Substituting fish fingers for the steak in a steak sandwich, and ordering it without the lot, might get you close to the Mediterranean Diet.
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Even today you’d be hard pressed to beat a steak sandwich it’s a terrific choice if you want something rich in carbs and calories and the epitome of fried.
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And it’s always ordered with the lot bacon and a fried egg. A good steak sandwich should come loaded up with beetroot and plenty of tomato, onions and lettuce. The classic of all counter lunches was the steak sandwich with chips. Long before steaks came with porcini sauce, and kale salad with goat cheese dressing, a counter lunch steak was either a grilled porterhouse or T-bone with grilled onions on top it was always served with chips and salad. Every counter lunch menu in every public bar always offered a mixed grill, the roast of the day, sausages, lamb chops or cutlets, and steak with chips and salad. Before the days of boutique hotels, when a counter lunch was nothing fancy, you’d choose what to eat from a chalk written menu. As I understand it, the Mediterranean Diet is inspired by the traditional diets of people who live around the Mediterranean sea you eat fruits and vegetables, whole grains, legumes and fresh fish, and use plenty of extra virgin olive oil. It seems to me that making cakes from a keto recipe is as senseless as following the Mediterranean Diet when you’re having a counter lunch. Keto cake eaters will never have a little lamington dancing around in their brain or experience the aroma and taste of a warm triple layered sponge cake. Cakes are supposed to be the epitome of sugar, and the essence of carbs. And then the customer asked for a key lime keto macaroon excuse me, a sugar free, low carbohydrate macaroon!!! I silently rolled my eyes. I shifted my gaze to a plate of sugar cookies and then to the plate of mocha cheesecake. I stood in a confused, mixed up state of mind keto cakes!!!! What’s next, Vegemite macaroons? I fixed my eyes on the plate of lemon bars in front of me, refusing to look at the top row of keto cakes.
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He gestured toward a plate of walnut bars.Ĭustomer: Is that the only keto you have?Ĭustomer: Great I think I’ll take a zebra cheesecake brownieĬake Server: Are you sure you don’t want to try our keto coconut macadamia chewy bars?Ĭustomer: And now I just can’t make up my mind I waited for the customer before me to make his selection. I stood in front of the display case trying to decide between lemon bars, zebra brownies, turtle pecan brownies, coconut macaroons, and peanut butter cinnamon rolls.
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And so I set off in search of a full service bakery and sensible, down to earth cakes. Cakes took over my mind I thought of cakes that belong to a cup of tea, the types of cakes that cause happy thoughts in your brain, and cakes that are cakes as they are meant to be.
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As I thought about mum’s butterflies I became aware of some forgotten memories of taste and smell. The half circles sat atop each cake as if they were wings waiting to flutter. She filled the hole left in the top of the cake with whipped cream, sometimes jam, and then push two half circles into the cream. Mum would cut small circles from the tops of her fairy cakes, and then cut the circles in half to make wings. Fairy cakes are a smaller version of cupcakes, but they’re made with a lighter sponge cake recipe. Sometimes she’d double up on her lamington recipe so she’d have extra cake batter to make butterflies which are just fairy cakes with their tops cut off. Mum made her usual collection of lamingtons, vanilla slices, and matchsticks on baking day.