Pasta Broth Online!

Pasta Broth Online!

Ingredients:
4 cups pasta
½ cup broth or stock (see “stock and broth”)
1 cup heavy cream
2 egg yolks
freshly ground black pepper to taste
salt to taste (about ½ Teasp)
5 ounces grated sharp cheddar cheese
¾ cup grated Parmesan cheese
2 Tablesps butter (1/4 stick)
¼ cup bread crumbs
Preheat oven to 325ºF or 350ºF. Butter a medium-size ovenproof casserole dish
or other baking dish.
Cut the pasta in short pieces and put the pieces in a large mixing bowl. Set
aside.
Heat the broth and ½ cup cream in a small saucepan. In a small mixing bowl,
whisk the egg yolks until smooth. When the broth and cream begin to heat up, add
Tablesp amounts to the egg yolks, beating the yolks while you do this. When you have
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added about 1/3 cup in this way, pour the rest of the liquid into the eggs. Add the
remaining cream. Add salt and pepper to this sauce and stir it into the pasta. Add the
cheeses to the pasta and stir again. Put the mixture in the casserole dish. Dot with the
butter and bread crumbs. Bake for 25 to 35 minutes or until the top begins to brown (do
not let the bread crumbs get too dark).
Soft-Crust Pizza
Note: If you like soft, chewy pizza, here is a low-carb version that will please you. Soft
and thicker crusts require more dough, though, which makes the carb count rise. Make
this pizza an occasional treat – perhaps to keep you from running to a pizza parlor or
calling for delivery.
Regular pizza dough usually calls for about 3 cups of flour (if you want to make
pizza at home). You can make a big pizza with all that flour, but one slice of a 16-inch
pizza could have 34.0 grams of carb just for the crust. You can see what you are up
against. Regular pizzas are true carb killers. This crust has 7.7 grams of carb