Breadcrumb Crusted Cod

http://www.eatingwell.com/recipes/breadcrumb_crusted_cod_for_two.html

I really enjoyed this, but David didn't give it as high a rating as I would have.

Note: If only doing 8 oz fish, make half the mayo/yogurt  mixture. It is plenty for topping before baking, and no one ever needs any later on. For a pound of fish make full recipe.

Pumpkin Cheesecake

Pumpkin Cheesecake
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/pumpkin-cheesecake-recipe.html
http://www.celiac.com/articles/23415/1/Cheesecake-with-Gluten-free-Almond-Crust/Page1.html

I used the above recipes combined to create this recipe:

Crust:

¾ cup finely crushed almonds ( put 3/4 c raw almonds into food processor)
¾ cup almond meal (or almond flour)
2 tablespoons granulated sugar
2-3 tablespoons butter, room temperature (i used 3)

Filling:
2/3 or half can of pumpkin puree (~8oz total)
16 oz cream cheese
1/4 cup sour cream
2 eggs plus 1 egg yolk
1 cup sugar
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp ginger
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/8 tsp clove
2 T oat flour
1 tsp vanilla

Press crust in using bottom of pyrex measuring cup. It only went up the sides a tiny bit. I used 8 inch springform pan.

Filling ingredients should be room temperature, especially cream cheese. Follow instructions on Paula Deen recipe.

Put pan of water in lower rack. Put cheesecake on rack above it and bake 50 minutes.

Dirty Rice II

https://www.pauladeen.com/recipe/dirty-rice/

Dirty Rice II

This recipe uses equal parts sausage and chicken liver, and I really enjoyed it. I made something a while ago with all liver and no other meat, and regretted it. This is a good recipe to make in order to get more liver into my diet.

I doubled the vegetables, sauteed them first in a little oil. Then I added sausage, and then minced liver near the end.  Also added cajun seasoning. I cooked 2 cups of dry brown basmati rice in the pressure cooker (15 minutes) with 3 cups water, but next time will use broth.

Black bean and Sweet Potato Enchiladas

Black bean and Sweet Potato Enchiladas

I made this recipe but added some pork I had leftover from another dish. It was great! It worked well with Aldi GF tortillas. I squeezed 7 full tortillas into a 9x13 pan. I also put shredded cheese on top after I took it out of the oven, but you could do it before you put it in. Then served it with sour cream and avocado. The avocado wasn't really necessary. This is another good leftover sweet potato meal after making sweet potato noodles using the spiral slicer.

Lengua Tacos (tongue)

It took me over a year, but I finally used the beef tongue that came with the rest of the cow quarter I purchased. I used this recipe http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/beef_tacos_de_lengua/

But instead of frying the slices at the end, i cut it up in the smaller pieces and fried the small pieces. I probably did it too long, but when I finally turned off the heat, the meat was rendered completely into crunchy chunks. It was a nice texture for tacos, so at least it wasn't mushy as I hear tongue often described.

I served it with queso fresco, red onion, avocado, tomatoes, salsa, and sour cream. I had corn tortillas and dh and kids had flour.

Paleo Carrot Cake with Maple Cream Cheese frosting

http://thestonesoup.com/blog/2015/09/the-best-birthday-present-ever-a-sale/
Paleo Carrot Cake with Maple Cream Cheese frosting

I am sad to say this was not so great. I made it for Clyde's birthday cake. I'm not sure what went wrong, but I would not make this again. I only used 8 oz of cream cheese, but it seriously needed to be blended with something else, like butter or cream. I really don't like it on its own, even if it does have maple syrup in it. The sweetness is too little to notice for me anyway. I used regular pitted dates for this too, not medjool (it doesn't call for medjool, I'm just recording what I did.) I think I'd try the elana's pantry recipe next if I want another carrot cake someday.

Cabbage Carrot Casserole

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/228366/cabbage-carrot-casserole/

Cabbage Carrot Casserole

this was great.

Eggroll in a bowl / Cabbage and pork

http://www.mostlyhomemademom.com/2014/07/eggroll-in-bowl.html

I put in much less soy sauce than called for, and added pinto beans  and halved the meat (since I only had 1/2 lb. It was good. I served it with rice. Ila ate only rice, and Clyde ate nothing at all though:)

Enchilada Stuffed Peppers

This is from Meals Made Simple, p152. The filling is fantastic. This is a great way to use up the leftover sweet potato bits after spiralizing for the arrabbiata recipe. You can just make the filling and serve it with tortillas and avocado.  That is more kid friendly and faster too, when needed.

Sausage and Peppers Arrabbiata

This is on p156 of Meals Made Simple. I adore this recipe. It also makes a large amount, enough to feed our family plus leftovers for 4 lunches for me. I used mild sausage and 1/4 tsp of red pepper.

Ground beef and potatoes

http://www.food.com/recipe/ground-beef-and-potatoes-oh-so-simple-282620

This was easy and delicious. I added some veggies too. David loved it especially.

Potato Pancakes

1 egg
1 med/small potato
1 tbsp almond butter
Salt

Put all in high speed blender. Or, grate potato and then use stick blender to make smooth with the rest of the ingredients.
Cook like regular pancakes and eat with applesauce on top.

Serves 1.

Update: this didn't cook all the way the second time I made it. Maybe it needs some flour after all. Try this next with a suitable Paleo flour. http://stephaniehenkel.hubpages.com/hub/Potato-Pancakes-Like-Mother-Used-to-Make-Only-Easier

Update 2: I followed the recipe linked in the previous update, and it didn't work any better. I used oat flour, and plenty of beef tallow for frying. It didn't cook the middle of the pancakes any better. I think I just have to grate the potato and squeeze it out like in standard recipes in order to have it cook well.

Paleo Lemon Cookies

http://empoweredsustenance.com/paleo-lemon-cookies/

I made these and they were good. It would have been even better if I'd bothered with the icing.

Sausage Casserole

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Sausage-Casserole/Detail.aspx?evt19=1&referringHubId=672&mxt=t06dda
Egg and Sausage Casserole

Recipe based on above link, but I made alterations:

1 lb ground pork sausage
8 large eggs
1/4 cup melted butter
4 cups shredded hashbrowns (thawed)
1 small onion, diced
1 bell pepper, diced
8 oz mild cheddar, shredded
16 oz container small curd cottage cheese
salt, pepper, and 1 tsp ground sage (or alternate fresh/whole)

Mix hashbrowns and melted butter, pat into bottom of 9x13 casserole dish.
Put directly into hot oven @ 375F.

While that is in the oven, chop up and then saute onion and bell pepper in a little oil until soft and pepper has lost some of its moisture. Then add pork sausage and brown it in the same pan.
While browning pork, mix in large separate bowl the cheddar, cottage cheese, eggs, salt, pepper, and sage.
Once sausage is cooked, pour off any extra grease. Then mix the sausage/onion/pepper into the cheese/eggs mixture.

Take the dish out of the oven. Pour mixture over potato crust. Then put back into oven for 40 minutes, or until eggs are fully set and top is golden. (pre-bake time approx 30 minutes)

Barbeque Chicken

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/barbeque-chicken-2/?mxt=t06dda

I roughly followed the method outlined in this recipe for cooking.  I filled up a cookie sheet with 11 legs and 11 thighs. I basted bbq sauce on before covering with tin foil. It was 1h20 minutes total baking time (20 minutes at 500, or nearly 500, and 1 hr at 300), plus two 4 minute high broil sessions after basting on more bbq sauce twice. I used the sauce recipe from the Nourish cookbook.  After the baking session, I poured off excess liquid before basting on sauce.