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Please do. It's delicious. I'm eating it again right now and I'm sad to see the figs go...

 

 

<3 My number 1 food fan!

 

 

Tonight, rubbish_tiger and I decided to make a GIGANTIC batch of what we like to call Sauce. We call it that because back before paleo, this is what we topped our spaghetti with. When we cut out pasta, we didn't wanna cut out this, so now we eat it sort of like a cross between hamburger soup and chili. It freezes and fridges really really well, and only gets 1 pot dirty. Score!

 

Sauce

You need:

- 1 package of ground meat (pork, lean beef, turkey, whatever)

- 1 can of tomatoes (I like whole, mostly for the fun of mashing them up in the pan)

- 1 small? or medium? onion (who decides onion sizes??)

- garlic to taste (I use at least 4 cloves regardless of the size of the dish because I love garlic)

- salt and pepper 

- Italian Seasoning mix or dried basil and dried oregano. 

- hot sauce or cayenne pepper if you like some kick. 

- some oil

- a pot

 

Your mission:

- heat oil over medium in the bottom of the pan. Use enough to thinly coat the bottom (1 tbsp? 2? You might be able to tell I don't measure a lot)

- dice your onion and dump that in. Stir and cook for 3 minutes or so. 

- In the meantime, peel and chop up your garlic. Dump it in when it's chopped up. 

- once the garlic and onion make your kitchen smell amazing, add the package of ground beef and break it up with your spatula while it browns. 

- Once the beef is thoroughly brown and broken into little pieces, add some of the juice from the tomato can. Mix it up and let some of that moisture cook off.

- add the herbs

- add the remaining tomatoes. Stir. 

- If its too watery, either let some of that water cook off or use the cornstarch trick from the Coconut Curry Chicken recipe above (or use arrowroot, like Wideyeed said. That's what the truly paleo folks do. I haven't tried it yet though, so I can't really endorse it fully.)

- taste and add more salt if it needs it. 

 

Tada! Sauce. It isn't pretty, but it's tasty and filling and cheap. Top it with parmesan cheese and you're golden. It's also a GREAT leftover-and-languishing-veggie-user-upper. Shredded chicken from last night? In you go! Droopy looking celery? Throw it in! Mushrooms looking a little shrivelly? Add them too! It's good stuff. Promise.  

THIS SOUNDS AWESOME! I'm gonna try it next week for family dinner...nom nom nom

I make stuffed mushrooms with it...I made some that were paleo friendly, I brown the sausage, when its almost done i throw in diced red onions to cook with it and diced up jalepenos and then I make sure to drain the grease and I used eggs as a binder and stuffed the mushrooms with it and baked at 350 for approximately 20 mins.

I have in the past also put freshly grated parmesean on top of it towards the end to let it crisp up and give a bit of a crust...

My dog personally loves this part as a treat with his food...

I do a pretty basic salsa, tomatoes, red onion, cilantro, lime, garlic and serranos... ( i like them because they have a better flavor than jalepenos IMO). Sometimes I chop everything up, sometimes I take out my trusty food processor, sometimes i use my mortar and pestal and sometimes I add fruit to it...(peaches, mangos, strawberries, apples...[not all together]) 

Hi everyone! I just started my adventure in paleo/primal eating as of March 10th. My goal is to see how I feel and do for 30 days.  I've been scouring the internet for recipes etc and I find a lot of things that I'm unsure are Paleo/Primal and I want to see everyones thoughts... A lot of people use arrowroot powder as a thickening agent or in place of flour in recipes...  I'm not sure how I feel about it. I almost feel like it's cheating, or rather defeating the purpose of taking this route as a style of eating and I would love some experienced input/opinions.

Thanks!