Trial and Error: The Keto Edition

 It's been a long time since I first embarked on ketoing - 2017, to be exact. 

Since that time, there have been lots of trials, errors, all around fails and some decent recipe victories. 

Here were some of the winners over the years: 

Zucchini Boats. I can't remember what was in them, but it was keto. 

Salad with homemade Ranch and Grilled Chicken Bits (from a bag - do NOT recommend!) 

Sausage Alfredo sauce with some brand of shirataki noodles. Not my favorite pasta sub, but it was bearable. The sauce was good. Just browned sausage, alfredo sauce, onions, and parmesan sprinkle cheese. 

Taco Bowl. Easy when you're feeling too lazy for complicated. 

Caprese Chicken with real mozzarella, and roasted zucchini

NY Strip with sauteed shrooms, butter, and asapargii with a side of ranch for my steak. Don't ask. 

It's how I roll. 

Keto soft tacos (homemade keto tortillas), and some form of shredded chicken, veggebles, and Queso Fresco cheese, and some sour cream

Keto strawberry crepes. 

I don't remember what was in the crepes, but it was keto. 

Pretty fucking good.

Winner, winner ... Crepe dinner

It's not hard to dine out on keto, especially at a dineR. There was this place called Metro in Fort Wayne. It was the bomb. Unfortunately, it closed :( 

Sausages, bacon, and scrambled egglets. All protein, all filling.

I canNOT recommend store-bought keto or low-carb tortillas. They always make me bloat, and they are just too chewy, even when you char them on the stove. I CAN recommend the filling - shredded slow cooker chicken, sauteed peppers and onions, and a lovely creamy cheese sauce. HELL YEAH.

T-bone and keto-stuffed mushrooms. Definitely a winner!

Grilled zucchini. Always good. Always.

There were some PHENOMENAL losers that I did not get pictures of, such as some keto butter chicken recipe, made from scratch. Horrendous. Couldn't even finish cooking it. Abandoned hope and went out for dinner. 

I was off of keto before the whole cottage cheese craze took over, so I have yet to try any of those concoctions, but I probably will. 

I also didn't take any shots of the standards, the Buffalo chicken "dip" that I just eat as the main entree, or my sausage/egg casserole, or the keto bagels made with a copious amount of cheese, and almond flour and egg. 

So, what am I about to try? 

So many, many things: 

The new-fangled Accidental Fathead Dough Pizza ... 

"Two-ingredient" cheesy bread: 

Yes, there's a pattern here. I thoroughly love the Keto Twins because their faces don't lie. They test out multitudes of keto recipes, and they are to thank for that Million Dollar Chicken Florentine Sandwich Recipe that I forgot to put above, but looks SOMETHING like this: 

Recipe here

Here are some that I saw recently on the Tube of Yous: 

I have never had Boursin cheese, but this looks pretty delightful and something I could put on top of a chaffle. <3 

There's also this one from Mayra: 

Looks like it would be pretty good for lunches, or dinners. Make a big pan and let it last all week. 

This one I did try once, and it was so-so, but I may have to try it again: 

Since I now have a metric fuckton of chia seeds, I will definitely be giving this a go, too: 

I had tried to make a chia pudding from memory the other day, and let's just say it's more like chia SOUP. The flavor is fine, but I definitely need the guidance of an actual recipe. :) This one looks pretty great! 

I think you get the idea. There is a vastness to the amount of keto recipes, and I intend to start exploring them at a more in-depth level. 

I think that's good for today. 

I am hungry and it's too early. 

Damn it.