Green Fajita Chicken

Never fear, the fajita chicken isn’t ACTUALLY green. Well, once you’ve cooked it, anyway. The marinade, however, is pretty awesomely-tinged due to the jalapeno and cilantro in it. The great thing about this marinade is that it only needs to sit for about 30 minutes to tenderize and flavor the chicken, so it is feasible […]

Chili Pepper Poppers with Smashed Avocado

Mr Meatified wanted some “game food” this weekend and I was happy to oblige – as long as it was Paleo. I’m annoying like that. Now one of his favorite and often-ordered appetizers back before Paleo was Jalapeno Poppers. I will also confess that I used to force him to share because I loved them, […]

Green Beans with Lemon & Sage Crumbs

Green Beans with Lemon Sage Crumbs

I grew up eating stuffing out of a box. I’m not ashamed to admit that I loved the stuff, either. It had to be Paxo and it HAD to be the sage and onion “flavor”, regardless of whatever meat was on the table. It just did. I had systems to adhere to. Still do. Sure, […]

Chicken & Roasted Pepper Stuffed Mushrooms

Roasted Pepper Stuffed Mushrooms

Usually I make massively stuffed mushrooms with some kind of sausage or beef. However, since I had some marinated roasted peppers I wanted to use, I dug some ground chicken from the freezer because I thought they would go together nicely. Not to toot my own horn, but I wasn’t wrong – these are a […]

Braised Pork Wings with Apple & Onion Gravy

Braised Pork Wings

Pork wings. They sound a little bizarre – pigs can finally fly! Except, not quite. Once cooked, these porky pieces do look a little like supersized “wings”, but they’re actually part of the pork shank, the lower part of the leg. Since these are part of a working muscle, they don’t have a lot of […]

Lazy Upside Down Cottage Pie

Upside Down Cottage Pie

Shepherd’s Pie was one of the first few things I learned to cook. Unfortunately, I also learned to cook it all wrong and didn’t realize that it was supposed to be a meat sauce rather than a tomato-riddled marinara-thon until some time in college. In fact, it was really a kind of jarred tomato sauce […]