Game Day Wings

If you're like me, Saturdays in the Fall are for three things, Football, beer and wings! If you're new to Paleo you may have thought wings are totally out but really there are lots of recipes out there to keep your game day tradition alive. In fact with the right ingredients you can make your wings better than the ones you find at your favorite sports bar. Here are two recipes that are sure to please everyone. One is your traditional Buffalo Wings, the other is Honey Garlic Wings.

Buffalo Wings
Serves 2

Ingredients:
1 lb. chicken wings (Organic, pastured chicken is best)
4 1/2 Tbsp. Franks Hot Sauce- I use Franks because it does not have and crazy chemicals or preservatives. Its just chilies and spices.
4 Tbsp. Butter (melted)- (Organic, pastured)

Preparation:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease baking sheet with coconut oil, bacon fat, or (I use) palm oil. Place wings on sheet and sprinkle with salt and pepper.

The yellow is the red palm oil, its great for greasing pans without adding any flavor like coconut oil

Cook wings 30 mins.
While the wings are cooking, combine hot sauce and melted butter in a medium size bowl. For spicier wings add more hot sauce for milder wings use less hot sauce. This combo is a medium heat.

Once wings have cooked, toss in sauce and put back on baking sheet and bake for another 30 mins.
Serve and enjoy!

I made a bleu cheese vinaigrette that really wasn't that great. I ended up just eating the wings with out the sauce which was great!  I will update this recipe when I find a great sauce to serve! So stay tuned.


Honey Garlic Wings
Serves 2

Ingredients:
1 lb. chicken wings (Organic, pastured chicken is best)
1/8 cup honey (Local, raw)
2 Tbsp. lemon juice
2 Tbsp. water
1 Tbsp. coconut aminos- you can find this at a health food store like Whole Foods by the soy sauce
1/2 Tbsp. apple cider vinegar
1/2 tsp. garlic powder
1/2 tsp. ground ginger

Preparation:

Combine all ingredients in a zip lock bag and marinate chicken for 4 hours up to 24 hours.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees, grease baking sheet and spread wings out.

Bake for 30 mins, flip and bake another 30 mins.
Garnish with green onion if you want and Enjoy!

Both these recipes are so easy its ridiculous so I encourage you to try them and let me know what you think!

UPDATE!!
As some of you know I am currently enrolled in the Institute of Integrative Nutrition with the goal of becoming a Health Coach. I am about 4 months in and doing great! Unfortunately it has taken up a lot of my blogging time which is why I haven't been posting any recipes lately. I will try to stay consistent and post about once a month for now and then will ramp up again once I am done with school.

Thank you all for your support and encouragement!!

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Simple Salsa and Guac

Who doesn't love guacamole and salsa?! I eat it on eggs, I eat it on salads, heck, I'd put it on just about anything! Even though it's so easy to make my dog could do it, I thought I would share my super simple recipe for those folks new to cooking and just can't fathom making their own when a jar of the stuff is so convenient. Once you make your own fresh salsa and (as I call it) guac, you'll never go back and you will forever be able to tell the difference between fresh homemade and store bought.

So here it is, Simple Salsa and Guac- the spelling of this dip is more complicated than this recipe!

Simple Salsa
Serves 1-6

Ingredients:
2 cans diced tomatoes (I like mine with green chilies)
1/4 red onion, rough chop
1/2 a bundle of cilantro, about 1/2 a cup
1 jalapeño, rough chop
Juice from 1 lime
Preparation:
Place all ingredients in blender and blend till combined. If you want a chunkier salsa, drain one of the cans of tomatoes.

BOOM! DONE!

Guac
Serves 1-6

Ingredients:
3 Avocado
1/4 red onion- finely diced- I throw it in a mini chopper
1 large garlic clove- finely diced- Throw this in the chopper with onion
1 tomato- diced
1/4 cup Cilantro- chopped- Throw this in the chopper
Juice from 1 lime
1/2 teaspoon Salt for seasoning

Preparation:
Half the avocado and remove seed by sticking a knife in the middle and twisting, scrape out all meat into small bowl and mash a little with fork. Add in the rest of the ingredients and mix. For chunkier guac, be sure to leave chunks of avocado when mashing.

BOOM! DONE!

Want to make your Guac a little fancy, cut up some mango or pineapple and throw that in there.

I will eat this stuff out of a shoe, but here's my dinner the other night, leftover grilled chicken, sautéed veggies, lettuce, salsa and guac. Simple but satisfying!

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