Shisking Bob

Sorry the photos a little blurry but the bobs were so good. It's a quick and easy, clean and tasty, sensational summer meal.

INGREDIENTS:
4 large chicken breasts cubed

1 fresh pineapple cubed
3 bell peppers cut into chunks
1 large sweet onion cubed
1 box mushrooms

MARINADE:
1 cup (wheat free) soy sauce
1 cup (no sugar added) pineapple juice
1 large spoon chopped garlic
1/4 cup sake

We only marinaded the chicken but I recommend the mushrooms too. Mix al all the ingredients for the marinate in a bowl and add chicken. Let sit at least 1 hour.
Microwave the chicken about 1 min or more to help cook the chicken so you don't burn the vegys on the skewers.
If you're using wooden skewers don't forget to soak them for at least 20 minutes before you cook with them or they'll burn.
Take the rest of your ingredients and add randomly to the skewers and BBQ. It's as easy as that. We ended the night with some Coconut Ice Cream and all went to bed happy!!

Perfect summer salad

This is a great recipe for any meal, any time you're in a hurry. I have been going a little crazy with the mayonnaise for the last few recipes but it's just so good it's hard to stop.

Chicken salad

ingredients:

1 apple, diced

5 stalks celery, sliced

1/2 a head cabbage, diced

1 C. raisins

1 C. almonds, diced

3 small chicken breast cubed and fully cooked

Mayonnaise (to taste and moisture you like)

'lots of pepper (to taste)

The Mayonnaise  recipe

2 eggs

vinegar (to start 2 tsp) add as needed

mustard (to start 1 Tblsn) add as needed

1 cup olive oil

Put the eggs, vinegar and mustard in a blender or food processor. I have a vitamix and it's wonderful and makes this recipe easy!!! Put the blender on med to med high, blend the egg mixture until well mixed. SLOWLY, and I mean SLOWLY add the oil. The mayo will thicken as you go. 

SALAD RECIPE

Add  everything together and enjoy. You can wait for the chicken to cool and chill the salad for about an hour, the flavor is a little better, but I've had it both ways and loved it!!!

WELCOME TO THE CLEAN EATING CHALLENGE

Although there are only a few of us joining in this challenge it will be a great experience (and needed push for some of us) to get into a healthy living habit. Below I have attached a much needed form to help you guys stay on it, a "what to eat when you're craving crap"!!! Good luck and stay strong!

 

What you want	What you’re missing	What you need to eat
Chocolate	Magnesium	Ray nuts and seeds, fruit
Sweets	Chromium, carbon, phosphous, sulfur tryptophan	Broccoli, grapes, meat, fruit, **cruiciferous vegetables, cranberries, liver, raisins, sweet potato,spinach
Bread. Toast	Nitrogen	High protein foods
oily snacks, fatty foods	Calcium	Mustard and turnip greens broccoli kale sesame
Soda and carbonated drinks	Calcium	See above
Salty foods	Chloride	Fish , unrefined sea salt

  **Cruciferious Vegetables: (most Common) Horseradish, Land cress, Ethiopian mustard, Kale, Cooard greens, Chinese broccoli, cabbage, Brussel Sprouts, Broccoli, Cauliflower, Bok choy, Napa cabbage, turnip root and greens, Rutabaga, mustard seed, green and water cress, daikon, wasabi

Summer essentials

Ok so I know I've been saying I was going to put this up forever, so I made up for it by adding another recipe.

SWEET POTATO SALAD (and other yummy summer ideas)

With Summer coming and all the BBQ's and get together's it can be hard for us Paleo eaters to enjoy one of the best things about the season, the summer foods. So I have a good solution Sweet Potato salad and clean coleslaw.

*****The first thing you're going to need is a food processor, to make your mayonnaise, and everything else is easy!*********

MAYONNAISE:

2 eggs

2 tbsn white vinegar

1 tbsn mustard 

1 cup olive oil

salt and pepper to taste

In a food processor, on med high speed (I use my Vitamix and it works perfect on 7) blend all of your ingredients except the oil for a few seconds (just enough to blend). Slowly drizzle in the oil S-L-O-W-L-Y!!! It's very important so you don't ruin the consistency of the mayonnaise. Than blend until you get the right thickness.

SORRY NO PIC :O( we were in too much of a hurry to want to wait for that, we really love this recipe!)

SWEET POTATO SALAD:

3 large sweet potatoes cubed, steamed (I like the peels on so don't forget scrubbed too)

2 large dill pickles diced

5 large hard boiled eggs

1-1 1/2 C mayonnaise

1-2 tbsn mustard

1 bunch green onions diced (I've used sweet onions too and I like that flavor just as much)

salt, pepper, paprika to taste

Mix all when potatoes are cooled and MMMMM!!!

 

 

PALEO COLESLAW:

I made this recipe with bigger chunks than most coleslaws I like texture and crunchies.

1 small head green cabbage diced or shredded (depending on how you like your peices)

3-4 large carrots diced or shredded (again based on your preferance)

2 stalks of celery diced

 1-2 apples of different types diced (I did 1 granny and 1 cameo)

1/2 C. mayonnaise

a squirt or 2 of lemon juice to taste.

Mix all together and serve next to your favorite Paleo summer BBQ, we choose BBQ pulled pork with our potato salad and BBQ pork ribs with our coleslaw.

Paleo Waffles

We have been looking for a waffle recipe forever and we finally found one and it's so good!!!! We put a little homemade plum jam over it and MMMMM!!!! This one is based off of a post I found on "The food lovers primal palate" we altered it a little, it orginally asked for stevia and no vanilla. I think next time Im adding 1/2 a banana into the puree MMMM. and again I say MMMM.

INGREDIENTS:
1/4 C coconut flour
4 eggs
1 Tbsn coconut milk
1 Tbsn cinnnamon
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/4 tsp baking soda
a spoon of honey
1/2 tsp vanilla


This one is easy, heat the waffle iron, mix all ingredients together, melt a little coconut oil on the iron, put a spoonful in close and cook. They'll be a little more brown than regular waffles and they won't rise so don't worry so much about overfilling the iron.

Another Carribean dinner

Heres another meal we had for Carribean night and the kids loved it.

INGREDIENTS:
2 chicken breasts cubed
1 clove garlic
1/2 onion
2 green onions
1 Tbsn sunflower oil
1/4 tsp chili powder
1/4 tsp curry powder
1/2 tsp dried thyme
1 1/2 C coconut milk

Heat oil cook chicken, garlic, onion, chili powder, curry powder fry about 10 minutes, stir occasionally.
Add green onions, thyme, coconut milk, bring to a boil than simmer for about 40 minutes until thickened.

Kid snacks Carribean style

Our family has decided to take a weekend once a month to enjoy food from other countries or cultures and this month was the Carribean. They use coconut products like we use grains and so many of the recipes we found were clean. We made these for dinner but they are great for after school snacks too.

INGREDIENTS:
1 chicken breast cubed
1 Tbsn. almond butter (the original did ask for peanut butter)
1 tsp. paprika
1/4 tsp. dried ginger
3 Tbsn water
2 unripe bananas in large slices

Put the butter, paprika, ginger and water in a pan on low heat, just enough to melt the butter, remove and put into a bowl. Add the chicken to the bowl and mix well.
You can wrap the bowl and marinade the chicken for up to 2 hours or cook right away. We were hungry, we cooked it right away.

Put chicken peices and banana slices alternately on the skewers and coat the whole skewer with the remaining sauce in the bowl. On medium heat fry the skewers a few mintues on each side until brown.