Wednesday, May 22, 2013

All-American Meat Lovers (Paleo) Chili


Rachel’s All-American Meat Lovers Chili (Serves 6-8 adults)
Originally posted at: EveryDayPaleo.com

Ingredients:
  • 6 Ounces Italian Sausage
  • 1 Pound Round Steak, chopped into even bite sized pieces
  • 2 Pounds Ground Sirloin
  • 2 Cups Chopped Yellow Onion
  • 1 ½ Cups Bell Pepper (Combination of Red and Green)
  • 8 Cloves of Garlic (Minced)
  • 2 (28 Ounce) cans of chopped tomatoes with their juice
  • 2 Tablespoons Chili Powder
  • 1 Tbs Ancho Chili Pepper
  • 1 Tbs Cumin
  • 3 tsp Tomato Paste
  • 1 tsp Dried Oregano
  • ½ tsp Fresh Ground Pepper and ½ tsp Salt (adjust to your taste)
  • 2 Bay Leaves
  • ¼ cup red wine (optional…but highly recommended)

How To:
Heat a large pan over medium-high heat. Remove casings from sausage. Add all the meat, onion, bell pepper, and garlic to pan. Cook until meat is browned, stirring to crumble.

Add chili powder, ancho chili pepper, cumin and tomato paste, oregano, salt, pepper and bay leaves. Cook 1 minute , stirring constantly. Stir in wine and tomatoes and bring to boil.

Transfer to crock pot and let cook for 6 hours on low (or cook uncovered on the stove for a half hour, stirring occasionally)

Discard bay leaves and serve

Enjoy!

Originally posted at: EveryDayPaleo.com

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Paleo Brownies using Avocado and Bananas


Paleo Fudge Cupcakes
Recipe from Life As A Plate
Recipe: Paleo Fudge Cupcakes w/ Banana and Avocado 

Ingredients

2 1/2 cup almond butter
1 1/4 cup honey
2 lg ripe bananas
2 lg avocados
3 eggs
3/4 cup cocoa powder
1 tbsp. vanilla
1 tsp baking soda
2 tsp baking powder

How To
Mix the honey and almond butter in a large bowl
Beat the eggs, banana, vanilla, cocoa powder and avocado until you get a mousse-like consistency in a blender
Add baking soda and baking powder.
Spoon in almond butter to complete the batter
Pour into mini-cupcake tin (use the paper, it really makes a difference)
Bake at 350, 15-18 minutes