It's Not Gourmet, Bro! Southwest Slow Cooker Chicken - Paleo Cooking with Nick Massie

hey paleo Nick here right now I'm going to show you the next dish in our it's not gourmet bro theory this is going to be a whole chicken we're going to cook it in the crock pot and if you're looking for a meal that cooks while you're away for the day then you'll want to stay tuned for this one first we'll just take a quick look at our ingredients we've got green chillies tomatoes sweet potato poblano peppers onions garlic cumin chili powder this is bacon you guys excited about that one and then a whole chicken well see you salt pepper and bay leaves and it only took like two minutes to cut all this stuff up right so it's going to be super simple but know this is how I recommend setting it up meson plus getting everything ready before you go to do the cooking so I'm going to start with the chicken and just get that out of the actually let's start the other way just to keep things safe I'm going to dump the bacon in the bottom of my crock pot spread that out and then I'm going to put the garlic right on top of that that'll provide the base okay from there I'll take one of my bowls put all the other ingredients in it onions poblanos or pasilla yams or sweet potatoes green chilies and crushed Tomatoes let's grab my spoon and mix this stuff up from there I'm going to take two scoops boom boom right in the bottom crock pot and then I'll take put my chicken the second Bowl inside the chicken is like the neck and the gizzards I'm going to drop that in the bottom and then I'll get a good amount of salt here start with the salt all the way around inside the carcass and pepper you can put rubber gloves on - if you're scared of touching raw chicken but I don't mind I'm just going to wash my hands well when I'm done here and then I have chili powder and cumin right here so we're going to blast the outside of fat to inside the bottom let's take the extra sprinkle it over here sprinkle a little bit of salt pepper on those guys and then I'll take this guy and couple scoops inside the chicken chicken goes in just like that these spices on top there right and we want to throw those away we paid for them and then the rest of our let me just pull this guy up here all the goods in there just like that you might have a good wash and I'll be right back all right so my hands are clean and actually got called out on touching the handle with the with my hand I had an unanticipated lift of the crock pot up to the cutting board and there's probably some Salmonella in this area so I'm just going to bleach that right here just so you guys know look at that boom I won't get seven teen emails that says spread something all over right okay last thing here a couple let's go with three bay leaves or the sneak-up kind of right on the side as the juices come out of here these will sink down I should have maybe put these in on the bottom but that's it let's throw the lid on plug it in and eight to ten hours so if you start this at 7 a.m. it'll be ready by 5:00 most crock pots are slow cookers have the warm features so as soon as they're done cooking they'll just keep it warm and so get home from work so I'm gonna plug this guy in over here so here we are ten hours later and you can see here I just scooped this breast right off the bone nice and tender actually it's not really ten hours later if you look right over here it's just but you know we're on video right the magic of TV I'm just going to serve this up quickly so I scoop this off one breast right in the bowl and then what you might want to do is render or kind of skim off some of this fat but I'm not too worried about it I'm just going to get a good you know good ladle full right there mainly a protein source there is some veg in there little sweet potato to add some sweetness wipe this little avocado in there maybe some fresh tomato cilantro it's all good let me just get a little mmm that's what I call not gourmet it just tastes that way I'm finna do Nick thanks for watching and as always keep it paleo .

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The whole chicken! It's the true test of any cuisinier and, while I prefer it roasted, today's preparation shows us a no nonsense, slow cooker approach. While this is mainly a protein source, I paired it with some flavors of the Southwest and a few veggies to make it a one pot meal.

Sweet Potato Laced Meatballs - Paleo Cooking with Nick Massie

that's one of my protein favorites meatballs we're gonna be called meatball mania I'm gonna show you a couple of different takes on different sizes and preparations in meatballs I have been here three pounds of organic grass-fed beef and five sausages Italian sausages and I'm just taking these right now out of the casing this will be the start of our mix meatball then we'll also do just some little minis kind of look like this sausage only and these babies are gems get these and you can add them to any meal and it tastes good anyways that's the idea we'll check back in a minute to show you what's next all right so here's some other meatballs this is gonna be a little sausage mini meatball has a million different uses good in breakfast we're gonna put another chicken dish just skip the snack home right set it going for the Oreo cookie go grab a little sausage meatball there's nothing else in here this straight sausage this season that when they make it we're gonna mix up some lumps here in a second all right loves are on we've got our Bowl all set so we've got I think it was six five sausages three pounds of ground beef 1 large diced onion some garlic garlic this here is Italian seasoning to sweet potatoes and three eggs top of that I'm going to throw one to 1/2 pinches of salt pepper I'm gonna mix this up potatoes and precooked it'll break down right into it just a good way to add some carbs then you can see toyed with this it easily make it a post-workout meal bring that to the gym with you pretty good so we've incorporated all that next up is gonna be I'm just gonna heat up a little saute pan do a little sample text and see how it tastes it's good we'll roll them up if it's not we'll adjust the seasoning so we go out of three sausages you've got 33 Zac and then here we have our little tester our tester meat for baby balls over there bang on maybe I'm looking for here is salt my over-salted on yourself in always under salt and then we can build up when things are over salted it's kind of tough kind of tough situation so this is good it's a portion control scoop PC scoop ice cream scoop you might thought and get these in all different sizes I'm gonna scoop in here roll it up baby something like that all right sighs of what is that a tennis ball the cross ball you know put these up and you can roll around on them and mash yourself so we'll go a little bit bigger gonna do something that I think this is probably about a four ounce portion and then I'll do one that's a little bit less you can we're gonna roast these on a pan you can easily cook them in a saute pan with some olive oil a lot of problems so we've got large medium and then over here small right just a little miss awesome guys now when you're doing meatballs the question you got to ask yourself is what size balls do you really like right so we got them all rolled out we've been rolling balls now for about five minutes and you know what it really comes down to is how do you like your balls you know how do you like her oh boy we got bones oh I got small and medium and medium and large will remove them at the appropriate time on this pan the mediums will be done before the large follow that and on this pan this walls will be done before the mediums okay so we got our meatballs out and I have ten thermometers and both these this one's right at 170 this one is at 165 that's what we're shooting for ground beef products or ground meats in general 165 what I'll do I'll package these babies up and some courts later I'll show you how to make a nice tomato sauce we've already showed you how to make what spaghetti squash so start pulling all this stuff you guys kind of follow in here track in spaghetti meatballs tomatoes anyways we got our balls my balls my hometown and other ones are here using our lunch go small medium and large how do you like your balls .

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Meatball Mania!!! How Big Do You Like Your Balls? Yee haw!! Movember is over. This was the first time I have grown a moustache (see below) and I was glad to get rid of it. If you don't know what Movember is all about, check it out. The picture on the home page is of the Dean of Culinary School at The University of Alaska Anchorage. I think the picture was taken in November. Timothy Doebler was clearly ahead of his time...