Carolyn Ketchum

Carolyn Ketchum writes All Day I Dream About Food, a food blog that focuses primarily on low carb, gluten free recipes. She has a Masters in Physical Anthropology and Human Evolution from Arizona State University and has an extensive background in higher education administration. She currently lives in the Boston area with her husband and three children. You can check out her experiments with low carb baking at All Day I Dream About Food.

29 Creative Low Carb Cauliflower Recipes

Cauliflower goes from bland to mind-blowing with these recipes. Low carb and paleo cooks everywhere are finding great new ways to use this versatile ingredient. From casserole to bread sticks to breakfast cereal, get ready to see a whole new side of that “boring” white vegetable!

Slow Cooker Steak Fajitas

No need to thinly slice your steak in this easy low carb steak fajitas recipe; your slow cooker does all the work for you! Just pile in your ingredients and then shred the meat at the end. Serve with some low carb tortillas, cauliflower rice or eat it as I do, straight from the bowl like soup. It’s delicious and will quickly become a family favorite.

Vanilla Bean Latte with Cardamom

Did you hear that Starbucks is now offering coconut milk as a dairy-free milk option? Sounds like a great healthy option, doesn’t it? Not so fast, friends. The coconut milk they are using contains plenty of added sugar, along with some other unsavories you may not want to consume.

Low Carb Chicken Pot Pie with Cheesy Biscuit Crust

Chicken Pot Pie is perhaps one of the most comforting meals and perfect for a cold winter’s day. But the conventional kind is hardly perfect for people on a low carb diet. This low carb chicken pot pie recipe has only a little arrowroot starch in place of the flour, to help thicken the sauce. The low carb, gluten-free biscuit topping is delicious with the creamy chicken filling.

Low Carb Poppy Seed Hamantaschen

This low carb take on the traditional Hamantaschen uses almond flour cookie dough for the pastry. The filling is made with poppy seeds, a few chia…

Baking With Low Carb Flour Alternatives

I stick with the real, whole food low carb flour alternatives like almond flour and coconut flour. It may be hard to believe now, but I promise that you can create baked goods that rival their high-carb counterparts in taste and consistency.

Brownie Batter Waffles

Your waffle iron is more versatile than you might think and getting creative with it can result in some serious deliciousness. I thought it might be fun to pour low carb brownie batter into mine. I kept them on the small side, more like cookies than full waffles. Then we topped them with whipped cream and a little of my sugar-free caramel sauce

Moroccan Lamb Stew with Cauliflower

If you love the taste of lamb but don’t always love the price, grab yourself a few pounds of lamb stew meat instead. It’s often much less expensive and makes for some of the most comforting, flavorful meals. This Moroccan lamb stew has wonderful, warm spices like cumin, cinnamon and cloves. And it’s made more healthy with cauliflower in place of any heavier root vegetables.

Sunflower Butter

I’ve recently become very enamored of sunflower seed butter as a healthy alternative to my beloved peanut butter. But it can be quite pricy at the store and most brands still contain added sugar. So I decided to try making my own at home and now I can’t stop! It’s remarkably easy and it costs just a fraction of the store-bought brands. I just grab a bag of roasted, unsalted sunflower kernels and away I go. I keep some on hand at all times to make Sunbutter Chocolate Chip Cookies.

Chicken & Chorizo Stew

Sometimes dinner just magically comes together perfectly. It doesn’t happen often enough in our busy world, so when it does, you want to repeat the experience over and over. This is just such a magical recipe. As we were preparing for our cross-country move, I stared into an almost empty freezer, trying to figure out what to do with a package of chicken and a package of chorizo.

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