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Paleo salad dressing: Make healthy dressing in 2 minutes

November 4, 2011 by · Leave a Comment
Healthy paleo salad dressing

When you eat a real food diet or a paleo diet you are going to end up eating a lot of vegetables. Eating lots of vegetables will undoubtedly mean salads. The problem with salads is the salad dressing.

Even the “healthy lite” dressings are really garbage. Go ahead, pick up a bottle of healthy dressing and see if you can read all the ingredients. Also I can promise you there will be either sugar or high fructose corn syrup in there.

In this video I show you how with balsamic vinegar, olive oil, dijon mustard, garlic and chipotle Tabasco sauce you can make a killer dressing in less than two minutes.

Make a little, make a lot, whatever floats your boat. I promise it will taste better than any store bought salad dressing too.

Also make sure you check out my first recipes video when I made paleo ketchup.

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Real food: Homemade buffalo wings

September 30, 2011 by · 3 Comments
Wings and veggies ready to eat

I love my buffalo wings. If you have read this blog in the past you know how much I love them, even entering a buffalo wing contest for fun. The only issue with buffalo wings is now that I am eating real food, buffalo wing hot sauce is not exactly something that is on the menu these days. I only eat fresh food, nothing processed and buffalo sauce has plenty of garbage and sugar or corn syrup in it. So no thanks.

But you can’t just sperate guy and his hot wings that easy. So off I went on a quest to find a good buffalo hot sauce. After a long search I found a few recipes and combined some things to come up with a kick-ass hot sauce that is better than any processed sauce I have ever had. The best thing is, even the kids agree.

The first thing you need is about three pounds of chicken wings. Now that I am not eating these many in a sitting training for my contest, they will typically feed the whole family. Here is a trick to the wings. If you like really crispy wings, make sure the skin is very dry. The drier the wing is, the crispier the skin seems to turn out. And when you have a picky daughter like my Anna, this is good to know.

Preheat the oven to 450 and cook the wings for about 25 minutes. Then take the wings out, flip them over and cook for another 25 minutes. They will look something like this.

Cooked wings

While the wings are cooking we are going to prepare the sauce in a pan on the cook top. In a large sauce pan add 1/2cup of butter (I can’t believe it’s real butter) over low heat. Stir in 2 fresh chopped garlic cloves, 1 teaspoon of paprika, 1 tablespoon of cider vinegar and 5 tablespoons of Chipotle sauce. This sauce will be close to a standard medium in most restaurants.

Ingredients to mix

Mix the ingredients over low heat.

Buffalo sauce ready to go

Now with the wings ready, put some of the wings into a container with a sealable cover, pour in some of the sauce and shake. Make sure you hold that top on tight. Repeat this until all the wings are coated.

Wings seasoned

Then plate and deliver. You are going to love these wings, great flavor and they won’t be spiking your blood sugar levels like store bought sauce will.

Wings and veggies ready to eat

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How to make no sugar ketchup in minutes

September 14, 2011 by · 6 Comments

And now for something completely different. I mentioned last week in a post that The Productive Dad was going to expand to talk about some other things such as real food, as in not processed junk. Here is one of my favorites, ketchup.

Ever look at a ketchup bottle, it is mostly water and high fructose corn syrup or sugar. Well if you are trying to eat real foods, even though ketchup is yummy, it does not fall into real or healthy in any way. The great thing is it only takes less than 5 minutes to make.

Here is a recipe I use. If you have a recipe of your own let me know.

For those who want productivity, I am working on a test project right now that may get me changing the way I work forever. More to come on that next week.

My first cooking video… be gentle

Here is how it is made
In a food processor combine:
6oz tomato paste
2/3 cup apple cider vinegar
1/3 cup water
2 tbsp onion
2 garlic cloves (can go 1 clove if not a garlic fan)
1 tsp sea salt
1/8 tsp allspice
1/8 tsp ground cloves
1/8 tsp pepper

Run the food processor until all the onion and garlic chunks are gone and put it in the refrigerator.

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