g, Fat: 12.2 g, Protein: 1.5 g, Sodium: 102 mg, Sugar: 2.3 g.

Link: 

http://www.djfoodie.com/Cream-of-Tomato-Soup

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Creamed Chicken (oooh)

5 out of 5. 

PERFECT

Hello team! It's a beautiful day outside and I'm about to head in to school and I finally decided to write up this recipe and ALTHOUGH it's not very summery it's so fabulous that I am sure you all will enjoy it anyways :) One of my roommates likes to keep the apartment SO cold that I am wandering around in sweaters so I'll just pretend it's winter time anyways. Ugh, for some reason I can't stop thinking of Christmas and Thanksgiving and snow... what the hell is up with me? It's like a freaking green house out there!

And I found this little guy hiding in the shrub down the street!

Can't it just be every season I want it to be at the same time when I want it??

Anyways, it was really just like a pot pie! If someone like ripped it open on your plate. Okay, that sounds awful, but in all honestly it is amazing. OR you could think of it as a chicken pot pie "deconstruction" - something all the fancy chefs are doing today. I didn't realize how much I missed chicken pot pie until I'd had this! ABSOLUTELY go ahead and serve with the biscuits ! Also please don't mind the fact that I burned the biscuits :)

Makes 6 servings (or 4, hehe).

Details: 3.1 g carbs, 248 calories. (6 servings) 

Details: 4.6 g carbs, 372 calories. (4 servings) 

You'll need: 

1/4 cup butter 1 small onion, diced 2 stalks celery, diced 1 small carrot, diced 1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon Carbalose flour (you don't need this - just skip)  2 cups chicken broth 1 cup heavy cream 2 cups cooked chicken, diced Salt and pepper, to taste 3 tablespoons fresh parsley, chopped 1/4 cup frozen peas (no thanks, bleh)

Nutrition Facts: (for 6 servings) 

Calories: 248, Carbs: 3.1 g, Fat: 19 g, Protein: 15.9 g, Sodium: 368 mg, Sugar: 1.3 g. 

Nutrition Facts: (for 4 servings) 

Calories: 372, Carbs: 4.6 g, Fat: 28.5 g, Protein: 23.5 g, Sodium: 552 mg, Sugar: 1.9 g.

Link: 

http://www.genaw.com/lowcarb/creamed_chicken_biscuits.html

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Ginger COOKIES!

5 out of 5!

Okay, I am on a GINGER COOKIE MISSION over here!  The first one I made was a Maria cookie and it looked NOTHING like the ones in her photos:

(UM WHAT? Mine were all grainy and hard and her's look like puffy dream clouds in gingerbread land)

Then I was looking at a more traditional gingerbread cookie on All Day I Dream About Food and those were cute but I wasn't really in the mood for piping frosting so I came up with a hybrid! These are my favorite so far but I will keep on chugging and eventually we'll get it perfect! 

So the main issue here is that MOLASSES, which accounts for most of the flavor for ginger cookies, is PACKED with carbs so we have to find an awesome replacement! I think Maria was on to something with replacing the molasses with SPICES! She uses cinnamon, ginger, allspice and cloves which makes a magical and festive combination. Before I put Maria's cookies in the oven, I was in LOVE with the dough (mind you this is after adding DOUBLE the recommended spices) but the texture was so dry! It was like sand. So I did add some water like she suggested but then the cookies turned out to be so hard and brittle and UGH. The flavor was still there but it is almost as if it had baked out a bit ! Which is basically bad + bad. SO I used the concept of the spices and decided to apply that to a sugar cookie base. The result was a wonderful soft texture and that great spice flavor! So here it is! YUM!

NOTE: it looks like a LOT of spices but firstly, the spices seemed to cook out a bit and, secondly, they're supposed to be spicy!

Makes 12 cookies. 

Details: 1.4 g carbs, 52 calories. 

You'll need:

3 tablespoons coconut oil, melted!  1 egg 1/2 teaspoon liquid stevia 1 cup almond flour 1 tablespoon coconut flour pinch of salt 1 1/2 teaspoons allspice  3 teaspoons ground ginger 1 teaspoon ground cloves 3 teaspoons cinnamon

Directions: 

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. 

In a large bowl, mix together egg, coconut oil (make sure to melt beforehand!) and liquid stevia. 

In another bowl, mix dry ingredients: almond and coconut flour, allspice, ginger, gloves and cinnamon. 

Slowly pour dry mix into the wet and mix until all is well combined. You can taste test at this point if you don't mind eating some raw egg to check the spiciness - it will get a little less sweet and a little less spicy so try to get it to a point where it has just a little more OOMPH than you'd like.

Get out a cookie sheet and lay down some wax paper. Lightly oil the wax paper (you can do this with some coconut oil on a paper towel or some spray oil - I only add this step because my wax paper is super crappy so things always stick but if you are confident in yours then you can skip this)

Pop them in the oven for 10 to 12 minutes until they seem firm and then they're done!

ENJOY!

Nutritional Facts: 

Calories: 52, Carbs: 1.4 g, Fat: 5 g, Protein: 1.1 g, Sodium: 20 mg, Sugar: 0 g.