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Easy Good Fake Custard

A favorite snack of mine—feels like junk food, but not too bad, filling, and super-easy.

Take about 12oz vanilla yogurt. I use cream-top full-fat yogurt.

Add a couple of splashes chocolate extract. You have to be careful, unlike real chocolate, more chocolate extract is not better... it's a little tart. Ideally I suppose you could just use unsweetened cocoa powder, I'm particular to the Hershey's unsweetened dark cocoa, but the store over here has been out lately.

Two reasonably heaping teaspoons of coconut flour.

Mix it all together really well.

And that's it! The coconut flour gives it rich texture and a nice flavor, which combines well with the chocolate and vanilla. I like to eat it with a very small spoon, so I can savor it. It's not that much like custard, but, it manages to hit enough of the same notes that it's a pretty…

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Ketoriffic Tuna Pig Salad au Gratin (with non-keto variation)

This is a regular snack around my place.

Ingredients:
1 large (7oz unopened) can tuna, drained
2 thin slices ham
healthy dollop or two of mayonnaise
red Tabasco sauce
black pepper
optional: lemon pepper
powedered garlic
shredded cheese of your preference

1. Put tuna in a large bowl
2. shred ham slices and add
3. add healthy dollop or two of mayonnaise
4. Several dashes of Tabasco sauce. This is one of the exceedingly rare instances where you don't want to overdo it with Tabasco sauce... just a dash or two. This is because we're about to overdo it with the black pepper, and surprisingly, they don't mix.
5. Add garlic to taste... I like a lot.
6. Add pepper. Now, I have a standard rule of them for how much black pepper you need to add…

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Oatmeal á la K

Written by request from espresso martini influencer

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I AM DA CHEF OF DA FUTURE

Dinner For Schmucks: The Five Ingredient Cookbook — Kitchen Survival for Schmoes

Mostly sticking this placeholder into the "works in progress" section to remind me to pull all my recipies together and work on my cookbook.

At a certain point in my bachelorhood, I realized I was subsisting, in my home-cooked meals, on almost the same 5 ingredients. Tough to recall at this late date what those ingredients were... I think there was tuna fish in there, mayonnaise, ramen, I can't remember the other two. I had this idea at the time that it would be fun to put together a bachelor's cookbook of all the different things I made out of those few ingredients.

Over time my culinary palette grew, horizontally if not in terms of sophistication, but the idea never left me. Now there's an air fryer on my counter (or, as I call it, the "meat microwave"), probably more than 5 things I use regularly on my spice shelf…