After my husband and good food, my two loves are my two mini rat terriers, Zipper and Button.
Hello there! Welcome to my low-carb recipe blog! My name is Peggy (and NO, my last name is not Buttoni, that’s our nickname for the dog on the right, Button). I’m a retired teacher living in Central Texas with my husband of 43 years and my two wonderful little rat terriers in the picture there. I have always enjoyed cooking and have been collecting recipes for some 45 years now. Decided it was high time I shared some of them. Most have been transformed into low-carb recipes now as I have spent the last two years trying to modify my “regulars”.
I get my love of cooking from both my parents, but mostly from my Dad. They were both raised in large farm families so their background was simple, country cooking. They developed their taste for more exotic food after we traveled around a bit. Dad was Air Force, so we moved a LOT when I was growing up. That will quickly broaden one’s exposure to great tastes all around the country, all around the world.
My brother also loves cooking. As early as age 12, he could whip up THE best cream puffs you ever tasted! He went on to become a professional chef, with experience at Inn at Brushy Creek near Austin, TX and as Executive Chef at Top of the Mark in San Francisco. Even in retirement, he still enjoys cooking for family and friends.
I have lost 37 lbs. to date following an Atkins low-carb regimen. But I have maintained a fairly steady weight for nearly two years now. I have 19 more I want to lose before I level off at my ideal weight of 140. Details of my Atkins journey can be seen in the MY JOURNEY page.
I welcome comments and feedback on my dishes, as I consider them all to be “works in progress”. When I improve them, I will change them on-line and update nutritional stats to reflect all changes. Tweaking recipes has been a life-long “addiction” for me, so DO “sing out” if you suffer from the same “illness” and have ideas for new variations on a recipe!
Hi Peggy! I am so, so glad to have found your site {I think it was through Pinterest…that was a few clicks ago and I lost track!}. I live in central Texas as well. We are in Killeen/Fort Hood. May I ask where you do most of your shopping? Is there a certain store you prefer over others because of their selection? I’m fairly new to this…halfway through Induction and really, really loving this. It’s so great to “meet” you! You have such a wonderful site and several of your recipes are on my menu plan for the week. Thank you for taking the time to post them all!
{HUGS},
kristi
Howdy, neighbor! I’m in Temple, some 10 years now. I shop locally at Walmart foods and HEB, ’cause there the only places in town. Wish we had a Kroger up here. But HEB has seen to it that will never happen. We drive over to Killeen occasionally for mostly oddball produce items at the Korean OhMart store (and Indian food at the Red Onion restaurant). OhMart has a bizillian kinds of bagged and refrigerated noodles, but I have YET to find the shirataki tofu noodles in there!! Asking for help doesn’t work out too well, because the staff speak very broken/little English.
If you ever find them in there, would you let me know? 
I order most of my low-carb cooking/baking ingredients from netrition.com and honeyvillegrains.com. Shipping is flat-rate and I get the stuff in about a week.
So glad you found my site, too! I’m following the JUDDD program to try to shake things up a bit and get my last 19# off, so I’m doing a little less kitchen baking these days, but try to post several new recipes a week. So stay tuned!
Well, how cool is that? We’re neighbors indeed! Have you tried that new Natural Grocers? It’s by the Olive Garden there in Temple. I’ve found a lot of good flax and such from them. We also d gluten-free for my son and they seem to have so much stuff for that. I’ll let you know on O’Mart, I’m always intimidated to go in there for the language barrier, too…I feel a bit lost! But, it’s a great store! Good to know about Netrition, too. So fun that we’re right down the road from each other. I had been pouring over your recipes the last few days and then when I read Central Texas, I thought, WOW! It would be super fun to bump into each other one day! Take Care!
I HAVE been in the Natural Grocers quite a few times. They have some fun stuff in there, too, but I always spend way too much money in there.
I enjoy browsing in O’Mart’s produce area. I love trying out new and exotic veggies, fruit and melons I see in there. I try to buy a new one every time I go in there. And their fresh and frozen meat counters are pretty interesting, too.
Listen, if you’re gluten-free, be sure to check out Jennifer Eloff’s website “Splendid Low Carbing”. She does mostly gluten-free baking because her husband is GF. She’s a FANTASTIC baker and cook!! Lots of great GF recipes on her site.
HI,
I am SO GLAD a gal mentioned your coconut cake recipe on the about.com low-carb forum. TIS HOW I found your wonderful site. THXS for all the wonderful info. Granny Lindie in SE IA.
Well WELCOME to the site, Granny Lindie! I’m so glad you found it, too! As with most low-carb cakes, this one isn’t as unctuously sweet as most coconut cakes, but is has a real nice coconut flavor. You could even make it with all coconut oil if you like for a stronger coconut flavor. Hope you like it if you decide to give it a try! I’m adding new recipes all the time to the site, so do drop in often. There are nearly 500 recipes here, so browse away. Be sure to notice the “older posts” link at the bottoms of pages;, as that’s how to access the archived recipes.
And again, Welcome!
Thanks Peggy, I’ll be sure to try to substitute swedes/turnips
I like them anyway. True about NL and a low-carb popularity, there seem to be different versions popping up every week but I prefer your site and About.com’s but it will help that I’m English and have no troubles with the language. Thanks for doing what you do so well! Best, Nikki