Is the growing season delayed everywhere, or is it just in Minnesota this year? The frigid northern winter hung out for an extended stay and didn’t mosey back up to Canada where it belongs until around mid June. As a result, my garden and my CSA are only just now starting to provide enough sustenance [...]
What is it with Paleo people insisting that pesto includes walnuts or almonds? I disagree. Traditional pesto, depending on where in the world you are, oftens includes pine nuts. I’m told that pine nuts aren’t technically a nut, but I’ve seen conflicting proclamations on the subject. Honestly, I don’t think I’ve ever had a pine [...]
While many Paleo cupcake recipes rely on ground nuts or almond meal for substance, these sweet muffins make up for nutlessness with double the chocolate. If you like the Nut Free Paleo Banana Zucchini Muffins, or if you just love chocolate anything (like me), you’re really going to go nuts for these. (Ha - I’m [...]
If you’ve been doing any online reading about this whole Paleo thing, you must have come across Mark Sisson and his Primal Blueprint empire. While Robb Wolf and Loren Cordain are often credited with starting the Paleo revolution, Sisson could surely be held responsible for bringing a point of view and a ridiculous amount of [...]
There are so many recipes for paleo zucchini bread and paleo banana muffins that I decided to merge these two beautiful food spheres into one. I love opportunities to blend fruit with vegetable, and these muffins are part of a growing body of evidence that we should do this all the time. The full title [...]
I confess that historically I have not been a big fan of substitutes for nut products. Why would I want something that is designed to taste like nuts? The whole idea just generally freaked me out. I’m someone who used to avoid all spicy food because the mouth sensation was too similar to an allergic [...]
Way back in December my boyfriend and I had a boatload of salmon in the fridge. It was getting close to dinner time, it was dark and cold outside, and we were feeling competitive. This could mean only one thing. Salmon showdown. This wasn’t the first time we dueled in the kitchen, and it wasn’t [...]
I love the idea of quiche because I love eggs, especially when they’re baked with veggies; but crust freaks me out. Even before I discovered that my body hates gluten, crust just made me nervous. This probably dates back to the first time I saw a cheesecake with a crumbly Macadamia nut bottom. After that [...]
I both love and dread being invited over to a friend’s house for dinner. As a social extrovert, I can never seem to soak in enough time with fun people; and my friends are pretty damn fun. But since food is nearly always involved in social functions, I am also apprehensive. I want so badly [...]
Melissa Joulwan’s Paleo cookbook, Well Fed, was the first no-grains, no-dairy cookbook to grace my kitchen shelf. Since then I’ve acquired several more, usually after borrowing them from the local library and falling in love with them. But Well Fed will always hold a special place as the first cookbook of it’s kind in my [...]
