Sweet Potato Pot Roast

Ingredients:

• 1 pot roast, lean, boneless, about 2 to 3 pounds
• 1 tablespoon Extra Virgin Olive Oil
• 1 medium onion, sliced
• 2 large sweet potatoes, peeled and quartered
• 3/4 cup water
• 2 teaspoons beef bouillon granules or beef base
• 1/4 teaspoon celery seed
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper

Preparation:

Trim roast. Heat oil in a large skillet and brown roast on all sides. Browning the roast is optional, but does enhance the flavor a bit. Drain fat from skillet. Place sliced onion in crock pot; top with sweet potatoes. Place meat on vegetables. In a cup, combine the 1/2 cup water, beef bouillon granules, celery seed, cinnamon, and pepper. Pour over roast. Cover and cook on LOW for 8 to 10 hours, until meat is tender (or cook on HIGH for 4 to 5 hours)serve with the beef and vegetables.

This is a great Paleo recipe for a Sunday dinner! My family loved it!

Hiking To The Waterfall!

We've been taking some family hikes lately. It makes a huge difference hiking with Court. It's actually a fun experience!! Today, we hiked up to the topish of bridal veil falls. As you can see, Xander slept while I carried him almost the whole way up. I'm going to count that as my "carry heavy things" for the day :)

Savannah has been doing awesome! We call her our supper hiker!

Xander woke up!

Xander didn't want any help. That boy has no fear! He reluctantly let me hold his hand. But, we had to stop every so often to pick up rocks.

Savannah found her fair share of "BIG" rocks too! I love hiking with my family!!

Butternut Squash Lasagna

• 1 lb mild turkey sausage
• 1 red onion
• 3 cloves garlic
• 1 15 oz can spaghetti sauce 
• 1/2 c roasted red peppers
• 1/4 c extra virgin olive oil
• couple leaves of fresh basil
• 1 butternut squash
• 2 zucchini and 1 summer squash

Preheat oven to 400ºF. In a saute pan crumble the sausage and brown it, along with the onions & garlic. While that’s going, cut the top and ends of the squash off and peel it. Pull out the seeds. Slice the squash into the  planks. Also slice your Zucchini and summer squash into thin slices. ( I used fresh ones from our garden!)
Make the sauce by pureeing the pizza sauce, red peppers, olive oil and basil, in blender. chop up the red peppers and mix everything together.
Using a 9×12 oven safe baking dish, put down enough sauce to lightly cover the bottom of the dish. (This keeps the squash from sticking to the pan.) Next add the squash , trying not to overlap the pieces, then spoon on the sausage mixture, then summer squash and zucchini, followed by the sauce. Repeat until all your ingredients are used up…trying to reserve enough sauce to cover the top of the lasagna.
Bake for 45 minutes. You’re looking for a bubbly pan with a crispy, browned top. Right out of the oven, the lasagna may by liquidy, let it set for a bit.

This recipe was a hit with everyone at my house! Butternut Squash is one of my favorite vegetables! And, it's much more flavorful than pasta! I can't wait to try this recipe again!!

Sage and Cinnamon Chicken With Pasta ( Sweet Potatoes)

Sage and Cinnamon Chicken Ingredients (For the full recipe: Civilizedcavemancooking.com)

• 6 Chicken Drumsticks
• 2 Tbsp Grass fed butter, I used salted, melted
• 1-2 Tbsp Sage
• 1 Tbsp Cinnamon
• Sea Salt and Black Pepper for taste

Sweet Potato Pasta ingredients, (For full recipe: Civilizedcavemancooking.com)

• 2 Medium Sweet Potatoes or Yams, long in shape
• 2 Tbsp Grass fed butter, I used salted
• 1-2 Tbsp Sage
• 1 Tbsp Cinnamon
• Sea Salt for taste

My cousin told me about this amazing paleo blog, (Civilizedcavemancooking.com) that one of her friends has. Everything looks so good! I couldn't wait to try his recipes! This is the one that I really wanted to make! And, yes! It is delicious! I think I will try the Smoky Burgers with Pineapple Teriyaki Sauce next! 

They look so yummy!  I've also tried the Coconut Pancakes! The kids and I loved them! I can't wait to share it! I love this blog so much and I think I went a little crazy pinning recipes on it to my Paleo Pintrest board! LOL
Enjoy!

Wicked

  Last Christmas, Court gave me tickets for Wicked! So, I had Christmas in July! LOL! It was amazing! I love the music and the story line. The costumes were beauitful! Some of Court's family were there to. It was fun to see them again!  Court and I really enjoy going to the theater. We see a lot of the shows at the Hale Center Theater. It's so much fun! My favorite ones are the musicals! I Les Miserables is going to be at the Pioneer Theater next May!  That would be a neat one to see!

Hike The Y Trail

 Last week, one day I decided to take the kids and hike up to the Y. I think I ended up carrying Xander up and down almost the whole time. We didn't quite make it to the top though. It wasn't the awesome adventure and bonding time that I had had in mind yet again, just like our last unpaved trail hike experience, in which at one point I was carrying 2 screaming children down a mountain. But, Savannah and Xander pretty much cried the whole time again. I love hiking and I want Savannah and Xander to love it too but, it was just not happening, and Savannah's tripping on and falling every few steps didn't help. She would just cry harder and try to get me to carry her too. I finally gave in exhausted and my determination was beaten. But, if possible the steep way down was worse for Savannah than going up with a lot more tripping and falling.

 We stooped every once in a while for a water, Binky, apple banana brake

When we got home, I told myself I'd won't take them for a non paved path mountain hike for a least one more year, but we will see! Maybe, I can get Court to do some hikes with just me to get in my hiking fix!

Fried Apples and Sausage N' Cabbage "Noodles"

 

 We have found some really amazing Paleo blogs which have amazing family meals and snacks. I love that I can still be creative and have fun cooking for my family! This is a really neat Paleo blog, www.everydaypaleo.com I can't wait to get her family Paleo cookbook, Everyday Paleo!  Here are a couple yummy recipes! Xander and Savannah loved this meal! They even kept wanting seconds the next day when we had the leftovers for lunch! We haven't been very good at eating our leftovers until we started eating Paleo. I can't believe how fast they go!

Fried Apples,  From: Everydaypaleo.com

  

3-4 small organic apples, thinly sliced (about 3 cups)
2 tablespoons coconut oil
¼ cup raisins
½ tablespoon cinnamon
2 tablespoons canned full fat coconut milk

In a medium sized saute pan, heat the coconut oil over medium heat.  Add the apples and saute for about 5 minutes or until they start to soften.  Add the raisins and cook for 2-3 more minutes.  Add the cinnamon, mix well and add the coconut milk.  Stir the coconut milk in with the apples just until warm and serve.  Serves 4.

Sausage N’ Cabbage “Noodles” From Everydaypaleo.com

1 lb mild Italian pork sausage or other ground meat of your choice
1 red onion, thinly sliced
½ head or 5 cups thinly sliced green cabbage
2 tablespoons grass fed butter (or ghee, or coconut oil)
½ teaspoon caraway seeds
½ teaspoon paprika
Fresh ground black pepper and sea salt to taste

In a large skillet brown the sausage.  Once the sausage is fully cooked, remove it from the pan and set aside.  Add the butter to the same pan with the sausage drippings and add the onions and cook for about 5 minutes or until the onions start to brown a bit.  Add the cabbage and cook for another 7-10 minutes or until the cabbage is soft and “noodle-y.” Add the sausage back to the pan, add the spices, mix well and serve! Serves 4.