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Recently husband and I took a saunter through one of my favorite stores...Home Goods! I love that place. There is a really good one on Rt. 73 in Marlton, NJ. (And just ten minutes either way there are two more...also good...one on Rt. 38 in Moorestown, NJ and another one on Rt. 130 in Cinnaminson, NJ). I have been known to do all three in a weekend!
If you follow a prescribed NO Carb diet you will not eat any fruit. I follow a low carb diet. I pay attention to the glycemic load. I eat fruit because it is healthy. But, that having been said, I watch portion size.
In the (Collingswood Farmer's)market now are so many beautiful fruits. Earlier were all the berries. Now...Mid August...the market is full of melons and peaches and apples and plums and, even, grapes.
One of the foods I miss in the worse way living low carb is pizza. Husband and I have been married just shy of 30 years and we ate HOMEMADE pizza every Friday night ....every Friday night. When we were newly wed we ate homemade pizza and watched the Sixers and the Celtics (back in the day of Larry Bird and Dr. J). We would drag ourselves home from work and throw a pizza in the oven and eat in front of the TV. Then we had children. We still had homemade pizza every Friday night.
These are beautiful, delicious, unique, sought-after Jersey tomatoes. That is, tomatoes born and raised in New Jersey. The Garden State. My uncle bought plants in New Jersey, once, and took them home to Long Island. He tried to grow Jersey tomatoes in New York! It didn't work. The plants got spindly and never produced a single piece of fruit.
When I began to embrace a low carb lifestyle I thought my days of tomato sandwiches were over. How could I eat tomatoes and mayonnaise on WHITE BREAD! After all tomatoes have some carbs. And white bread is just about the worst thing a low carber can eat.
Last week was hectic and hot. This week was less hectic but hotter. As early as 8AM the humidity is nearly unbearable and the heat from the sun is scorching. But the farmer's brave the heat and so we go to support them and to shop. This, despite the weather, is a wonderful time for produce in NJ. Everything that we've waited all winter for is out and plentiful. And therefore, very inexpensive!
Despite the fact that I refer to my daughters. And despite the fact that said daughters live at home with us. They are all grown up and gainfully employed. They also have social lives. More and more frequently husband and I find ourselves alone for dinner. Dinner for two is sometimes tough for me. I've been cooking for at least four nearly every night for a quarter of a century. But I'm getting better. Husband loves chicken cutlets. I find them bland. But this easy recipe makes both of us happy.
I have been more and more concerned with eating fish lately. I eat only grass fed and pasture raised meats and poultry. Fish, is something we like and is good for us...BUT farm raised fish is not so good. (Read what they feed them!!! And how they're raised!) And the oil gushing in the gulf has me concerned about what the wild fish are eating. Yesterday I bought some wild caught....fresh from the ocean around NJ ....fluke. It looked beautiful.
I know I sound like a broken record. But find yourself a local market and buy some fresh fruits and vegetables. When watching your portion size for counting carbs....it's really the best to have delicious, freshly picked produce. Everything tastes better when it's fresh!
The market is bursting with produce! All of it beautiful! We had a lot of rain and warm weather in the early spring so the vegetables and fruits are coming in about two weeks sooner, and, alas, leaving sooner too. But this week there was everything to pick from...and I did!
My grandmother would call this relish. I would call this sauce. You can call it whatever you'd like, but do try it next time you're going to barbecue burgers, dogs, and/or sausages.
Carb wise....watch your portion. It's all good stuff...but onions and tomatoes have natural sugar which makes their carbs worth noticing in a recipe.
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