Fish Sauce!?
One staple that every cook should have in their fridge is Fish Sauce. It is a special ingredient that takes good food to amazing 
food. Fish Sauce, mushrooms and aged cheeses have something called “UMAMI.” Umami is a pleasant savory taste produced by glutamate and ribonucleotides, chemicals which occur naturally in many foods.
Umami is subtle and not generally identified by people when they encounter it, but blends well with other flavors and makes food taste amazing.
BUSY PARTY TIP: These can be prepared up to 2 days ahead of time and ready to pop in the oven for an easy appetizer at your New Years Eve gathering.
Tenderloin Bites
Ingredients
- 2 pounds beef tenderloin filets or venison, cut into 2 inch squares
- 8 slices bacon
MARINADE:
- 1/2 cup tamari sauce or coconut aminos
- 3 tablespoons MCT oil
- 2 teaspoons Natural Sweetener or a few drops of stevia glycerite
- 3 teaspoons fresh ginger grated
- 2 cloves garlic minced
Instructions
- Cut tenderloin into 2 inch pieces. Place in a large bowl. Mix marinade ingredients together and put into the bowl with the tenderloin pieces to marinate for 2 hours or overnight.
- Preheat oven on Broil (500 degrees). Remove tenderloin from marinade. Cut bacon slices in 1/2. Wrap each piece of loin with 1/2 a bacon slice, secure with a toothpick. Place on a baking sheet.
- Once the oven is hot, place the baking sheet just under the broiler. Broil for 5 minutes or until done to liking (they will continue to cook once you remove from oven). Enjoy!
Notes
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Playing cards with friends
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monosodium glutamate ( and soy sauce and other high tyramine foods) give me migraines, is fish sauce likely to do the same?
I don’t go to parties very often but New Years calls for a party: the one where you can dance and look dress beautiful
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*expecting.
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🙂 Thanks Donna!
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Dinner with the hubby and friends!
I have a quick question about beef. My grocery store sells what they advertise as grass fed grain finished beef. Should I avoid this type of beef? Thanks for all the help!
It is better to have all grass fed, but this is better than a feed lot beef. 🙂
i went dancing with friends
quietly at home 🙂
With family, fireworks and hugs!
At home with my family playing games and movie foods watching a great movie
I like to celebrate new year at home with the people I love most.
Ditti Ricci… it’s always best to ring in the new year with the people i love
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We are so boring. We like to stay home and watch movies. Sometimes we’re up at midnight and sometimes we aren’t! But we definitely are trying these tenderloin bites!!
Staying home and spending time with family. 🙂
My husband and I celebrate at home, sometimes with friends over and we play cards and have appetizers