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Sunday, September 27, 2015

Coconut

How to prepare coconut ingredients from raw fresh whole coconut.

Starting with how to open a coconut -

http://thehealthyfoodie.com/crack-open-coconut-easily-painlessly/

How to make coconut milk -

Fresh:

http://thehealthyfoodie.com/homemade-coconut-milk/

Four ways:

http://m.wikihow.com/Make-Coconut-Milk

How to make coconut butter -

http://thehealthyfoodie.com/basic-coconut-butter/

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Monday, September 14, 2015

Auto Immune Paleo Ligurian Lemon Chicken Dinner

The recipe book that came with my Instant Pot electric pressure cooker has a great chicken recipe. This is my second time making it. I purchased 2 organic free range chicken legs tonight.

The lemon chicken is smothered in the thickened sauce and veggies I added to the mix - delicious!

We enjoyed mashed Japanese sweet potatoes (they are golden white, not orange) and fresh corn on the cob.

Ligurian Lemon Chicken and Veggies

2 chicken legs rinsed and patted dry

1 sweet onion coarsely chopped

3 carrots chopped into 2" pieces

3 celery stalks chopped into 1/4" thick pieces

1/2c Parsley coarsely chopped

Juice 1 lemon

2T Bragg's apple cider vinegar

1 c broth

2T cornstarch

1T olive oil

Put broth in pressure cooker pot. Place grate in pot. Salt chicken and Brown both sides of chicken legs in olive oil until dark Carmel brown. I used a cast iron skillet. Lift out chicken from skillet and set in pot on grate. In skillet sauté onion 5 min. add to pot. Deglaze skillet with 2T vinegar on medium high heat for 15 seconds or so without letting it boil away, and add skillet liquid to pot.

Add vegetables, lemon juice and herbs on top of chicken. Pressure cook high 12 min. When done, lift out grate with chicken and set on serving platter. Remove all vegetables from pot and place on platter. Set pressure cooker to sauté. Mix starch with equal amount cold water. Add to broth in pot and stir constantly for about 1 min. until thickened. Serve in gravy boat or spoon over chicken on platter.

Start potatoes after pressure cooker is started.

In separate pot steam 2 large sweet potatoes peeled and chopped into large hunks about 20 min. Remove steam basket, discard water, put back potatoes in pot and add seasoning mix. Mix is 2T sugar, 1-1/2T coconut oil. Crush potatoes with hand masher. Add about 1c coconut milk slowly while stirring potatoes with masher. Add just enough milk to achieve desired consistency. Keep warm.

After potatoes are set on to boil, set on corn to boil 10 minutes in a pot of water with lid on top. Water can half cover corn in pot. When done remove pot from heat and set aside with lid on to keep warm.

Timing should be about right for all dishes.

Sweet Corn and Vegetables

Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Autoimmune Paleo Cream of Carrot Soup

Recipe

1 sweet onion diced

5 stalks celery finely sliced

2T coconut oil

5 large carrots peeled and chopped into large 2" chunks

1/4 c chopped parsley

1/2 c fresh orange juice

2 c bone broth (or enough to cover veggies)

2 packs chicken broth concentrate

2 c coconut milk

Seasoning

Salt 1/4t

Pepper 1/4t

Turmeric 1/2t

Cumin 1/4t *

Chili flakes 1 pinch *

* optional non-AIP

In pressure cooker sauté celery and onion in coconut oil 5 min. Add carrots, juice, parsley, bone broth and broth concentrate. Pressure cook 20 min. Blend with immersion blender. Stir in coconut milk and serve.

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Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Classic Meatloaf - Initial Test Run

For this traditional meal, I turned to classic recipes and gave it a Paleo twist.

Tonight for convenience and taste-testing, (this was my very first meatloaf) I kept it simple with ketchup and potatoes. I used turkey for the ground meat. Other ingredients could be tried of course. Mashed potatoes of course have several lovely alternative root veggies to mash deliciously - cauliflower, turnip, white yams, etc. However the key flavor ingredients of meatloaf, Worcester sauce and ketchup, are a bit trickier. The egg was substituted with 1 Tbsp. ground flax seed soaked in 1/4 c. water. I believe egg could simply be omitted altogether. The breadcrumbs were substituted with coconut flour.

Meatloaf Recipe

I just used this recipe straight, with above substitutions, except I omitted the garlic.

http://www.food.com/recipe/turkey-meatloaf-54752

2T olive oil

1 sweet onion chopped

1 lb ground free range no hormone turkey

1T ground flax seed soaked in 1/8c water

1/2c coconut flour

1T Worcester sauce

3/4c Ketchup (1/4c for mix, 1/2c for top)

3/4t salt

1/2t fresh ground black pepper

I sautéed the onion in the oil in a cast iron skillet for 5 min turning occasionally- it carmelized brilliantly. Then I mixed all ingredients, put 1c water in base of pressure cooker, oiled the steamer basket, put in cooker, pressed the meat into steam basket until evenly thin, and topped with ketchup.

I cooked it for 17 min on high pressure.

We ate it with peas, mashed red potatoes and instant turkey gravy.

I am currently experimenting with how to modify this meal to become fully AIP.

Auto immune Paleo classic meatloaf