Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Bacon-Wrapped Pineapple; "Potstickers"

Made some finger foods for a work potluck:

Basically from Diane Sanfilippo's Balanced Bites:

Soak some toothpicks in water for a while.  (I did overnight).
Buy a package of bacon, cut the strips in half, width-wise.
Chop up a pineapple into ~3/4" chunks.
Wrap a piece of bacon around the pineapple, secure with a toothpick.
Cover a cookie sheet or large roasting pan with aluminum foil.
Put a metal baking rack on the pan.
Place all the bacon bites on the rack.  (So that the fat will drain below the rack.)

Bake at 350 for ~25 minutes.  I put it on broil for about 5 minutes at the end.

Awesome.

Gluten-free potstickers.

This was based off a amalgam of a bunch of different websites.

Ingredients, sauteed separately in sesame oil:
1.5 lbs. ground pork, until done
1 head napa cabbage, with some shredded ginger, until wilted
1 large onion, 1 leek, 1 green pepper, and 3 cloves garlic, finely chopped.
Combine this all and let sit.  (Overnight, in my case.)

Some spring roll wrappers.  Mine were made with tapioca flour.

Double up the wrappers, soak 2 at a time in a little bit of water.  (They are flimsy and fragile).
Roll up the filling inside them.
Fry in sesame oil.

Made about 30 or so.  Pretty labor intensive.  Pretty good, but kind of oily.  Filling was delicious.

Scooter

Sunday, November 11, 2012

Balsamic Crockpot Short Ribs

This was based off Diane Sanfilippo's Practical Paleo recipe.

Rub the (bone-in) short ribs with spices: fresh rosemary, salt, pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, and paprika

Sear the ribs in a large skillet in coconut oil.

Put the ribs in a crockpot with:
1-2 sliced onions
1 cup balsamic vinegar (I used a blackberry-ginger flavored one).
A bunch of smashed cloves of garlic
1 can tomato sauce (15 oz.)
Drizzle of honey

Cook on low for 8 hours.

Awesome!