This Week's Gruel - Beef & Beef Liver Stew

Bone Broth in the Mix

Here's a typical week's "gruel" - a slow cooker recipe.  I call it gruel based on a concept from Paul Pitchford's book called Healing with Whole Foods.  It's a great book because it integrates Chinese Medicine with Western medicine.  It does allow grains, but there's still a lot of great content in that book.  The chapter on Oils alone is worth the purchase price.

Also, in that book he describes how we are confronted with over 50,000 types of food, and the idea is that drains our mental energy.  Gruel is simple.  Mostly the ingredients are just the foods themselves with a little black pepper.  People ask "what does it taste like?"   Well, like food tastes... but not like Doritos or other chemically engineered foods.  (See the 60 Minutes episode - Tweaking Tastes and Creating Cravings on that topic).

Ingredients

Meat:  Grass Fed Beef and Liver, Beef Broth

Vegetables:  Squash, Onion, Broccoli, Green Onion, Cauliflower, Tomato Sauce, and Kale/Collards/Mustard Greens

Spices:  Black Pepper, Turmeric, and Crushed Chili Peppers

This makes 4 bowls, which I bring for lunch during the week.

Pictures

I made this a few weeks ago. This was in the freezer. Saved the fat for other purposes.

Grass Fed Chuck Roast 

I smell BEEF!!!

Spices - not a lot

There's the Liver

There's 1/2 lb of frozen mixed greens