Lip Smackin’ Chive Spread
Instructions/Ingredients:
Combine 4 ounces soft cream cheese (3.2 grams of carb) with 4 Tablesps (1/2 stick) soft butter in a blender or food processor. Add ½ cup chopped chives (0.8 gram of carb). Add 1 Teasp Worcestershire sauce (1.0 gram of carb) and salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste.
TOTAL YIELD: 18 Tablesps. One Tablesp has 0.3 gram of carb.
Chive Spread with Smoked Salmon
Instructions/Ingredients:
Follow the recipe for Lip Smackin’ Chive Spread (above). Cover canapés generously with the spread and with slivers of smoked salmon, lox, or nova. Two ounces of smoked salmon have virtually no carb.
Chive Spread with Prosciutto
Instructions/Ingredients:
Follow the recipe for Lip Smackin’ Chive Spread (above). Cover canapés generously with the spread and with slivers of Prosciutto. Two ounces of smoked salmon have virtually no carb.
Chive Spread with Crabmeat
Instructions/Ingredients:
Follow the recipe for Lip Smackin’ Chive Spread (above), but reduce chives to ¼ cup (0.4 gram of carb). Add 1 Tablesp lemon juice (1.3 grams of carb), add 1 cup cooked, well-cleaned
crabmeat. Mash together.
TOTAL YIELD: 2 cups. One Tablesp has 0.2 gram of carb.
Blue Cheese Spread
Instructions/Ingredients:
Mix together 8 ounces blue cheese or Roquefort – the better the quality, the better the taste – (6.4 grams of carb) with 4 ounces (1 stick) butter. Add salt and freshly ground pepper to taste.
TOTAL YIELD: 24 Tablesps. One Tablesp has 0.3 gram of carb.
Tasteful Espresso Cream and Ricotta
Note: This also is very low in carbs for the whole meal it contains only 20 carbs
Makes approximately 6 servings, Total Carbs 20
Ingredients:
No muss, no fuss! Just fast, easy and good.
1/4 cup espresso
1 tsp. liquid sweetener
1/2 tsp. vanilla
2 cups ricotta cheese
1/2 cup whipping cream
cocoa, if desired
Combine the espresso, sweetener and vanilla. Beat the ricotta with a whisk to loosen it up. Whip the cream until stiff and fold into the ricotta. Swirl in the espresso and fold it in lightly to leave it streaky. Pile into 6 dessert dishes or wine glasses and dust with cocoa if you like.
