Easy Crock Pot Pork Roast

Easy Crock Pot Pork Roast

Ingredients needed:
2-3 pound pork loin roast
3 celery stalks
2 cups baby carrots
Organic Better Than Bouillon - Chicken
Water
Minced Garlic
EVOO (extra virgin olive oil)
Himalayan Sea Salt (or Kosher Salt)
chopped onions (or onion powder if you are in a pinch)
White Wine (optional)

Directions:
Chop the celery into 1 inch chunks, put into the crock pot.
Chop baby carrots in half (long-wize), put into crock pot
Chop Onions into 1 inch chunks, put into the crock pot (if you don't have onions, then sprinkle onion powder on the veggies, that works too.
Add 1 large Tablespoon of Minced Garlic
Drizzle veggies liberally with Olive Oil
Set defrosted Pork Loin Roast on top the veggies in the crock pot
Sprinkle pork with Sea Salt
Turn pork over, sprinkle more Sea Salt.
Microwave 1.5 cups water, then stir in a liberal amount of "Organic Better Than Bouillon - Chicken" until dissolved, pour around the pork, but do not cover the pork roast in the crock pot.
Optional:  add 1 cup white wine to the crock pot mixture

Cover and Set Crock pot on Low, let it cook for 6-8 hours.  If you wish, you may turn the roast over 1/2 way through the cooking time.

To serve, slice the pork roast (it should be so tender it falls apart).
use slotted spoon to get the veggies out and serve as a side to the pork entre.

Feeds 6 people (or 4 people if they eat a generous portion).

Italian Cabbage Dish - Paleo & Gluten-Free

Italian Cabbage Dish - (Paleo & low-carb, and Gluten-Free)

Ingredients needed:
1 head of organic cabbage (can use green or red cabbage) - chopped
1 cup of chopped organic onion (I like to use leeks)
1 pound of organic grass fed ground beef *
2 Tbsp Minced organic Garlic
1/2 cup sliced organic green olives
Olive Oil
Kosher Salt
Ground Black Pepper
1 tbsp Oregano
1 tbsp Basil
2 tsp Crushed Red Pepper
2 tsp Cayenne Pepper
Sriracha Sauce

*can use Italian sausage instead of ground beef, but if you do, you may want to use less of the dried spices, since the sausage already has spices in it).  I supposed you could also use shredded chicken or ground turkey, I have not tried it with that meat yet.  If you do, please let me know how it turned out.

Directions:
In large skillet, coat the bottom of the pan with olive oil.
Add onions and garlic, sautee until translucent
Add the meat and brown it.  (If you are using Italian Sausage, snip the casing and squeeze out the insides so you can brown it like ground beef).
Add Oregano, Basil, Crushed Red Pepper, Cayenne Pepper, Salt and Pepper to taste
Add Cabbage and sliced olives, sautee mixture until cabbage is tender
---The Cabbage is essentially the "noodle" instead of using pasta. ---
*if you like a kick, add some Sriracha sauce, otherwise keep the sauce on the side for folks to flavor their dish as needed.
*you can add other veggie ingredients if you wish (aka: chopped bell pepper, mushrooms, etc)
Serve hot in low bowls, makes 6-8 full servings
(or put into crock pot on LOW setting to keep it warm if using for party food).

Guinness Chocolate Chili Recipe

Guinness Chocolate Chili Recipe
* special thanks to my friend Missy for passing this recipe on to me.

Ingredients:
•2 tablespoons vegetable oil
•2 onions, chopped
•3 cloves garlic, minced
•1 pound ground beef
•3/4 pound beef sirloin, cubed
•1 (14.5 ounce) can peeled and diced tomatoes with juice
•1 (12 fluid ounce) can or bottle dark beer = GUINNESS
•1 cup strong brewed coffee
•2 (6 ounce) cans tomato paste
•1 (14 ounce) can beef broth
•1/2 cup packed brown sugar
•3 1/2 tablespoons chili powder
•1 tablespoon cumin seeds
•1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder
•1 teaspoon dried oregano
•1 teaspoon ground cayenne pepper
•1 teaspoon ground coriander
•1 teaspoon salt
•4 (15 ounce) cans kidney beans
•4 fresh hot chile peppers, seeded and chopped

    1.Heat oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Cook onions, garlic, ground beef
and cubed sirloin in oil for 10 minutes, or until the meat is well browned and
the onions are tender.
    2.Mix in the diced tomatoes with juice, dark beer, coffee, tomato paste and
beef broth. Season with brown sugar, chili powder, cumin, cocoa powder, oregano,
cayenne pepper, coriander and salt. Stir in 2 cans of the beans and hot chile
peppers. Reduce heat to low, and simmer for 1 1/2 hours.
    3.Stir in the 2 remaining cans of beans, and simmer for another 30 minutes.