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Recipe: Side Dish – Slow Cooking ‘Greens’ with Bacon

30 Wednesday Nov 2016

Posted by ByCandace in Food

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#bacon, #greens, #instantpot, #recipe, #sidedish, #slowcooker, #southernstyle

Growing up in Texas ‘Greens’ is something I grew-up eating. My grandmother would pick and cook polk salad greens, collard greens, turnip greens, and mustard greens. I honestly can’t remember if I liked them or not, but I certainly remember them cooking in a BIG pot on the stove with a giant ham hock in them.

I like to cook mine an easy way. I start them in the morning and they are ready by dinner.

Recipe: Side Dish – Slow Cooking ‘Greens’ with Bacon


Tools:

  • Large Slow Cooker
  • Chopping Knife
  • Cutting Board
  • Frying Pan
  • Large Slotted Spoon
  • ½ cup measuring cup

Ingredients:

  • ½ – 1 lb of Thick-cut Peppered Bacon
  • 1 Yellow or White Onion
  • 6 – 10 garlic cloves
  • Greens (of choice) I like the Great Greens Trio at HEB (because they are easy. I usually am a stickler for organic, but sometimes easy wins out)
  • 32 oz Homemade or Purchased Bone Broth
  • ½ cup of Apple Cider Vinegar
  • ½ cup Franks Original Hot Sauce
  • Seasonings: Salt, Pepper, Garlic Powder
  • Water (filtered)

Directions:

Chop the onion first and set aside. Chop the garlic cloves and set aside (do not mix with onions).

Then cut the bacon (cut 5+ strips, stacked at a time) in 1” pieces and fry in your pan, I like to add some garlic powder to my bacon while it cooks to layer flavor. Transfer the bacon after fully cooked into the slow cooker.

If you have an overabundance of bacon grease pour it into a glass jar leaving enough in the pan to sauté the onions and garlic. Then put the onions into the pan, season with pepper, garlic powder, and a little salt until nice and brown. In the last few mins add in your garlic cloves – as soon as you can smell the garlic remove from heat and transfer into the slow cooker.

Pour in the bone broth (should be about ½ way up the side of the crock pot). Add the ACV and hot sauce. Stir.

Dump in ½ the pre-washed pre-cut greens of choice and season then add in the rest and season again. Squish it all down in the liquid with your hands.

Then fill the rest of the crock pot with filtered water, leaving at least 1” of room at the top.

Secure lid and cook on high for 6 hours or on low for 10-12.

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I’m certain this recipe can be easily done in an Instant Pot as well, sautéing the bacon first, then the onions and garlic, then adding in the liquid, greens, and cooking. I’ve not cooked greens in it yet so I’m not sure how long to suggest setting the heat/timer for…..perhaps we would use the “Soup” button?

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Bone Broth

05 Friday Aug 2016

Posted by ByCandace in Food

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#bonebroth, #broth, #crockpot, #instantpot, #kettle&fire, #slowcooker, #thrivemarket

Bone broth has become very trendy and all the rage over the past couple-ish years for good reason. It is an incredibly healthy food that was all but lost from most homes. It’s back now and so very important for optimal health and longevity.

Just about every Paleo/Ancestral/Whole Food blogger has a post or multiple posts on the value and nutrition of bone broth.

You can also purchase pre-made bone broth. Other than Kettle & Fire Grass-fed Bone Broth which I do usually keep in my pantry at all times, I find that the others are pretty expensive considering it doesn’t cost very much to make it yourself.

Here are some of the folks I trust, if you are going to purchase instead of make it.

  • Kettle & Fire – This is my favorite; you can get the beef or chicken at Thrive Market.
  • Bare Bones Broth
  • The Brothery
  • Boneafide Provisions Restorative Bone Broth
  • The Osso Good Co.
  • Au Bon Broth
  • The Flavor Chef

Be aware of boxes of “broth” you can purchase in the average grocery store, they are full of all kinds of yucky ingredients you don’t want in your body. Read your labels.

How I Make Bone Broth

I like using my large oval crockpot or Instant Pot on slow-cooker mode. I prefer the low-n-slow method. You can do my way in a stainless steel stock pot on the stove as well.

I am always collecting bones; large ziploc bag of bones in my freezer at all times. When I get a full gallon size freezer ziploc bag full of bones, I know it is time to make broth.

The quality of your bones is really important; get grass-fed beef, free-range pastured chickens and pork bones. You can also make stock from duck, turkey, lamb, or deer.

The bones that I collect are mostly from our dinners, I save all our chicken bones and steak bones, pork chop bones etc. These work the best because they were seasoned well and browned in the cooking process. I keep the fat on the bones if I can and save it too along with the fat that I cut off and don’t eat. I mix my bones and use all the different types in each batch.

If you buy a bag of bones from a butcher, store, or farm I suggest putting some salt and pepper on them and roasting them in and brown in the oven before making broth from them; it provides so much more flavor.

Bone Broth Instructions

I get my crockpot out and fill it with good filtered water, I turn it on high and let the water start getting really hot.

I add ¼ cup of apple cider vinegar and some real salt. You can add additional salt to the finished product as well, should you not add enough at the start.

Then I pull out my very favorite secret – Regency Soup Socks I put all my bones in one soup sock and tie a double knot at the top. I put the bones in the water.

Timing: Some people like to cook their bones for 24 hours. I like to cook mine for 10 – 12 hours because that is how many hours on my crockpot and am able to plan ahead for. The longer you cook the more gelatinous the result should be; it also depends on your bones. The longer you cook it the deeper and richer the flavor will be.

Note: If you use the stove-top you want to get it to a good boil to start then lower the heat to a simmer. Watch to make sure your water doesn’t get too low; you may have to add water. You do not have to add water to the crockpot, since it is sealed, and it creates more of a gelatinous result.

In a second soup sock I add onion, garlic cloves, celery, a couple bay leaves, 1 – 2 lemons cut in ½ or ¼ – I squeeze the juice in and then throw them in the bag. I like to wait until around 4 hours before the broth is done cooking before I add this bag to the crockpot. You can also add fresh or dried herbs, but wait until a couple of hours before you are done before adding them.

Once it is done cooking, I pull the bags out and trash them.

I let the broth cool for a while, but not all the way.

Once it is cooler, I get my jars, strainer, and a ladle and put it in the containers.

I allow them to sit uncovered until completely cooled to room temperature.

I put them in the fridge and freezer and use them as needed.

Uses for Your Broth

It is awesome to warm up a mug and add some lemon and sea salt and drink it every day. The healing effects on your body over time will be very noticeable. I love to use it for my liquid to warm up foods. And naturally, making soup with the broth is a great way to get it in your diet.

Leave me a comment and let me know if and how you use bone broth in your life.

 

I purchase my Kettle & Fire Grass-fed Bone Broth from Thrive Market –

Thrive Market allows you to shop for all the healthy food items you know and love at discount prices, because they cut out the middle man, and it gets delivered to your door so it also saves you time. Not only to you save money, but for every paid membership Thrive Gives a membership to a family in need.

I’m currently projected to save $500 – $600 on my groceries in 2016 by purchasing from Thrive Market.

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