November 2011
6 posts
It's a very Paleo Thanksgiving!
I’m suddenly very eager to move into the Christmas season. I put my little tree up in my apartment yesterday. But before I get ahead of myself (after all, Advent hasn’t even QUITE begun), let me finish with Thanksgiving. I hosted a Paleo Thanksgiving this year, with the help of my wonderful friend Vinnie, who quarterbacked the most important part of the meal—the BIRD! He also...
Chili-lime grilled salmon, Broccoli almondine
Gotta love 40 degree weather grilling! And coming back inside when the food is ready! Also, this is my new favorite marinade. I want to put it on everything. Except maybe dessert. This was an entirely satisfying meal. So without further ado: grilled salmon in a chili-lime marinade, and broccoli almondine. Let’s hit the salmon first.
Ingredients:
2 salmon steaks, skin on (Mine...
Roasted beets! Sauteed beet greens! Beets are...
I’ve always liked beets quite a lot. They’re my favorite thing on a well-appointed salad bar. But I’d never cooked them myself before. Recently, however, a very good friend of mine, who is also a very good cook, made a very good pot roast—which included BEETS! It was delicious, and had me both inspired and a little obsessed. Which brings us just about up to date. I...
Crockpot Pulled Jerk Chicken
I’ve been remiss. It’s been days since I cooked this. I figure I’d better get it posted before I work my way through the leftovers.
So jerk chicken is generally smoked or grilled, so this isn’t technically jerk chicken. It would be more accurately called jerk-spiced pulled chicken. But either way, it’s tasty—and my way, it’s super easy, too.
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Bacon-wrapped, grilled scallops with ginger-lime...
How delicious does THAT sound? Well, it tasted just as good. And pretty simple preparation for pretty big pay-off. Scallops first!
Ingredients:
12 slices of thick-cut bacon (I used TJ’s nitrate-/nitrate-free applewood smoked bacon)
12 large sea scallops
chili powder
salt
pepper
chili oil
4-5 bamboo skewers, soaked in water for ~20 minutes
To make:
Lay the bacon out on a baking...
Killer (grass-fed) Texas-Style Chili
a.k.a., the very best chili I’ve ever made—and I’ve been known to make some damn fine chili, if I do say so myself! (Sorry—too much?) Moving on. My chili m.o. from the days of yore always included beans. Alas, in the Paleo era, beans are not allowed in my kitchen. So Texas-style chili it would have to be.
Now, I believe posting a recipe, per se, for chili would be...
