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Locals (nashville)Last Day to order keto bakes for the weekend. We are excited to bring you Grain Free Sugar Free pumpkin spice this week AND Cinnamon Chai. See Cupcake flavors this week below. Order a bundt cake or celebration cake and don’t forget we have cookies, sheet pan cakes and blondies. Go to #linkinprofile https://spinachtiger.com/keto-bakery-nashville-franklin/

Don’t you love pumpkin candles? Me too, especially the ones sold at the Golden Slipper. Best candles ever!
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Cupcake (Lala Cakes) This week

* Chocolate
* Vanilla
* Chai
* Pumpkin
* Blueberry Maple Pancake Muffin
* White Chocolate Raspberry
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The Spinach Tiger Bakery is a home-based keto friendly, paleo friendly bakery available for pick up and delivery (minimum requirement).
We feature cupcakes, layer cakes, bundt cakes, sheet pan cakes, blondie sheet pans, cookies, tortillas and biscuits.
We deliver to the Franklin, Nashville area (and sometimes beyond) on Saturday mornings. We offer Friday Saturday pick up.

Spinach Tiger is founded by Angela Roberts, a veteran 12 year food blogger who accidentally started a low-carb, keto friendly, sugar free bakery after years of baking with alternative methods.
We are committed to making baked goods that taste delicious, are nutrient dense and will do no harm.
We use almond flour, coconut flour, and Swerve in our baked goods. We never use xylitol.
To date, we have baked and sold over 4,000 Lala Cakes (our signature cupcake that is shaped like a tart).
We are thrilled that most of our customers order more than four times, and many are weekly or monthly clients.
Let us bake for you and stay off grains and sugar.

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Happy Fall Salad 👩🏻‍🍳.More people ask me for my salad recipes than my dessert recipes once they eat them. Why? Balance! That magic combination of fat salt and acid along with varying textures and sometimes tiny bit of sweet. The sweet is NOT sugar. It’s usually a bite of fruit but can come from a syrupy balsamic, honey or a sugar free maple syrup. I probably have 25 different vinaigrettes in my arsenal and it always depends on the season and the ingredients. Take this kale salad for instance. The kale is not that curly hard to eat stuff. It’s lacanato kale, rib removed and chopped to bite size. It’s not massaged as that’s not necessary if you dress it a few hours in advance. Pears and apples add sweet and texture. Cranberries or golden raisins add a different form of sweet and texture but might be left out if you’re avoiding sugar. Nuts are always welcome and I used pumpkin seeds in this recipe. As a surprise I used a warmed up maple dressing here. Buy Choc Zero Maple Syrup at 10% off using code SpinachTiger.
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Ingredients
* 2 bunches lacinato kale the long skinny kind aka Tuscan kale
* roasted sweet potatoes
* 1 small apple or pear
* 2 tablespoons toasted pumpkin seeds or nuts of your choice
* 2 tablespoons dried cranberries
* Warmed Cider Vinaigrette
For Roasted Sweet Potatoes
* 2 sweet potatoes peeled, cubed or one large butternut squash, peeled and cubed
* 1 tablespoon maple syrup (Use Choc Zero for Sugar free)
* 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
* dash cinnamon
* dash nutmeg
* 1/4 teaspoon tumeric optional
* 1/2 teaspoon salt
* 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
Warm Cider Vinaigrette
* 6 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
* 1 clove garlic finely chopped
* 1 tablespoon maple syrup or honey
* 1 tablespoon dijon mustard
* 12 tablespoons olive oil
* 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
* 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
Instructions
* Wash and dry kale. 
* Remove ribs from kale. I used a sharp knife to cut out

Meatball sliders and Football! Use the rolls you like, but these are made with my amazing keto dinner rolls. GRAIN FREE, GLUTEN FREE, but STILL GOOD. #linkinprofile https://spinachtiger.com/keto-meatballs-keto-meatball-sliders/
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The Optimist is one restaurant I never want to see shut down. This time I had Red Snapper Vera Cruz and it was perfection.
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It’s time to get cozy with my new flavor Cinnamon Chai, inspired by this candle from the Golden Slipper (a new adorable store in Germantown). It’s on the menu along with pumpkin, chocolate, vanilla and blueberry. Get your order in TODAY for the weekend. Yes, we deliver wth a minimum of $45 and a $5 charge. Yes, the recipe will be posted on the blog before October. Go see our bakery page #linkinprofile https://spinachtiger.com/keto-bakery-nashville-franklin/
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it’s that time of year when a butternut squash takes front and center, starring in so many wonderful dishes. ❤️We start with a soup. First of all did you now you can just stick a butternut squash in oven until the skin is ready to fall off. 👩🏻‍🍳Add a roasted apple, onion and carrot to the mix, throw in Vitamix with some water (or broth) with spices, maple syrup and heat. Fry some sage, toast pecans for amazing garnish. 😋recipe #linkinprofile https://spinachtiger.com/autumn-soup-roasted-butternut-squash-soup-with-browned-butter-sage-leaves-toasted-pecans/
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My favorite cake flavor is classic chocolate with vanilla buttercream. The Spinach Tiger Bakery can make your next KETO friendly birthday cake. Check us out. #linkinprofile https://spinachtiger.com/keto-bakery-nashville-franklin/
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Scallops can be a mystery to those who haven’t figured out how to get this sear. Cauliflower rice can be a huge bore if one doesn’t know how to take a very bland vegetable and make it sing. 👩🏻‍🍳I combined the cauliflower rice with grass fed butter, cream cheese, lemon zest, salt, pepper and baked in a cast iron pan until it crisped up and served as the perfect bed for these amazing buttery lemony scallops. A low-carb dish no one will roll their eyes on.
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SEAR SCALLOPS
* Rinse in cold water to get rid of sand
* Remove side muscle
* Clean the scallops
* Dry the scallops
* Bring to room temperature
* Get HOT pan hot. Add oil AFTER pan is hot.
* Do not crowd (scallops will steam. Cook in two batches if needed.
* Be Patient.
* Fry for two minutes minutes one side, one minute on second side. Scallops will remove easily once caramelized.

Here’s another great EASY shrimp dish Italian style. Spaghetti squash, chopped fresh tomatoes, Trader Joe’s Red Shrimp, herbs, garlic and a little spice. 👩🏻‍🍳❤️💚So good, I actually made this dish twice this week.
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Recipe

Spaghetti Squash, cooked, shredded
olive oil
3 garlic cloves (or more)
1 pound shrimp, (I like Trader Joe’s Argentinian Wild), peeled, defrosted
6 tomatoes chopped or 1 small can diced tomatoes
fresh basil, fresh thyme, parsley
lemon zest
red chili flakes
salt, pepper
Pecorino
Kalamata olives (optional)

Sauce garlic in olive oil. Add Tomatoes. Cook a few minutes.
Add spaghetti squash. Add more oil as needed.
Add spices, herbs, salt and pepper.
Cook for twenty minutes for flavors to meld.
Add shrimp, cover for five minutes.
Add olives if you want. Or add lemon zest.
Season again as needed.
Serve with freshly grated pecorino.
Garnish with more herbs.

Client that received this cake said it was the best keto cake she ever ate! Only FRESH LEMON JUICE goes into this amazing grain free, sugar free lemon butter cake. For true LEMON LOVERS. Coming to the blog AND sold in my home keto bakery. Order in the bakery #linkinprofile https://spinachtiger.com/keto-bakery-nashville-franklin/
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NEW BLOG POST: KETO SHRIMP CREOLE. This is a delicious take on Shrimp Creole, but is actually a hybrid between shrimp creole and jambalaya, as the cauliflower rice is cooked in the sauce, along with creole spices, the holy trinity, tomatoes and bacon. My favorite shrimp for this dish which I’ve made TWICE in the last two weeks are the peeled, uncooked, frozen red shrimp from Trader Joe’s, making this easy dish, easier. #linkinprofile https://spinachtiger.com/keto-shrimp-creole-cauliflower-rice/
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RECIPE INGREDIENTS

* 6 slices bacon
* 1 cup onion diced
* 1 green bell pepper diced
* 3 stalks celery, diced
* 2 cloves garlic diced
* 1 28 ounce large can San Marzano Italian tomatoes or 2 14-ounce cans diced tomatoes
2 cups chicken broth
* 2 tablespoons creole spice
* 1 bay leaf
* 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
* 1 teaspoon salt
* 1 teaspoon black pepper
* 4 sprigs thyme can use 1 teaspoon dried
* 3 cups cauliflower rice
* 1 pound shrimp peeled, deveined
* 2 tablespoons parsley chopped

Celebrate your next Keto Birthday 🎂with a chocolate chip cookie cake with vanilla buttercream. Coming to blog and bakery soon. Lately I’ve been getting so many birthday cake orders, which means people don’t want to go off their keto diets. I’ve seen this kind of commitment reverse one of my customer’s diabetes. She went from an 11.1 A1C to 5.1 (the normal zone). 🥳🧁🍰Wow. This is why I do what I do. It’s delivering the joy of sweets without the side effects. Check out my bakery page #linkinprofile https://spinachtiger.com/keto-bakery-nashville-franklin/
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Let’s have some keto sausage brussels pizza tonight. Did you know you can make sausage actually be the crust? Yep thinking outside the pizza box!
Covered with sautéed brussels sprouts and mozzarella. So yum, even if you’re not a keto fan.
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Grill easy with FLAVOR! Marinated for only an hour and chicken was so tender. Olive Oil, Coriander, Lemon Juice, 🍋Garlic, Cayenne, Turmeric, Salt, Pepper. Mildly spicy. Remember to soak your kabob sticks for 30 minutes.👩🏻‍🍳 Grilling Time: 10 minutes. Serve with an arugula 💚salad made with olive oil and lemon.
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Pumpkin Bundt stuffed with cheesecake and cream cheese topping. Yep. It’s time to start developing new pumpkin recipes. 👩🏻‍🍳Always keto friendly, grain free, gluten free, sugar free. But it can be done! ❤️😋Coming to the blog soon. Next bake: Pumpkin cream cheese muffins.
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That time of year when summer is shifting towards the end, Fall is around the corner, and you’re out of food ideas. Oven Baked Pork Chops with Peaches makes total sense. Peaches or Nectarines bring just enough sweet to delicious chops. #linkinprofile https://spinachtiger.com/oven-fried-pork-chops-peaches/
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Have you ever heard of Torta Bianca Caprese? It’s a flourless (almond flour) cake make with butter, white chocolate and lots of lemon. 🍋It has a very unique texture. Eggs are separated and while the yolks are beaten for five minutes until they dare doubled. The whites are whipped and folded in at the end. It’s such a delicious dense lemony texture. I can’t wait to write this one up. It’s the sister cake to Torta Caprese (which is chocolate almond flour cake).
I used choc zero sugar free white chocolate chips, an important part of the recipe. Use code SPINACHTIGER to save 10% when ordering from choczero.com
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Soooo it’s still hot summer but since school started I’m craving tomato sauce anything like these braised pork steaks with fresh green beans. Dutch oven or slow cooker.
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It’s been a while since I’ve had the desire to show restaurant to you. We haven’t dined out much (who has?) but now we’ve decided we have to go out, enjoy life, and support the restaurants. We visited the newly opened The Optimist last night and were so happy to discover a first class restaurant I would give a five star rating to. Between Roasted Flounder and Seared Scallops the dinner was perfection. A shout out for great cocktails and service and you will talk about the dinner rolls for a few days. It’s very rare that I leave a place and want to come back and try every single dish on the menu, but this is one of those places.

It’s time to live again. Servers are wearing masks. Tables are far apart. They are making it work.. We need to get out and support the businesses. We can do this safely!
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