Appetizers
Cheese Stuffed Meatballs
Ingredients
- meatballs
- herbs
- cheese
Directions
- make meatballs with herbs and cheese
- cook meatballs
Smoked Salmon Rolly Pollies
Ingredients
- smoked salmon
- yoghurt
- garlic
- dill
Directions
- strain yoghurt
- mince garlic and dill
- mix strained yoghurt together with the minced garlic and dill
- roll mixture into the smoked salmon
Tapanade and Crackers
Ingredients
- black, green, and kalamata olives
- fresh garlic
- parmesan cheese crackers (single ingredient)
Directions
- process ingredients in food processor until in tiny chunks but not puréed
- serve with parmesan cheese crackers
Meats
Overnight Roast
Ingredients
- bone-in roast
Directions
- roast the meat
Turkey
Ingredients
- whole turkey
Directions
- roast turkey in oven
Roasted Chicken with Herbs
Ingredients
- whole chicken
- rosemary (winter) or cilantro & lemon/lime (summer)
Directions
- bake chicken in oven
Viking Stuffed Salmon
Ingredients
- whole salmon
- garlic
- leek
- shallot
- juniper or pine needles
Directions
- preheat oven to 400°F
- chop the garlic, leek, and shallot finely
- make cuts in salmon if necessary and place chopped ingredients inside
- place prepared salmon on bed of conifer needles in covered dish
- bake in oven to desired doneness
Sides
Whipped Thyme Carrots
Ingredients
- carrots
- bundle of thyme
- cultured cream
- ghee
- salt
- pepper
Directions
- boil carrots and thyme bundle until carrots are very soft
- add to mixer and blend with cultured cream, ghee, salt, and pepper
Roasted Brussel Sprouts
Ingredients
- brussel sprouts
- ghee
- salt & pepper
Directions
- cover brussel sprouts with ghee, salt, and pepper
- roast until as brown as you like
Pan Seared Cauliflower
Ingredients
- cauliflower
- garlic
- tarragon
- salt
- animal fat
Directions
- mix cauliflower with salt, garlic, tarragon
- cook in pan with animal fat until seared
Beet Kvass Stuffed Eggs
Ingredients
- 1 pack bacon (sugar-free/dextrose-free)
- 12 eggs
- 1 jar beet kvass
- 2 T cultured cream
- Dijon or fermented mustard
- salt & pepper
- capers
- chives
Directions
- Slice into small chunks 1 pack of sugar free, dextrose free bacon and cook in a pan to desired crispness
- Save bacon bits for end of recipe.
- Soft boil 12 eggs for 6 minutes
- Put immediately into filtered ice water
- Peel and half eggs lengthwise, scooping out yolks into a separate bowl
- Place whites into a jar of beet kvass for 24 hours
- Mix 2 TBS cultured cream, 2 TBS liquid bacon fat, clean Dijon or fermented mustard, salt, pepper, capers and chives until smooth, adding more cream or fat if mixture is too dry
- Wrap and put in fridge.
- To assemble, remove whites from kvass and stuff with previously made yolk filling, top with bacon bits
Desserts
Coconut Cake/Muffins/Bread
Ingredients
- 2 c coconut flour
- coconunt milk or cream (for cake)
- cultured cream or kefir or yoghurt (for bread)
- 4 eggs
- 1 stick butter (or 1 c ghee)
- stevia (or monkfruit extract) (optional)
- berries (optional)
Directions
- Preheat oven to 400
- Place 2 cups of coconut flour into a bowl
- Mix in coconut milk or coconut cream for cake until liquid is incorporated and dough holds it’s form
- Mix in cultured cream, kefir or yoghurt for bread until the liquid is incorporated and dough holds it’s form
- Add dough, 4 eggs and 1 stick of room temp butter or 1 cup of ghee to mixer and incorporate well
- Add stevia or monkfruit extract now for cake, omit if a more savory flavour is desired you may also add pure flavoured extract or baking oils at this time
- Mix well and pour into pan coated with ghee
- Bake until middle is firm
- Allow to cool
- For bread, use ghee or butter mixed with fresh garlic and herbs as a dip
- For cake, top with whipped, sweetened (stevia or monkfruit extract) ghee, cultured cream or butter and top with a pinch of cinnamon or add in extracts or baking oils
- You can use cooked berries with cultured cream as as an “icing” for cake or muffins
- Cooked berries are simmered in ghee or other animal fat for 30 minutes and then poured over
Butternut squash pie (only a few times a year)
Ingredients
[Crust]
- 2 cups activated macadamia nuts (or use sprouted macadamia nut butter)
- 1 egg
- 3 T ghee
- 1/4 c coconut flour
- animal fat
[Filling]
- 2 c prebaked butternut squash, skinned and seeded
- 1/2 c cultured cream
- 4 T ghee
- 4 egg yolks
- 2 whole eggs
- 15 drops stevia extract or monkfruit extract
- 2 t vanilla extract
- cinnamon
Directions
-
Preheat oven to 350
-
Crust
- 2 cups activated macadamia nuts (soaked 24 hours in filtered water to cover and a teaspoon of mineral salt, rinsed with filtered/spring water and dried in oven on low heat)
- Mix in food processor until finely ground
- or use 2 cups of purchased, sprouted macadamia nut butter
- Add in 1 egg, 3 TBS ghee
- 1/4 cup coconut flour
- Incorporate ingredients and press into pan that is greased with animal fat
-
Filling
- 2 cups of prebaked butternut squash, skinned and seeded
- 1/2 cup cultured cream
- 4 TBS ghee
- 4 yolks
- 2 whole eggs
- 15 drops stevia or monkfruit extract
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- Blend ingredients until smooth and pour into pan with crust, sprinkle top with small amount of cinnamon, bake for one hour or until top is springy to the touch
Cultured Ice Cream
Ingredients
- cultured cream
- stevia extract
- ingredient options:
- chocolate mint, minced
- decaf espresso
- cooked berries
- baking oils or extracts
Directions
- Combine cultured cream with stevia (to taste) and ingredients of choice
- If you already have an ice cream maker, then you know what to do!
- If you don’t, then:
- pour prepared mixture into shallow baking dish and place in freezer
- stir once per hour until desired thickness is reached
- serve
Mocktails
Directions
- Gerolstiener or Mountain Valley Waters are used for sparkling water
- Each drink should include 6 oz liquid in a rocks class, martini glass, wine glass, etc
- Vodka (or gin) can be added for a cocktail
Mint Julep: muddle mint, add stevia or monkfruit extract, and sparkling water
Raspberry Fizz: muddle raspberry, add a touch of clove, stevia or monkfruit extract, and sparkling water
Juniper Fern: muddle fresh chocolate mint, 3 fresh juniper cones/berries, sweeten with stevia or monkfruit extraxt and place one, dried or fresh fiddlehead fern for garnish in drink
Blackberry Winter: muddle blackberries, a pinch of nutmeg, 2 leaves peppermint, rosemary, sweeten with stevia or monkfruit extract, and pour room temperature rooibos tea over
Strawberry Summer: muddle lemon zest, 1 strawberry, 2 TBS fresh cream, sweeten with stevia or monkfruit extract, room temperature chamomile tea
Orange Autumn: muddle 1 orange zest, pinch of clove, cinnamon, nutmeg and grate pinch fresh ginger, 1 TBS fresh cream, sweeten with stevia or monkfruit extract, room temperature English breakfast tea (only have one)
Sparkling Spring: muddle lime zest and fresh or dried hibiscus, add stevia or monkfruit extract and sparkling water
Note: If you drink alcohol, have 2 T beet kvass afterwards.