Good God, I've had this bánh mì sauce by Joshua Weissman sitting in my fridge ever since I'd made those bánh mì in late 2023. The sauce never went bad, and a little voice my head said it'd be a good substitute for the faux teriyaki sauce that also serves as a generic Chinese sauce for American-style Chinese dishes like my usual shrimp-chicken-cashew bowl (with bell peppers,* chili** peppers, and shrooms... all of it piled on rice*** in my pre-stroke, pre-heart-attack days). So I went out today and bought some cashews, some peppers of various colors, some frozen shrimp, and some prepackaged sous-vide chicken breast. I belatedly realized, after I'd thrown everything together into a low-carb meal, that I should also have bought some mushrooms. Now, the combination of chicken and shrimp also lends itself to curry dishes (although for curry, I'd switch out the veggies with peas, carrots, potatoes, and maybe cauliflower), but I was committed to using up the rest of Joshua Weissman's bánh mì sauce. And I did. The result, even without mushrooms, was a success. Below are two pics.
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| a wide shot of the low-carb bowl |
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| a food-porn closeup |
It was a decent meal. Tomorrow, I'm doing a keto fondue, then I'm fasting for the remaining weekdays—Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. My A1c is down to about 6.8 according to my calculations; it can go further, but I'm happy with my progress thus far, and meals like today's are part of that process. The fasting won't hurt, either. If I can get down to about a 6.5 A1c by my July 9 appointment, I'll be happy, but for the moment, merely remaining under 7.0 is the modest practical goal. This appointment, with my cardio doctor, comes only two months after my previous one in May, which had been with my diabetes doctor.
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*Capsicum in the UK, Oz, etc., despite not having any noticeable capsaicin. That culture loves misnaming things, which is why ground beef is called mince (a very fine dice—not ground at all) and the word pudding refers to fucking everything.
**It's chilli, with two "L"s, in the UK, Oz, and elsewhere.
***I recently saw keto orzo on iHerb (orzo is a pasta that looks like long-grained rice, making keto orzo a viable rice substitute), but the listing showed it was out of stock. I clicked on the "inform me" button, so I'll be flagged the moment the product comes back into stock.
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