Sweet & Spicy BBQ Sauce

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Gluten free, dairy free, vegetarian, vegan

Possible upcoming changes to the recipe:

Remove paprika, use raw jalapeños, use less exotic ingredients (notes on ingredient changes next to current ingredients)

Ingredients:

1 Quart Tomato Sauce

116g pickled jalapeño (roughly 16)

1/2 cup dark brown sugar

1 sweet onion

3 cloves minced garlic

3 dried Thai peppers

1 Tbsp paprika

1 tsp mustard powder

1/2 tsp smoked salt (if you can’t get it try the same amount of salt and liquid smoke)

1 tsp pepper

1 tsp red pepper flakes

1 Tbsp coffee liquor (not Kailua) (if you can’t get it try either instant coffee or brewed coffee and vodka)

Instructions:

Put everything in a pot and boil. Taste and adjust for personal preference.

Take out Thai hot peppers dispose of you are happy w heat. Put back in after next step if you want the heat to keep growing.

Use a stick blender or food processor to blend to your preferred consistency. I don’t like my bbq sauce chunky.

Rough Nutritional Information:

31 calories, 7 carbs, .1g fat, 7g protein

Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookies

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Gluten free, dairy free

note: the bacon grease flavor comes through. It may be better with crisco but I haven’t had a chance to try it yet.

Ingredients:

2 1/4 cups King Arthur Gluten Free Flour

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp salt

1 cup bacon grease

3/4 cup granulated sugar

3/4 cup dark brown sugar

1 tsp vanilla

2 eggs

12 oz special dark chocolate chips

(If doing dairy free use nestle dairy free chocolate chips instead of special dark)

2-4 slices crumbled bacon

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F

Cream together eggs, bacon grease, sugars, vanilla, and brown sugar.

Mix together flour, baking soda, salt, and then slowly add mix to wet ingredients.

Add in chocolate chips and crumbled bacon and mix.

Make 28 cookie balls of dough and put 6-8 balls on cookie sheets covered w parchment paper.

Cook for 9-15 min depending on how big you make the cookies and how well your oven works. If you have questions start low and add as needed. Let cool on sheet for 2 min then move to cooking rack until done. The bottoms should be a consistent. It the middle isn’t than put them back in the oven for 1-2 more min. Then let cook on cookie sheet again.

The cookies will be lighter and fluffier than when cooked with butter.

Rough Nutritional Information:

209 calories, 25.3g carbs, 11.5g fat, 1.8g protein

Korean Ground beef bowl

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Gluten free, dairy free, (possible vegan w substitution)

Ingredients:

1 pound ground beef

1.5 tsp/3 cloves minced garlic

1/4 cup pack dark brown sugar

1/4 cup low sodium gf tamari sauce

2tsp sesame oil

1/4 tsp dried ground ginger

1/4 tsp red pepper flakes

1/4 tsp black pepper

Sliced green onion & sesame seeds to taste

Instant rice

Substitution options:

Impossible beef can used in place of beef to make this vegan/vegetarian.

You can use an equal amount of soy if you are not gf.

Red pepper flakes can be increased or diminished to change heat level.

You can use other types or rice. I’d suggest the most likely change to be brown rice. I want this to be a super quick meal so I use instant but big bags of bulk rice are cheaper.

Instructions:

Brown ground beef in a pan until cooked through.

Mix garlic, brown sugar, tamari, sesame seed oil, ground ginger, red pepper flakes, and pepper.

Add to cooked beef in pan.

Take off heat. Add to rice. Add green pepper and sesame seeds.

Rough Nutrition Info (without rice):

Makes 3 bowls

Calories 467, fat 25.3g, carbs 20.8, protean 31.1

Inspired by:

Therecipecritic.com

Gf sausage sandwich

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Gluten free

Ingredients:

Schar ciabatta buns

Sargento Sliced cheese

Bob Evan’s Sausage patty

Instructions:

Cut the ciabatta in half w a bread knife and toast the bread in a pan.

Make 2oz balls of sausage and flatten into patties. Try to make them the shape of your bun . Cook to at least 160 F. You want no pink in the center.

Put half a slice of your cheese on the bottom of the bun. I use cheddar but I know people who prefer American cheese.

Put the cooked sausage on top of the cheese and then put the other half of the slice on top of the sausage. Cap it with the other half of the bun.

Sandwiching your sausage with cheese will keep the bread from getting greasy.

I am texting freezing these to microwave later. I wrapped them in parchment and again in cling wrap. I will let you know if it works.

Rough Nutrition Stats:

1 sandwich: 430 calories, 26g carbs (3g fiber, 2g sugar), 28.5g fat (11g saturated fats), protein 17g, cholesterol 50mg, sodium 620 mg

Inspired by:

I really wanted a sausage McMuffin and I had recently seen binging w Babish do a make your own freezer foods w breakfast meals.

Lazy Low Carb Chicken soup

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Low carb, dairy free, gluten free

Ingredients:

3 medium carrots chopped

1/2 one white onion chopped

3 medium stalks celery chopped

6 chicken breasts chopped

8 cups chicken broth

1 Tbsp Parsley

1 tsp dried garlic powder

Salt and pepper to taste

Instructions:

I like to keep a bunch of boiled and diced chicken in the freezer so I can just pull out the right amount and add to any dish. When I make chicken soup I frequently use the boiled freezer chicken. To boil chicken I just add chicken breasts to cold water in a pot. Then bring that water to a boil. When the temp of the chicken is 165F the chicken is done. Put the chicken in a clean sink with ice water. When cool enough to hold you can chop and freeze.

Chop everything up. Add everything to a slow cooker. Slow cook on high for roughly 4 hrs on high or 6 hrs on low.

Rough Nutrition Count:

267 Calories, 5.75g carbs

Minestrone soup

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Gluten free, diary free, vegetarian, vegan

Recipe:

2 Tbsp olive oil

1/2 cup diced onion

1/2 cup (60g) chopped celery

1/2 cup (80g) chopped carrots

2 tsp minced garlic

9oz roma tomatoes diced & seeded

4 cups vegetable broth

1/2 cup tomato sauce

2 tsp Italian seasoning

30 oz (2 cans) dark red kidney beans rinsed & drained

1/2 cup (60g) green beans

Parsley to taste/garnish

Salt & pepper to taste

Noodles optional and not included in our nutritional information. (I know most minestrone soup has noodles and when we make it we use banza gf chickpea rotini or Barilla gf rotini.

Instructions:

Prep, chop, measure, etc… and put it all in a slow cooker. Cook on high for 4hrs or 6hrs on low.

If adding noodles I prefer to boil them up right before you’re going to use them and allow people to add or not.

I like to pair this w a grill cheese sandwich. I use schlar bread cause I’m gluten free.

Rough Nutritional Info:

340 calories, 63.34g carbs, 22g fiber, 12.83g sugar, 18.67g protein, 5.2g fat.

Inspired by www.dinneratthezoo.com

Deviled Eggs

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Gluten free, low carb, diary free, vegetarian

Ingredients:

6 hard boiled eggs

3 Tbsp (42g) Mayo

2 1/2 tsp (13g) white balsamic vinegar

1 1/2 tsp (5g) sugar

Pinch salt

Optional toppings: diced green onion, paprika, smoked bacon salt

Instructions:

Set eggs on counter & bring to room temp. Bring water to boil. When water is at a full boil carefully add eggs. Boil until well done (roughly 13 min). put ice and water into a big enough bowl. when eggs are done cooking, add them to ice bath to cool. When fully chilled shell eggs. Cut in half and separate yokes and whites. Put whites into a container w some paper towel.

Mix yokes, vinegar (if you can’t get the fancy vinegar plain white vinegar is fine), sugar, & salt I use the kitchen aid but you can just mix by hand. Put in a ziplock bag and set it near the whites in fridge. You can hold for several days until you’re ready for use. This recipe scales. Be the hit of the party by bringing more deviled eggs than needed.

Rough nutrition:

Calories 65, Carbs 1

Loaded Chicken Salad

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Gluten free, low carb

Ingredients:

2 cups boiled or poached chicken breast shredded Or cubed

1/2 cup (100g) mayo

1/2 cup (117 gl) sour cream

1 cup (143g) chopped celery

1/4 cup (40g) chopped yellow onion

3 green onions (2 Tbsp = 1 green onion)

1/2 cup (62g) bacon crumbles

Salt & pepper to taste

Mix well and let sit over night. Will not be good until the flavors can marry.

Rough Nutrition:

595 calories, 6 carbs, 39g fat, 52g protean

Cashew Chicken Salad

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Gluten free, low carb, dairy free

Ingredients:

1 lb poached or boiled chicken cubes or shredded

1/2 cup cashews chopped (not to finely)

1 rib of celery diced (1/3 cup)

12 seedless globe grapes halved or quartered

2 green onions chopped (2 Tbsp = 1 green onion)

Salt 1/4-1/2

Pepper 1/8-1/4

1/3 cup Mayo (75g)

Instructions:

Boil or poached chicken is the best chicken to use because you don’t want any tough bits. Frying or baking can leave you w tough edges. Do not go overboard w the shredding of chicken. You don’t want it to be paste. Do all the chopping. Mix it all up. I get a lot of people do not chop the cashews but these will be disproportionately bigger than everything else. I like to double (or more) the grapes but to many grapes and it’s no longer low carb. Keep your audience in mind. Eat the next day. All chicken salads require some time to sit. You can’t just make a chicken salad and then put it in your mouth. You will be unhappy.

Rough Nutrition:

Makes 4 servings, 1 1/4 cups per servings, 404 calories, 35g fat, 17g protein, 7g carbs, 1g dietary fiber.

Indian Chicken Salad

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Gluten free, low carb, diary free

Ingredients:

2 cups chopped or shredded poached or boiled chicken

1/4 cup mayo

1 small red bell pepper chopped

1/4 cup red onion

1 tsp garlic powder

1 1/2 tsp ground cumin

1/2 tsp coriander

Salt 1/4-1/2 tsp

Pepper 1/8-1/4 tsp

Instructions:

Boil or poached chicken is the best chicken to use because you don’t want any tough bits. Frying or baking can leave you a tough edges. Do not go overboard w the shredding of chicken. You don’t want it to be paste. Do all the chopping. Mix it all up. Eat the next day. All chicken salads require some time to sit. You can’t just make a chicken salad and then put it in your mouth. You will be unhappy.

Rough Nutrition:

1 cup per serving, 3 servings, Calories 391, carbs 5g, fat 16.23, protein 40g

Credit: I got the original of this from Gracious pantry. It has been tweaked.