What is the name of your blog or Web site?
Lighter Side of Low Carb
The URL of your blog
What is the focus of your blog?
Gluten free, low carb recipes, anecdotes and tips for survival in a too-serious world where people swoon in their flax flakes.
What is the purpose of your blog?
Launched in 2007, this blog, with over one million pageviews and 200,000 readers exists to inform, make people smile and give a little bit of cheek, all while sharing food ideas.
So why food? Why this? Why?
Well it's simple, to be honest.
I want anyone--everyone who looks at your plate of food--at my plate of food-- to look at me and at you with a look of disbelief and say, "You're a low carb dieter? Really?" followed by, "And that's healthy?" and "You lose weight eating that? You can have that?"
And I want you to smile and say YES!
But more than that, I want kids and spouses to embrace our lifestyles because they see we're not doomed to sob over frou frou cuts of lettuce, garbanzo beans and pork chops for perpetuity.
And I want them to be so excited about your food they want to plan and prepare those meals with you.
I want them to see me enjoy this pizza. You enjoy the lasagna. The cheesecake. The doughnut. The taco bowl. A life without gluten and a life full of flavor, color and fun.
And I want them to beg you to make the dish for them again.
And at the end of the day, it's ok to have a message that doesn't need to be shouted by an activist or presented in scientific principles to an audience who can calculate pi to the thousandth place. An entire philosophy can truly be tasted in a plate of food prepared with love. And sometimes it whispers with even greater success when it's served with a side of bacon. Or a piece of cauliflower.
Tips and Tricks
- Recipes gone wrong:
- Oopsie Croutons (2008). A fabulous idea in theory, but only when you're starting with bread and not a meringue formerly known as Prince.
- Splenda Cheesecake (2004). Never attempt to make a cheesecake with Splenda if you have to open over 20 packets. Do you see where I'm going with this?
- Sea Salt and Vinegar Chips (2010). This only works if you use the right vegetable with the proper oil-to-balsamic proportions, and preferably not roasted with radishes.
- Key Lime Pie (2009). Truthfully, I typoed Piss instead of Pie. It works.
- Smoked Turkey (2003). It bounced like a bad check.
