Avocado and Shrimp Salad – Low Carb

 

 

 

Avocado and Shrimp Salad

If you notice, I rarely get to plate anything.  I can barely get the dish to the table before it’s gone.

 

Ingredients:

1 lb medium cooked shrimp, peeled and deveined and chopped
1 medium tomato, diced
1 hass avocado, diced
1 jalapeno, seeds removed, diced fine
1/4 cup chopped red onion
Juice of 2 limes
1 Tbsp olive oil
1 Tbsp chopped cilantro
sea salt and fresh pepper

Directions:


In a small bowl combine red onion, lime juice, olive oil, pinch of salt and pepper. Let them marinate at least 5 minutes to mellow the flavor of the onion. In a large bowl combine chopped shrimp, avocado, tomato, jalapeño. Combine all the ingredients together, add cilantro and gently toss. Adjust salt and pepper to taste.  Each Serving around  3 carbs.  Thank you to Faithfulness Farm for this recipe.

Instead of Chips or Crackers which are carb laden you can make parmesan crips.  Use package parmesan and parchment paper. Pile cheese in neat little circles about a 1/2 inch apart on the paper.   Heat oven to 400 degrees and bake for five minutes.   Here is what they look like before they go in the oven:

 

The Adventures of Miss Minerva and Mr. McGoogles

Our Shih Tzu has multiple personalities and our Scottish Terrier does too which makes for an interesting day around here.  Miss Minerva, aka Catie, is doing things she would never dream of doing before.  After all, my back is turned because I am giving all my attention to Mr. McGoogles, aka Guster,  the new Scottish Terrier.  Miss Minerva spent a few minutes to peruse the garbage in the pantry.  Note the guilty look on her face.

“You caught me…so embarrassing.”

 

Mr. McGoogles squeezed through the fence to get  in the chicken yard.  The girls are so startled they haven’t pecked him yet, but it was coming and they got him the next day.  He won’t be interrupting the delicate hierarchy of the chicken yard anytime soon.

“Hey kid, what do you think you’re doing?”

 

Gus, Guster, Gussie – Still Deciding

Gus has a story just like the rest of us.  He and his mother were found scampering on the interstate, cars buzzing, people moving on and the big world swallowing him up.  A friend stopped after witnessing the heroics of his mother in her rear view mirror.  Lovingly carrying her son by the nape of his neck, momma dog would try to put him down to walk on his own and Gus would head for traffic.  She would pick him up and the whole thing would start all over again.  The story has a lot more to it, but I our story with Gus starts with a bath in the laundry sink, smaller than the kitchen and less deep than the bathroom, he’s really little…

Gus In The Tub

“I’m gonna love you, lady…even if you have to bathe me.”

“Will I get to stay here forever?”…

 Time for bed…

Good night Gus, Guster, Gussie.