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Citrus Salad Dressing Recipe
This dressing tastes perfect with some chicory salad. It’s light and fruity and won’t drown out of your leafy greens! See this post for how I used it.
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Rosemary Liver Burgers
Liver is so good for us, but the taste even gets me sometimes! So I sneak them into things, and burgers are great candidates. Then you add some great spices to cover it up even more. Of course, if you love the taste of liver, then there’s no need to do any of this!
Paleo Pineapple Pork Recipe
It was so easy to make the slow-cooker pork recipe I posted earlier that I went and made 4 lbs of it! Unfortunately (or rather, fortunately), this meant that I had a ton of leftovers.
While the pork is quite delicious to eat straight out of the slow cooker or dipped in some coconut aminos and Paleo Chinese chili sauce (click for recipe), I wanted some other options for taking down this 4 lbs of PIGliciousness!
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Ginger Basil Tea
I’m a big fan of tea, and as the cold season rolls around in New York, something nice and hot is perfect. However, there’s only so much caffeinated tea that I can drink in a day, and most herbal teas that you buy don’t taste all that flavorful (a bit too cardboard-like for my tastes). But this ginger basil tea made with fresh ginger and fresh basil is a great way to fend off the winter chill.
All you need is some ginger and basil and hot water!
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Raspberry Liver Paleo Chili Recipe
I’ve been making this chili forever now, and it’s about high time I shared it with everyone. I like to tweak the recipe a little each time I make it, and this is the raspberry liver variation. And the best part is that everything just goes into the crockpot, and 8 hours later it’s delicious! I like to make a large batch to eat for several days, but you can of course scale the recipe down (also make sure your crockpot can hold so much meat – I use this 6-quart one from Amazon).
Coconut Chocolate Chip Cookies (Dairy Free, Soy Free, Nut Free, Gluten Free)
Please don’t get turned off by all the “free” things in the title! It’s actually pretty good despite not having most of the traditional ingredients for cookies! I found this recipe on George’s Civilized Caveman Cooking website – please go there for the full list of ingredients.
It’s also a very simple recipe. In a large bowl, combine the eggs with some vanilla extract and pinch of sea salt. I of course was very generous with my own homemade vanilla extract (see here).
Slow Cooker Pork
I had gone out grocery shopping only to return to this amazing smell in my apartment. I was wondering who was cooking on my floor and whether the aroma was flowing through my vent system when it hit me that it was MY PORK! I had put it into the slowcooker earlier in the morning, and completely forgotten about it. Of course, that’s the beauty of the slow cooker – you can totally just forget all about it!
As with all my slow cooker recipes, this one is pretty dang simple!
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Easy Butternut Squash Soup
Did you know that butternut squash is actually a fruit?? Yep, my sources at Wikipedia confirm this!
What To Do With Leftover Cranberry Sauce?
If you haven’t gathered by now, I’m not American (I’m from across the pond, and no that’s not Ausssieland). Thanksgiving is clearly not a big tradition in England (in fact I had only heard about it from TV shows like Friends before coming over to the US). I have to say I have never cooked an entire Thanksgiving dinner, but I have tried my hand at a few traditional dishes, one of which is cranberry sauce.
I was surprised at just how easy it was to make cranberry sauce (just pop into some water, heat it up and add raw honey, and spice it up however you like), but having made a large batch of it, I was perplexed as to what to do with it all! Especially since I had no turkey and no Thanksgiving Dinner planned.
So here are my 23 ideas for what to do with leftover cranberry sauce….
Olive Tapenade Recipe
Perfect on top of some microwave bread or chicken cutlets.
Recipe below:
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Chicken Breast with Olive Tapenade
There are definitely a lot of days when I’m just too tired/depressed/fed-up to cook anything exciting. Often, I go with the salmon stew (recipe here) to save me during those desperate times. (I keep frozen salmon fillets in my freezer for this purpose actually!)
However, this chicken breast dish is fast becoming a go-to dish too on those days – it’s just so dang simple!
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Bacon Wrapped Blue Cheese-Stuffed Dates [Primal]
I have no idea who originally came up with this absolutely fabulous concoction, but she/he must have been a genius! I first had bacon wrapped blue cheese stuffed dates at Traif in Brooklyn, NY, and I have been in love with them ever since.
If you’ve never tried these, then you are seriously missing out. I love serving them at dinners as a passed appetizer – everyone always loves them. But sometimes, I make them just for myself as a treat.
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Slow Cooker Paleo Jerk Chicken
The word, “jerk” originates from Spanish words meaning dried meat (hence the food beef jerky). So jerk chicken, which is a popular dish in Jamaica (see photo below), is made with a spicy, dry rub.
Although this dish is traditionally grilled, it’s actually much easier in the slow cooker! Just rub the spices on the chicken and cook away.
Vegged Up Paleo Beef Burgers
These burgers are tasty and full of flavor and a great way of eating more vegetables along with your meat. You can pan fry them in some coconut oil or else grill them.
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Slow Cooker Asian Pot Roast
This is such a versatile pot roast! You can cook it and then freeze it for a few weeks so that it’s available whenever you’re out of food. It’s also great to use in random stir-fries with some vegetables or in a salad. My favorite use is to shred the meat and then to add it to the cauliflower rice (recipe here) when the “rice” is nearly done.
If you’re eating the pot roast by itself, it’s delicious when served cold (just keep it in the fridge and then use a sharp knife to carve off really thin slices – serve these slices with a drizzle of coconut aminos).
Additional tip: You can also add some root vegetables like carrots or asian radishes to the slow cooker to cook with the meat – it’ll create some really flavorful veggies.