Gluten Free, Keto Friendly, Low Carb, Alfredo Sauce

Here is a  low carb, keto friendly, gluten free alfredo sauce.
If you are a recent celiac, you may want to take a lactaid tablet before you use this as some people who have celiac find out that they are temporarily lactose intolerant
This does not take too long to make, just takes a bit of patience and need to make sure that the cream does not burn

Ingredients:

  • 4-5 cloves of garlic
  • 5 cups of heavy whipping cream
  • 8 ounces of cream cheese
  • 1 cup of grated Parmesean Cheese
  • 1 Tbsp of butter



In a medium pan melt the butter and mince the garlic and add to the pan.Cook over medium heat for just a little bit as you dont want to burn the garlic. Once the aroma of the garlic starts to come out (will be about a minute), add the cream to the pan. Cook the cream on medium heat for 5 to 10 minutes, making sure that the cream does not boil. Add the cream cheese and the Parmesan cheese to the pan and you can either use a handheld mixer , a wire wisk or a hand blender / immersion blender to blend the ingredients together. If it is not the consistency that you want, let it simmer for 20 minutes or so, stirring the cream every few minutes.

This works great with either gluten free noodles, or if you do not want the carbs you can use this as a sauce with cooked chicken.

 Watch this video on Daily Motion - http://dai.ly/x6hliwe




Gluten Free Keto Friendly Almond Flour Bread 2

 

Here is a recipe for Almond Flour bread, which is Low carb, Keto friendly and if you use the correct ingredients it can also be Gluten Free bread as well.
In this recipe, I used blanched almond flour and the blanched almond flour is a lot better than the un-blanched flour.

Ingredients:



Directions:

  • Preheat the oven to 375 degrees
  • Oil a 8x4 inch loaf pan
  • Take the almond flour and put it into a Ninja blender or a food processor
  • Then add the Baking Powder and the butter.
  • Blend for a bit until it becomes well combined.
  • add the Cream of tartar to the egg whites
  • Using a Kitchen Aid Mixer or a handheld mixer beat the egg whites until they form stiff peaks.
  • Add 1/4 to 1/3 of the egg whites to the dough and mix for a while.
  • Remove the dough into a mixing bowl using a rubber spatula
  • Fold the remainder of the egg whites into the bread dough using the rubber spatula
  • Add the dough mixture to the greased 8x4 inch loaf pan and put into the oven for 30 minutes
  • Take the bread out of the oven and use a toothpick to the center to make sure that it is done (by verifying that it comes out dry).
  • Let cool for a few minutes then remove from the loaf pan and cut.

Here is a video of all of this:




Almond Flour Bread (Un-Blanched) almond flour

Here is a recipe for Almond Flour bread, which is low carb, Keto friendly and if you use the correct ingredients it can also be Gluten Free bread as well.
In this recipe, I used un-blanched almond flour and the un-blanched almond flour almost had a bitterness to it that I really did not like, but those that like to use un-blanched almond flour may really like this recipe

Ingredients:



Directions:

  • Preheat the oven to 375 degrees
  • Oil a 8x4 inch loaf pan
  • Take the almond flour and put it into a Ninja blender or a food processor
  • Then add the Baking Powder and the butter.
  • Blend for a bit until it becomes well combined.
  • add the Cream of tartar to the egg whites
  • Using a Kitchen Aid Mixer or a handheld mixer beat the egg whites until they form stiff peaks.
  • Add 1/4 to 1/3 of the egg whites to the dough and mix for a while.
  • Remove the dough into a mixing bowl using a rubber spatula
  • Fold the remainder of the egg whites into the bread dough using the rubber spatula
  • Add the dough mixture to the greased 8x4 inch loaf pan and put into the oven for 30 minutes
  • Take the bread out of the oven and use a toothpick to the center to make sure that it is done (by verifying that it comes out dry).
  • Let cool for a few minutes then remove from the loaf pan and cut.

Here is a video of all of this:


 

I do have an updated version of this that uses Blanched almond flour, and in my opinion it is much better

See Almond Flour Bread 2




Inexpensive Dash Camera

Have you ever wanted to record your driving?
Some may ask to why anyone would ever want to do that. Well, a few reasons to why it is a good idea

  • If you get into a car accident and it was not your fault, there is your proof
  • If you witness a car accident and the person that caused the accident says it was not their fault, you have proof
  • If you have ever been accused of trying to run someone over, this is your proof that they are lying and have issues (yes, this happened to me)
  • If you have ever been in a situation where you said that you wish you would have been video recording something while driving, now you can
  • If you witness some sort of illegal activity, now you have video proof of it

There are many, many other uses besides the ones above
Well, you dont have to spend a ton of money on a dash camera. If you have a cellphone with a decent camera, or even a backup cellphone with a decent camera and it is running Android you have all that you need to have a dash camera.
I bought a inexpensive windshield mount for my phone ( I have the Samsung Galaxy Note 5, so it is a big phone) and the holder works for it, with some room to spare (not to mention that I have a otterbox on it, so it is even thicker. The windshield mount that I bought can be purched for around $2.00 at wish. Note that it can take a few weeks for it to arrive at your house.
After you have that, all you need to do is head over to the Google Play store and download and possibly purchase Auto Guard. I think I paid under $20.00 for this, to which it may even be cheaper than that. This app not only does a video recording, but it also records your GPS location and your speed. When you play back a recording it will show a map under the video of where you were and the speed you were going, to which it will also record the audio. Some have wondered about the storage on their phone filling up, well this app can automatically back up all the videos to Youtube if you want it to. For the backup, you can specify if it should backup on Cellular or on Wi-Fi only, and you can specify if it should backup when charging only, or at any time.
I have found this little app to be quite useful in recording some almost accidents that I have gotten into due to people pulling out directly in front of me when driving.

here are some screen shots from the app on the Google Play Store





Here is some info regarding the app from the Google Play store
Your smart phone can be clever as you with AutoGuard, the best Blackbox application, will give you wonderful experiences. Key Features - (Pro) Background recording: Multitasking with other apps (like navigation) - Upload videos on YouTube.com with captions for location and time information - Capture photos at important situation automatically - Show the video and map information on one screen - Automatically starts video recording when put into car dock or connect with bluetooth devices - Records driving video, speed, GPS, and nearest address - Supports high resolutions (1080p, 720p) - Traces path driven on 3D Google maps - Snapshot (supports auto focus, flash & gallery) - Send recorded information via E-mail AutoGuard records various lengths of video, acceleration, latitude, longitude, and speed. The video recorded can be limited to save space on your phone. After the space is filled it will automatically delete the oldest videos, unless marked to be saved. AutoGuard Pro can be set to automatically start when placed in a car dock and run in the background. You can adjust video resolution, bitrates, the sensitivity of the accelerator, and GPS update time. With Pro Version(AutoGrard Pro Unlocker), you are ad free, can sync your videos on Youtube.com & Multitask AutoGuard with other apps such as Navigation or Mp3. Visit AutoGuard's home and get more valuable information! https://plus.google.com/communities/109441776333405866373 -------------------- Why AutoGuard needs the contact permission? - List up Gmail accounts for uploading videos to Youtube. - Referral check. AutoGuard doesn't need any other information rather than your gmail address. Anyone who wants to help translating will be welcome. Thanks. =:) Support languages : English, German, French, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Dutch, Taiwanese, Lithuanian, Polish, Turkish, Romanian, Hungarian, Czech & Slovak.




Make your own ringtones for your Android device

This is something that I have been doing for quite a long time now, even when I had my Palm Treo, and it is extremely easy to do on your computer.
What I use to make my ringtones with, is I download a program called Audacity, and when you use Audacity it may require you to download a plugin or install a plugin called Lame encoder

Basically, with this program you can import a MP3 file from your collection of music that you have paid for, and you can extract a certain part of the MP3 and turn that into a ringtone or a notification tone on your cellphone or tablet.
After you install Audacity, you can either import a MP3 or "drag" into into the stage.

Once you do that, you can play and select the part of the MP3 that you want to keep.

What I do once I select the part that I want to keep, is I go to Edit then Copy or [CTRL + C] for a keyboard shortcut, then in Audacity go to File - New and then paste the audio into a new audacity window. From here I can finely tune what I want to keep as a ringtone and then once I have it the way that I want it I can save it as a MP3, as File - Export Audio (this is where the Lame encoder comes into place).

I can save it directly to my phone if I have my phone plugged into my PC or I can save it to my Google Drive folder on my PC and then use the Drive AutoSync post that I made earlier to automatically download the ringtone to either one device or multiple devices that I have Drive Autosync installed on. I will usually have to reboot my phone for the new ringtone to show up to select (For Android there is a folder in the root that is called Ringtones. There is usually another folder called Notifications or it may be under Audio - Notifications for the notification tones). This will allow you to make your own ringtones for one or multiple devices without having to pay for ringtones or try to find the exact ones that you want.




Backup files and folders in Android to Google Drive

There is a app that I have on my Android phone that allows me to backup certain folders to Google Drive and keep the folder structure intact which has many benefits.
The app that I use is called DriveSync
One of the benefits of using this versus using some sort of built in backup is that not only can this backup stuff from your phone / tablet, but you can also push stuff to your phone and or tablet with this.
By this, I mean that the application has a few different sync methods.

You can upload to Google Drive, you can download from Google Drive or you can 2 way sync. The 2 way sync will look at your device and then look at Google Drive and make sure that they both have the same files. Download any that need to be downloaded, delete the ones that should be deleted and then upload the ones that need to be uploaded.
If you do not have easy access to plug your phone into a computer to transfer files to your phone, you can upload them to your Google drive folder, then when you have the conditions correct to sync (The app lets you dictate when it will or will not sync, such as either connected to WiFi, plugged into a power source, etc.. ) then your files will be downloaded to your device.
I will use this to keep my media files (ringtones, notifications, downloads, etc.. ) in sync between my cellphone and my tablet. I also have it installed on my brothers cellphone so that we can share downloaded pictures and what not.

I did pay for this application, and I think it is worth the price.
Per the description of this app:
"Autosync Google Drive lets you automatically sync and share unlimited files and folders with Google Drive cloud storage and with your other devices. It is an ideal tool for photo sync, photo upload, music download, document and file backup, automatic file transfer, automatic file sharing between devices,... New files in your device are instantly uploaded to Google Drive. New files in Google Drive are automatically downloaded onto your device. If you delete a file on one side, it will be deleted on the other side. It works across multiple devices (your phone and your tablet). If their folders are synced with the same Google Drive account, they will be kept in sync with each other. This is how Google Drive desktop client works but it's not the same with the official Google Drive Android app. The Google Drive app is all manual. Autosync Google Drive is all about automation."




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