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Roasted Kabocha

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Kabocha

Have you guys tried a Kabocha Squash? It’s like a cross between a sweet potato and a pumpkin which equals delicious! I picked mine up from trader joes and loosely followed the recipe on the sticker to come up with this recipe. It is more starchy than a traditional squash so it gives an interesting texture and the flavor is amazing. Next time you see one of these you should pick one up at the store!

Roasted Kabocha Squash

The bacon with the lemon zest and the balsamic takes this dish over the top!

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Roasted Kabocha
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Serves: 4 servings
 
Ingredients
  • 1 Kabocha Squash
  • salt
  • 3 slices of bacon
  • ½ yellow onion
  • 1 lemon
  • balsamic vinegar/ or glaze
Instructions
  1. Cut up and deseed squash into slivers or cubes and lightly oil and salt, bake at 400* for 30-40 mins flipping halfway. Chop up squash into cubes with skin on or off. Cook up some bacon in a pan, in same bacon fat cook up half a yellow onion. Mix squash, bacon and onion together and garnish with lemon zest and balsamic vinegar or glaze.

 

Fresh Ginger Stir Fry

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Paleo stir fry

I love a good stir fry. I usually have all the ingredients on hand, it is very quick to throw together and if I want to add some protein I can throw in some chicken or steak! You can also use whatever rice you want, if you are on whole30/paleo use this simple cauliflower rice recipe HERE, quinoa is a great option and then traditional rice is good too! It is hard to find a teriyaki or soy sauce that is gluten free AND paleo so the next best thing is Coconut Aminos. I made this really yummy “teriyaki” sauce with ginger and lime coming through that is so refreshing. This is my new go to stir fry recipe! I hope you like it!

Paleo stir fry

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Fresh Ginger Stir Fry
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Cuisine: Asian
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Serves: 4
 
Ingredients
  • 1 cup of quinoa or cauliflower rice
  • ½ c broccoli
  • 2 chopped carrots
  • 1½ c green beans
  • 3 oz avocado oil
  • 2 tbsp avocado or olive oil
  • 2 tbsp apple cider vinegar
  • 3 oz coconut aminos
  • 1 pitted date
  • 1½ tsp fresh grated ginger
  • 1 clove minced garlic
  • 1 cup chopped cabbage
  • ½ lime
Instructions
  1. First cook quinoa in chicken broth or sub cauli rice if on whole30/Paleo. Then steam 1½ c broccoli, 2 chopped carrots and 1½ c green beans steam till slightly tender not over cooked. Mean while mix in blender: 3 oz avocado oil, 2 tbsp apple cider vinegar, 3 oz coconut amines, 1 pitted date and 1½ tsp fresh grated ginger. In a pan add 2 tbsp of oil and sauté 1 clove minced garlic and add 1 cup chopped cabbage, Cook for 1 min then add steamed veggies and ginger sauce and cook for 3 mins till hot. Serve over rice of choice! Squeeze on fresh lime and serve!

 

Wing Sauce Spiralized Potatoes

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paleo wing sauce potatoes

This Tessamae’s Wing Sauce with spiralized potatoes is a perfect side dish for a BBQ or football game. It just screams DUDE FOOD since it has all the makings of a perfect potato, wing sauce, bacon and green onion! Not to forget that it is paleo too! I swear the most requested thing to bring to a BBQ or dinner is a “side” and this definitely is a great option.

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Wing Sauce Spiralized Potatoes
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Ingredients
  • 7 small Yukon or red potatoes
  • 2 tbsp ghee
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 2 tbsp of tessemae's wing sauce or franks hot sauce
  • salt and pepper to taste
  • 3 green onions
  • 3 pieces of cooked bacon
Instructions
  1. First mix melted ghee, olive oil and wing sauce together. Spiralize your potatoes using the single flat blade, (or you can just cut up your potatoes in chunks) pour mixture evenly over potatoes and season well with salt and pepper. Sprinkle pieces of bacon over dish. Bake at 425* for 30-40 minutes until tender flipping in between and adding more wing sauce so it's well coated. When done toss, taste, season some more and add diced green onions.

 

Sweet Potato Brownies

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Paleo sweet potato brownies

These paleo sweet potato brownies will trick even the pickiest of eaters into eating something pretty healthy! The problem with traditional sweets and brownies is that you are essentially eating empty calories, nothing with nutrition that is going to really count. With these sweet potato brownies you are getting all the healthy nutrients from the sweet potato, cashews and of course eggs! My kids love these and I always have the ingredients on hand in my pantry to make them.

I think putting everything in the blender is one of the key parts in making sure that the brownies have the right texture, I use a blendtec, it is my very favorite blender that I have used! Click HERE to check it out

I did a cooking segment on Good Things Utah back in June and I am showing the video below so you can see just how easy it is!


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Sweet Potato Brownies
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Ingredients
  • 2 cups mashed sweet potatoes
  • 2 eggs
  • 1¼ cup almond or cashew butter
  • ⅓ cup maple syrup
  • ⅓ c coconut oil
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 3 tbsp coconut flour
  • 3 tbsp coco powder
Instructions
  1. First poke holes in 2 large sweet potatoes and cover in foil and bake sweet potatoes at 450 for 1 hour or until very soft and blend in blender with the coconut oil till smooth. Mix in the rest of ingredients and bake for 25-35 minutes at 350* in greased 9×13 pan. You can add chocolate chips if you want it more chocolatey or melt chocolate in sauce pan with some coconut cream for a chocolate ganache topping.

 

Tangerine & Kale Salad

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Whole30 Salad Dressing

I eat eggs almost EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. So since it is a high protein breakfast I usually like to throw together a quick salad for lunch. I know I always say THIS dressing is so good you could drink it or THIS salad dressing really is the best salad dressing but this Tangerine dressing is really, really good.

For the recipe head over to Mom’s Best Network

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