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I began to get serious about my diet 10 years ago. With a family history of heart disease and diabetes, I thought it would be wise to be fussy. So, I eat almost no wheat or dairy (occasional deserts are OK) and no read meat or pork. With my new diet, came a rekindling of my passion for cooking (another family tradition--all Simons cook).

I'm usually fairly simple with ingredients, the little one keeps me busy enough. But every now and then, I'll try something new. Do you have any recipes you would like to share? Send them to me. I'll try them and if I like them, I'll add them.

Turkey Brown Rice Casserole

Super easy, Super healthy.

Ingredients:

  • 1 - 1.25 lbs - ground turkey (substitute any ground meat you'd like).
  • 1 cup - brown basmati rice (dry).
  • 1/4 cup or so - aged goats gouda cheese.
  • 2 tablespoon - soy sauce.
  • 1 lemon.
  • salt and pepper to taste.

 

Directions:

  • Put rice aside to soak 6-8 hours (Soaking rice helps with digestion).
  • Put rice to cook in pot or rice cooker according to directions (typically takes 45-50 minutes for brown rice to cook).
  • Brown turkey in large skillet. Season with salt and pepper as desired.
  • With turkey nearly done (almost no pink left), add soy sauce and fork the lemon over the turkey (insert fork in lemon, move around to break up the pulp and let juice leak onto turkey. Careful to make sure seeds do not fall in turkey).
  • Once turkey is done, put on simmer.
  • Once rice is done, add rice to turkey and mix.
  • Add cheese a little at a time.

 

Enjoy!

 

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

Jeff's twist on an old Simon family favorite!

Dry Ingredients (to be mixed together):

  • 2 1/3 cups - flour. You can use wheat or non-wheat version (2/3 cup spelt, 2/3 cup oat flour, 1 cup buckwheat flour).
  • 1 teaspoon - nutmeg.
  • 1 teaspoon - cinnamon.
  • 1 teaspoon - baking soda.
  • 1 teaspoon - baking powder.

 

Wet Ingredients:

  • 1/2 cup - butter (softened).
  • 1 cup - sugar.
  • 1 egg.
  • 1 cup - pumpkin.
  • 1 teaspoon - vanilla extract.
  • 1 cup - chocolate chips (I know its not wet, but it does not get mixed with the other dry ingredients).

 

Directions:

  • Preheat oven to 350° Fahrenheit.
  • Cream butter with sugar.
  • Add egg, mix.
  • Add pumpkin, mix.
  • Add vanilla extract, mix.
  • Mix dry ingredients together.
  • Add dry ingredients to wet a little at a time (in quarters or thirds. If you are mixing by hand your forearms should be getting a workout by the time you have added the last of the dry ingredients).
  • Add chocolate chips, mix.
  • Spoon on to cookie sheet.
  • Cook for 12 - 14 minutes.

 

These cookies are wonderful out of the oven, but they are even better a few days later as the pumpkin keeps the cookies moist.

 

The Finest Chicken Marinade Ever!!!

If you have a have day to let the chicken sit in this marinade, you may never again go out for a chicken meal!

Ingredients:

  • 6 large chicken breasts or equivalent.
  • 6 - 8 lemons depending on size.
  • 2 - 3 oranges (optional).
  • 2 - 3 limes (optional).
  • 1 bulb garlic.
  • 1 bunch parsley.
  • 1/4 - 1/2 cup olive oil (optional).

 

Directions:

  • Place chicken in a very large bowl or in a cleaned out 25 gallon bucket.
  • Zest and juice lemons and oranges (Make sure you zest over the chicken you want to capture the natural oils underneath the skin's surface) Add juice, zest, and peels and pulp to chicken.
  • Juice the limes. Add to chicken.
  • Mince or finely chop bulb of garlic (The paper comes off the garlic so much easier if you crush the bulb and cloves, as needed, under the flat edge of your knife or between cutting boards) Add to chicken.
  • Finely chop parsley. Add to chicken.
  • Add olive oil, if desired.
  • Refrigerate for 24 hours.
  • Cook or grill as normal.
  • Note: If you use oil and open flame, set the heat low as oil will ignite the flames. This method will give the chicken a smoky flavor.

 

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