Sweet Potato Sausage Hash

I asked my sister how she made this after having it several times, courtesy of her.  Every time: "It's super easy, you do blah, blah, blah, and by the way, it's in that cookbook we both have."

Cookbook: Paleo Slow Cooking by Chrissy Gower

I think I overlooked it every time b/c the fist word in the title was jalapeno.

My method:

Thinly slice about 3 sweet potatoes, chop up several bell peppers and 1 onion.  Slice up 8 links of pre-cooked sausage from Costco - some kind of turkey Italian something or other.

Layer everything into the crockpot, add a dash of smashed garlic, cook on low overnight.

Breakfast for days!  And lunch.

Scoot

Sausage, Spinach, Cauliflower (Fewer Eggs) Bake

Got this recipe idea from The Prime Pursuit and made a few additions/omissions.

Ingredients:
1 head cauliflower
1 medium zucchini, chopped
1 package pre-made sausage, chopped (Or make your own.  1 lb.)
5 cups-ish spinach
4 eggs.

Rice the cauliflower.  And do it with this method, from Big Red Kitchen.  (In a blender with water, then strain.  Super, super easy.  Way better results and much faster than anything else I've tried.)

Melt some coconut oil in a pan, and saute the cauliflower bits until they are browned.  Remove
Cook the sausage in the same pan. Remove
Cook the zucchini and spinach (until the spinach wilts) in the same pan.  Remove, squeeze water out.

Combine all ingredients in a baking dish along with 4 eggs.

Cook at 350 for 45 minutes.

Super good!
Scoot

Bok Choy, Sausage, Squash Stir Fry

I pulled out the veggies that were about to go bad in the fridge for a quick lunch:

1 yellow squash, chopped
5-6 baby bok choy, ends sliced off and the rest chopped, including the greens
1 pre-cooked sausage, chopped (this version happened to be a hickory-smoked version from Costco.  Good, but ultimately not really worth the price, in my opionion)

Heat up some olive oil in a saute pan, add the squash and sausage as well as some salt and pepper.  Saute for a few minutes until the squash is soft, then add in the bok choy.  Saute for another 5 minutes or so until the greens are wilted.

Delicious and Easy!
Scooter

Sausage and Vegetable Egg Bake

This will be breakfast for the next bunch of mornings:
Peel and dice a medium sweet potato.
Cut a head of broccoli into florets.
Bring a some water to a boil, drop the sweet potato and broccoli in, keep at a simmer for 15-20 minutes.
Meanwhile, chop an onion and a medium zucchini or yellow squash.  Saute in olive oil, when the onions are translucent, add some sausage (mine was ~3/4 lb).  I didn't add any spices, since the sausage was pre-spiced Italian-style.
Heat the oven to 350.
Drain the sweet potato and broccoli, add all the ingredients to a greased 8x8 glass pan. Beat together ~8-10 eggs or equivalent in whites.  (I think I used 7 whole eggs and 5 egg whites*.)  Pour over the other ingredients and stir a little bit.

Bake at 350 for 45-50 minutes, until it is all set up.

Somehow all the egg white appear to have formed up in the lower right of the pan.  Curious.  They might be plotting a take over of some sort.

Unfortunately, this did dirty a fair number of pans and bowls.  Blast.

Scooter

Recipe based on one that was found years ago in Chris Carmichael's Fitness Cookbook (the cookbook in general is very, very far from paleo) and recently re-inspired by a post at the Functional Foodie blog.  And in general, it's just a not-divvied-out-into-muffin-tins version of Egg bites.

* The reasoning behind using the egg whites only for some of the eggs is to up the protein percentage a little bit, as I plan on eating some of this with avocado, so the fat all balances out in the wash anyway, and some of it post-workout, and I like more protein post-workout.

Sweet Potato, Kale, and Sausage Soup. This stuff is GOOD.

TG and I decided it was time to kick back with some scotch and make something with kale in it.  Being on a soup kick lately, this is what we went with, based on this recipe at joythbaker's blog.

Dice an onion (or two), saute in olive oil in a large soup pot
Finely chop ginger and garlic, to taste.  Our test runs to quite a bit of both.
Add the above to the soup pot, along with some turmeric (guessing around a teaspoon) and a pinch of red pepper flakes.  Stir and cook for a couple minutes.
Add two peeled and chopped medium sweet potatoes, give them a good stir to get coated in spices and such. 
Add 2 quarts chicken broth.
Turn up the heat to bring it to a simmer.
Add a bunch of kale and half a bunch of collard greens, leaves torn and stalks removed.
Add a package of pre-cooked sausage.  (We used mild italian chicken sausages.)
Let it simmer for like 20 minutes or so, until the sweet potatoes are cooked through.  We actually let it boil away for like 30 b/c we get careless sometimes.
Add a can of coconut milk, let it heat through.
Salt and pepper, to taste.

Soooooo good.
Scooter and TG