Favorite Recipes

[pixy0stix]

Do you have go to recipes that you love? Link or share them here.

[usuallylurking]

Aug 6, 2014 22:27:55 GMT -5 @destinationunknown said:

My favorite whole30 thing that I ate was monkey salad. I had it every day for breakfast.
Sliced banana, raisins, cashews, coconut flakes and almond butter. So good.
Spaghetti squash with ground beef and marinara was a favorite too but it's hard to find compliant sauce. I found some at sprouts.
Salads with ranch: cupcakesomg.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-not-so-hidden-valley-paleo-ranch.html?m=1
Berries with coconut cream whipped cream
An immersion blender is a whole 30 must have IMO

Did you eat the monkey salad in addition to eggs or something? Or just by itself? I think Costco sells a compliant marinara sauce! It's their brand and it's sold as 3 32 oz jars.

[carymac]

The sweet potato hash in Nom Nom Paleo is my favorite thing. It's my standard morning meal with eggs.

[wambam]

Mel Joulwan is brilliant and I love her and want to pet her hair and be her best friend. Everything she cooks is genius: theclothesmakethegirl.com/2014/01/03/30-whole30-friendly-recipes/

[Velar Fricative]

On an added note, are the recipes listed here great to make in batches so I can bring leftovers in to work and/or eat for at least a couple nights in a row? Cooking on the weeknights is really difficult for us for several reasons - we need to be able to heat and eat. If not, any recommendations for great recipes that stay good in the fridge for a few days?

[wambam]

Aug 7, 2014 7:58:07 GMT -5 Velar Fricative said:

On an added note, are the recipes listed here great to make in batches so I can bring leftovers in to work and/or eat for at least a couple nights in a row? Cooking on the weeknights is really difficult for us for several reasons - we need to be able to heat and eat. If not, any recommendations for great recipes that stay good in the fridge for a few days?

My favorite thing to do is to choose a ground meat, a seasoning blend, and a few veggies. I season both the veggies and the meat, roast the veggies, cook the meat, and toss everything together. DONE. Some of my favorite combos:

Beef + curry blend + cauliflower, carrots, yellow onion
Turkey + taco blend + sweet potato, bell pepper, red onion
Lamb + Greek blend + cauliflower, asparagus, red onion

[carifly]

Ground beef + tomato sauce + sautéed veggies of your choice + spaghetti squash = yum. I don't miss the pasta at all. I usually just microwave the spaghetti squash, sautéed the veggies and add to the tomato sauce while it simmers, then brown the beef in the same skillet and add it to the sauce. Scape the spaghetti squash out and add sauce over top.

My two other easy favorites are roasted veggies and chicken - I just go with whatever I have handy, but love sweet potatoes, peppers, & tomatoes together, or carrots, asparagus & lemons.

These are good candidates for make-ahead meals/leftovers.

Also I eat lots of scrambles, usually with eggs, avocado, tomatoes, and some sort of meat.

Trader Joes is awesome for whole30/paleo ingredients.

[orangello]

I am unsure if the recipe is Whole30, but I'd imagine it can easily be made so - but someone linked to Kenyan Braised Greens and Ground Beef on ML, and it was SO good.  We used curly kale instead of the collards, and I served over roasted sweet potato chunks.

Thanks for all the recipe ideas!  Sometimes the recipe threads on other boards get a little cream-of-something soup heavy, and my H can't eat that (celiac), so these recipes work better for us

ETA - the above recipe made us 4 good sized servings when served with about a cup of roasted sweet potato chunks.

[wambam]

Aug 7, 2014 10:58:04 GMT -5 orangello said:

I am unsure if the recipe is Whole30, but I'd imagine it can easily be made so - but someone linked to Kenyan Braised Greens and Ground Beef on ML, and it was SO good.  We used curly kale instead of the collards, and I served over roasted sweet potato chunks.

Thanks for all the recipe ideas!  Sometimes the recipe threads on other boards get a little cream-of-something soup heavy, and my H can't eat that (celiac), so these recipes work better for us

^ This one works really well with zucchini subbed for greens. You know, if you can't *ahem* digest greens.

[textbookcase]

My favorite breakfast is a sweet potato and beet hash with eggs. So yummy.

[isabel]

Aug 7, 2014 7:16:59 GMT -5 wambam said:

Mel Joulwan is brilliant and I love her and want to pet her hair and be her best friend. Everything she cooks is genius: theclothesmakethegirl.com/2014/01/03/30-whole30-friendly-recipes/

So much this. Her salmon cake recipe from Well Fed 2 is so incredibly delicious! I highly recommend both of her books. I haven't made a single thing from either one that I didn't love.

Oven-Fried Salmon Cakes
1 (14.75 ounce) can wild-caught salmon (Trader Joe's has this! Or just use 3 normal cans)
1 cup cooked sweet potato, mashed
2 large eggs, beaten
1/2 cup almond flour
1/2 cup fresh parsley, minced (about 2 tbsp)
2 scallions, white and green, sliced thinly
1 tbsp Old Bay seasoning
1 tsp salt
1 tsp hot sauce
1/2 tsp paprika
1/4 tsp ground black pepper
zest from 1 lemon
Preheat the oven to 425 degrees.
Drain the liquid from the salmon and crumble the fish into a large mixing bowl, removing any bones. Add the sweet potato, egg, almond flour, parsley, scallions, old bay seasoning, salt, hot sauce, paprika, black pepper, and lemon zest. Mix well and refrigerate for 10 minutes. (I've refrigerated for 24 hours and it's been fine.)
Grease the parchment paper (or silpat) with cooking spray. Using a 1/3 measuring cup, scoop out the mixture and form into 1 inch thick patties. Brush the tops of the patties with ghee or butter. Bake for 20 minutes. Flip the patties and brush with ghee or butter. Bake for an additional 10 minutes. Serve with tartar sauce.

Tartar Sauce
1/3 cup homemade mayo
2 tsp minced fresh chives
2 tsp minced fresh parsley
1 tbsp minced dill pickle
1 tsp lemon juice
1 tsp pickle juice
dash of cayenne pepper
salt and pepper to taste
Mix all ingredients well and refrigerate until ready to use.

It seems kind of labor intensive, but if you prep it the night before, all you have to do is form the cakes and bake them when you're ready to eat.

[workaholic]

Aug 7, 2014 10:58:04 GMT -5 orangello said:

I am unsure if the recipe is Whole30, but I'd imagine it can easily be made so - but someone linked to Kenyan Braised Greens and Ground Beef on ML, and it was SO good.  We used curly kale instead of the collards, and I served over roasted sweet potato chunks.

Thanks for all the recipe ideas!  Sometimes the recipe threads on other boards get a little cream-of-something soup heavy, and my H can't eat that (celiac), so these recipes work better for us

ETA - the above recipe made us 4 good sized servings when served with about a cup of roasted sweet potato chunks.

I made this yesterday but subbed the greens for zucchini. My aunt gave me SO much zucchini from her garden. It was fantastic. The spices blended so nicely together. I find a lot of Skinnytaste's recipes can be easily modified to apply to Paleo and/or Whole30. I like that she tests her recipes a bunch of ways before publishing the best tasting one. Thanks for the rec!

[crumbs]

My favorite so far has been a seafood fra diavlo with zucchini noodles. It took a little while to find the right diced tomato (Pom brand?!)

All I did was slice zucchini into noodles sautéed in a pan for 4/5 minutes until soft, in a separate pan I cooked shrimp and scallops with a little olive oil. Added in diced tomatoes, crushed red pepper, and salt, poured on top of the zucchini. It was actually MUCH better than I thought fake noodles would be.

[cgpm]

Aug 12, 2014 17:27:09 GMT -5 crumbs said:

My favorite so far has been a seafood fra diavlo with zucchini noodles. It took a little while to find the right diced tomato (Pom brand?!)

All I did was slice zucchini into noodles sautéed in a pan for 4/5 minutes until soft, in a separate pan I cooked shrimp and scallops with a little olive oil. Added in diced tomatoes, crushed red pepper, and salt, poured on top of the zucchini. It was actually MUCH better than I thought fake noodles would be.

I made zucchini noodles for dinner last night with sautéed onions and cherry tomatoes. It basically makes it's own sauce. Sooooo good!

[wambam]

Aug 14, 2014 14:47:40 GMT -5 jenny1980 said:

Aug 7, 2014 7:16:59 GMT -5 wambam said:

Mel Joulwan is brilliant and I love her and want to pet her hair and be her best friend. Everything she cooks is genius: theclothesmakethegirl.com/2014/01/03/30-whole30-friendly-recipes/

This is no joke. I use her recipes all the time even when not eating paleo just bc they're so damn good.

Everyone needs to make her bora bora fireballs with sunshine sauce like, right now.

I make her Sheperds pie recipe like two or three times a month. 

Have you had her Elvis burgers? They were life altering.

[rugbywife]

Aug 7, 2014 8:01:46 GMT -5 wambam said:

Aug 7, 2014 7:58:07 GMT -5 Velar Fricative said:

On an added note, are the recipes listed here great to make in batches so I can bring leftovers in to work and/or eat for at least a couple nights in a row? Cooking on the weeknights is really difficult for us for several reasons - we need to be able to heat and eat. If not, any recommendations for great recipes that stay good in the fridge for a few days?

My favorite thing to do is to choose a ground meat, a seasoning blend, and a few veggies. I season both the veggies and the meat, roast the veggies, cook the meat, and toss everything together. DONE. Some of my favorite combos:

Beef + curry blend + cauliflower, carrots, yellow onion
Turkey + taco blend + sweet potato, bell pepper, red onion
Lamb + Greek blend + cauliflower, asparagus, red onion

How do these freeze Wam? If you know, I mean

[wambam]

Aug 15, 2014 21:10:32 GMT -5 rugbywife said:

Aug 7, 2014 8:01:46 GMT -5 wambam said:

My favorite thing to do is to choose a ground meat, a seasoning blend, and a few veggies. I season both the veggies and the meat, roast the veggies, cook the meat, and toss everything together. DONE. Some of my favorite combos:

Beef + curry blend + cauliflower, carrots, yellow onion
Turkey + taco blend + sweet potato, bell pepper, red onion
Lamb + Greek blend + cauliflower, asparagus, red onion

How do these freeze Wam? If you know, I mean

I don't freeze my food after I've cooked. Each of these makes 6 servings (2lbs of meat total) and we eat them within a couple days for lunches and dinners.

[usuallylurking]

Aug 16, 2014 8:58:37 GMT -5 wambam said:

Aug 15, 2014 21:10:32 GMT -5 rugbywife said:

How do these freeze Wam? If you know, I mean

I don't freeze my food after I've cooked. Each of these makes 6 servings (2lbs of meat total) and we eat them within a couple days for lunches and dinners.

How many days a week would you say that you cook?  I saw your meal plan for the week in the other thread, so I'm just curious if you do a bunch of batch cooking on the weekend or if you do a larger cooking session every other day or so.

[wambam]

Aug 16, 2014 13:43:43 GMT -5 usuallylurking said:

Aug 16, 2014 8:58:37 GMT -5 wambam said:

I don't freeze my food after I've cooked. Each of these makes 6 servings (2lbs of meat total) and we eat them within a couple days for lunches and dinners.

How many days a week would you say that you cook?  I saw your meal plan for the week in the other thread, so I'm just curious if you do a bunch of batch cooking on the weekend or if you do a larger cooking session every other day or so.

I cook for the next day. So what I make on Monday is what I'll eat for lunch and dinner on Tuesday (with the exception of the fish but throwing fish in the oven is suuuuuper breezy). That way I get home from the gym and I can eat before I have to cook. I cook every day but because I'm not cooking to immediately eat it's not stressful at all.

[usuallylurking]

Aug 16, 2014 13:49:38 GMT -5 wambam said:

Aug 16, 2014 13:43:43 GMT -5 usuallylurking said:

How many days a week would you say that you cook?  I saw your meal plan for the week in the other thread, so I'm just curious if you do a bunch of batch cooking on the weekend or if you do a larger cooking session every other day or so.

I cook for the next day. So what I make on Monday is what I'll eat for lunch and dinner on Tuesday (with the exception of the fish but throwing fish in the oven is suuuuuper breezy). That way I get home from the gym and I can eat before I have to cook. I cook every day but because I'm not cooking to immediately eat it's not stressful at all.

Lol, I think I've read this from you before, because as soon as I started reading it I was like "this is genius!"  That's actually a really good idea.  I did freezer cooking instead, but I'm keeping this in mind for the future!

[wambam]

Aug 16, 2014 13:51:01 GMT -5 usuallylurking said:

Aug 16, 2014 13:49:38 GMT -5 wambam said:

I cook for the next day. So what I make on Monday is what I'll eat for lunch and dinner on Tuesday (with the exception of the fish but throwing fish in the oven is suuuuuper breezy). That way I get home from the gym and I can eat before I have to cook. I cook every day but because I'm not cooking to immediately eat it's not stressful at all.

Lol, I think I've read this from you before, because as soon as I started reading it I was like "this is genius!"  That's actually a really good idea.  I did freezer cooking instead, but I'm keeping this in mind for the future!

It works really well for someone who doesn't mind eating "leftovers" all the time

[wambam]

Aug 16, 2014 13:51:01 GMT -5 usuallylurking said:

Aug 16, 2014 13:49:38 GMT -5 wambam said:

I cook for the next day. So what I make on Monday is what I'll eat for lunch and dinner on Tuesday (with the exception of the fish but throwing fish in the oven is suuuuuper breezy). That way I get home from the gym and I can eat before I have to cook. I cook every day but because I'm not cooking to immediately eat it's not stressful at all.

Lol, I think I've read this from you before, because as soon as I started reading it I was like "this is genius!"  That's actually a really good idea.  I did freezer cooking instead, but I'm keeping this in mind for the future!

It works really well for someone who doesn't mind eating "leftovers" all the time

[wambam]

Aug 20, 2014 16:27:41 GMT -5 namasteak said:

Aug 16, 2014 8:58:37 GMT -5 wambam said:

I don't freeze my food after I've cooked. Each of these makes 6 servings (2lbs of meat total) and we eat them within a couple days for lunches and dinners.

Do you eat 1/3lb of meat per meal?

Approximately.