Starters, Salads & Sauces

This looks like a lot of ingredients, but you’ll see it’s sort of a dump and cook recipe. Not difficult at all. If you love making Asian food you probably have many of these ingredients in the house. 

This is great as a light lunch time meal and a great holiday recipe. The juxtaposition of the sweeter apricots with the curry has the exotic taste I was looking for.

There’s no way to use a commercial sauce for barbecued meats. They ALL have copious amounts of sugar in them. I know. I checked every bottle in the store, so I set about to come up with a rub and a sugarless barbecue sauce for Plan Z.

If you are going totally low carb you can serve this over lettuce. Bib lettuce would look nice.

The design of this dish is for fancy food for a hot day. You can make this much simpler and less expensive by using less expensive seafood and fish options.

Best served over ravioli; especially a pumpkin ravioli or a butternut squash ravioli.

I did a cooked variation of this dish and served it as an entrée. Loved it.

You don’t even have to cook to make this dish! It’s just pick apart a chicken, chop up the veggies and stir the ingredients together. If your teenaged kids like Mexican, let them make this one!

This works well with all your favorite veggies, so enjoy!

This recipe is taken from the cookbook New Farm: Savoury Recipes from a Farmhouse Kitchen on the Isle of Bute by Carole Howard.

I designed this pear recipe to go with meat dishes. If you carve some turkey, slice some ham or grill up a pork tenderloin to go with this salad you’ll have a full meal.

This is a great little side salad, good with any dish.

Invent your own low carb “sandwich” that is a combination of both traditions. This is how a sandwich looks in ZLife. You can also serve this over greens and eat it anytime in ZReboot.

This is an amazingly simple dish to make. You can look like a cooking whiz with this one even if you’re not.

There’s no way to use a commercial sauce for barbecued meats. They ALL have copious amounts of sugar in them. I know, I checked every bottle in the store.

There’s no way to use a commercial sauce for barbecue ribs. They ALL have copious amounts of sugar in them. I know.

In this picture you’ll see the steak served with a scattering of roasted butternut squash and a few bits of raw red bell pepper for color.

This makes a quick light appetizer that's pretty in the summer. Or it can be a side salad or even an Italian side dish to go great with grilled summer foods.