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.