This Week's Gruel - Return of the Bone Broth

This is pretty much a standard week's slow cooker recipe:

Grass fed beef shoulder roast and liver, yellow squash, onion, broccoli, cauliflower...  and red potatoes
Turmeric and black pepper
Organic tomato sauce
1/2 can of Trader Joe's light coconut milk
3/4 cup of bone broth

Here's the NutritionData.com profile... but of course, there's no "bone broth" in the database.

http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/recipe/2652284/2

I finally got organized enough to make some Bone Broth the day before, so I added about 3/4 cup to this week's gruel (Bone Broth recipe from NomNomPaleo).

Okay, here's the step by step part.  15 minutes start to finish...

Red potatoes! A dose of the "safe carbs"... 

Chop it up and throw it in the cooker

Spices

Beef shoulder roast and beef liver

And, with liver in the mix, that means Rufus got some more tasty liver strips.  These were cooked in leftover  bacon grease.  Double yum!

1/4" strips - bake at 300 for about 15 minutes - 300 keeps the bacon grease from smoking 

Finished product - really no reason I couldn't snack on these, too.

Return of the Carbs! Or at least 1 red potato

Well, after some feedback and further analysis of my diet, it looks like I need some additional carbs.  I'm not going crazy.  We're talking one medium size red potato in this recipe.

Here's a link to the Q&A with Paul Jaminet that led to this shocking change.

http://perfecthealthdiet.com/q-a/comment-page-33/#comment-89640

Here's dinner:
Grass fed beef coated in turmeric, red potato, cauliflower, onion, brussel sprouts, collard greens, and bacon!

Rufus was the beneficiary of some beef, beef fat, and connective tissue from a bone broth I made today.

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