Kalua Pork

 

 

I saw this recipe at the Domestic Man and have been wanting to try this. Then I came across it at Nom Nom site last week and decided that I have to make it with my self created recipe :) 

 

 

This is a really nice 6 ingredients recipe. I seasoned the pork butt liberally with salt, pepper ,cumin and creole seasoning. Lay the crockpot with slices of bacon, put the seasoned pork in the crockpot. Add 3 table spoon of liquid smoke and cook on low for 16 hours. We only mange to cook it for 12 hours... it turned turn pretty tender. I am sure it will be much better at 16 hours.. nut we were too hungry to wait :)


~bel~

Fat Bombs

"Fat Bombs" !!!! You do not call these Fat Bombs for nothing ! Each cube is about 17g of fats, 4g Carbs and 5g protein.

It took me a while to realize what is a fat bomb.. but once I found out... I just have to make them . These fats bombs are simply fat !! Good fats !!! They are especially good if you are trying to increase your fat intake and hate the thoughts of drinking coconut oil or olive oil.  There are many recipes out there and you can always adapt to what you need as long as you use FAT as your main ingredient.

I use coconut oil, almond butter and unsweetened cocoa powder for this recipe. Depending on your preference, you can add honey or some sweetener or just have them dark. Personally, I like them dark. The almond butter has a slight sweetness which is sufficient for me. I would not recommend stevia  as stevia does not go well with chocolate. It gave a weird bitter taste to chocolate. I prefer to use Swerve or honey. Honey is more paleo than Swerve but it contain higher sugar and calories... so pick your poison :)

You can create variation to this basic recipe by adding raisin, coconut flakes, dry fruits etc.


Ingredients:
One cup coconut oil, melted
One cup almond butter
2 table spoon of Hershey unsweetened cocoa powder. ( I prefer Hershey's but you can use any other brand)
Any sweetener of preference


Direction:
1. Mix all ingredients in a bowl. Stir well
2. Scoop the mixture in ice cube trays.
3. Freeze for 30 minutes and enjoy

Note that these will melt really fast in hot temperature as they are fats ;)

~bel~

Oven Baked Chicken

I love oven baked chicken especially homemade ones.  I hate getting them from the stores as I never know what was added.

Our friend Michelle's daughter is in the Agriculture school and had raised some chickens for a show. These chicks are raised in the school barn with no hormones injected. She sent them to the slaughtering house after the show was done. We bought some of the chicken from her. Gosh.. these chickens are young and tender.

This is an easy recipe which I made it up as I go :)

Ingredients :
1. 1 chicken ( 3-4 pounds)
2. Salt and Pepper
3. Paprika
4. Cajun seasoning
5. Butter
6. 1/2 pound bacon
7. Green beans and Carrots


Directions:
1. Heat the oven to 425
2. Rinse the chicken and pat it dry
3. Season it liberally with salt, pepper, Cajun seasoning and Paprika
4. Run the butter liberally on the skin.
5. Stuff 2-3 bacon in the cavity
6. Lay some bacons on the top of the chicken
7  Put the vegetables in the pan before you put the chicken breast down on the roasting rack
8. Bake the chicken for at 425
7. Check on the bacon about 30 mins and remove them if they get brown. You do not want burnt bacon
8. A 3-4 pound chicken will be done in about 1hr 30 min but I will check every 10 min after the hour to make sure.

~bel~

Slow Cooker Grass Fed Pot Roast

 

 

I am back finally... with the first recipe in 2014 ! If you are wondering where I have been.... I just started a new job and had been busy trying to get use to a new schedule. The Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year holidays threw me off completely. I hardly have any time for myself with all the  parties.

 

I am so glad that that we are back to routine.

 

We made this slow cooker grass fed roast on Sunday. We have been using grass fed for a few weeks now and loving it. I have been wanting to try grass fed beef after reading all the benefits of grass fed vs grain fed beef. But it took us a while to jump into the wagon due to the cost factor. But we were so glad to make the switch. I finally have meat which taste like those in Singapore. I have always complained to the Hubby that the meat here taste "fake" and I could not understand why. I finally realized it when we make the switch to grass-fed. The hubby had a burger at Texas Land and Cattle last week and he texted me : "the meat taste fake". *smile*.. He finally understood what I meant :)

 

I took us a while to figure how to cook grass fed meat. Grass fed meat are leaner with less fats. They has to be cook with lower temperature. Basically. "low and slow".  The slow cooker is a good one to use. The roast we did on Sunday came out tender and moist and almost falling apart,

 

 

Ingredients:

4 pound arm roast

5 stalk of Celery

2 -3 carrot

one onion Chopped

1/2 cup of red wine

Salt

Pepper

Cajun Seasoning

Thyme

Tumeric powder

Coconut oil or bacon grease or olive oil or butter ( we use bacon grease)

 

 

Direction

1. Seasoned the roast liberally with salt, pepper, Cajun seasoning , thyme and turmeric powder.

 

2. Cut the celery, carrots into 2 inches pieces.

 

3. Lay the onion, carrot and celery on the bottom of the slow cooker

 

4. Heat a skillet and brown the roast on each side.

 

5. Lay the browned roast on top of the cut vegetables in the slow cooker

 

6. Cook low for 8-10 hours. We did 9 hours and it was perfect.

 

 

~bel~