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Venison

Healthy whole wheat spaghetti with meat sauce

Everyone has a recipe they make in a pinch out of what’s in the cupboard. Mine is spaghetti and meat sauce, since we always have ground venison in the freezer and healthy, whole wheat pasta and canned tomato sauce on hand. It took awhile to get the family used to whole wheat noodles. (Our two [...]

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Posted on July 16, 2010 in Recipes,Venison and tagged as

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Cooking with coffee: grilled espresso steaks

Coffee isn’t just for decadent desserts like Julia Child’s Chocolate Mousse and Mexican Cream, you know. You can use it to make Braised Beef in Espresso in your slow cooker or Chocolate Espresso Whole Wheat Bread. This recipe uses it as a rub for steaks.I tried the espresso rub with venison backstraps (similar to beef [...]

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Posted on March 10, 2010 in Recipes,Venison

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Fix-it and Forget-it: slow cooker machaca beef

This crockpot recipe is based on a New Mexican style dish by Jeanne Allen in the cookbook, FIX-IT and FORGET-IT LIGHTLY: Healthy, Low-Fat Recipes for Your Slow Cooker. Machaca meat is used to stuff tacos, burritos, enchiladas, or is eaten by itself. I liked serving it “soupy” on brown rice. According to David Bulla at [...]

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Posted on March 4, 2010 in Crock Pot and Slow Cooker,Recipes,Venison

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Slow cooker recipes: homemade onion soup mix and a venison shoulder roast

Below is my basic crockpot recipe for any type of beef or venison roast, bone in or without. The challenge has been to find a healthy substitute for French onion soup mix. Most commercial mixes contain MSG, hydrogenated oils and even wheat, which can be a concern if you cook gluten free. Instead, I’ve found [...]

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Posted on March 1, 2010 in Recipes,Venison and tagged as ,

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Healthy slow cooker fajita stew

I’ve noticed that a lot of readers come here looking for crockpot and slow cooker recipes. Since I aim to please, I’ll be sharing a few of the ones I’ve recently made for my family. This one is based on a recipe by Sara Puskar and Nancy Wagner Graves that was featured in FIX-IT and [...]

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Posted on February 24, 2010 in Crock Pot and Slow Cooker,Recipes,Venison and tagged as , ,

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Quinoa Meatloaf with Sundried Tomatoes

Quinoa (pronounced keen-wah) is a grain-like crop grown primarily for its edible seeds and is considered a pseudocereal rather than a true cereal. Nutritionally, quinoa contains a balanced set of essential amino acids and is a good source of protein. It's also a good source of dietary fiber, phosphorus, magnesium and iron. Quinoa is gluten-free [...]

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Posted on December 22, 2009 in Gluten Free,Recipes,Venison,Weight Watchers and tagged as

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Watcha going to do with all that zucchini? This mama makes zucchini meatloaf

Blame the excellent compost we’ve been making with our NatureMIll indoor electric composter, but we’ve had a bumper crop of zucchini this year. So what to do with it all? Sure there’s zucchini bread, which everyone and their grandma makes. Yes, it’s delicious and you can probably make healthy version of it. However, after winning [...]

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Posted on September 2, 2009 in Recipes,Veggies,Venison,Weight Watchers

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What’s for dinner during Top Chef Masters? Try this recipe for Rick Bayless’ Spicy Chipolte Beef

My family and I have become obsessed by Top Chef Masters. I’ve stayed up to watch the repeat so often that it’s messed up my morning work out routine. (It’s hard to wake up at 5:30 a.m. when you didn’t go to bed until 11 p.m.) We’ve been rooting for Rick Bayless the most, but [...]

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Posted on August 18, 2009 in Recipes,Venison,Weight Watchers

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More polymeal cooking: antelope tenderloin with blackberry sage sauce

Recently I did a review of  Jonny Bowden’s book Healthiest Meals on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What Meals to Eat and Why and his theory that “polymeals” cut the risk of heart disease and boost your overall health. (See my post, Healthy holiday polymeal cooking with the Healthiest Meals on Earth.) A polymeal [...]

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Posted on October 7, 2008 in Boozing It Up!,Cookbooks,Health,Recipes,Veggies,Venison

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Healthy freezer meals for busy dieters and their families

I recently attended a meal making cooking class with a group of friends. Basically, it was a Once a Month-Freezer Cooking session combined with a Prepare Your Own Meals store. Our hostess (this was in a private home with a very large kitchen) shopped for the food, chopped the veggies, browned the ground meat, and [...]

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Posted on April 10, 2008 in Crock Pot and Slow Cooker,Recipes,Veggies,Venison,Weight Watchers and tagged as ,

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