Recipe: Banana Pancakes

Yuck! Bananas! :( Unless mixed with so much cinnamon that you can't taste them :D

Mash one (as ripe as possible) banana with an egg, as much cinnamon as you feel you need to mask the flavour, and as much coconut flour (or desiccated coconut) as necessary to make it pancake batter-y. No sugar necessary - promise! Fry in small pancakes slowly over a low heat (otherwise pancakes will be very difficult to turn over, and probably burn on the outside while still being raw and bananary on the inside).

Serve with cooked apple, and coconut cream if you've got it. Surprisingly delicious!

Recipe: Spare Ribs

Brown 1kg of spare ribs in the pressure cooker. Add a cup of broth, a large tsp of mustard, and 4 or 5 peeled garlic cloves. Top up with enough water to just cover the ribs, and cook under pressure for 20 mins.

Based on the ingredients found here.

Recipe: Chili

In the pressure cooker brown about 1.5kg of cubed beef (I used the fat leftover from this). You'll probably have to do 2 or 3 batches!

Meanwhile, dice an onion, chop some garlic (5 small cloves), and roughly cut up a carrot. When the meat is brown on most sides, add all of this into the pot along with:

• a can of beer (if you can get to it before your boyfriend does)
• a can of chopped tomatoes
• a packet of tomato paste
• about a cup of beef stock
• as much chilli powder as you can handle (I forgot this, and added it at the end when I served. It was fine)
• as much water as necessary to cover the meat completely

Cook for about an hour. Once cool enough to open, you might want to reduce the liquid - or add less to begin with?

I'm sure you could hide some extra vegetables in there if you wanted.


Inspired by Easy Peasy Paleo Chili and Pressure Cooker Chili Recipe.

Recipe: What to do with TAIL

Yes, I said tail :D

In a pressure cooker, attempt to brown about 1kg of pieces of tail on all (meaty) sides. Add as much water as your pressure cooker (mine is 6l) can SAFELY hold, then lid and boil for about an hour.

Once it's cooled, strain the liquid - fantastic(ly delicious) bone broth! To be used in later recipes/as a warming drink. Leave it in the fridge for a while then scrape/scoop off the fat. There'll probably be a lot. I saved mine to cook with (best caramelised onions ever). What's left is wobbly like jelly! Awesome!

Separate the meat from the bones and any cartilage that didn't completely disintegrate. Use in soups, arepas, omelettes, lettuce wraps.... :)

Recomended: sauté some chopped onion, add the shredded meat and a chopped tomato. Cook until heated through/ the onions are done. I call this "beef pericos" (like the eggs) but I know that's wrong. Still yummy though :D

Shown here with (clockwise from the green thing): avocado, fried plantain, homemade mayo, homemade sauerkraut.

Recipe: Pulled Pork

Place rack into pressure cooker and fill with water to just above the rack.
Add 3lb (1.5kg) pork loin, cut into 1" thick slices.
Sprinkle generously with salt, the juice of two limes, and 4 small garlic cloves.
Fix the lid, bring the pressure up and cook for about 30-40 minutes.

Drain, shred and serve with:
Arepas and guacamole
Tortillas, sour cream, avocado and pico de gallo (chopped tomato and (preferably red) onion marinated in a little vinegar)
Lettuce cups and the above
Cauliflower rice
Zoodles (+ bbq sauce?)

This was the only picture I got before I ate it all :D (well, all 0.75 lb of 'my' portion anyway)