Eggs, Bacon, and Avocados

Here's a quick one.  3 eggs, bacon, 1/2 avocado & some grass fed New Zealand Cheddar

Buffalo Meatballs

My name is Riley and I have boundless energy!!!

Well, there was a little hiatus from posting as I adjusted to having a new kitchen helper, Riley.  She's about 10 months old now and quite full of energy.  I've been hiking so much that I've lost about 3 lbs.

I also needed to come up with something a little different in terms of a recipe.  So, here are some grilled buffalo meatballs with a veggie mix of Japanese sweet potato, yellow squash, spinach, and shallot cooked in ghee.  I'm upping the carbs in my diet after getting a question answered on an episode of Robb Wolf's Paleo Solution podcast.  Essentially, I was in sort of a limbo land between a ketogenic diet and one with not quite enough carbs.  Listen to the podcast for more details.

Here's the photo sequence.

Garlic and olives

1 lb of ground buffalo from Costco

Mix it together

Add some black pepper and cayenne

Form into meatballs

These are very low fat, so I coated them in Avocado Oil to prevent sticking on the grill

Onto the gas grill with Man Grates

Almost done

Here's a sweet potato that I pre-baked.  This makes it quicker to cook since you just need to heat it up.

Finished product

This Week's Gruel - Pork Shoulder Stew

This weeks gruel is a bone-in pork shoulder roast from Frolona Farm.  I've buying both ground beef and pork from them for a few weeks at the East Atlanta Village Farmer's Market on Thursday afternoons.  Very tasty.

Ingredients:
2 lb bone in pork shoulder roast
tomato sauce
cauliflower
cippolini onion
purple potato
yellow squash
carrot
mustard greens

Okay, so here we go on the photo sequence:

Turmeric, black pepper, and cayenne for spices

Patient kitchen helper:  Got any plans for that bone?

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.

A few quick Paleo dinners

here they are... recent dinners.

This one is Pork Tenderloin.   And yes, I have read Paul Jaminet's series on pork, but still eat it.  Yum!

http://perfecthealthdiet.com/2012/02/pork-did-leviticus-117-have-it-right/

I'm going with correlation is not causation and other critiques of this that talk about the quality of the source of the pork.  Also, much of what I eat is organic from local farms.

Next up, we have more grilled lamb chops with sweet potato, cauliflower, brussel sprouts, and shallots.

and finally, grilled bratwurst with veggies from Riverview Farms.

Lamb Korma (sorta)

Here's this week's gruel - a spicy Indian lamb stew.

I adapted this recipe to ingredients I had on hand.

http://chriskresser.com/recipe-lamb-korma

1 lb lamb stew meat
2 tbsp ground ginger
1 tbsp masala
1 tbsp turmeric
4 cloves garlic
1 small cippolini onion
1/2 lb frozen blue kale
1 cup chopped broccoli
2 cans coconut milk
10 oz tomato sauce
3/4 cup ground cashews

It smells really good so far

Ground cashews and spices

Add the coconut milk (and tomato sauce)

Add the kale and lamb

Stir it up...  Slow Cooker on high for about 3 hours, then turn it down to low for another 3 - 5 hours