Paleo slow cooker chicken with cauli-mash

Here is my ultimate comfort food recipe and really doesn't take much effort! All you need is your handy dandy slow cooker, your veggies and a whole chicken.

Ingredients:
Whole chicken
- oregano
- salt and pepper to taste
- basil
- rosemary

Place all ingredients in a slow cooker when you wake up in the AM: put on low for at least 8 hours (ready when you come home from work!)


Cauli-mash:
 - 1/2 head of cauliflower
- 1/4 cup coconut milk (or less: depends on your preference. Add slowly until you get the right consistency)
- pepper and salt to taste
- 1/2 tsp crushed garlic (I use the bottled version)

Boil cauliflower for 10-15 minutes until cooked.Drain water, add garlic and spices and half of the coconut milk. Using a blender (or potato masher) mash and slowly add remaining milk until proper consistency.

Gravy:
Using drippings left in slow cooker- slowly add almond flour and mix until thickened. (approx. 3-4 tsp) Sift if necessary.

Side Salad:
- whatever salad you have in the fridge
(really I just take leftover veggies and top with almonds ^_^')

Paleo Banana Bread

Paleo Banana Bread

I whipped this up today when I got home from work- I had a bushel of over-ripped bananas that were asking to become delicious bread!

I had some leftover mixed nuts (almonds, pecans and walnuts) for store bought oatmeals (that I did not eat, mind you!)

This bread was very moist and delicious! a good way to start the weekend!






Paleo Banana Bread

Ingredients

• 3 ripe bananas mashed
• 1/3 cup melted coconut oil
• 3 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1/3 cup coconut milk (I used Coconut Dream brand unsweetened- but any alternative milk will do!)
• 2 cups almond flour
• 1 cup coconut flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1/4 tsp cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp nutmeg
• dash of salt
• 1/4 cup coconut palm sugar
• 1 tblsp honey
• approx 1/3 cup of mixed nuts (your preference)

Preparation

• Preheat oven to 350f
• mix dry ingredients in a large bowl. Add melted coconut oil to mixture and lightly mix (adding to dry will prevent the hot oil from scrabbling the eggs!)
• In a separate bowl: mash bananas. Add eggs and whisk in vanilla, coconut milk and honey.
• fold in half of the mixed nuts
• grease a loaf pan with coconut oil and add batter
• sprinkle rest of nut mixture
• bake at 350f for 45 min or until fully cooked

Paleo Pancakes- oh my!

 Paleo Pancakes

I've tried out a few renditions of paleo pancakes over the years- including almond flour, coconut flour concoctions which seemed to have many ingredients. Sometimes, they would turn out wonderfully- sometimes they flipped- then flopped.

I played around with ingredients and it didn't get very far- especially in the morning.

Instead I found a simplistic approach from a friend:
1 egg + 1 mashed up banana = pancake.
Glorious.

Except mine fell apart. It tastes like banana scrabbie eggs.

HOWEVER: do not fret! All we needed to do was modify it a touch- it certainly has less ingredients than the almond flour pancakes AND they flipped perfectly! YES!

Paleo Pancakes

Ingredients

• 2 eggs
• 1 mashed up banana
• 1/4 tsp cinnamon
• handful of fresh blueberries (if you only have frozen- do not despair! I made a sauce to top it off)

Optional Blueberry Topping

• 1/2 cup frozen blueberries
• 1 tsp honey
• dash of cinnamon

Mix together and warm either in microwave or over low heat on stove. 

Smoked Salmon Eggs Benedict with lemon dill aioli Paleo

Smoked Salmon Eggs Benedict

Let me start off by apologizing to you about my use of camera phones. It's bad, really bad. BUT- I promise next time to take an actual picture of this before I eat it all :)

Avocado, poached egg, paleo mayo with smoked salmon and dill? delish!

Very simple way to use up leftover smoked salmon and get your omegas!!!

This, my friends is easy. Don't have a poacher? no problem- use a small pot or a deep sauce pan with water. Boil the water, turn down to medium and crack your egg in that H20- easy peesy.


Ingredients

• 3 slices smoked salmon
• dash o' dill
• 1 avocado sliced
• 1 free run egg
• 1 tsp paleo mayo
• squirt of lemon

Preparation

Poach egg. Slice avocado and place a layer on plate. Layer smoked salmon. In a bowl, mix paleo mayo with some dill and lemon juice. Place poached egg on top of salmon and drizzle with aioli. YUM!

 

Chicken Curry Lettuce Wraps Paleo

Chicken Curry Lettuce Wraps!

I've seen a few paleo wraps out on the interwebs- but so many either take a lot of eggs to make (Which remind me of crepes instead) or fall apart easily. You know what I love? the crunchy lettuce wrap. Cheaper, made o' veggie lettuce wrap. Can't go wrong!

Here is a recipe I put together for a quick wrap fix :)
(the side is cucumber salad- another recipe to follow).

Chicken (with ginger, turmeric, coconut milk curry) 'hash brown' sweet potatoes, carrots and dilled cucumbers wrapped in lettuce wraps with cucumber salad :)




Ingredients

• leftover chicken breast
• 1/2 can coconut milk
• 1/2 tsp ginger
• 1/2 tsp turmeric
• 1 clove garlic minced
• leftover hash browned sweet potatoes
• carrots sliced into thin strips
• cucumbers sliced
• 1 head iceberg lettuce (take off as many leaves as needed)

Preparation

Mix the hash browns and coconut milk together in a skillet over medium heat. Add ginger, turmeric and garlic. Stir until warmed. Turn off skillet and place lettuce leaves on a work surface. Put in cold leftover chicken and veggies, spoon in some of hash brown mixture. Wrap and serve!

Paleo Sushi!

Paleo Sushi!

Packed lunch for work! Who says you can't have sushi? :)




Sushi happens to be one of my favourite things- being grain free make Kimbo a sad, sad lady- until now!

I had some leftover cauliflower 'rice' from a curry I made the night before: time to take out those nori wraps from when I could eat sushi!

The filling is smoked salmon, avocado, carrot, cucumbers and dill with cauliflower 'rice' :) next time- perhaps more cauliflower? i was using leftovers from last nights curry dish and thus had only a little to 'test' this out! delish!


Ingredients

• Nori/seaweed wrappers (I used 3- as many as you need!)
•  Cauliflower 'rice' see recipe here
• 1 avocado
• 1 carrot washed and sliced very thinly in stick form
• 1 cucumber sliced thinly etc
• a few slices of leftover smoked salmon
• spritz of lemon and a dash of dill (for garnishing the smoked salmon)

Preparation 

Using a sushi roller (or a piece of saran wrap if you are in a pinch!) place nori wrapper on roller. Place some of each ingredient on the wrapper, and start rollin'! (I will post a link to how to wrap sushi if you need it)

Breakfast Skillet SCD/Paleo!
(sorry about the camera picture being blurry- promise it does not do the recipe justice! I promise to take a better one next time- and there will be a next time for this delicious recipe!)

This was a recipe I created trying to use some leftovers.

Italian sausages, sweet potato, zucchini, coconut curry and topped with a few eggs made this a huge success! go leftovers!

I used a cast iron pan- could also be done in the oven perhaps?

 Let me know what you think!


Breakfast Skillet SCD/Paleo

Skillet

• Italian sausage sliced (find grain free/sugar free local meat)
• 1 sweet potato (hashbrown sized cubes)
• 1 zucchini (cubed)
• 1 tblsp leeks (sliced finely- or use green onions!)
• 3 free run eggs (for the top!)

 Sauce

• 1/2 can of coconut milk (shake well!)
• 1/2 tsp ginger
• 1/2 tsp tumeric
• 1 clove garlic minced
• 1 squirt dijon mustard
•  oregano, salt and pepper to garnish

  In cast iron skillet, saute leeks and italian sausage on medium heat until browned. Add sweet potato hash browns and zucchini. Saute for 2-3 minutes. Add coconut milk, tumeric, dijon mustard, ginger and garlic. Cook until hashbrowns are tender stirring often. Crack 3 eggs on top of mixture and reduce heat if necessary. Cook until eggs are to your liking (hard or runny yokes). Garnish with salt, pepper and oregano. Serve and enjoy!