Keto Reuben casserole

 For my keto Reuben casserole recipe visit my other blog

https://www.shannonpickle.com/2026/05/keto-reuben-casserole.html

https://www.shannonpickle.com/2026/05/keto-reuben-casserole.html

East Keto Tortillas - No eggs or cheese

 

This recipe is on my other blog

Shannon Pickle 

Church Lady Flan

 

 I made this and a Puerto Rican detective friend tried it and said, don't tell his Buelah, but this is the best flan he ever had in his life. I got the recipe from Daisy Martinez. I watched her cooking show on pbs years ago and bought her book.  She is wonderful. You can find her on you tube.  

She said this was sold outside of her church on any given Sunday. 

Media Crema from Nestle is the secret to a good flan. She was given that advice from one of the church ladies. You CAN use sour cream in its place, but don't do that.  It won't be this good with sour cream.

Ingredients:

1 C sugar

One 12 oz can of evaporated milk

One 14 oz can of sweetened condensed milk

3/4 C whole milk (farm fresh, raw is what I use)

3 large eggs

3 egg yolks

2 vanilla extract

1 cup Nestle media Crema, or sour cream

Preheat oven to 350°F

Have a glass pie pan ready. 

1.  First, to make the caramel, pour the 1 C sugar into small saucepan. Set burner to medium-low heat, and let the sugar start to liquify, and form clumps.  Stir slowly and constantly, using wooden spoon. This process is tedious but do not turn up the burner and stir until it is liquid and the color of a copper penny.

Pour carefully and quickly into pie plate and immediately tilt around to cover the whole bottom of the pie plate.  Careful. This is very hot thick liquid and will burn you badly. It will harden up quickly too.

Start a teapot of water for the next step.

2 Combine, evaporated milk, milk, condensed milk, eggs, yolks and vanilla. Blend on low for a few seconds to combine eggs. Stop and add media crema  and blend a few more seconds.  Let it stand a minute or two, then skimoff some of the foam. 

3. Put baking pan on oven rack, and place pie plate with caramel on it in the baking pan. Pour the custard mix into the pie plate and carefully pour the boiling water around the pie plate, into the baking pan. Water should come halfway up the side of the plate. 

4. Bake one hour, until custard is set in the middle.  Remove from oven and keep in the water bath unti it cools completely, Refrigerate for at least 3 hours and up to one day.

To serve:

Put serving platter with edges, over pie plate and flip.  Let flat fall onto platter from pie plate. There will be caramel liquid, so having edges on platter is necessary. 

Slice and serve.  

I should have better pics of this, but I don't.  Doing this blog post was an afterthought and I wanted to be sure my kids knew this recipe, in case they need it.  I put a lot of my recipes on my blog mostly for my kids, to have a record of the foods I love but also for anyone who wants to try them out. 

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Roman Delight - my five minute keto pizza substitute

  I call this my Roman Delight. It satisfies my craving for pizza, quickly  

Olive oil

Provolone cheese

Favorite spices

I oiled my stainless steel sheet pan and threw 6 slices of provolone cheese on it.

I drizzled olive oil on top and rubbed it around on the cheese and added my spices.

I used crushed red pepper, oregano, marjoram, and granulated garlic  

I would have used fresh garlic, but I was out of it.you can top it with whatever you like, including pepperoni

I baked it at 350° for about five minutes just keep an eye on it.

Let it rest a few minutes before you eat it  

Simple Vegetable Cream Cheese for bagels and crackers and cucumbers

Vegetable Cream Cheese

This is a simple recipe I am putting out here for anyone who has never made it.

This is excellent spread on an Asiago, spinach, or everything bagels or any savory bagel you like. Eat it with your favorite crackers. 

You can also eat it with cucumber slices if you are trying to eat healthy.

Mix together: 

1 packet of softened cream cheese

George Washington Seasoning, Golden

Sour cream

then add: 

any veggies:

 Bell Peppers

Poblano/Jalapeno Peppers

Red onion

Garlic

carrots

mushrooms

celery

broccoli

All ingredients are optional, add the veggies and seasonings that you like and run with this. I make it different almost every time. I even add in Helluva Good Dip to make the cream cheese easier to spread.  Any sour cream will do also. 

You can make your vegetable chunks as small or large as you like and use any crunchy vegetable.

I will tell you, the larger the chunk, the longer it will keep in the refrigerator.

Chop up your veggies with a  food chopper or the manual food processor and mix with softened cream cheese and back in the cold box it goes.

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Homemade ornament:Baby Jesus in a nutshell

 

This years homemade gift. Baby Jesus in a nutshell. 

I can share it now because I gave most of them out. There’s still a few of you that haven’t gotten them yet, but I will get it to you when I see you. 

I have made homemade gifts for years. I slacked off for a year or two, but I am back at it. 

Pretty simple. Walnut shell, wooden bead, wooden star, jute string, and Muslin fabric and a hot glue gun. 

What happened to canned copes corn?

 My family loves copes corn and we traditionally eat it every Thanksgiving.

It’s not for everyone in fact my husband the first time he came to our family dinner when I met him asked what was wrong with the corn lol. I guess his family didn’t know the tradition. 

Anyway my mother contacted Hanover foods who is the maker of the canned copse corn and they said they have been shortstaffed since coronavirus so they had to stop production. They are unsure whether or not they will continue the production but they did supply her with this recipe to make the bagged dried copes corn taste like the traditional canned.