My newest reciepe discovery

Food that we love and look forward to eating is probably the most important facet of this diet! -- Food and drinks that don't taste great and are to small of amounts are the biggest challenge we face. -- We will sabotage our diet to get away from tasteless and not satisfying food and drink if we are not careful! The same with to small of amounts! -- Don't forget that we are drug addicts and our drug is hybrid and processed and refined carbohydrates and starch and sugar and flour.(all of them).

My new diet discovery is a milestone discovery for me and I think many of you will benefit from my discovery!

First I will tell you about my emergency food! -- Yesterday I was on my way to Fargo, North Dakota (about 50 miles away). -- I hadn't eaten and it was raining and I have to wait an hour or more after I get up to eat because I have to take my Thyroid Pill (Levothyroxine 100 MCG once a day) for my radiation treated thyroid gland, on an empty stomach and then wait at least an hour before I eat.(no problem usually)

I was on the way and had just left the house and gotten to town three miles away on my way to Fargo this day and I was planning on eating at the all you can eat steak buffet in Fargo so I didn't bring any food with me. -- I got a call from my daughter wanting to know if I would watch the kids while she went to a few appointments in town.(Detroit Lakes, Minnesota) Our small town of 6500 that grows to twice or triple that with tourism from all over. A lot from Canada.(We have what they call WE Fest, a country music festival that brings in 100,000 people every August for about a week. -- Twenty miles north on the White Earth Indian Reservation there is a Pow Wow every June 14 for three days celebrating the first day of there arrival on there new Reservation just after the Civil War! They also have a large Casino and convention center! -- We have a lot of action around here but mostly it's just peaceful small town life. We are a part of all this bussell though!

So yes, I wanted the kids! I always want the kids. No problem. Three girls 10 and 7 and 6 -- Babo(Casey), Areanna and Hannah.

It turns out they hadn't eaten because they had just gotten up and there mother was in a hurry. It was close to eleven o'clock by now so we (the kids and I) were considering McDonald's or the Chinese Buffet. Three dollars each at the Chinese Buffet won out so we went there. -- Nine Dollars plus tax for all three($2.99 each no adult required! Amazing! -- There mother paid and a good time was had by all.

The kids are not on my diet but I do restrict them from what they eat and drink a lot. -- Like no pop or juice or milk or ice cream or potatoes or fryed bread or corn etc etc. They still eat a lot of carbohydrates that they shouldn't but nobody believes me and I can't do anything about it. I don't force the issue! Nobody wants to hear it or do it.

I don't eat when we go to McDonald's or the Chinese Buffet or most anywhere we eat out. It saves money and my diet will only allow to eat meat and eggs and only a few vegetables so unless I go somewhere where I want to spend the money I just bring my food and water with me and eat in the car or at a park or something. I always carry pickles and water with me.

After eating we went to the park to play on the swings for awhile and I still hadn't eaten which was OK because I no longer get sick if I don't eat after getting off from the carbohydrates but I was pretty sure this was going to go on for several hours or more and sometimes swimming so I wanted to eat something anyway.

So I fell back on my emergency food plan for when I'm away from home and have nothing and need to eat. -- I went to the grocery store and bought a pound of baloney for $2 on sale. -- I only buy the one carb per serving variety and that was what was on sale.(Oscar Meyer chicken and pork and meat bologna). Sixteen serving per container. 16 Ounces. -- I ate it all! -- Problem solved!

We had a great day and later that evening about seven o'clock I came home and although I don't usually like to eat after six in the evening, I do usually like to eat my second meal.(just because I can) -- Three meals would be to many!

I had my 3/4 of a pound of bacon thawed and had bought a dozen eggs and could have cooked and eaten them and they are always good but fishing and eating fish was on my mind, which it often is but I have had this problem with the way to cook fish on my low carb diet! -- My whole life I would flour my fish with common white bleached flour and with some salt and pepper and maybe some garlic powder and then fry them to a golden brown in Lard or Crisco. -- I can build a bone pile about a foot high eating fish this way! I love it!

No flour, no more! -- Pure Sugar! Worse than sugar!

So I have been going without fish forever and suffering for it!

So this evening I decided it was time to fish! I had just bought while I was in town after I dropped the kids off a fishing pole at the Pawn Shop. He wanted $15 and I got it for $12 no tax! -- A Mitchell 300 open face spinning reel from the 1950's, it's black and in mint condition and on a six foot graphite rod that is a good one and with a steel leader and a hook and bobber, ready to fish! -- $12 Bucks!

I have six of these reels now I love them.

So I went fishing, not knowing how I was going to cook them. -- I was thinking about boiling them which can be really good but I'm not set up the best for boiling right now. I mostly fry in my square electric frying pan. It works great and I could boil in it but I wanted to fry the fish without flour, although OK it wasn't very appealing to me. I had tried it several times and the fish were just barley eatable. Pretty bland. OK if you were starving but not very appealing.

It was seven thirty in the evening and I brought a shovel along to the lake and dug some worms that I knew from before would be there because it had been raining a lot for the last several days. I got about twenty of them pretty easily.

(This all took place last night!)

A couple of kids were on the dock that I see there pretty often when we go swimming. They were catching sunfish and bass and that's what I was after. Mostly sunfish! I love them!

The kids started giving me there fish and I caught a few and then then the kid caught a pretty nice bass, about a pound and a half, the sunnies were about a half a pound, a little small but great eating. the kid had caught a smaller bass and now I had the two bass and about ten sunfish which was about as much as I would eat so I stopped fishing and headed home. -- I had brought a spoon and knife with me to clean the fish at the lake so I wouldn't have the smell and mess at home but had left the butcher knife at home so I just went home, knowing I would just get the knife and go to the other lake across the road from my house and clean the fish. -- It took about twenty minutes to catch those fish. The kid had timed us and told me as I left. We were all pretty pleased. An old man had come by and fished for a bit while this was all going on. He told me where everybody was catching fish and I thanked him, he was a pretty congenial guy and we had enjoyed talking. The kids were having fun!

So I got the knife and went across from my house and cleaned my fish at that public access in the grass and threw the guts and heads and fins and scales back in the lake and had fresh clean fish. -- After I got home I washed them again in fresh water and they were ready to cook. -- Gorgeous-beautiful!

My electric frying pan was a small bit oily from the hamburger I had fried the night before but not nearly enough! -- It hit me to fry my bacon I had thawed and then the fish and then it hit me to just put the three quarters of a pound of bacon that was bacon chunks and pieces and pretty fat in the pan and spread them out like I always do and then dump the fish on top of them. The fish were not fillets although those would have worked even better but these fish were scaled with the heads and tails and fins cut off. My favorite way. With the skin on and the bones in.

So I did it. I set the frying pan on low to where you could just hear it frying some and put the fish in with the bacon and then salt and peppered and garlic powdered them and began cooking all this at the same time. -- I went to my computer and looked at the clock.

I know this pan and the heat setting I was on and I knew it was cooking slow but would still brown. -- I was about twenty feet away and at my computer. After awhile I could smell and hear them a little bit. -- I let them go for about fifteen minutes. I knew the pan wouldn't burn them at that setting.

The fish were stuck but cooking nicely and the bacon was browning well and everything looked and smelled great. I thought I was on to something. -- I turned everything over and unstuck the fish the best I could but there was a lot of stick but that was OK. -- Everything was turned and I lightly salt and peppered and garlic powdered the other side. The bacon had been making a lot of grease but the fish were sucking it up pretty good. I was on my way to hog heaven!

I went back to my computer and fifteen minutes later when I knew they were done(the bass was pretty fat so I went a little longer than I normally would have) I got up and went to get them. -- They were beautiful and smelled great.

I had my platter ready but knew that with all that sticking I would have a mess if I tried to remove them from the pan and put them on my platter so I decided to eat them from the pan.

I unplugged the cord and carried the frying pan with the cooked fish and bacon and grabbed a cloth bath towel and some paper towels and headed to my couch where I sit at my computer and my jug of fresh drinking water. -- It was pure bliss! I've never had a better meal in my life. I ate them with my fingers and went to hog heaven. My fish are back!

I can buy ocean fish and catch fresh fish for the rest of my life! I now know how to cook them and so do you! I love it!

Thank You!
-Tom