Crockpot pork chop and applesauce

I am still looking for ways to use all of my apples from last weekend's apple picking.
I browned both sides of a butterflied porkchop. I added it to the crockpot with the following :
Diced onion
Garlic
2 apples sliced
3 slices of bacon
Nutmeg
Ginger
Pepper
I cooked it on low for about six hours. My appartment smelled amazing. Bacon and Ginger are two of my favorite scents...glade should make that into an air freshener.

-- Katy

Buffalo Chicken Salad

I cut up a chicken breast and doused it in Frank's Buffalo sauce. I baked it in foil for about 20 minutes at 350 degrees. When it was done it placed it atop of my salad.

Salad:
Romaine lettuce
Baby Carrots
Celery
Cherry Tomatoes
Granny Smith Apple (I still have a ton of apples from the apple pickin')
High Quality Bleu Cheese
Splash of olive oil and vinegar
Cracked black pepper

This may be the best salad ever.

-- Katy

Apple spice muffins

I went apple picking this weekend. I couldn't think a better use for fresh picked apples than spiced apple muffins. I adapted this recipe from the recipe that Bridget posted to the CFPT blog yesterday.

http://www.thenourishinggourmet.com/2009/09/spiced-apple-muffins-gluten-grain-and-dairy-free.html

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

Dry Ingredients:
1/2 cup of coconut flour (I used dried coconut that I ground in the food processor)

3/4 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon medium grind sea salt

1 1/2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
1/8 cup ground flax

In a medium size bowl combine the dry ingredient and briskly whisk until all lumps are removed.

Add:
1/3 cup of coconut oil
1/4 cup of honey
Splash of lime juice

Melt together on the stove top, just until melted (don’t get it hot, otherwise it could cook your eggs prematurely).
And:
3 eggs, lightly whisked.

Whisk until everything is well combined, and then add:
3/4 cup of shredded apples (wash, and core the apples, and then shred, peel and all)

I used 1.5 granny smith apples.

Divide between 24 mini-muffin tins, and bake for about 17 minutes or until the tops are lightly browned and a toothpick comes out clean when poked in the middle of the muffin.

Eggplant Parm with Turkey Meatballs

Ingredients:

1 Eggplant (sliced)

2 small tomatoes (sliced)

3/4 c Ground flax seeds

1/4 c Parmesan Cheese

Egg

Fresh Mozzarella

Tomato Sauce

For Meatballs:

Ground turkey

Garlic

Fennel (finely chopped)

Basil (finely chopped)

Preheat oven to 350

Whisk the egg in a bowl. In a separate bowl combine the flax and Parmesan cheese with some salt and pepper. Dip the eggplant and the tomatoes in the egg then coat with the flax mixture. Place on a baking sheet and bake for 5 minutes on each side.

Combine ground turkey, garlic, fennel and basil. Roll into balls. Cook in a covered saute pan with a little olive oil until cooked.

In a baking dish add a layer of tomato sauce, then eggplant/tomato, then meatball, then cheese. Repeat until you run out of ingredients. Bake for 25 minutes. Eat.

-- Katy

Chayote Squash

It is a funky looking veggie, so I thought I would try it.


I chopped the chayote and sauteed it with garlic, onion, salt and pepper in a little olive oil.
Then, I added some cherry tomatoes and peppers.
Finally, I added some ground pork and black beans leftover from the night before. So good.


I liked the chayote. It held up better than yellow squash.
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Eggplant Caponata

This is my take on eggplant caponata. I love any recipe where I can just throw a bunch of stuff into a pot. I have made this a couple times and it gets better as it sits, so the leftovers are amazing.

1 lb ground pork
1 clove of garlic
1/2 onion diced
2 cans diced tomato (no salt added)
chopped mushrooms
1 cup spinach
green olives
capers
1/4 cup red wine
Eggplant, diced

Salt eggplant and place it in a colander with a plate on top and weigh the plate down. Let sit for around 45 minutes. This allows some of the bitter juices to drain out. Rinse the eggplant.

Saute garlic and onion in a pot
Add the ground pork and let it brown
Add the tomatoes and red wine
Add eggplant, spinach and mushrooms
Add green olives and capers and let simmer

Carrot Chips

Night before last I made carrot chips ...

I wasn't too sure about this one since (1) the pictures from the recipe didn't look very appetizing and (2) I'm not much of a carrot fan in the first place. But somehow I ended up with two bags of carrots that need to be used up, so I gave it a shot. I have to say, they turned out surprisingly tasty!

And they're super easy to make!

Just thinly slice some carrots and cook them in coconut oil on the stovetop until they're crispy. Make sure to flip them to keep them from getting too crispy (but, to be honest, mine were a little charred and still tasted yummy). Move from pan to paper towel to drain/cool. Then eat.

I ate them plain, but you could add sea salt or cinnamon for different tastes. The originally recipe also suggested cutting them into longer slices and making fries.

Spaghetti Squash

Spaghetti squash spaghetti is delish.

Sauce recipe:
I lb ground beef
Canned tomatos
Artichoke hearts
Basil
Garlic
Chopped onion
Splash of red wine

Brown the beef. Add remaining ingrediants and simmer.




Preheat oven to 350
Poke holes in spaghetti squash
Bake for 45 mins



Slice sqush and remove seeds



Remove squash with a fork and add to sauce



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Post Workout Breakie

1/2 of a sweet potato
1 egg
2 pieces of turkey sausage
Red sea salt


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