Category: Food

This came out better than I thought, so it’s blogworthy.

Ingredients

• French roll (I wish there were keto rolls, but they don’t seem to exist)
• 2 eggs
• Guacamole
• 1 slice of turkey deli meat
• 1 slice of cheddar cheese
• Avocado oil spray
• Salt and pepper

Directions

1. Spray avocado oil in a frying pan
2. Add the eggs, break the yolk, and cook to your preferred doneness
3. Sprinkle the eggs with salt and pepper as desired
4. Heat the French roll in a microwave for 20 seconds to soften it
5. Spread a layer of guacamole on the bottom half of the roll
6. Add the slice of turkey meat on the guac
7. Add the scrambled eggs on the turkey slice
8. Cut a square slice of cheddar cheese in half and place it over the eggs lengthwise
9. Spray the base of your air fryer basket with avocado oil (optional)
10. Fold the sandwich roll and place it in the air fryer basket
11. Spray a bit of avocado oil on the top of the sandwich (optional)
12. Place a metal air fryer rack on the sandwich to prevent it from unfolding
13. Air fry at 390 degrees for 2-3 minutes

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Ingredients

• 2 slices of French sourdough bread (Costco Business Center sells a 2-pack of sourdough bread loaves for just $7. Each slice is square, not oval, so each slice is the same size). You can also try soft Ciabatta bread, available at both Costco and Costco Business Center.
• 2 eggs
• 2 slices of turkey deli meat
• 2 slices of cheddar cheese
• Guacamole
• Avocado oil spray
• Salt and pepper
• Mayonnaise

Directions

1. Spray a frying pan with avocado oil, add the eggs, and fry them to your desired doneness, optionally adding salt and pepper or other spices.
2. Spread mayonnaise on one side of each sourdough bread slice. This side will be the outside.
3. Spread guacamole on the other side of one slice of bread
4. Add the eggs on top of the guacamole
5. Add the cheese slices on top of the eggs
6. Add the turkey slices on top of the cheese
7. Add the other bread slice on top of the turkey slices (mayo side up)
8. Place the sandwich in an air fryer and air fry at 390 degrees for 5 minutes
9. Enjoy

The other day, I went to El Pollo Loco and had their chicken quesadillas with avocado salsa verde. It was delicious, so I sought out how to make a healthy version at home using my air fryer. Though my version doesn’t taste as good as El Pollo Loco’s, it’s healthier, still tastes pretty good, and is much cheaper. For the salsa, I found one that tastes almost the same as El Pollo Loco’s. Here’s my recipe.

Ingredients

• Tortilla (I get the zero-net-carbs kind)
• Shredded cheese (I get a blend of Monterey Jack, cheddar, queso quesadilla, and asadero cheeses)
• Pre-cooked chicken breast strips
• Guacamole salsa (I get this Guacasalsa from Trader Joe’s, but there are alternatives at Costco)
• Avocado oil spray

Directions

1. Heat the precooked chicken breast strips in a microwave
2. Spray avocado oil on the air fryer basket
3. Place a tortilla in the air fryer
4. Put cheese on one half of the tortilla
5. Place some chicken breast strips over the cheese
6. Top the chicken strips with more cheese
7. Fold the other half of the tortilla over the first half
8. Spray avocado oil on the folded half
9. Keep the tortilla from unfolding by either sticking a toothpick through both sides of it or placing a metal air fryer rack over it
10. Cook at 390 degrees F for about 4 minutes
11. To consume, dip it in the guacasalsa or spoon some guacasalsa on it

When I was a kid, there were 2 foods I ate a lot of

1. Pizza
2. Greek Gyro (pronounced “yee-ro”) Sandwiches

Pizza is available everywhere, but there aren’t many places that sell Greek Gyros in the San Francisco Bay Area. One place that has it is Nick the Greek, but at $12.50 for a small sandwich, it feels overpriced. So, I tried to make my own without the hassle of cooking the meat and making the Greek Tzatziki sauce. I couldn’t find precooked doner kebab (“doner” is Turkish for “rotating”) meat, like a rotisserie, but I did find kebabs at Costco, which take a minute to heat up in the microwave, come out juicy, and taste delicious. For the Tzatziki sauce, I bought Tzatziki salad dressing from Target. It tastes good, but it’s thick, so getting it out of the bottle required using a knife.

Ingredients

• Precooked Beef Kebabs (from Costco, $12.50 for 12 kebabs)
• Tzatziki Salad Dressing (from Target, $2.49)
• Pita Bread
• French Fries (I bought frozen ones from Costco and cooked them in an air fryer)
• Tomato
• Lettuce (I got chopped and pre-washed lettuce for convenience)

Instructions

1. Cut 10% of the pita bread so you can open it like a pocket
2. Toast the pita bread in a toaster
3. Heat the beef kebabs in a microwave for 1 minute
4. Smear the Tzatziki sauce on both inner sides of the pita bread
5. Insert the kebabs in the pita bread
6. Add some lettuce, sliced tomatoes, and french fries in the pita bread
7. Enjoy

UPDATE

Stuffing a pita bread such that the ingredients are distributed uniformly so that you can taste each ingredient with each bite is a bit difficult to do. Instead of using a pita bread, you can use Lavash bread, shown below. It’s much easier to place the ingredients on Lavash bread. First, smear the Tzatziki sauce all over one side of the bread.

Then, place the ingredients as shown below (I added some extra Tzatziki sauce on the lettuce).

Then, roll the lavash and place it in a panini press.

Enjoy

You can also make it using a hamburger bun.

Most salads contain multiple vegetables and leafy greens like lettuce, tomatoe, and onion. The problem with some of these ingredients is they go back fairly quickly, especially lettuce, which becomes slimy, discolored, and smells. Grape tomatoes tend to wrinkle and look unappetizing. One vegetable, however, seems to stay and look fresh for about 2 weeks – cucumbers. Cucumbers are also high in water content, which can help you feel full and eat less. They are also low in carbohydrates and sugar, and have a low glycemic index (GI). This means that cucumbers don’t cause a rapid increase in blood sugar.  They can be a good snack for people who want to lose weight or maintain a healthy weight. 

Here’s a simple recipe for a cucumber salad.

Ingredients

• Cucumber (1)
• Water (1/2 cup)
• Salt (1 tsp)

Instructions

1. Pour water in a bowl
2. Add the salt and mix till dissolved
3. Slice the cucumber, add to bowl and mix