Recipes: Potato & Bacon Chowder

                 Hey Everyone! Happy Friday!! Well, in Nashville we had 3 inches of snow earlier in the week and this weekend its in the 60's geez oh mighty, if that doesn't mess up your body I don't know what will haha! I loved every minute of the snow and snow days! Hopefully we will get some more before the season is up. Anywhoo, I wanted to share this great recipe that we tried this week on our Week 3 of Whole 30. We are still kicking, yep still making it, it's never easy but always good haha! We tried this one night and loved this easy and delicious recipe and thought it would be fun to share with you all. This is a whole30 recipe/paleo/ GF/DF all that goodness.

             This was a perfect dish for a cold week! I made this in the slow cooker; therefore, I included the slow cooker details below as well as the recipe. I found this from another gal who is paleo and whole30 named Paleo Bailey on social media and her website is linked below if you would like to see more of her recipes as well. This one is great!! Enjoy xo :)

Potato and Bacon Chowder 

Ingredients: 

-3 large white potatoes 

-1/2 cup of onions (I used white and also green onions as well)

-6 slices of bacon crumbled
-28 oz of chicken stock  

-2 cups of almond milk 

-3 tablespoons ghee butter

- 1 1/2 tablespoons of arrowroot powder as the thickener

-3 tablespoons of parsley flakes

-salt and pepper to taste

Details:

For your crockpot:

-Add all of the ingredients besides cooked bacon, almond milk and thickener to your crock pot

-Then cook this on high for 3-4 hours 

-Then, add in your almond milk to a large skillet on the stove top over medium heat, add in thickener, whisk until thick and until it bubbles and the clumps dissolve, then add into your crock pot

-Lastly, stir in the cooked bacon and allow your soup to thicken 

-I garnished the soup with green onions and bacon :)

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this recipe is from: Paleo Bailey head to: Paleo Bailey Recipes Including this Recipe

for more of her recipes 

Here are some pictures of this recipe that we made this week:

recipe: semi-homemade summer berry cake

           Hi everyone! Happy Monday! I hope you all had a great weekend. Reed and I had a great weekend with my family in town and spending some down time on Sunday catching up on the house, relaxing, and enjoying a Sunday drive. It was nice and cool on Saturday and it made me excited for fall and cooler temps to come. Hopefully that will be here sooner than later :)

           I have been wanting to make a nice berry cake for summer and I just got around to it this past weekend. This is totally semi-homemade and not much of a recipe but it was delicious and made for a pretty cake; therefore, I wanted to share. I purchased an angel food cake at the grocery store and whipped up some icing and decided to make it look good by adding berries on top. A nice fresh and fluffy cake for Summer. For the icing I used powdered sugar and cream cheese and whipped it together to put on top of the angel food cake. Then, I dressed the cake with fresh cut strawberries and blueberries. I decided to add a little sweet and sprinkle powdered sugar on top.

        This made for a quick and super easy dessert after dinner. This would be a great dessert to take to a get together or dinner anytime during the Summer. This would also look great for the 4th of July holiday. I hope you are all having a great week and enjoying the last few weeks of August. Have a great week  :) xoxo

recipes: whole30 homemade breakfast sausage

                    hey guys! i hope you are all having a great week. Is it Friday yet?! haha just kidding, or maybe I'm not! I wanted to share a delicious whole30 sausage that we made over the weekend for the first time. we really liked this one and it was literally so easy to make. here is the recipe and this one can actually be found on page 251 of the whole30 book. the sausage we purchased fresh at sprouts and it didn't contain a lot of the preservatives like most meats do; therefore, this was really light and not a heavy meat. this recipe is so good!! 

ingredients: 

-1 pound of ground pork

-1/4 tension of ground sage

-1/4 teaspoon of garlic powder

-1/4 teaspoon of dried thyme

-1/4 teaspoon of onion powder

-1/8 teaspoon of cayenne pepper

-1/8 teaspoon of nutmeg

-1 teaspoon of salt

-1/8 teaspoon of black pepper

-grated zest of one lemon

details:

(this recipe calls for baking the sausage patties; however, i actually used a grill pan on top of the stove to make them a little crispy- either way is great)

-preheat your oven to 350

-in a large mixing bowl, mix all of the sausage ingredients

-form into 8 equal patties (i did smaller patties in this recipe)

-place on a plate and chill in the freezer for 10 to 15 minutes

-remove the sausage from the freezer and place on parchment paper in your baking sheet (i actually put mine in a grill pan on top of the stove instead until golden brown and all of the pink is gone)

-to bake: you can pop these in the oven until no pink remains in the middle of the patty--check with a fork 

-i sprinkled some salt and pepper on top and made breakfast for dinner with this! 

enjoy!! have a great week, ill see you again real soon xoxo

whole30 blueberry pancakes, egg muffins, and sausage- dinner for breakfast! blueberry pancake recipe is coming soon :)

(sorry these photos are a little dark, they came from my phone)