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I absolutely love pulled pork. It’s easy to make, full of flavor, and is super versatile. It’s the perfect batch cook food and is regularly on the menu at our house. We love this Carolina style pulled pork on nachos, sweet potatoes, spinach bowls, vegetables, and as a main dish all on it’s own.
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One of the most amazing parts of this autoimmune journey has been the support, connections, and friendships that I’ve made in the Paleo AIP community. A few months ago Eileen from Phoenix Helix asked me to contribute some recipes to the upcoming The Paleo AIP Instant Pot Cookbook. How could I not say – yes! yes! yes! I love the idea of a collaborative cookbook and I love my Instant Pot even more.
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This Pressure Cooker Asian Pork is a spin on one of my most popular recipes, Slow Cooker Asian Pork Steaks. I like the slow cooker version for the way the pork and sauce caramelizes, but this version is just as delicious and comes together in a pinch using my Instant Pot.
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I have to admit that I never made nomato sauce when I was following the AIP elimination protocol. I’m Italian, and I love good Italian food. I’m a self admitted food snob, especially when it comes to sauce. I just didn’t think it was possible for a nomato sauce to come anywhere close to my homemade red sauce. Unfortunately, I was never able to fully reintroduce tomatoes, as I only seem to tolerate them raw. Eventually the Italian craving hit and I knew I had to have a try at a nomato sauce. And nomato sauce I did!
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I finally sucked it up and tried the gorgeous US Wellness Meats beef heart that I had stowed away in my refrigerator last night. I really don’t know what I was waiting for. It was great and tasted just like a normal roast. I’ve been on this paleo journey for quite some time now, including time with AIP, but I just never jumped on the organ meats. I’m so adventurous when it comes to food, but I totally psyched myself out before I could ever psyche myself in on this one. I read that beef heart was a good introduction into organ meats because it’s a muscle, just like a normal steak. After reading a billion and one recipes I just couldn’t find anything that stuck out to me so I decided to wing it and dropped it in the crock pot with some veggies. What came out was a meal even my husband ate, despite his repeated declarations that he would never ever even consider it. He was so against eating the heart that he told me he took it out of the freezer when he didn’t, which put the meal off until a day later. Now he said he would even eat it again!
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My husband and I have been super busy lately, so I’ve been working on ways to make meals quicker and more convenient. Slow cooking is awesome for this, as we can drop a few ingredients into the pot in the morning and come home to a meal. These Slow Cooker Asian Pork Steaks were a total hit and ridiculously simple to make. My husband devoured his bowl and just kept exclaiming how much it tasted like chinese food from a restaurant. To make things even easier on us whenever I make them I prep the ingredients & sauce the night before, so it’s as simple as dropping everything in the pot and pressing a button in the morning. I don’t know about you, but I don’t do mornings, so any shortcuts I can take the better.
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I’m having a bit of a love affair with my Instant Pot again. I can’t believe that I was once terrified that I would blow up the house with it. Life gets a little crazy with a full time job, school, managing the blog, social media, playing hockey, and everything else that I have my hands in. I need meals that require as little hands on cooking time as possible and not much thought. I use my Instant Pot for both slow cooking and pressure cooking because it makes 5 minutes of hands on prep work taste like 2 hours of slaving away in the kitchen. Meals come out tender and full of flavor, especially this Pressure Cooker Italian Beef recipe.
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Cauliflower rice. I love it and I hate it. I love how versatile it is. I love how it really takes on the flavor of what it is with and can add some boost to any meal. I love how I can give it to people and it takes them some time before they realize they aren’t actually eating rice. That always makes me laugh. But, I hate how the process of turning cauliflower rice into rice includes a food processor and little itty bitty rice pellets that get in every crack and crevice in the kitchen. I hate those pellets. They fly everywhere and stick to everything.
What do I love and not hate in the slightest? My Instant pot. We know this. I rave about it all the time. For the past couple of weeks I’ve been experimenting with cooking cauliflower in it. IT’S AMAZING. AMAZING I TELL YA! So amazing that it cooks cauliflower rice with no pre-ricing required! Yup – no little pellets sticking to your toes and coffee pot.
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Did you really think a week was going to go by without me posting an Instant Pot recipe?! Yeah, right! I’m obsessed with this thing. We cooked in it ALL week. These Instant Pot BBQ Chicken Wings are one of our absolute favorite quick meals. We play hockey on Sunday’s and come home starving. I throw these in the IP, take a shower, and get out to finger lickin’ deliciousness. That’s one of the benefits of the Instant Pot…you don’t have to babysit it!
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I got so excited for the Black Friday Instant Pot sale that I’ve been absolutely obsessed with it again…and I didn’t even buy one during the sale! I’m just so excited to know that so many people are sharing in the glory that is the Instant Pot. Pause. How old am I? I’m 30, but the fact that I’m practically dancing over a small kitchen appliance I feel 60. If you haven’t noticed yet I’m pretty good at going off topic. Sorry about that.
Last year I made this Instant Pot beef stew a million and one times. I just couldn’t get enough of it. There is something about removing the lid and being met with a beautiful and aromatic pot of beef stew that is so gratifying. If you an Instant Pot you know what I mean. It’s like that feeling when you pop a really good pimple. I can’t believe I just said that. Wow, what a poor analogy to use when talking about food. Let’s talk about something else.
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