BBQ Sauce

Meat Ball Marinade

BBQ Sauce

Bar B-Que Sauce

2 - 2 1/2 cans peeled tomatoes or 2 qt. tomatoes peeled & pured in blender.
1/2 cup lemon juice
1/3 c. red wine vinegar
1 12oz. can tomato sauce
2 med. onions diced small
2 cloves garlic diced
2 T. Adolph unseasoned tenderizer
1 T. Garlic salt
10-15 whole pepper corns
1 T. molasses
1 or 2 Bay leaves
1/2 c. Kraft Hickory flavored Bar-B-Q sauce
1 T. ground pepper
1 T. Paprika
1/3 c. Worchestershire Sauce
1/2 C. Catsup

Mix ingredients together and simmer.
Use as a sauce for meatballs.

Cheese Fondue

This recipe was actually for a chicken meal that had the cheese over it. A friend of mine passed it along and said her sister made it once and thought the cheese sauce would make a really good fondue, so that’s what we’ve been using since. 

Cheese Sauce:

1 jar Old English cheese spread   

½ cup sour cream

1 can cream of chicken soup (recipe calls for Cream of Mushroom, but I prefer and use the cream of chicken)

1 cup mayonnaise

½ tsp garlic powder

¼ tsp onion salt

¼ tsp garlic salt

½ tsp paprika

Just mix it together on the stove till it’s heated and well mixed.  

I usually just add the spices till it tastes okay

Dip Chicken, Veggies, etc. Anything that would taste good with cheese sauce over it. 

Pepper Stuffed Portabella Burger - Paleo Style

Here is another recipe from epaleocookbooks space that I found on Pinterest that will no longer be available by the end of the month. I have not found a new link to these recipes from this site yet. I have not tried this recipe but plan to next week. I will post pictures as soon as we make it and update with a review.

Pepper Stuffed Portabella Burger


Ingredients:
1 lb lean ground beef (grass-fed, of course)
3 large portabella mushroom caps
5-6 small sweet peppers, diced
salt and pepper

Divide your ground beef into 1/3 lb patties. Flatten your patties as much as possible and add evenly divide your diced peppers between them, spooning them into the center of the patty. Fold the patty around the peppers to enclose them and pat down.

Heat your grill to med-high. Season both sides of each patty with salt and pepper and place on top of a portabella cap. Lay burger-side down on the grill and cook for 3-4 minutes. Flip and continue cooking for 3-4 more minutes. If the mushroom side of the burger patty is still pink, you may want to remove from the mushroom cap and grill directly for 2-3 minutes before replacing onto the mushroom.

Remove from heat. Allow to rest for 5 minutes and serve, mushroom side down.

Italian Stuffed Bell Peppers - Paleo Style

For various health reasons, I've decided to try a Paleo diet for a month and see how it helps both Dustin and I. I've read and heard great things about this lifestyle and am excited to give it a go. I have found several recipes online from Pinterest. I'm posting several recipes here because one site said it will only be available until the end of the month. (I have not tried this recipe yet but plan to next week and will post pictures and a review after we try it.)

Italian Stuffed Bell Peppers - Paleo Style

Ingredients:
4 green bell peppers, top removed and hollowed out
1 lb ground beef
1/2 yellow onion, diced
1 egg
2 jalapenos, seeds removed and diced fine
1 ten oz can of petite diced tomatoes (I like the garlic, oregano and basil flavored), drained of excess fluid
salt and pepper

Preheat oven to 375 and arrange bell peppers on a baking sheet, cut side up. 
In a medium sized bowl, combine meat, onion, jalapeno, tomatoes and egg until mixed thoroughly. Season with salt and pepper. Fill bell pepper "cups" with meat mixture. If there's any left over, you can form patties and bake them on your baking sheet.

Bake at 375 for 35-40 minutes.

A note from the original blogger:
Typically, stuffed bell peppers have rice or breadcrumbs in them to bind the meat together. Mine does not, obviously, so while the egg helps, I typically serve mine by placing the bell pepper over a bed of vegetables. Then I slice it open and just mix the meat, pepper and veggies together before I eat it. It's just as good.