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cooking, dieting, food, grain-free, home-made potato chips, paleo, pasta substitute, spiralizing, vegetables, veggetti
Lucky lucky me! Thanks to my cyber friend Emily Huval, I belong to a group on facebook that celebrates an eating style devoid of wheat, grains, and some seeds. I feel terrific because of it but I must confess, I do fall off that wagon occasionally. Since I don’t have an allergy to wheat, it’s not too bad. I am not as bloated when I avoid starches. I feel like I am eating cleaner, if you know what I mean, and my skin looks better too. I don’t miss eating bread as much as I miss eating sweets. I love me some sweets! And there are lots of sweet recipes associated with this eating lifestyle. I am filling up on veggies more than breads. I bought a “veggetti” (see this post: https://nantubreunlimited.wordpress.com/2014/09/08/breakfast-bombs-veggetti-fun-in-the-kitchen/ ) and I shredded many a zucchini with it to use in place of pasta noodles. You would be amazed how delicious it is. I love it but the only thing was that the size of the veggie to be shredded was limited to – yep – about the size of a good zucchini or yellow squash. At least, that was what I limited it too. And my hand always finished up with a cramp in it from turning and twisting the veggie to get everything out of it.
Then I bought a serious spiralizer.
I only thought I was having fun before. This thing is great. I can slice onions, potatoes, all kinds of veggies. Basically anything I can fit on the thing, I can spiralize. Three blades are included to cut small, medium and wide shreds. I can even make potato chips with it. Please enjoy the following pictures I took today. I experimented with a couple of potatoes, starting with the large blade. The shredded potatoes were so pretty! Yeah, it doesn’t take much to tickle me, lol.
I can see a project coming on for the next time my grandkids come for a weekend!
This is what the potatoes looked like after my husband fried them. I’m looking forward to spritzing some sweet potato spirals with olive oil, salt and pepper and baking in the oven. Or making some veggie chips. Or pasta substitute noodles. My favorite topping is Italian sausage, mushrooms, onions, peppers, and pasta sauce. Somebody sing Halleluiah ’cause it tastes like heaven!