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Just steam it and eat it!

Bon-fillet with Brussel sprouts

New recipe added: Bone broth chicken soup

Here is the bone broth with poultry. This was my first trial of making bone broth from chicken.

Since chicken is not very easy to cut, I put the whole organic and free-range chicken into a big pot and cook a little. Then I cut the chicken and take out the bones and skin, added 3 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar and cooked them for 5 hours in very low heat in a pot full of water.

Quick notes here:

• With beef and lamb I cook for 8 hours. See recipes for bone broth from beef/lamb
• For fish it is 2 hours. See salmon soup recipe with veggies

cooking a new recipe with a movie :)

I started cooking and try to reach a super-easy cabbage recipe with a nice movie 🙂

Ingredients:

• 1 kg cabbage (chopped)
• 0.5 kg minced meat (cabbage is best with beef)
• 5 table spoons of basil vinegar (or apple cider vinegar)
• 2 onions, 2 garlic (chopped)
• 2 tomatoes (peeled, chopped)
• 5 tablespoons of tomato paste
• 2 tablespoons of soy sauce (alternative: 2 teaspoons of salt)
• seasoning: rosemary, oregano, turmeric, black cumin seeds (1 tablespoon each)
• 1 tablespoon of black cumin oil (alternative: olive oil)
• 2 glasses of boiled water

Put everything (except for the cabbage) altogether in a big pot and cover. Wait for 5 mins with high heat. Add cabbage. Cover. Wait until it is cooked with very low heat. Takes about 1-2 hours.

Very easy isn’t it?

Yes it is 🙂

Easy cabbage with meat by Alex

Mine is being cooked right now and I look like this when I cook :)))))

Love,

Alex

health project update and new goal added: Lazy recipes goes for becoming a project!

I recently wrote that my health is getting better and I am so happy and proud of myself for sticking to my healthy diet. I eat a lot of meat (all kinds), bone broth and black cumin oil which are high in calories and still lose weight as I cut the carbs. Of course I eat chocolate and little treats like ginger desert, pumpkin desert and tiny cupcakes made w/ gluten-free flour.

All of my meals are home-made (by me) and my original recipes. In other words, I made them up 🙂 I call them lazy recipes as I cannot spend time on cooking and want the ingredients become food as effortless as possible.

So, I came up with a new goal: Why don’t I create a lazy healthy recipe set to share with you? I’ve already created a category about it. I tried two other meals in the past two days and will share them too.

At the end of the year, I want to came up with the top 5’s in the areas of:

1. Breakfast ideas

2. Red meat (Lamb/Beef) + veggies + sauces

3. Poultry meat + veggies + sauces

4. Bone broth soups

5. Green salad & veggie sauces

6. Snacks + snack sauces

7. Desserts + desert sauces

8. Smoothies w/ kefir or yoghurt

I love making the combination to ease the cook’s mind. I will try them through time and select the top 5.

As I have a leaky gut and IBS, candida problem and gluten allergy I think my choices will apply to many people with or without these problems.

Therefore, get ready!

NEW YEAR, NEW RECIPES W/ NYE LEFTOVERS :)

These next few days, you will open the fridge and find leftovers from the New Year’s Eve.

They are not enough for a meal by themselves and they give the “I am eating the leftovers” feeling if you try to eat them from the tiny plastic cups 🙂

So get them all out and create a masterpiece with them…

• If you have any kind of meat pick the red meat (beef,lamb etc). If there is fish left, do not use it.
• Poultry? Smell it first. If it is good, you can use it the next day.
• Beef/lamb, if you immediately put the leftovers in the freezer, you can use it for the next 2 days.
• Look out for the cooked or raw vegetables. If you did not put lemon/vinegar in them last night, you can use them for 2 days.
• Potatoes/potato salad etc. is not recommended to be eaten as a leftover. Mashed potatoes, if you used cream or milk in it, should not be eaten either.
• So, pick a kind of meat from the leftovers (you can use lamb/beef or paultry, but not together) and heat them a little with the leftover veggies. If you have fresh salad left (and without vinegar/lemon from previous day) you can add the salad to the plate after heating. Do not heat the salad 🙂
• Lastly, you will need a nice and healthy sauce…

That will be very easy. I do not recommend using leftover sauces as they mostly include vinegar/lemon/mayonnaise etc which should be eaten right away. Always prepare sauces fresh!

Instead, use one or more of my recipes, which go well with both white and red meat.

Very healthy sauce recipes for New Year’s Eve leftovers (based on 1 plate of meal)

1. Yellow sauce of Alex

An acidic sauce which goes well with veggies & fresh green salads

1 tablespoon of

• Apple Cider Vinegar
• Black cumin oil
• Fresh Lemon juice

1 teaspoon of

• Basil (fresh or dried)
• Turmeric powder

2. White sauce of Alex

Goes well with carbs like pasta, rice etc (Unless you have leaky-gut)

Goes well with veggies and poultry either.

2 tablespoons of

• yoghurt

1 tablespoon of

• Black cumin oil or olive oil
• Mint (dried)

3. Red sauce of Alex 

Goes really good with red meat

1 tablespoon of

• Black cumin oil or olive oil
• Pomegranate mollases

1 teaspoon of

• Apple Cider Vinegar
• Basil (dried)
• Ginger (powder or freshly mashed)

4. Black sauce of Alex

Goes well with red meat and fresh green salad

1 tablespoon of

• Black cumin oil or olive oil
• Pomegranate mollases
• Black cumin (powder)

1 teaspoon of

• Apple Cider Vinegar
• Basil (dried)

5. Sweet fruity sauce of Alex 

Goes well with leftover deserts. Gives creamy taste and removes dryness of leftover cakes.

1 or 2 tablespoons of:

• Yoghurt
• Red/blue berries, cherries, mashed pumpkins, sliced or mashed bananas etc. (If you have leaky gut, use very little fruit). You can boil them with little water in a small pot or use direcly. If you cook them with little water they will have more taste.

1 teaspoon of

• Mint leaves (dried)
• Lemon juice (fresh)
• Coconut oil

Important tips & notes:

• No milk, cream, mayonaisse, ketchup, mustard, cheese should be included. If you want to add cheese, add little and use goat cheese.
• Do not use diet or low-fat yoghurt. They taste like nothing and the fat in yoghurt is not bad fat. Eat it 🙂
• Use black cumin oil with turmeric or curry to replace mustard for red meat
• Use yoghurt with black cumin oil to replace cream/mayonnaise
• Use ginger instead of hot pepper
• You can add 1 tablespoon of water in the sauces if you are using them on fresh green salad.
• You can add your favorite seasonings
• If you must (I don’t use any), you can add salt (maximum 1 teaspoon)
• Use coconut oil for deserts and black cumin or olive oil for meals/salads. No other is accepted…
• If you can, use probiotic yoghurt
• You can use more of yoghurt but not more of oil 🙂

Do not waste the leftovers, with little effort you can make a nice meal with them today 🙂

Alex

Beef and Golden Beet Stew

Check Alicia’s blog out for recipes to cope Leaky Gut Syndrome with GAPS diet.

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On nasty, cold rainy days like today there is nothing better than a bowl of warm, chunky stew.  The stews that I used to make would invariably contain some form of potato, whether I made them on my stovetop or in a slow cooker.  Since beginning the GAPS Diet nearly two years ago, potatoes have been removed from our diet.  I honestly haven’t missed them much, as you can make mashed “potatoes” using creamy cauliflower or “French fries” from carrot sticks or squash or whatever else you feel like using.

When making stew, however, it’s hard not to notice that something is missing.  So I tried to see what I could do about that when I made stew a couple of days ago.

It was the first thing my husband noticed when he sat down to dinner.  “Potatoes!” he said. “But they can’t be potatoes!  What are they?”  He couldn’t guess…

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