My guest this week is Natasha Newton with her new book “Let’s Celebrate – A Low-Carb Cookbook for Year-Round Entertaining“
Bestselling author of Southern Keto and Southern Keto: Beyond the Basics, Natasha Newton, levels up entertaining with 115 carb-conscious recipes for every occasion. If you’re living a low-carb or keto lifestyle, you may be intimidated by the idea of hosting a mix of carb lovers and carb avoiders, but fear no more. Natasha Newton brings you the ultimate guide to healthy entertaining with her easy and delicious crowd-pleasing recipes.
In Let’s Celebrate, Natasha delivers low-carb, keto-friendly appetizers, salads, main dishes, desserts, and beverages that feature her distinct Southern style. She makes any gathering fit your lifestyle without forgoing flavor and familiarity. Let’s Celebrate is packed with everything you need to host a memorable gathering, including:
- Tips and checklists to help you prepare for entertaining
- Table setting ideas for casual and formal celebrations
- Themed menu ideas with shopping lists
- Easy-to-follow recipes that use accessible ingredients
- And more!
Along with full-color photos for each of this book’s 115+ recipes, you’ll find make ahead tips, allergen information, and nutrition breakdowns. Natasha also walks you through planning a party, shopping for ingredients, stocking a bar, and setting a beautiful table. Let’s Celebrate is carb-conscious entertaining made easy!
Sample recipes:
- Hot Pimento Cheese Dip
- Slow Cooker Party Meatballs
- Bacon Ranch Fauxtato Salad
- Stuffed Pork Tenderloin
- Better Than Anything Cake
- Bloody Mary Bar
Natasha Newton, Keto expert, recipe creator, and bestselling author, brings you a low-carb version of hospitality. Aimed at bringing healthy meals to your guests, Let’s Celebrate demonstrates just how possible it is to accommodate everyone with food sensitivities, allergies, special diets, or medical conditions. Natasha is on Facebook , Instagram and Twitter
Natasha Newton brings an approachable model to the ketogenic lifestyle. She’s the voice and personality behind the popular Instagram account @ketoislife, which publishes recipes and other keto related content to more than 350,000 followers. Natasha began her ketogenic journey in 2014 to lose weight and battle her food and sugar addictions. In addition to shedding pounds and maintaining, she discovered that a keto lifestyle came with a whole host of other benefits: she had a new lease on life. Being a native of Kentucky and longtime resident of Tennessee, Natasha offers low-carb recipes that have a distinctive southern flair. She truly delivers the sought-after pleasures of down-home southern cooking. Natasha is the author of bestselling books Southern Keto and Southern Keto: Beyond the Basics. Her newest book, Let’s Celebrate: A Low-Carb Cookbook for year-Round Entertaining will be released January 2023.
Good Life Guy’s Wine of the Week:
2020 Two Vintners O.G. Gewürztraminer from Yakima Washington
Have you ever wanted to venture off the beaten path and try something new and unheard of? This is that wine, uncontrollable floral and citrus aromatics practically jump out of a glass of this wine. While the nose screams sugar, the palate will pleasantly surprise you with a dry finish, rounded off by a beautiful orange color. This wine is sure to turn heads wherever it is served. aBV13.2% 100% Gewürztraminer
“Started in 2012 this wine gets better (and wilder) with each vintage. We started making this wine in neutral oak barrels but in the 2019 vintage were able to get some Spanish clay tinajas (giant clay pots) to use in the winemaking process for this wine. This is the traditional way Orange wines are made and it adds just another layer of texture and flavor to the wine that was missing with the oak. This wine ages on the skins for 8 weeks before we press it off and continue to age it out before bottling. That 8 weeks on the skins gives that awesome orange color to the wine and the geek factor that blows customers away.”
Wine Enthusiast 90
Winemaker Morgan Lee says he wants this wine to be “weird,” and it is—in a good way. Fermented in a clay pot, the aromas offer expressive notes of ginger, orange peel, lychee and flower. The palate brings a textured feel while remaining light on its feel. Mineral notes are threaded throughout. It’s part intellectual pleasure and part hedonism.