Roasted Spaghetti Squash with Caramelized Onions and Mushrooms

Ingredients:

• 1 spaghetti squash
• 2 onions, sliced
• 8oz mushrooms, assorted, sliced
• olive oil
• salt
• pepper

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350°F, halve squash lengthwise and scoop out seeds, lay halves, flesh side down, on sheet and bake 40-45 minutes or until you can easily pierce shell with a fork.
2. Meanwhile, saute onion in oil over medium heat until browned.
3. Add mushrooms, cover and let cook until tender.
4. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
5. Scrape squash crosswise to pull strands from shell and top with onion and mushroom mixture to serve.

Carrot and Sweet Potato Soup

Ingredients:

• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 3 garlic cloves, minced
• 1 large onion, peeled and chopped
• 1 tbsp grated, ginger
• 2 tsp ground cumin
• 6 or 7 large carrots, peeled and chopped
• 2 sweet potatoes, peeled and chopped
• 1 can chicken stock
• 2 cans water
• salt

Directions:

1. Heat oil in a large saucepan over a medium, add onions and let soften until translucent.
2. Add garlic and ginger and cook for a few minutes.
3. Add carrots and sweet potato and roast for 5 minutes.
4. Add stock and water, cover and cook for 15 minutes or until tender.
5. Remove from heat and puree in a blender until smooth.
6. Add salt to taste.
7. Top with croutons (optional).

Braised Pork Top Loin, Take 2

Ingredients:

3 lb pork top loin

2 tbsp Worcestershire

1 head pressed garlic

1 tbsp ginger, grated

1/2 cup parsley, finely chopped

1 tbsp salt

1/2 tsp black pepper 

1/2 tsp white pepper

1/2 tsp chipotle pepper

2 onions, chopped

2 carrots, diced

1 green apple, diced

2 cups mixed potatoes, diced

2 pints "light" beer

olive oil

Directions:

1. preheat oven to 250F.  In a small bowl, combine garlic, ginger, parsley, salt, all peppers and Worcestershire sauce.  Rub loin with mixture.  Coat bottom of brasier with olive oil, set pork with fat side up and cover

2. cook pork for 6 hours in preheated oven

3. remove pork from pan, leaving juices behind, let rest, increase oven temp to 300F

4. in pan with juices, caramelize onions, add other veggies

5. remove fat from pork and slice thinly

6. return pork to pan, pour beer over dish, cover with lid and cook for 1.5 hours

Bacon Avocado Egg Salad

Ingredients:

1 avocado

3 eggs, hard-boiled

3 strips of bacon

salt & pepper

Directions:

1. cut bacon into thin strips and fry until crispy

2. peel and mash avocados

3. coarsely grate eggs

4. mix all ingredients together and season with salt and pepper to taste

Honey Lime Cilantro Chicken Skewers

Ingredients:

1 chicken breast

1 lime

1/2 cup cilantro, chopped

1 tbsp honey

2 tbsp soy sauce

1 tsp garlic chili paste

Directions:

1. juice the lime and combine the juice with cilantro, lime, honey, soy sauce, and garlic chili paste

2. cube chicken and to the marinade mixture, let sit [in the fridge] for at least an hour

3. arrange chicken on skewers and grill

Roasted Sweet Potato Hash

Ingredients:

2 sweet potato, grated

2 golden beet, grated

3 carrots, grated

2 fuji apples, grated

1 large onion, sliced or diced

olive oil

salt

pepper

Directions:

1. in a large pan, cook onions until browned

2. add grated ingredients and cook until dry

3. season with salt and pepper to taste

Tropical Chicken Salad

Ingredients:

2 chicken breast, cooked

1 mango

1 kiwi

1 avocado

1/4 red onion

1 container Greek yogurt

salt

Directions:

1. dice chicken, mango, kiwi, and avocado into cubes

2. finely chop red onion

3. in a large mixing bowl, mix all together.  Add salt to taste