Vietnamese / Thai style beef salad (AIP, GF)

Lovely fresh flavours when you're just wanting a light dinner or lunch.

If you have AIP compliant fish sauce feel free to use some of that too :) I would also add finely chopped lemon grass in with the onion at the start next time.

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enough for 1-2 people:

1 tab lard (or coconut or olive oil)
1 small onion, sliced finely
2-300g beef mince (or pork or chicken)
3 cloves garlic, finely chopped
finely sliced shallots / spring onions
1 carrot, grated
1 cucumber, finely diced
1/2 bunch of coriander, chopped
about 20-30 mint leaves, chopped
juice of half a lemon or lime
salt & black pepper to taste

heat lard over medium-high heat. add onion and cook until softened. turn heat up slightly and add mince. cook, stirring, until all pink is gone.

Turn heat off and add in all other ingredients. mix well and serve.


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Bacon Lemon Breakfast Pork Patties (AIP, GF, TMX)

Breakfasts aren't too hard when you're on holidays, but returning to work tomorrow means I need to get organised to ensure I can eat a good AIP (Autoimmune Protocol) breakfast.

Doing AIP has let me rediscover my love of pork, but I'm sure you could choose chicken for this, or maybe even beef.

These were delicious!!

this made enough for 5 breakfasts for me.

If you don't have a thermomix just finely chop / grate everything and mix by hand :)




Bacon Lemon Breakfast Pork Patties

3 garlic cloves, peeled
zest of 1/4 - 1/2 lemon
2 whole bacon rashers, cut into 4 pieces
1 carrot, ends removed & cut into 4 pieces
500g pork mince
black pepper

chop garlic and zest in thermomix on speed 6 until you hear it stop hitting the sides - around 5 seconds
add bacon and carrot, then chop on speed 6 until almost all big pieces are gone
add pork mince and pepper, turn to closed lid and hid turbo until well mixed. you may need to use a spatula to ensure mix is combined evenly.

form into 10 patties and fry in a little bacon fat or lard until brown and cooked through.

I then fried some bacon in the pan, and then cooked sliced mushrooms and baby spinach. also served with half a diced avocado - yum!


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AIP honey-orange chicken (PC, GF, AIP)

A recipe suitable for the Autoimmune Protocol and your pressure cooker.

2 tb coconut oil
2kg chicken drumsticks (or thighs etc)
Juice of 2 large oranges
2 tb honey
2 tspns AIP allowed stock concentrate
1 tspn turmeric
1 tspn coriander (dried)
1/2 tspn mustard seeds (omit for AIP)
Around 200ml coconut cream
1/2 - 1 bunch fresh coriander,  chopped roughly

Melt oil and fry chicken until mostly browned.
Add all other ingredients and bring to the boil
Put pressure cooker lid on, seal and lock. Use setting 2
When button goes up cook for 15 minutes.
I let the pressure release naturally.

I had mine with sweet potato and Brussels sprouts and my kids had with rice and peas.

Pesto style salad dressing (GF, DF, TMX)

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 Needed a quick salad dressing for lunch so threw half a bunch of fresh basil in the thermomix. added maybe 1/4 cup pine nuts (or almonds or cashews), good sprinkle salt and a few tabs of olive oil. I used a blood orange flavoured one. chop on speed 6 for maybe 5 seconds.

i found that this wasn't enough ingredients to get a smooth dressing happening but it was a nice chunky dressing.

I served mine over mixed leaves, cooked chicken and avocado, but i think something to add a little sweetness - some cranberries, or roast pumpkin or sweet potato, would have added to it.

Dairy-free Cauliflower Pizza Base - tested

 I made the Dairy-free cauliflower pizza base last night. mine is green because i put parsley and basil in it lol

 I didn't mind it and would definitely have it again. however there is no way I'd sneak this past any of my family. I think perhaps the dairy version with cheese would be more successful for sneaking ;)

I did learn that making one big base is not a good idea, as the edges were nice and crispy, but the middle was thick and soggy. I will make small individual "pieces" instead.

I also steamed my cauliflower in the tmx basket (lined with baking paper) and i suspect that was an error as it made it much wetter than it should have been.

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