Lion House Meatballs (with or without dairy and sugar)

Lion House Meatballs

(Follow the ALT info to keep sugar and dairy out of this delicious dish)

Ingredients:

1# ground beef

3/4 c rolled oats

2 eggs

1/2 c chopped onion (or 2 T dried onion flakes)

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1/2 c milk (ALT: use Almond Milk)

original: 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce

ALT: 1/2 tsp balsamic vinegar, 1/2 tsp liquid smoke

Mix the main meatball items above; kneading with clean hands.  Add one of the two sauces listed. Mix again.

Roll them into meatballs and cook. Preheat oven to 350 F.

Or make mini meatloaf by dropping them into 24 cupcake tins (about 1/4 c each).  Shown above. 

Bake at 350 F for 15 min

Crockpot: cook for 2 hours on high then 1 hour on low.

Super fast: double recipe and spread on 13x9 pan. Bake at 350 for 25 min. cut into squares after it's baked.

Meanwhile, make the sauce.

Original: 1/2 c brown sugar, 1/4 c. vinegar, 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce, 1 tsp prepared mustard, 1/4 c BBQ sauce.

ALT: 1/4 c stevia mix, 1/4 c vinegar, 1 tsp tamari, 4 T cucumber dressing (see below)

Mix well and place in a medium pan on the stove. Cook on low stirring often until it thickens. Turn off stove and place lid on the sauce to keep it warm until the meatballs are done.

Once the meatballs are done, serve with sauce on the side or dripped all over. So good!

Note: Cucumber dressing= 1/2 peeled cucumber, 1 T apple cider vinegar, 1 T balsamic vinegar

Dave's Never Fail Chocolate Chip Cookies

Dave's Never Fail Chocolate Chip Cookies (makes 4 dozen)

Ingredients

3/4 c. white sugar
3/4 c. brown sugar
1/2 c. margarine
3 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
1 tsp. baking soda
2 1/2 c. - 2 3/4 c. flour
10 oz. chocolate chips

Directions
1- Mix both sugars and margarine.
2- Add eggs, vanilla, baking soda - blend well.
3- Add flour until desired consistency.
4- Fold in chocolate chips.
5- Drop by Tablespoon on greased cookie sheet.
6- Bake 10-12 min. @ 350 F.

Fresh Tomato Soup - with Paleo option

This is a winner. We add either coconut milk, whole milk or 

heavy whipping cream to cool it down to each serving.  

This way everyone can have it just the way they want it!

See note at bottom to understand difference in color.

Our half batch made 2 qt jars full of delectable soup.

 

Our variations - we did not use butter, just oil. And we added 

1 cup celery with the sliced garden tomatoes. 

For deeper red color, add 3/4 can tomato paste to half of the blended batch.

Cranberry White Chocolate Chip Cookies

 

See https://happyhooligans.ca/white-chocolate-chip-cranberry-cookies

so good!

Apple Millet Breakfast

 

 Soak 1/3 c dried apples in 2 cups water.

Take apples out of water and add enough additional water to make 2 cups.

Place 1 c millet and apple water in Instant Pot. Add 1 tsp cinnamon, 1 T olive oil, 1/2 tsp pink Himalayan salt, and 1-2 T each - soft apples and chopped dates.

Pressure cook on high 10 min and let naturally cool.

Serve with a scoop of coconut milk and more (rehydrated) sliced apples if desired.

Chocolate Oatmeal Balls

 You can eat these without baking them, but I would take out the baking soda and baking powder if you do that.  Otherwise, follow the directions below:

Coconut Oatmeal Cookies

I threw this together when I was at my sister's home and had limited ingredients:

Note: Coconut oil should be softened. Almond milk and eggs should be room temperature. Or your coconut oil will become chunky. 

Place first 4 ingredients in large mixing bowl. Blend well on low speed.

Add monk fruit, cinnamon and chia seeds. Mix again. 

Put the tapioca starch on to the top of the wet ingredients in mixing bowl. Then create a little crater in the center of the starch. Add baking powder, baking soda and salt into that crater and with a fork mix those dry ingredients gently within the dry pile. Now blend well - dry and wet ingredients. 

(*) GREAT WAY TO AVOID the extra step and dirty bowl. When you see "sifting dry ingredients in almost any cake and cookie recipe!

Add oatmeal, raisins, almonds and mix gently - just until blended.

On a greased cookie sheet drop by Tablespoonfuls. You should have 30 small cookies.

Bake at 350 F for 10-12 minutes. If 10 min, let the cookies cool down on the baking pan before moving. If 12 min, move to cooking racks and cool completely before eating.