Category: Meat

  • Hoisin Chicken Burgers

    Hoisin Chicken Burgers

    This is my new go-to favorite, easy peasy recipe (+ Creamy, Crunchy Miso Slaw). All together, the fresh and creamy slaw and the sweet and salty burger, has so much flavor with so little time and clean up involved. Ingredients ~1.25 lb ground chicken 1/4 c hoisin sauce 3 green onions, finely chopped salt, to…

  • Mediterranean Meat Kababs

    Mediterranean Meat Kababs

    Most of the recipes I write and make require a certain set of standards to be posted on this website. I don’t mean like poo-don’t-stink, nose-in-the-air standards, but quite the opposite. It must be tasty above all else of course, but also fast, cheap, and/or easy. Those standards are usually all related, but if I…

  • Maple Roasted Sweet Potatoes, Apples, and Sausage

    Maple Roasted Sweet Potatoes, Apples, and Sausage

    One of the things I did before the bebe was born was plop myself in the kitchen, literally barefoot and pregnant, and knock out a few meals to put in the freezer. I’ve eaten this one so often I decided to make it again. I like to portion this out into containers, and toss them in the…

  • 10 Minute Verde Chicken Soup

    10 Minute Verde Chicken Soup

    I’ve probably made this soup once a month for the last 3 months or so. It’s such a great ‘clean out the pantry’ kind of meal, and now I’ve got leftovers portioned out and hanging around in the freezer for post baby meals-in-a-hurry. I am officially full-term today (I’ve been pregnant for 10 months!!!) and…

  • Broccoli, Cheddar, Rice Meatballs

    Broccoli, Cheddar, Rice Meatballs

    I know. You’re like, “You’ve been gone for a year and all you have for me is this incredibly frumpy meatball recipe?” I feel you. But let me say, I’m in my (hopefully) last few weeks of being pregnant (It’s our first. It’s a girl. Yes, I’ll write more about this.) and went DEFCON 2 in the…

  • Barbacoa Meatballs with Guac

    Barbacoa Meatballs with Guac

    I love barbacoa, but I usually don’t (a.k.a. never) have the foresight to stick a huge hunk of meat in the crock pot before I think, “Mannnnn, barbacoa sounds soooo good right now.” Yeah I could go to Chipotle and pick something up, but that would also mean I would need to have showered and…

  • Hibachi Sesame Chicken & Ginger Dressing

    Hibachi Sesame Chicken & Ginger Dressing

    It’s like going to the hibachi restaurant without all that added pressure of trying to catch the shrimp in your mouth… Ingredients For the Salad romaine lettuce, 2-3 heads, chopped thinly peeled carrots and cucumbers For the Dressing 4-inch piece peeled, fresh ginger (~3 tablespoons) 1/2 cup oil (high-oleic/high heat sunflower oil or a light olive oil) 1/4…

  • Steak with Sherry, Mushroom Cream Gravy

    Steak with Sherry, Mushroom Cream Gravy

    Some of you may remember the SousVide contest a few months back. Well, we didn’t win, but they asked if we would be interested in keeping it if we’d post a couple recipes using the machine. I know 99.9% of people in the world don’t have one of these contraptions, but don’t click off of…

  • From the Book > Gyro Taco Salad & Tzatziki Guacamole

    From the Book > Gyro Taco Salad & Tzatziki Guacamole

    This is a recipe from our book: Primal Cravings: Your Favorite Foods Made Paleo.   A theme we like to play with a lot is taking flavors you know and love and adding a twist…we want our food to be familiar yet interesting. Gyro Taco Salad is a good example of just that. We took…

  • Italian Sweet & Sour Pork Tenderloin with French Pork & Beans

    Italian Sweet & Sour Pork Tenderloin with French Pork & Beans

    Some of you may remember the SousVide contest a few months back. Well, we didn’t win, but they asked if we would be interested in keeping it if we’d post a couple recipes using the machine. I know 99.9% of people in the world don’t have one of these contraptions, but don’t click off of…

  • Turkey Meatballs with Spiced Apple Chutney

    Turkey Meatballs with Spiced Apple Chutney

    It’s like winter is in my belly. Think chicken apple sausage turned inside out. Ingredients For the Meatballs 1 lb ground turkey (preferably the fattier grind or you may need to add a few tablespoons of oil) 1/2 teaspoon granulated garlic 1 teaspoon dehydrated onion flakes 1 teaspoon garam masala 1 teaspoon salt For the…

  • Greek Chicken Hash

    Greek Chicken Hash

    I hate when bloggers who’ve neglected their websites do their “comeback” post and write the words “sorry”. I’ve completely ignored this website for about 5 weeks and I’m not sorry at all. Lots of stuff happened in that 5 weeks. The number one biggest, life changing occurrence is that we’re jobless. We’ve left our CrossFit gym (long…

  • Pastrami’d Sirloin

    Pastrami’d Sirloin

    Sirloin, the faux-filet it may be, but I wanted to inject some real flavor–beyond what just marinating could ever do. So I faux-pastrami’d the faux-filets. Pastrami usually involves a week of curing or a few days of wet brining + a handful of hours babysitting in the oven. Ain’t nobody got time for that. So…

  • Unrolled Cabbage Casserole

    Unrolled Cabbage Casserole

    By no means glamourous, unrolled cabbage casserole may take a long time to get “dressed” but it makes up for what it lacks in beauty with its taste. Clean up boils down to one pot of water and a saute pan. Plus, you’ll eat off this for days on end. Ingredients 1 small head green…

  • General Tso’s Chicken

    General Tso’s Chicken

    Essentially, this recipe is just a homemade hoison sauce kicked up to your personal level of preferred spiciness, with the addition of red pepper flakes and/or sriracha or chili garlic sauce. I wanted a combo of General Tso & Cashew chicken, but yeah, there are no cashews anywhere to be seen in the pic because…I…

  • Creole Breakfast Casserole To Go

    Creole Breakfast Casserole To Go

    It’s like gumbo is stuck inside your eggs. So now you can eat dinner inside of breakfast, instead of dinner for breakfast. Ingredients 12 ounces andouille sausage 1/2 large green pepper 1/2 jalapeno 1/2 yellow onion 8 eggs 2 tablespoons hot sauce 2 tablespoons worcestershire sauce Method Preheat your oven to 350ºF. Get out an 8×8…

  • Greek Meatballs

    Greek Meatballs

    This past weekend, I challenged myself to come up with a well-thought out menu and actually shop, prep and cook all (or most) of the dishes on Sunday. So it was pretty imperative that everything I made be able to re-heat well and also travel with us, if need be. I’ll be posting a slew…

  • Gremolata & Mushroom Stewed Beef

    Gremolata & Mushroom Stewed Beef

    A sort of Italian spin on a classic beef stew. I tossed in some basalmic vinegar in place of red wine and let some fresh orange & rosemary infuse into the tomatoey broth. Super yummy, plus… this makes super lots. Ingredients 5 lb chuck roast 4 cloves garlic, minced 1 large yellow onion, finely diced…

  • Bacon & Egg Breakfast Chili

    Bacon & Egg Breakfast Chili

    Adding bacon and eggs to a chili is a really great way to stretch a pound of ground meat. I originally set out to make this in the crock pot, as I’m trying to broaden my crockery cookery horizons, but then promptly realized that cooking this over an open flame would actually allow it to…

  • Jerk Chicken & Pineapple Bowl

    Jerk Chicken & Pineapple Bowl

    Jerk anything requires a butt-load of ingredients. The list below looks exhaustive, I know, but it really is easy and it’s likely you have most of this stuff lingering about in the crevices of your spice cabinet, you just have to take the time to dig it out. You could always go out and buy a pre-made…

  • Guacamole Bacon Stuffed Pepper Poppers

    Guacamole Bacon Stuffed Pepper Poppers

    Late nights in college were often capped off with a trip to Sonic Drive-In. I craved Cheddar Poppers–jalapeños stuffed with cheese and deep fried. If you’ve ever tried to make pepper poppers at home, you know that a jalapeño is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re going to bite into…a mild, tame…

  • Korean Barbecue Osso Buco

    Korean Barbecue Osso Buco

    …and once you’ve downed the buco, don’t forget to polish off the marrow for dessert. Ingredients tallow 4 beef shanks 2 c beef stock 2 T fresh ginger 1 T fresh garlic 1/4 c coconut sugar or brown sugar 1/4 c coconut aminos or gluten free soy sauce 1 t sesame oil 1/2 t fish…

  • Mexican Cocoa Crusted Steaks

    Mexican Cocoa Crusted Steaks

    Rarely do we partake in the quick cooking, whole muscle meat of animals. I find it incredibly difficult to justify a cost of $14-$20 per pound for anything. So that’s why we let what’s on sale dictate what we eat (Aren’t you happy to see something other than ground beef or sausage?). Thank goodness for…

  • Pizza Stuffed Sweet Potatoes

    Pizza Stuffed Sweet Potatoes

    We’re headed to West Palm Beach, Florida this weekend to compete in the CrossFit Games Southeast Regionals with our team. We’ve been trying to practice the workouts together and what not, which has us coming home later than usual, which has dinner  hitting the table later than usual too. Since I work from home, sometimes…

  • Hawaiian Barbecue Bacon Burgers

    Hawaiian Barbecue Bacon Burgers

    A good burger is hard to beat, but a bad burger…you know, the patties that resemble the charcoal they were cooked over; those are worse than worse. People like to get all fancy and what not, talking about grinding their own meat and which cuts to grind, the right meat to fat ratio, the best…

  • Maple, Mustard Grilled Chicken

    Maple, Mustard Grilled Chicken

    Sometimes you just want a stupid easy, but stupid tasty meal. Ingredients ~2 lbs boneless, skinless chicken thighs 1/3 c Dijon mustard (my absolute favorite is Maille (I eat this stuff out of the jar with a spoon)) 3 T Grade B (it’s cheaper than A) Maple Syrup 1 stem fresh rosemary, chopped Method In a…

  • Cheater’s Brined Turkey Legs

    Cheater’s Brined Turkey Legs

    To me, turkey (and most non-duck poultry) is pretty boring. I rant about this often, and maybe you’ve noticed I don’t cook it very often, because in my world: cow beats chicken & pig beats cow. Every. Time. Period. But today, I think I’ve finally got a cheater’s fix to making, at least turkey legs,…

  • Paleo Shepherd’s Pie

    Paleo Shepherd’s Pie

    [updated from 6/10/2010] I’m not gonna lie, this meal in more finicky than what I usually like to cook. It messes up more than 1 pan and requires that you pay attention to it while it’s cooking. It’s what I imagine having a child would be like. I get it though…you gotta put up with…

  • Thai Basil Beef Balls

    Thai Basil Beef Balls

    I am a cheap ass…well, that sounds bad. I don’t leave crappy tips or anything…so maybe I should rename myself thrift-ass. I don’t like to pay full price for clothes and I most certainly don’t want to spend more than I have to on good quality food. I understand “You get what you pay for.”,…

  • Bacon Wrapped Sweet Potato Fries

    Bacon Wrapped Sweet Potato Fries

    Mmmmmm, bacon candy canes. This could be a side dish or a meal all on it’s own, who am I to say? Ingredients 2 medium sweet potatoes, cut into matchsticks about the width of your pinky finger. 8 oz bacon, don’t use thick cut Method Get your oven to 425°F and place your oven rack…