About Me

I started this blog to keep track of my kitchen creations. I love cooking and eating. In 2008 I was diagnosed with RA. Food started becoming a huge problem. I needed to find a better way to eat the flavors I love. All the recipes I create are driven by my desire to eat good food that won't create extra pain and inflammation in my internal ecosystem. While the recipes are wholesome, the language is not. I swear. I use the word 'fuck'. A lot! I make no apologies for that. It's just a fair warning. I'm raw and real. Happy cooking! Even happier eating! Cheers! Angie

Sunday, October 1, 2017

Paleo Mayo

Many condiments are not considered paleo.  Hell, some aren't even considered edible!  I love mayo.  I grew up on Hellman's but it's definitely not the best thing out there.  Making your own mayo is so ridiculously easy that once you master the flavor, you won't want to buy it from the store anymore! The ingredients are basic.  You'll need a quart-sized mason jar and a submersible blender.

INGREDIENTS

In the mason jar add:
*1 cup of oil such as avocado or grapeseed (olive oil will produce a very strong flavor)
*1 raw egg
*2-3 teaspoons of apple cider vinegar
*1 teaspoon of sea salt or Himalayan salt

DIRECTIONS

Put your submersible blender right to the bottom of the jar and fire that fucker up!  Keep that shit blending until you see mostly white and very little oil.  When most of the oil in incorporated, stop the blender and give it a taste.  You might want to add more salt or vinegar or add some other shit like garlic powder, etc.  Blend some more, this time moving the blender up and down a little bit.  Store it in the fridge in the jar you made it in!








Sweet Potatoes In Smoothies

Growing up, the only time sweet potatoes showed up on my table was on a holiday.......usually Thanksgiving.  They were cooked in loads of butter and brown sugar. The result was a sweet, sticky, gooey mess. There was no way to hide the grossness. I never liked them and avoided them at all costs.  It was only just recently that a friend of mine suggested putting them in smoothies.  Shit!  I'll try anything!  Plus I also had my coach who willingly tries anything I make.  I was pretty fucking surprised to discover that putting them in smoothies didn't suck!

Sweet potatoes are distantly related to potatoes but unlike potatoes, they are not a nightshade plant, which is good news for those of us who have a hard time with nightshade veggies.  They have great nutritional content and the darker orange the flesh, the better they are!  They are a simple starch and are loaded with complex carbs, fiber, Vitamin C and betacarotene (the last two both increases when you cook them).  They also have potassium, calcium, vitamins B5 & B6, and manganese.

Cooking these tubers of love for use in smoothies is so easy!  Keep the skins on.  Chop them and throw them in a baking pan with some water and toss that shit in a 350 degree oven until they are soft. Check them every once in a while to make sure they aren't burning.  Once they are done, store them in the fridge or freezer.  If you freeze them, lay them out on a parchment covered baking sheet to freeze otherwise those little bastards will stick together and make your life hell trying to separate them!  Once they are solid, throw them in a freezer bag.



Monday, August 14, 2017

Meat Hot Sauce

Meat hot sauce??  "WTF is that?" you ask??  Well!  Let me tell you!  It's a complete FOODGASM!  I am from the home of the Garbage Plate.  Screw Bill Gray's Tom Wahl's, Jimmy Z's and whoever else has a plate on their menu.  There is only one Garbage Plate and it hails from Nick Tahou's. Shhhhh.
A moment of silence please...........

If you've never had a one, a Garbage Plate truly is a spectacular masterpiece of a dish!  Burgers or hots with mac salad & home fries (or baked beans) smothered in meat hot sauce, mustard and onions.........a mouth-orgasm waiting to happen!

Most people outside of Rochester know what this gem of a condiment is.  If you aren't from around here, lemme school ya!  I make big batches of this shit and freeze it and put it on pretty much everything!  Even if you're a veggie-saurus, you can still make this shit!

So here's the skinny.....most of this recipe is a guideline......a jumping point if you will.  Follow it and then change this bitch to suit your tastes.  Me?  I double all the spices and hot shit.  You might not like that.  Whatever.  Play with the ingredients and see what you like.  I don't recommend changing the ratios of water to beef.

Ingredients

  • olive oil for frying
  • 1 & 1/2  pounds of ground beef or veggie ground
  • 1 medium to large sweet onion chopped
  • 2 large cloves of garlic minced (smash those fuckers with the broad side of your knife before you mince them)
  • 2 cups of water
  • 1 small can of tomato paste
  • 2 tablespoons of Red Hot or Sriracha (you can add more if you like)
  • 1 tablespoon of dark brown sugar
  • 1 teaspoon chili powder
  • 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
  • 1 teaspoon black pepper
  • 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes
  • 1 teaspoon paprika
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon ground cumin
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
  • 1/2 teaspoon allspice
  • 1/2 teaspoon dried cilantro
  • salt to taste (don't put this shit in until the hot sauce is done)
Directions

1.  Saute the onions in some olive oil until they are soft.

2.  Add the ground beef ***, garlic, and water and mix that shit good.  Honestly it's gonna look like gross      but keep your panties on.  It will be the consistency it needs to be when it's done.

3.  Throw all the rest of the ingredients in the pot EXCEPT THE SALT.  Save that shit until the end.        Stir the hell out of it.

4.  Put a lid on the pot, turn the heat down to low and let that fucker simmer for about an hour while        you go have a couple beers, read a book, take a nap........whatever.

5.  Taste your masterpiece.  If you think it needs more of something, add that shit right in!  Keep              tasting that mother fucker until your mouth is completely turned on and your taste buds start                making babies.

6.  You're happy with the flavors yet?  Good!  Put some fucking salt in there! Don't put too much in or      you'll ruin all your hard work. Mix in 1 teaspoon at a time, taste it, and reevaluate. 

You can't eat the whole fucking pot in one sitting so I recommend freezing it.  The best way to do this is to spray ice cube trays with some cooking spray.  I use Spectrum coconut oil spray.  Fill the cubes up with your luscious sauce and freeze that shit.  Once it's solid, take the cubes out of the trays and
put those little fuckers in a freezer bag for a deep cryogenic sleep until you're ready to use them.  To defrost them, just put them in a small sauce pan with a little water and warm them up.  


*** If you've gone to the Veg Head side and are using ground veggie burger, you're gonna want to brown that shit up real good before you do anything else.  Ground veg has a much different consistency than beef.  Once you brown it in the olive oil, add the onions and garlic.  once they are soft, just follow the rest of the directions.  Also, if you are a Veg Head but you want to do things right and make a Plate, you'll need cheese for your burgers.  Being dairy-free, I use Diaya cheddar style slices.  They melt pretty good and taste ok too.  

Happy eating!  Angie