Chili (Epically scaled up)

Cooking chili for ~30 peeps:

10 lbs. ground beef, browned
7-8 onions, sauteed with garlic in chipotle olive oil
6 ish bell peppers
Thing of celery
4 ish sweet potatoes, cubed and par boiled
3 ish medium zucchinis
Unknown but many cans of diced or stewed tomatoes.

Used roaster oven from work to simmer the chili, it was filled to the brim.

Looks like around 16 ish quarts of chili, with around 5-6 quarts left over from 25-26 people eating, with plenty of other food/sides.

Oh yeah.

Scooter

Basic Dinner

Easy, basic, good:
Chop up two onions, start sauteeing in chipotle flavored olive oil
Once onions are almost translucent, add 1 lb. ground beef
When ground beef is no longer red, add a couple small chopped peppers and a couple diced squashes of some sort (mine were a combo of peter pan and yellow squash).

Cook until desired done-ness, sprinkle on salt and pepper.

Eat.

Easy.

Chicken Hash

This was basically pulled from Paleo Periodical because I had some leftover chicken.

Chop an onion and a couple cloves of garlic, saute in oil of choice.
Add half a shredded sweet potato.
Add some squash - I think mine were called peter pan squash.  I put in two.

Cook until things seem close to done - add a bunch of diced, pre-cooked chicken.

Good stuff.

Scooter

Baked Chicken

Got this one from Denver Paleo Eating who got it from Food Lover's Primal Palate.

Had a family pack of boneless/skinless chicken breasts.

Put into a pyrex-type glass pan.
Drizzle with olive oil.
Sprinkle on: salt, pepper, garlic powder, cumin, and smoked paprika.

Bake at 425 for 45 minutes.

Easy!
Scooter

One minute (+) muffins (gluten free, primal but not paleo)

I had purchased some creamed cinnamon honey on a recent trip, and that really just begs to be spread on some sort of bread-type product.  Chowstalker and Healthy Living How to to the rescue!

One minute almond flour muffins:
Melt a little pad of butter in a coffee cup (the recipe specifically called for 1/2 T)
Then add:
1/4 cup almond flour
2 T Flaxseed Meal
1/2 t baking powder
pinch of salt
1 egg

Mix it all together, cook it in the microwave for 1 minute 15 seconds.

Yummy!  Highly recommended as a treat.

Honey. Is. So. Good.

Scooter

Rack of Lamb Roast

Rack of Lamb:
Got the basis for the recipe out of a magazine that a TG had copied - First, 4/25/11.

What I did (the actual recipe involved some parm cheese and a lamb crown roast).

1.5 cups fresh mint
a few good shakes of dried parsley (the actual recipe called for fresh parsley)
3 garlic cloves
1/2 cup olive oil
1/2 cup walnuts

Whir the above together in a food processor.

Spread it on a rack of lamb I got from Morgan Valley Lamb at the farmers market.  Also put salt and pepper on it.

The recipe called for roasting it at 425 for 30 min.  I ended up roasting it for over an hour.  Either the rack of lamb cooks very differently from the crown roast, or it was still partially frozen in the interior.

The mint pesto actually became somewhat dry and crispy on the outer edges, but the meat was delicious, tender, and juicy.

I do need to take some sort of how-to-carve-meat class, though.

Someone else carved this

Scooter

More Road Trip Food

In a cooler:
dozen hard boiled eggs
celery
carrots
grapes
beef jerky
deli turkey

Not in a cooler:
macadamia nuts
avocados
oranges
apples
various lara bar types

It worked out well.