The Low-Carb Curmudgeon

When my little girl’s dad and I moved in together last year, we combined two cast-iron cookware collections along with two households. He has this piece that’s basically a flat skillet with no sides and no skillet handle, just this metal loop thing for hanging it over a campfire. I can’t imagine who would camp with this thing. Anything cooking on it would tip into the fire if you looked at it cross-eyed. I can’t drain fat from this thing very easily, either, when I’ve been frying bacon or whatever. So I couldn’t think of a use for it, so I pretty much ignored it.

Until now.

Yes indeedy kids: you can have pizza on a low-carb diet. The crust for this is from Miss Jamie’s blog, and you should go there if you’re running on empty for LC recipes you can stand to eat*. I won’t go so far as to say her cauliflower crust is exactly like wheat, but it does the trick. Even my daughter likes this stuff–and getting a five-year-old to like cauliflower is something on the order of a minor miracle.
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