food: chicken, broccoli & rice casserole

21 Jan 2013 4 Comments

by eat-drink-fly.com in food & cooking, wheat free Tags: , , , , ,

winter is undoubtedly comfort food season… and as i’ve said before, comfort food means something different to everyone, but generally its the foods of our youth.

when i was a kid, my mom used to make this cambell’s soup recipe chicken casserole.  it had a couple cans of cream of whatever was in the cupboard soup, white rice and was topped with a layer of broccoli and chicken breasts laid over the top with a layer of cheddar cheese covering it all.

i love this casserole.
its everything a casserole should be.  it’s easy to make, one dish and relatively balanced…
in fact, i’ve blogged it before – here

but in the last couple weeks, i’ve purged my cupboards of most everything with a long ingredient list… condensed/canned  soup being one of those things.
so when i looked at the giant bunch of broccoli in my fridge and thought of this casserole… i was left with a quandary.  how do you sub for the soup?

i know that those cans of condensed soup work in the slow cooker in ways that other ingredients don’t.  if you’ve ever made the mistake of putting milk in a slow cooker, you know what i mean.  it does not work.
anyways, my fear was that a casserole that spends an hour in the oven might suffer from a similar problem… but i decided to live on the edge and just do my best.

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chicken, broccoli & rice casserole

  • 3 or 4 boneless chicken breasts (skin optional)
  • 1 cup of raw rice (i used jasmine)
  • 1 cup chicken stock
  • 1 cup milk
  • 1/4 cup sour cream
  • 2 cups broccoli florets – washed & trimmed
  • spices to taste.  i used s&p, chipotle, garlic salt & thyme
  • 1 cup (or more) grated cheese (enough to cover)
  • paprika to top
  1. preheat oven to 350
  2. stir together stock, milk & sour cream.  add seasonings, stir in raw rice.
  3. pour liquid & rice mixture into your casserole dish
  4. arrange broccoli on top
  5. lay chicken breasts over broccoli
  6. cover entire pan with cheese and sprinkle paprika on top.
  7. cover with foil and bake for 45 minutes. remove foil and bake for 10 more to brown cheese.  let stand for 5 minutes and serve.

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usually i enjoy this with cheddar, since cheddar and broccoli are bff.  but i didn’t have any, so i used a cheese called reypenaer that i brought back from amsterdam thats kinda like an aged gouda.  it was delightful.

some optional add ins i’ve seen before are diced red peppers or corn… and of course, i add spice, but that wasn’t in the original recipe… but honestly, its a casserole.
there are no rules other than to clean out your fridge.
you could get as fancy or not as you’d like.

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food: fun with the juicer

20 Jan 2013 2 Comments

by eat-drink-fly.com in adventures with moonbeam bouvier, food & cooking, paleo, wheat free Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

so… on the weekend, i decided to buy a juicer.
this wasn’t an impulse buy per-say… my pal moonbeam fell back in love with her juicer at the beginning of the month and has been extolling the virtues to me for weeks now…

but i’ve honestly never been much of a juice gal. i’m not even a smoothie gal.
i have often cycled through buying oodles of frozen fruit in a misguided effort to start my day with smoothies, only to throw it all out a couple months later as a solid freezer burned mess.

actually overall, i’ve never been a fruit lover.
but i do love my veggies. and veggies make friends with a juicer too.

the other thing holding me back is that i have limited condo space and therefore i shy away from things that aren’t kitchen multi-taskers. and the juicer is very much a one trick pony.
buuuuuut… it was $99 and really isn’t *that* big, so i’m gonna give it a go.

so step one… obviously buying the machine.
step two… stocking up on fruit & veg.
step three… juice!

i started with a really husband friendly option in an effort to inaugurate him, as he often turns his nose up at my happy planet green juices. so i figured as long as it wasn’t super green i had a fighting chance.

so i went apple, orange & celery.

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they suggest you peel your oranges, so i did and there’s some debate about apple seeds, so i split mine in half and tunneled out the seeds and removed the stems. just to be safe.
celery just needed a wash and it was ready to rock.

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the results were delicious. the husband eagerly downed his glass and all were happy.

so i decided to take the leftover orange, apple celery base and green it up a little.
enter the addition of a couple handfuls of spinach, parsley, 2 carrots and a meyer lemon (skin and all)
to make…. this!

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definitely super yum.
the meyer lemon was definitely the most dominant flavour, but it smelled like parsley and celery. very interesting.
and i know you’re not supposed to “save” the juices because they lose vitamins or whatever, but i poured the rest into a mason jar and put it in the fridge for the next day’s breakfast.

last night, my two besties came over for hockey and one of them was sporting a bit of a hangover, so i whipped up a curing juice.

i decided on a couple apples, a cucumber, a few kiwis and a knob of ginger.
the kiwis were peeled, the apples de-seeded and the cucumber stem removed, but then everything was juiced together to produce this:

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i’m not entirely sure why it separated, but it sure was tasty.  the ginger made it spicier than i anticipated.  i used about a 1 1/2 inch piece and this batch yielded a little over a litre of juice total, but the ginger was the dominant flavour.
delicious, but a pretty strong after burn.  i imagine this would be awesome for if you were sick.

the kiwi maybe wasn’t the best plan ever.  the little seeds got caught in my blade and were harder to clean than i anticipated as they needed to be picked out of the teeth individually with my fingernail.

this morning, we went classic.  simple delicious orange juice.

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man, this is the best stuff.  just so good.

only downside is that i kept my box of oranges on the counter and i think i should move them to patio because my juice (obviously) is coming out at room temperature.

the next challenge is to find a good use for all the pulp i’m getting.
veggie pulp is easy… it can be added to soups, stocks, meatloaf/meatballs/burgers ect.
but the fruit pulp is something that will require some googling.

most of what i’ve read does say that the bulk of the vitamins & nutrients are coming out in the juice… but the pulp is pure fibre.  so while it might not have much in the way of flavour or vitamins, it’s definitely still worth eating.

also, wasting food really bugs me.  and since i don’t have a garden or compost, its making me feel guilty to pitch it.
the internet tells me that saving the pulp in freezer bags works too, and its good to separate it when blending juice… so like if i’m making a carrot whatever juice, do the carrots then stop and collect the pulp in a bag and then do the rest of the veg and store that separate ect.  makes sense.
i foresee carrot cakes in my future.

food: slow cooker beef with balsamic

18 Oct 2012 2 Comments

by eat-drink-fly.com in food & cooking, paleo Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

so this is fun… the leaves are falling, the air is chilled… that means its SLOW COOKER SEASON!
hooray!  every lazy cook’s favourite time of the year.  i for one, am a huge fan.
but i’ll be honest… there gets to be a point when everything you throw in the slow cooker kinda starts to feel the same… it’s broth or tomato base… its a soup or a stew… since it comes from *my* slow cooker, its usually spicy and slightly mexican seasoned… it has mirepoix or similar for the veg…

yes, its easy to get into a slow cooker rut.
i did however find a fun listing of “30 nights of paleo crock pot meals” which has breathed new life into my slow cooker (can i from here on just refer to it as the SC? perfect.)

so yesterday i decided to try out the recipe from civilized caveman cooking for a balsamic roast.
i basically had all the ingredients in my house (besides the roast, which a quick trip to the farm solved) and it sounded different and tasty.  plus we buy a balsamic vinegar from costco that is not only delicious, but in a giant bottle, so i always feel the need to cook with a lot of it whenever possible.

step 1 – season & sear off the roast.

i used paprika, garlic salt, salt & pepper for seasoning and then seared it at high heat with coconut oil in my non stick.
it was smoky in my kitchen for 5am, lol.  but we were rewarded with a beautiful sear on that little fucker.
oh, it was a small beef top sirloin roast about 1lb – served 2 people.  the recipe calls for a 2lb roast but obviously serves more.

step 2 – veggies meet meat.

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the recipe called for onions only, but i had carrots & celery handy, so i threw together the tried & true mirepoix.
i used a whole yellow onion as per the recipe and 2 sticks of celery & 2 carrots.
then lovingly placed the seared roast on top.

step 3 – add liquid.

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the recipe told me to deglaze the pan with the wine & water, but since i seared mine at such a high heat, the pan had some black bits that i decided i should live without.
also, the recipe calls for white wine – which with beef seemed weird to me. so i used red.  also i had red open already and not white, so there’s that.
i combined the following and poured it into the SC:
- 1/2 cup balsamic vinegar
- 1 cup tomato sauce (i used the italian kind in the glass bottle)
- 1/2 cup of red wine
- 1/3 cup of water
of course, throw in a pinch of salt for good measure and some cracked black pepper.

step 4 – cook on low for however long you’re going to be out of the house for.  mine went for 12 hours.

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step 5 – serve and eat up!

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final thoughts – as always, i think every recipe can benefit from chili flakes. but also i think its worth mentioning that often in recipes like this, i’ll remove the meat and use my immersion blender to puree the slow cooked veg, making the sauce thicker and more gravy-like.  that would have been delightful in this case.
the vinegar gave a nice acidity but didn’t overwhelm anything and the beef turned out delightfully slow cooker perfect.
and my house smelled fucking spectacular when i got home.
SC win!

here’s the original recipe for those that like to play by the rules.

Crockpot Balsamic Roast

Ingredients

  • 2 Lb any roast, I used Top Round
  • 1 Large Sweet Onion, sliced
  • 8 Ounces Tomato Sauce
  • 1/2 Cup Balsamic Vinegar
  • 1/2 Cup Water
  • 2 Tbsp White Wine
  • 2 Tbsp Coconut Oil
  • Rub(Amount to your taste): Salt, Black Pepper, Garlic Powder, Onion Powder, Smoked Paprika

Cooking Steps

Season your roast on both sides generously with the spices listed above to your liking
Heat your coconut oil in a large pan over medium-high heat, once warm sear each side of your roast for 3-4 minutes
Place your sliced onions in the bottom of your crock pot and put your seared meat on top of the onions
Combine your balsamic vinegar and tomato sauce in a bowl and mix well, then pour over your meat in the crock pot
Add your water and white wine to your pan and de-glaze it
Pour this mixture in your crock pot as well
Place the lid on, set to low and cook for 6-8 hours
Enjoy

food: roasted shallot dip

01 Sep 2012 1 Comment

by eat-drink-fly.com in food & cooking, wheat free Tags: , ,

yesterday the husband and i went over for some the in-laws and i offered to bring an appie or snack for the masses.
this recipe for roasted shallot dip had caught my eye in this month’s food network magazine… so i figured this was a good opportunity to give it a whirl.

the recipe called for 3 shallots, but when i got to the produce market, the shallots were less than desirable looking.
so i decided to make a game -change and went with a white onion instead.
so technically i guess this makes it a roasted onion dip.

i also basically doubled the recipe.
and i’m glad i did because this dip was attacked with some serious gusto.
and added some spices and herbs.

think of this as a delicious, low fat homemade french onion dip for potato chips.
we served it with old dutch rippled plain chips and it was perfect.
below is my version of the recipe.

Roasted Onion Dip

  • 1 medium white onion – quartered
  • 5 cloves of garlic
  • 1 – 500g tub of plain greek yogurt
  • salt & black pepper to taste
  • 1tbsp chopped fresh thyme
  • 1 tsp dried jalapeno or jalapeno hot sauce
  • 3 tbsp chopped chives
  1. roast the onion & garlic in the oven at 350 for about 30 minutes or until golden and tender.
  2. cool onion & garlic, remove skins and toss in the food processor.  chop roughly.
  3. add yogurt, salt & pepper, thyme & jalapeno.  mix well and scrape into serving bowl.
  4. stir in 2/3 of the chives. top with remaining.
  5. nom nom nom with potato chips.

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original recipe as per food network magazine.

Roasted Shallot Dip

  • 3 shallots
  • 3 cloves garlic
  • 1 cup greek yogurt
  • salt & pepper to taste
  • 2 tbsp chopped fresh chives

prepared pretty much the same as above.

the original base was solid, but i really felt there was room for innovation.
the fresh thyme was added because it happened to be growing in my garden. and i know thyme and onion are friends.
but i’m sure any herb would do.
and the jalapeno goes in because i can’t stand not adding spice to things.

but the idea of using plain greek yogurt instead of mayo & sour cream was a delight.
i will definitely use this in future recipes.  i’m thinking in particular of lightening up a spinach dip.
further experiments are needed.

food: charred corn salad

21 Aug 2012 2 Comments

by eat-drink-fly.com in food & cooking, wheat free Tags: , , , , ,

okay,so i’ve pretty much been the worst for posting over the past few weeks… part of it has been because i’ve been busy and the other part has just been a straight up lack of anything good to say.

but i do have a recipe post for you…

last weekend i made a charred corn salad from my bon apetit magazine and it turned out, by all accounts, to be quite yummy.
i say “by all accounts”, because i didn’t actually eat any of it.
i’m trying to steer away from the corn and i don’t like tomatoes and onions. so this was really not something i made for *me*
which is fine. because it was meant for bbq sharing.

anyways, it was a little more time consuming than i thought… lots of tiny chopping and grilling the corn and shucking it ect… but it yielded a GIANT bowl of salad and was fresh & healthy and all that good stuff.

the recipe is here but i downsized it a little and only used 10 ears of corn, which i felt was PLENTY.
i also decided to go for a “everything chopped the same size” feel to the salad. so, mine looked a little different than theirs.

Charred Corn Salad with Basil and Tomatoes

Ingredients

  • 12 ears of corn, husked
  • 6 tablespoons olive oil, divided
  • 1 cup thinly sliced red onion
  • 2 large tomatoes, chopped
  • 1 cup (loosely packed) fresh basil leaves, large leaves torn
  • 1/3 cup (or more) fresh lime juice
  • 2 tablespoons chopped fresh thyme
  • Kosher salt, freshly ground pepper

Preparation

  • Build a medium-hot fire in a charcoal grill, or heat a gas grill to high. Rub corn with 1 Tbsp. oil. Grill, turning frequently, until corn is charred and heated through, 10-12 minutes. Remove from grill; when cool enough to handle, cut kernels from cobs and transfer to a large bowl. DO AHEAD: Corn can be made 3 hours ahead. Let stand at room temperature.
  • Place onion in a strainer and rinse with cold water to mellow its flavor. Drain well. Mix onion, remaining 5 Tbsp. oil, tomatoes, basil, 1/3 cup lime juice, and thyme into corn. Season to taste with salt, pepper, and more lime juice, if desired. DO AHEAD: Salad can be assembled 1 hour ahead. Let stand at room temperature.

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baking: paleo zucchini muffins

10 Aug 2012 1 Comment

by eat-drink-fly.com in food & cooking, paleo, wheat free Tags: , , , , ,

if there’s one baked good that i have a serious soft spot for it’s a really nice zucchini bread.
preferably the kind with chocolate and/or chocolate chips in it.

and wouldn’t you know it… it’s zucchini season.

sadly, my 3 zucchini plants are not yielding bounty like i had hoped.
they appear to have some sort of pest… maybe a fungus? i don’t know.
but all my zucchinis get about an inch long and then shrivel up and die.
so it’s a good thing that zucchinis are local and cheap right now – $.69 a pound – bargain!

so… i kinda bought 2 pounds of them. and then another pound of yellow zucchinis.

but i have plans.

i found this recipe that sounded seriously yummy.
and i thought it was worth testing out.
after all, it did come to my inbox courtesy of nom nom paleo, which never steers me wrong…

Recipe: Perfect Paleo Zucchini Muffins

Ingredients

  • 2.5 cups almond butter
  • 3 eggs
  • 2 c. shredded zucchini, strained or squeezed
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tbsp. vanilla
  • 1 tbsp. cinnamon (GOOD quality makes a huge difference)

Instructions

  1. Add all items to a mixing bowl in order and stir.
  2. Pour into paper-lined muffin tins (trust me, this is a step you don’t want to skip).
  3. Bake at 350 for 12-15 minutes or until slightly brown on edges and passes the toothpick test.
  4. Makes 12 muffins.

ummm… ya.
these muffins are fucking incredible.
this is probably the best baked zucchini item i’ve ever had.
period.  paleo or not.

i did make a few slight tweaks to the above recipe…
i added about a tablespoon of raw agave syrup for a bit more sweetness and i also added a 1/2 cup of dark chocolate chips.
and i didn’t have 2.5 cups of almond butter, i only had 2 cups.  but it still worked magically.
i also used trader joe’s almond butter with sea salt in it because it was all i had.
the only real difference was that i had to cook them for 21 minutes before they were done.

but i just absolutely annihilated one.  …and i’m thinking about going back for a repeat performance.
they’re light and cakey and sweet and chocolaty and so frigging good!
i’ll admit that there’s been a bit of my paleo baking adventures have netted me some puck-like results… but this was not one of them.  in fact, i would bet money that not very many people would peg this as a flour-free product.

i’ve never cooked with almond butter before… although i’ve cooked with almond flour lots… i just didn’t realize this was a “thing” that one could do.
so, awesome learning experience.

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food: nicoise salad

28 Jun 2012 1 Comment

by eat-drink-fly.com in food & cooking, paleo, wheat free Tags: , , , , , , ,

i don’t know if this is in any way unusual or noteworthy, but until last night neither my husband nor i had ever had a nicoise salad.
i mean… we’re not french… but we do like salads.  and seafood…. so… ya.

anyways.  in addition to working on paring down everything about our lives, the food budget is definitely a giant blinking light on the list.  we like food and 100% believe its worth the money to buy quality food.
but we also are living on the BC working man’s paycheque.  which means it can’t be all sablefish and spot prawns.

canned tuna and canned salmon are two things we’ve really taken a shining to lately.
it’s economical, relatively speaking, although you pay a premium for the ethically caught options, but its worth it…
and it’s tasty, fast and easy for those times when standing over the stove just isn’t your idea of a good time.
but one can only eat so many fish cakes (untrue – that shit is delicious) and so we’ve been hunting around for new ideas.

this nicoise salad really made itself.
my husband came home with bags of produce on monday and among them were lovely green beans, little red potatoes, baby heirloom tomatoes and 2 giant heads of romaine…
and also this genius idea.

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we made a dressing of olive oil, anchovy, olive brine, lemon and white wine vinegar with some tarragon and garlic for flavour and whisked it together by hand.
the cooked potatoes and blanched green beans were tossed in it and the rest was drizzled on top.

for the tuna, we used one can packed in water and drained and one can packed in oil with jalapenos in it and mixed them together so it had oil, but not too much.

garnished with perfectly hard boiled eggs sprinkled with a few grains of coarse salt, tomatoes, olives and capers and it was ready for eating.

except for for mine, of course.  thats my husband’s plate above.
mine is the picky and much smaller plate below.
which was still equally as delightful.

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restaurants: the mac shack

11 Jun 2012 4 Comments

by eat-drink-fly.com in food & cooking, restaurants & dinning out, vancouver, wheat free Tags: , , , ,

ever since i first heard whisperings on twitter about the mac shack, i’ve been planning a visit.
in fact as one of their first followers, i even earned myself a free meal (sadly, it expired before i could use it)
and as a life long mac & cheese addict, this just seemed like the best restaurant ever.

all they serve pretty much is mac & cheese.
this, my friends, is a magical idea.

i snatched up a groupon for this place that was soon set to expire, so on sunday, my husband and i made the almost 1 hour drive to kerrisdale to chow down.

the upside of this drive is that it allowed time to contemplate the menu offerings and decide on a mac & cheese.
i was happy to see a gluten free option on the menu, but wasn’t sure i was going to order it until i found out what they used… i’m not a massive lover of the rice pasta, which tends to be mushy and corn pasta is pretty good, but can sometimes have a texture issue too.
but then when i arrived, i was rewarded with quinoa pasta. a most excellent choice.

i went with the quinoa pasta with goat cheese and double-smoked bacon added.
my husband decided to stick with a more traditional offering for his first go and ordered the 4 cheese with good old fashioned white flour pasta.

the results were the following:

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and yes, it was as good as it looked.
both dishes had pasta cooked to perfection and velvety cream sauce and enough cheese for add good flavour and gooey goodness, but not enough to make it too heavy.

my bacon was nicely cooked, not crunchy and cooked to all hell.
and the goat cheese on top was lovely.

we ordered the ultimate size, which it says feeds 1-2 people and thats about right.
i got to this point and then packed it up for leftovers.

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and i gotta say, it was even better the next day.
my husband agreed that his was better as well.

so, i paid $21 for my groupon and ended up shelling out an extra $2.48 upon ordering.
we had 2 meals each out of it plus a salad and a boylan’s root beer each.
and also “bread dippers” which i could have definitely lived without, but we were short by $1 to make our groupon value, so we figured, why not.

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fine work mac shack.
i’ll be back most definitely.

food: new addiction

08 Jun 2012 Leave a Comment

by eat-drink-fly.com in food & cooking, paleo, wheat free Tags: , , , , ,

while as a general rule, i avoid any sort of “meal bar” type foods… i’ve found myself recently indulging in larabar for when i’m out and on the go without a proper meal.

man, those things are tasty.
and expensive.

but when i look at the ingredients, there’s only 5 things or so in most of them…
my current obsession is the chocolate coconut chew that contains dates, walnutes, almonds, coconut and cocoa powder.

which inevitably led me to think… gee, these must be dead easy to make.

and sure enough, a quick google gave me a bazillion recipes for making your own larabar in the food processor.

roadblock 1: i don’t have a food processor.
its on my list of kitchen gadgets to get and increasingly over the last few months i’ve really been able to make a case for having one.  so i think this weekend, i’ll get one.

roadblock 2: actually, no other roadblocks exist.
according to the recipes, they can be made in minutes, with no baking or special processing required.
so really, the only other roadblock is my own laziness.

my nom nom paleo ap for my ipad has a recipe for “liar bars” which are their version of larabar and they look pretty simple… and then this post- how-to-make-homemade-lara-bars had all sorts of recipe variations that sound awesome.

so i think i need a trip down to trader joe’s to stock up on some dried fruit without sugar in order to mix myself up some tasty treats.

my other food obsession lately is coconut.


this one is by no means new… i’ve always been a fierce coconut lover, but lately, it’s been super serious.

everything i cook in oil is in coconut oil or coconut mana… coconut milk goes in my soups and stews… coconut water is my bottled beverage of choice… and just plain coconut is finding its way into my mouth at every given opportunity.

i totally believe this may be nature’s perfect food.
and if not, it’s definitely one of nature’s most delicious ones.

a friend posted a few links last week that i thought were interesting reads that gave me some good ideas on how to further use this superfood.
160 uses for coconut oil
healing properties of coconut water

if you’ve ever had a bad hangover and drank some coconut water, you’re probably already sold on its healing properties, but i always enjoy a little science.

but beyond the nutritional value, it’s damn tasty.
especially when fresh.
if this can be my meal accompaniment, then its happening.

also, just looking at that picture of shrimp truck food from hawaii is making me hungry.
thats from the north shore of oahu on my trip in 2010.  yum yum.

but anyways… my point is that its not unusual to see me like this on vacation:

and if you really want to get crazy, then you also throw some rum in the coconut and it makes you very happy.

anyways… coconut obsession is full on right now.
so if anyone has any amazing coconut recipes that they’d like to share, please, bring them on!

food: paleo tuna cakes

16 May 2012 Leave a Comment

by eat-drink-fly.com in food & cooking, paleo, wheat free Tags: , , , ,

so, as you may have judged by the lack of regular posts, life has been extra real lately.
i’ve not only been busy, but i’ve been very unmotivated.
instead of getting up with the sun and being productive before work (aka – blogging and running/gym), i’ve been hitting snooze and running for my bus to no be late.  not cool.

so today is my first day of up and at’em.
and naturally that means its a blogging morning, not a running morning.  because let’s be realistic here.

that being said, vancouver has skipped spring and launched full tilt into summer.  which, is a-okay with me.
i went from rain jackets and boots to a very unneeded hoodie in a matter of a week.
and i also have fine tuned my summer goals.
there’s a trail running clinic that sounds super fun and it starts in july.  but you have to be able to run 30 minutes to join… and i used to be able to, but i’m very out of practice.  so i have about 6 weeks to get back.
note – vegas will probably not help in this matter.

anyways, i’m also back on the healthy eats.  there’s been some set backs… a lot of decadent non-paleo food has snuck in.
i actually even ate wheat at my anniversary dinner.  it was my first piece of bread in 7 months.
i realized that i had totally forgotten the texture.  also, i still love bread.
but i was determined for it to be a one night stand with the bread and haven’t touched it again since.
i think its going to make italy even more amazing if i can hold out until then because frankly eating that piece last week was like tasting it for the first time.

now, back to the task at hand…
i downloaded an awesome food app for my ipad from nomnompaleo and i’ve been totally inspired by it.
my husband asked last week what to make for dinner and i handed him the ipad and said “anything you find on this app sounds awesome” and he decided on paleo tuna cakes.

this was a fun recipe… you cook and form them in muffin tins and then bake them and before serving, you brown them in a little clarified butter.
the sweet potato in there somehow makes them taste like they have cheese in them.
they’re delicious.

the only problem was that they stuck to the muffin tins.  but i’m not sure if maybe they weren’t greased enough or what… but even in imperfect patties, they were awesome.

and then we did an un-paleo thing and put a little dollop of creme fraiche with chives on top.  because that shit is yum.

i was looking and it seems like the recipe is gone from nomnompaleo.com which i’m guessing is because its meant to drive sales of the app… which is fair enough.  so i won’t post it.
but its worth the couple bucks i paid for it.

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