Healthy Old Broad

Healthy Baked Goods Recipes Made Without Gluten and Sugar

Pork Chops and Gravy

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It is easy to make and can be done in one pan, what’s not to like?

Pork Chops and Gravy

Ingredients:

  • 2 1″ thick bone in pork chops
  • smoked garlic sea salt (or Kosher salt with granulated garlic) and pepper
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 1 large shallot – finely chopped
  • 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
  • 2 tablespoons whole grain Dijon mustard
  • 1/4 cup white wine
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. heat oil in cast iron skillet.
  3. salt and pepper both sides of the pork chops, place chops in hot pan and sear on each side (remember brown means flavor) for a few minutes. Move pan to heated preheated oven and cook for 15 to 20 minutes.
  4. While pork chops are resting on a platter, combine the remaining ingredients and make the sauce in the cast iron skillet & cook for 10 minutes.
  5. I served mine with blanched asparagus with a little lemon juice.

Lemon-Thyme Chicken with Carrots and Potatoes

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A friend of mine gave me some lemon-thyme from his garden and it is now a new favorite herb of mine.

Lemon-Thyme Chicken with Carrots and Potatoes

Ingredients:

  • 1 sweet onion diced
  • 4 to 5 tablespoons olive oil
  • 3 whole garlic cloves
  • chicken – I used the 2 breast 4 leg package of cut up chicken, but you can use whatever pieces of the chicken you prefer
  • 10 oz cremimi mushrooms sliced
  • 2 medium lemons quartered
  • 20 sprigs fresh lemon-thyme
  • 1 cup Pinot Grigio wine
  • 3 cups Vegetable broth
  • 6 carrots – chopped into 1/2 inch pieces
  • 1 lb 8 oz Dutch baby potatoes – halved
  • salt and pepper
  • 3 to 5 tablespoons drained capers (optional)
  1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
  2. Heat olive oil with the whole garlic cloves in a dutch oven. When the garlic starts to turn brown remove from pan. Salt and pepper the chicken pieces. Add to heated oil and brown on all side. Remove browned chicken and set aside.
  3. Add the onions to the pot, lightly salt and saute for 3 to 5 minutes. Add the slice mushrooms and continue to saute with the onions for 2 to 3 minutes. Add the carrots and potatoes and saute for another 2 to 3 minutes.
  4. Add the wine to the pot to deglaze.
  5. Add the lemon-thyme, chicken quartered lemons and vegetable broth to the pot. Cover and bake in a 400 oven for 1 hour.
  6. Remove chicken, carrots and potatoes from dutch oven to a platter. Turn heat to high and reduce liquid to 1/2. Using cornstarch make a small slurry in a separate bowl, add to the reduced broth and cook for about 7 to 10 minutes. Strain the gravy.
  7. Put the drained caper into the pot and cook for a couple of minutes. Add as garnish to the chicken platter.

To make the sandwich

  1. Slice the focaccia in half, your choice of a lite white cheese, a lite schmear of horseradish sauce, springs greens or lettuce, tomato slices, sliced horseradish roast beef. And since it your sandwich add what you think will be good on it.

Horseradish Crusted Roast Beef

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Tasty Tri tip roasted with a horseradish crust with fingerling potatoes and carrots.

Horseradish Crusted Roast Beef

Ingredients

  • 1.5 lb (5 sausages) Chicken chorizo sausages (I found that Whole Foods makes chicken chorizo sausages but if you want you could use pork) – meat removed from casings
  • 1 1/2 teaspoon Gold’s Horseradish
  • 1 teaspoon Kosher salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon fresh ground pepper
  • 1/4 teaspoon granulated garlic
  • additional salt and pepper for the roast
  1. Combine the horseradish, salt, pepper & granulated garlic together in a small bowl.
  2. Place the tri tip in a roasting pan, salt and pepper and top with the horseradish mix. Let sit on the counter for at least 1/2 to get to be room temperature.
  3. Preheat oven to 350. Bake for 45 to 60 minutes for medium rare. Let sit and rest when roast is removed from the oven.
  4. I put fingerling potatoes and cut up carrots on the bottom of the roast pan so the entire meal was made in one pot.

Chicken Chorizo Sausage and Black Bean Chili

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It’s almost time for Super Bowl – the teams are getting ready to score big and you are now planning the Super Bowl Party Menu and you can also score big with this Chicken Chorizo and Black Been Chili as it is a huge winner.

Chicken Chorizo Sausage and Black Bean Chili

Ingredients

  • 1.5 lb (5 sausages) Chicken chorizo sausages (I found that Whole Foods makes chicken chorizo sausages but if you want you could use pork) – meat removed from casings
  • 1 large white onion – diced
  • 1 large shallot – diced
  • 1 red pepper – diced
  • 1 orange pepper – diced
  • 2 jalapenos – seeded and deveined – finely chopped
  • 4 garlic cloves – finely chopped
  • 1 dried chili ancho – stem removed and finely chopped
  • 1/2 teaspoon chipotle pepper
  • 1/2 teaspoon cayenne
  • 1 teaspoon cumin
  • 1/2 teaspoon coriander
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 1 28 oz can fire roasted tomatoes
  • 1 14.5 oz can fire roasted tomatoes
  • 2 – 15 oz cans black beans – rinsed and drained
  • 3 to 4 tablespoons olive oil
  • salt and pepper
  1. Heat olive oil in a cast iron dutch oven, add the chorizo, crumble and cook about 3/4 the way thru. Add the onion, shallot, peppers to pot, lightly salt and pepper, saute for about 5 minutes, then add the garlic, saute for another 3minutes. Add all the remaining ingredients, stir to combine and simmer on low for 1 hour. Taste then salt and pepper to taste, remove bay leave and you are ready to serve.
  2. Don’t forget the garnishes: which could be cheese, avocado, cilantro, jalapenos, sour cream, tortilla chips.

Chicken, Lentil & Greens Soup

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This soup is healthy, nutritious, filling and just so very flavorful.

Chicken, Lentil & Greens Soup

Ingredients

  • 6 boneless, skinless chicken thighs – cut into bite size pieces
  • 1 sweet yellow onion – diced
  • 2 medium shallots – diced
  • 2 garlic cloves – finely minced
  • 2 quarts low sodium vegetable stock
  • 1 1lb bag mixed greens: mustard / turnip / collards / spinach mix
  • 1 9oz bag snow peas – stings removed and cut into 1/2 inch pieces
  • 1/2 cup green lentils
  • 1 15oz can garbanzo beans – drained and rinsed
  • salt and pepper
  • 3 to 4 tablespoons olive oil
  1. In a dutch oven heat the olive oil. Salt and pepper the chicken pieces, add to hot oil, sauté for 10 to 15 minutes (so chicken get color but it is not cooked completely).
  2. Remove chicken from pot, add onions and shallots, salt and pepper and cook for 3 minutes.
  3. Add the minced garlic and cook for 1 additional minute. Add 1/2 cup of the vegetable broth to deglaze the pot.
  4. Add the balance of 1 of the quarts of vegetable broth and sautéed chicken and simmer for 30 minutes.
  5. Add the 2nd quart of vegetable broth, garbanzo beans and greens. Stir the mixture to combine and simmer for about 15 minutes to wilt the greens.
  6. Taste the soup to see if you need to add salt and pepper.