Spanish Burgers with Caramelized Onion & Chile Relish and Roasted Red Pepper Sauce
Whew, it is a mouthful, but so is this incredible, juicy, decadent burger. This is the burger to impress. Wanna shock the socks off your non-Paleo, skeptical friends? Make this immediately!!!
Roasted Red Pepper Sauce
1/2 cup of thickened coconut milk (the thick part of an unshaken can of coconut milk) or homemade mayo
12 oz. jar of roasted red peppers or roast 3 red peppers beforehand
1 ts. salt
1/2 ts. pepper
Scoop the thickened coconut milk or the homemade mayo into a blender. Add drained roasted red peppers, salt, and pepper. Process till smooth. Set aside in refrigerator for 30 min. to a few days so flavors can deepen.
Caramelized Onion Chile Relish
2 TB of olive oil
2 large sweet onions, finely diced
16oz of roasted/seeded green chiles
1/2 cup of coconut sugar>
salt and pepper to taste
Eat 2 TB of olive oil in a pan over low/medium heat. Add the diced onions, salt and pepper. Add green chiles and coconut sugar. Slowly cook for around 15-20 minutes until the onions are soft and are a deep, caramelized color. Set aside.
Burgers
1 1/2lbs of ground beef
1/2lb of chorizo
1 TB of homemade taco seasoning
1 medium onion, finely diced
Portobello caps (optional for “bun”)
optional toppings: tomato, lettuce, ketchup, mustard, homemade mayo, avocado or guacamole, fried egg, pickles and cheese (if you do dairy)
Add all the ingredients to a big bowl. Get in there with your hands and mix everything up. Form into 5-6 patties. We like to set the raw patties in the fridge to harden up for about 30 minutes before throwing on the grill. Place the burgers on a hot grill and cook to your desired doneness. However, since you are using chorizo, I recommend you cooking them to medium-well (8 minutes per side). If you are grilling the Portobello caps, throw them on and cook about 3-5 minutes per side.
Assemble
Top the burger with caramelized onion relish, roasted red pepper sauce, and another toppings you would like! Put between Portobello caps or 2 big lettuce leaves! ENJOY and feel free to lick the plate!
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Soul Sisters
We make friends. We lose friends. We delete Facebook friends that don’t comment enough. We search for Facebook friends from our childhood. We let go of friends who hurt us. We cling to friends who encourage us. We miss friends that forget about us. And we are confused when friends betray us.
This is life. Friends come and go, sometimes without saying goodbye; sometimes with just one click of a button.
We all have friends. Surface friends. Friends that think they know what is going on in our life by reading Facebook. Why is it so hard for women to have real friends? Why do women make it so hard to be let in? We guard and protect like we are a Lioness protecting her young, except this time, it’s our heart that we are protecting. Is it because we have been hurt so many times in the past by women?
I admire my 3 year old daughter when she is playing someplace new. I watch how she makes immediate friends with a new little girl playing in the same place. There is no, “hi, how are you? Where you from? What’s your name?”. Nope, it’s a visual eye contact with the other little girl, a smile, and then the 2 girls are playing together and traveling to magical lands.
It takes us women months and months to develop that level of friendship. We have to get past all the fakeness first. We have to put on a “SuperMOM” front. And, THEN, if they are still sticking around…then, we MIGHT just let them in a little bit.
When I think about the women, my soul sisters, that are IN…they are in me and understand me…it’s always the ones who didn’t put on a mask from the beginning.
It’s the soul sister that farted or belched in front of me. Or the soul sister that said the “F-word” in front of me. It’s the soul sister that hugged my heart instead of my shoulders. It’s the soul sister made me feel like I didn’t have to try to be Supermom, I could just be my broken, goofy, and messy self.
These soul sisters are stuck with me forever.
Gluten/Sugar/Dairy Free Pie Crust
Thanksgiving morning my mother and I realized we forgot to put a dessert on our menu! We decided to make a my mom’s Pumpkin Pie but we had never had a Paleo pie crust. So, we put our two brains together and made a pretty darn good pie crust! Even my “not-so-Paleo” family members raved about how tasty it was and we have made it a few times since!
The recipe we came up with is too good not to share. I made it again this morning and paired it with Elana’s Pantry Apple Tart. I am in Paleo heaven!
Paleo Pie Crust
1 cup of almond flour
¾ c. shredded coconut
2 TBS. coconut oil
1 egg
Pinch of salt
½ c. chopped walnuts
***preheat oven to 350 and grease a pie pan
1) Process almond flour, coconut, and walnuts in a food processor by pulsing until everything becomes crumb-size. Add egg to the food processor and process until mixed in. Then drizzle the coconut oil and process on low until the mixture forms a nice, smooth ball.
2)Press dough into large size pie pan or 8×8 glass dish. It will press in easier if you use either saran wrap or tinfoil over the mixture and press down on the foil to press evenly around the pan.
3)Bake the crust at 350 degrees for 10-15 minutes until the crust is golden brown. Remove from oven. Cool five minutes, then add the pie filling or cheese cake mixture and bake according to directions.
***If you decide to make the Apple Tart: the directions say not to cook the crust first but to cook the apples and the crust all together. So, you don’t need to pre-cook the crust for this recipe***
One Year Paleo!
Apologies for slacking in the blogging sphere! The Holidays were busy, the kids have been sick, and I came down with strep throat AND the stomach flu at the SAME time! Yes, that was miserable, to say the least. So, 3 ER trips later, we are finally back to our healthy selves and mommy is back to her normal self!
I saw on the news today that only 8% of people stick with their New Years resolution of weight loss. Well, ladies and gentlemen, I am so proud to say that I am that 8%! Last January, I made a New Years resolution to eat healthy, Paleo foods. I started New Years of 2012 with challenging myself to the Whole30. Whole30 was such a success for me and my husband that we haven’t stopped eating Paleo. We are more tolerant now; I would say we are about 80% Paleo. We leave room for grace and the occasional piece of pizza. 🙂
I have never stuck with a resolution, especially a weight loss one. However, I was desperate. I had recently given birth to my wonderful son and had also recently lost my younger sister. I was a fat, depressed mess. Comfort food was pouring into our lives and pounds of extra weight started adding to my body. I wanted to love life again. I wanted to chase my kids out in the grass. I wanted to feel comfortable in my own skin. I desperately reached out to Paleo, praying that this would be the answer.
Thankfully, it was!
I am happy and proud to say that in one year of eating Paleo, I have dropped around 50lbs, I LOVE working out and exercising, I have a ridiculous amount of energy, I keep up with my kids all day long, I have a passion and a ferver for life, and I love inspiring other people to make the same kind of changes.
However, when I talk about this past year and the physical changes that it gave to me, I have to emphasize that the majority of the change happened internally. I’m not sure if it all happened from the inside out like a lot of people say. I think for me it happened from the outside-in. Once I became comfortable in my own skin again, I became more happy
…more joyous
…and more energetic for each day God brought me.
Giveaway Time!!!! PACEout Activewear T-shirt!
In life, everyone needs a pace.
Your pace may change from day to day, hour to hour, minute to minute, but picking your own pace will ensure a strong finish. Life is not about keeping up with others. It’s about starting and finishing strong because the pace you choose…is your own.
pick your pace…stick to it…you’ll finish!
This is the philosophy behind PACEout. PACEout is a clothingline that carries a wide variety of clothes and accessories for men, women and children. The founder of the company, Tara Baraniak, is a woman who has a passion for motivating people into achieving the goals that they desire.
I work-out at the local YMCA and the colors and different styles of PACEout surrounds me day-to-day! We can all take this philosophy and apply it to our own life. We all have a pace in life. The pace we choose will look different than others. My pace is slower than I would like but I look back at myself 50lbs ago and I don’t even recognize the woman that I was. I was weak. I was uncomforable in my skin. I was depressed. My race started when I heard about Paleo and applied it to my eating. I was transformed and I will never go back!
Tara was amazing enough to give me the shirt that she is sponsoring for this giveaway! …and I do LOVE it! It’s a longsleeve T-shirt with PACEout written on the sleeve and the PACEout slogan on the back! It fits great and I feel empowered wearing it! It helps me to remember the pace and path that I have chosen!
You pick your own size and color! Winner will be chosen December 5, 2012.
To enter to win this shirt, CLICK THE LINK BELOW: (ps, this is my first time not drawing from a hat so, be patient with me!)