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Cheesy Beef Rotini

Pasta and cheese go together like yin and yang. Add ground beef and you get shamalama ding dang!I bought a 3-pound package of ground beef on sale that I divided for three meals. The first of which was...

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Country Fired Chicken with Pepper Gravy

What do you do when you get home from a luau featuring a limbo contest and a surf-thrash band?Make a batch of country-fried chicken and a side of pepper gravy is what you do!That's what I did...

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Homemade French Fries

Great homemade french fries are not as easy as they seem to make. Getting the crispy outside and soft, pillowy inside takes some work. I think they are the greatest side dish of all-time and are...

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Chili ATX

For the first time in my culinary career, I won a cooking contest!In celebration of the NFL opening weekend, my work sponsored a chili cook off. Of the 250 or so employed at The Gatehouse Center for...

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The Bites Awaken

There has been an awakening. I have felt it.For the last year, I have been enjoying the great music and food culture that Austin provides. It's an amazing place for a life-long musician to live and...

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Sauteed Radishes

I have had roasted radishes many times and really enjoyed them. They are a close substitute for a roasted potato. This is the first time I tried to saute radishes. I did it simple — with olive oil,...

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Chicken Tenders with Peppers and Onions

This plate is a perfect example of how I have been preparing diners with less carbs in mind. In the past, I would have served this — sauted onions, peppers and chicken — over a heaping mound of white...

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Low Carb Burger and Fries

Ok. Its not actual fries - but one can dream. It's asparagus spears  — and they were still pretty tasty.Using lettuce to wrap the double-cheese turkey burger — that's the real low carb thing about this...

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Shrimp Tacos with Chipolte Ranch Sauce

I'm not the biggest seafood fan in the world. In general, I like it best when the "fish" flavor is mild and it's breaded and fried.Shrimp is a different story. As long as it's ultra fresh, I like it...

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Get Rid of It Frittata

The only thing in this dish not leftover or standing on the edge of spoiled are the eggs and chipotle ranch sauce made a couple days ago. I think the Gods of fresh food smiled on my effort to not waste...

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Creamy Spaghetti Squash Bake

This was a treat. I loved it — and it was an experiment! I will be refining this for sure, but it's worthy of a post.I made this recipe low-carb by using spaghetti squash where I would have used...

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Fish Tacos (Tilapia)

I inhaled six of these like a wale feeding on plankton.They were the small "street taco" size corn tortillas from Mission. Which helped them go down fast! Dinner on Friday is an event if I'm not going...

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Grilled Chicken Salad

I love leftover grilled chicken, the smoky grill flavor stays as long as it’s edible and provides an extra layer of flavor to whatever it’s used in.This recipe features chicken grilled over charcoal...

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The Double Turkey Burger Eggplant Stack!

This low-carb mountain consists of sliced eggplant and ground turkey patties  - grilled, stacked and drizzled with my favorite homemade sauce - which for me, in this case, is Sweet Pickle Ranch...

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Low-carb Chips and Dip

Two sliced cucumbers and your favorite dip! That's all for this recipe!Ok. They're not really potato chips. They're sliced cucumbers. Once you dip them in this sauce though, the chip won't matter!I...

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Low-carb Munchies

Diced ham, cheese and almonds will tame the strongest snack cravings.I stayed true to my "avoid-carbs-if-possible-diet" and purchased what amounts to a protein snack Saturday night.Meat, cheese and...

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Microwave Spaghetti Squash

This is a visual guide to making spaghetti squash in the microwave.Spaghetti squash can be used as a delicious replacement to spaghetti pasta and is a low-carb, gluten-free and keto-friendly...

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FIRST RUN: Cauliflower Pizza Crust

The purpose of this post is not to share an incredible recipe for a cauliflower pizza crust but as a guide to start with to create your own. I will be perfecting this in the future so a more definitive...

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Pepperoni Chips

I picked up a keto cookbook recently and found a recipe for pepperoni chips. This is inspired by that find.I made these on a Saturday afternoon so that I would have them for my late-night Twilight Zone...

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Spaghetti Carbonara

 Well, it's been a while. I'm still publishing recipes - just exclusively for print! Behind the Bites is alive and well - and syndicated! It's not as big as Dear Abby, but it does pay for itself.I hope...

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Frankenfries: Bringing dead french fries to life

  Leftover french fries from a restaurant are pretty much horrific from the fridge the next day, and a blitz in the microwave does little to restore them to their former glory. Because of this, I...

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Cranberry Fruit Salad

Over the years my Mom's Thanksgiving cranberry salad has become the stuff of legend. There have been countless times where I have been asked "did your Mom bring her cranberry salad" or "do you have the...

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The Air Fryer Hero

 This is the first time I have used the air fryer to cook egg rolls. The air-fried wrapper was much lighter and more flaky than an oil-fried version - which is the logical result when hot air replaces...

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Classic Hummus

Make Flavor Base In a food processor, blend together tahini, liquid from chickpeas, lemon juice, lemon zest, garlic and cumin until smooth and thoroughly mixed together. Add ChickpeasAdd chickpeas to...

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Check out Behind the Bites - New York Edition

Follow the Link! www.behindthebites-nyc.com The new site has everything here plus more. I just haven't redirected all the links yet and this is easier to do temporarily. Truth.

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