Passion for food

This Casserole recipes is quick and delicious. The nice thing about Casseroles in general is that you can season them however you want, and add or remove whatever you like! I went with peppers onions, corn  and garlic for mine, but whatever you have that's fresh will work! Just don't add too much moisture, stick to two cups of liquid per cup of rice otherwise you may wind up with a soupy casserole! One Pot Chicken and Rice Casserole Recipe - Passion for Food 4 Bone-in skin-on chicken thighs 1 Bell pepper 1 Large onion 3-4 cloves garlic 1 Tbs chill powder 1 cup rice 2 cups water/stock Salt & Pepper to taste Sear both sides of chicken thighs in a dutch oven, drain oil, add chopping vegetables, garlic, water/stock, rice, and salt & pepper to taste. Bake at 350 for 45 minutes. Enjoy!

These meatballs are easy to make and amazingly good! Easy Baked Everyday Meatballs Recipe - Passion for Food 1.5 Lbs ground beef 1.5 Lbs ground pork 1 Large onion 1 large carrot 2-3 stalks celery 4-5 cloves garlic 1/2 can tomato paste 2 Tbs butter 3 large eggs 2 cups bread crumbs 2 Tbs salt & pepper to taste Combine the vegetables & garlic and chop very fine, saute in butter until tender, add tomato and cook till a fond forms.  Combine everything together and form balls. Cook at 350F for 25 minutes, then broil for 5 minutes or until golden brown. Enjoy! 

These easy Banana bread muffins are quick and delicious!  I made some changes to the original recipe that really makes a big difference. I'm not usually the biggest banana bread fan, but I love these. Mainly I switched out vegetable oil for grass fed butter, and added an extra banana. Small changes can have big effects.  You are welcome to add chopped nuts to these which would be a classic move, but there is just something about the texture of nuts that have been cooked into muffins and breads I do not like so I skip it! If you watch the video you will notice I don't mention salt, woops! That is because I am using salted butter. If you use unsalted you do want to add a dash of salt to your banana-batter. Easy Banana Bread Muffins Recipe - Passion for food 1 Cup white sugar 2 Cups all purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 cup of salted butter (if unsalted add 1/4th teaspoon salt) 1 egg 4 VERY ripe large Bananas  Combine, pour into 12 sl...

Stir fried beef and peppers is a favorite dish of mine! And although it may be a challenge to make it properly on a flat top stove it can be done with a little trick here and there. Don't have a Wok? Rather than try and make a stir fry in a shallow pan like a 12" skillet which will have veggies trying to constantly make a break for it, try a large flat bottom pot like a stainless steel soup pot. Especially if you have a flat top stove you will actually be able to cook it faster this way. But beware! You wont be able to use the banking the veggies up the side of the wok trick to prevent over-cooking. Why not non-stick you may ask? You can kind-of-sort-of make that work, but I wouldn't and here's why! The key to any good stir fry is heat and lots of it. To get the flavor really developed you want that sear on the veggies, and you also want some caramelization forming on the pan itself sometimes called the "fond" or base. This will be base of the final sa...

This sugar free strawberry lemonade is the best! I was inspired to make this by all of the various flavored lemonades I see in stores and places like Sonic that offer that diet limeade. The problem with all that stuff? It's not very good, at all! Plus have you seen those ingredient lists?  Is this a glass of lemonade or some kind of dark Alchemy?! So of course I came up with my own version with only 4 ingredients (5 if you count water), because that's just how I roll. And once I had perfected this, I can not drink that commercial stuff anymore.  It all tastes like someone spilled perfume in there, yuck! But with my version all you can taste is the fresh lemons and strawberries, the way it should be! As I noted on the video, if you are worried about using Erythritol, well don't be its fine! But if you are anyway feel free to just use sugar. As for the Splenda if you're not a fan you can use Stevia, monk fruit, or whatever you are more comfortable using to round...

Hack for the best hickory smoked pulled pork BBQ! The best BBQ Pulled pork takes time! But maybe not as much time as you think. With this simple, literal food "hack" you can shave several hours off of your total cooking time. Barbecue restaurants usually brag about how their BBQ pork is "slow smoked" for 12, sometimes even 24 hours! To me thats just crazy, and explains why commercial BBQ is usually bone dry and then covered in sauce in the hopes we wont notice. Well that's not how we will be doing things today! In today's recipe I will show you how to take an 8lb pork shoulder from start to finish in about 5 hours. The real trick is the two stage cooking method. Some people may be worried that we started our pork out a little hotter than most traditional recipes at around 300F. Traditional wisdom says "low and slow, start at 245 and keep it there!" Well that's just flat wrong. By cooking at a bit hotter while its on the grill we encoura...

Quick and delicious BBQ Sauce This quick and easy BBQ Sauce is well balanced and a great alternative to the bottles of sugar syrup we find on store shelves! One of the reasons I originally came up with this recipe was to find a low sugar low carb barbecue sauce as I was trying to eat ketogenically.  I still think limiting carbs is a smart way to eat, but even though I've re-incorporated a lot of daily carb eating this sauce still shines!  I actually use erythritol for this not sugar, out of all of the sugar substitutes according to my reaserch erythritol comes the closest to normal sugar without any of the nasty side effects some of the others like  xylitol and  sorbitol which can upset some peoples stomachs.  The name makes it sound kind of scary, but its produced from normal sugar by fermentation with a particular kind of yeast, so have no fear!  Barbecue Sauce recipe - Passion for food 1/2 cup apple cider vinig...