Thread: Corrections for Dana Carpender's 500 Low-Carb Recipes Book!

I just went to a site called lowcarbfriends.com and on their message board they said that there were some mistakes in Dana Carpender's 500 Low-Carb Recipes Book & had these corrections listed:

"Kali's Eggs need 1/3 cup of mayonnaise

Mulligatawny needs 1 clove of garlic, crushed

Italian Bean Bake needs an 8 ounce can of tomato sauce, not a 4 ounce can. Indeed, there are no 4 ounce cans of tomato sauce, so if you find I called for one elsewhere in the book assume I screwed up again.

Grasshopper Cheesecake: the oven temperature is 325 degrees F.

Coconut Shortbread should only bake for 7-10 minutes, not 20-25.

Zucchini Carrot Cake needs 2/3 cup of Splenda.


Speaking of that last item, I've learned, belatedly, that Splenda in the packets is more concentrated than Splenda in the bulk box; I didn't know because I never bought the packets. Be aware that all the Splenda measurements in 500 Low-Carb Recipes are for bulk Splenda in the box.

Regarding Mockahlua

Leah in Tampa, Florida emailed me, asking how long the Mockahlua (see 500 Low-Carb Recipes) keeps -- after all, she points out, the recipe makes a liter and a half of the stuff, and there's a limit to how much a girl should drink and all. She thought that if it didn't have much of a shelf-life, she'd halve the recipe.

Well, this was a question that concerned us here at Hold the Toast Kitchens, because we made 1.5 liters of Mockahlua last winter, not to mention another 1.5 liters of the closely related Mochalua (the chocolate/coffee variant), and -- owing to a devotion to light beer, dry wine, and good tequila -- we have yet to consume them. So we pulled them down off the pantry shelf to see how they were doing -- drinking in the evening is a hard job, but nothing's too much for my readers.

I'm pleased to announce that after more than a year on the pantry shelf -- with the occasional trip down to put a shot in a cup of sugar free cocoa -- both the Mockahlua and the Mochalua are doing fine. Just another tribute to the preservative powers of 100 proof vodka.

So go ahead and make the full recipe, folks. It'll keep.

Yet One More Thing About My Cookbook...

A few people have written me about 500 Low Carb Recipes, and asked, "How big is a serving" I have a confession: I didn't measure. I just looked at the dish, or at the nutritional breakdown for the dish, and decided how many people it would reasonably serve -- and that's how many servings it is. If you make a recipe from the book and divide it into however many equal-sized portions the recipe states, you'll have the right serving size."

You're welcome! I think the corrections are for her older printed versions. I had just bought mine and it already had the corrections in it. (they had mentioned that on that other board too.)