Quinoa with Haddock and Chard - Easy One Pot Meal

I love one pot meals since they are so easy to make and I the kids are more likely to eat the veggies. I wasn't sure if this one would be good at first, but it turned out wonderful!

I started with ~6 cups of fish stock. It was a stock I made a few months ago with fish bones and the water left over from cooking lobster.

I added the rest of a bag of Quinoa I had - probably around 1.5 cups maybe. Not sure.

The rest was just 3 chopped up haddock filets, two bunches of chard I ripped up, and probably around 3 tablespoons of dried basil.

I was nervous when I tried it, but it actually came out incredible! Perfect blend of flavors. Very excited that I have a lot more of the fish stock in the freezer to make this again - along with another bag of frozen lobster shells and fish skeletons!

Liver

One package liver from pastured cow

Milk

Almond flour

Bacon grease

Place small chicken-tender size pieces of liver in milk. One by one, take from milk and coat with almond flour. Fry in bacon grease just a little bit on each side. That's it.

Squash Pie

This is something I kind of threw together. It came out amazingly well despite the lack of measuring or recipe.

The crust did come from a recipe - it's almond flour and oatmeal. Excellent crust for any pie, I think. Here's a link to that recipe:

http://www.girlgonecountry.com/recipes-2/oatalmond-meal-crust/

Then, I took a crookneck squash (very old heirloom heritage type of butternut) that I'd roasted and added to it maple syrup, honey, yogurt (think it ended up being about a cup overall - not sure though. All the pumpkin pie recipes I found called for either coconut milk or regular milk but all I had was yogurt) and then the typical spices: cinnamon, allspice, cloves, and nutmeg. I also added two eggs. Using an immersion blender, I blended it all until thoroughly mixed and creamy. At first, before I added the eggs and honey, the batter had a bitter taste to it. After, I thought I still detected a tiny bit of bitterness, but much less.

I baked the pie at 350 degrees for 45 minutes.

The taste of the baked pie was incredible. The ingredients blended so well and that bit of bitterness I'd tasted was completely gone.

Sliced Potatoes

4 large potatoes

3 onions

Salt

Chicken stock

Using mandolin slicer, slice potatoes thin (used blade marked "thin.") Same for onions. Did one potatoe and one onion at a time and made a layer of each sprinkling salt on top of each onion layer. Poured chicken stock over potatoes until it came out about 3/4 of the way up the sides. Bake at 350 degrees until done.

Grain Free Apple Pancake

I started with my favorite almond flour pancake recipe from www.comfybelly.com and then changed it a bit and added fried apples. I don't measure much while I cook so sorry for not having an exact recipe.

Start with the apples. I used 5 or 6 little ones. I didn't peal them, just cut them up small. Take the chunks and sauté them in ghee till soft. Add some cinnamon too. Make the apples in an oven proof pan like a cast iron skillet. Here's a pic of my pan. (From the time I started this post till when it took this pic we'd eaten nearly all of it!)

While the apples cook, make the pancake batter.

3 Large eggs

Recipe called for 1/4 cup dairy free "milk" like coconut or almond. We're not dairy free so I used yogurt.

2 tablespoons maple syrup.

Mix that all together real good. In another bowl:

1.5 cups almond flour

1 teaspoon vanilla powder (I love this so much more than vanilla extract. Got mine from www.mountainroseherbs.com)

1/4 teaspoon salt

1 tablespoon baking soda (pancake recipe called for 1/2 teaspoon but I added more since this is one big cake.

Mix the dry and add to the wet. Mix again till pancake batter consistency. If too thick, add some liquid. I added heavy cream since I was out of yogurt and milk.

Dump the batter over the apples and then bake at 350 degrees till brown on top. About 15 - 20 minutes.

Enjoy!