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Roasted Delicata Salad with Maple Balsamic

November 21, 2016

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I love enjoying fresh produce this time of year in fall & winter salads! These “cold weather” salads are usually more hearty and can even be warming, like with this roasted delicata squash salad. You want heat? Add in a little cayenne to the dressing & candied pecans, and serve this salad with the warm roasted delicata squash right out of the oven. Or if you’d rather have the convince that goes along with an easy to prep side dish, prep it all ahead the day before and store it in some nice food saver containers like the Rubbermaid Brilliance containers I have pictured and then simply assemble your salad at the office, at home, or take it with to to share at a holiday party.

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Paleo Thanksgiving Recipes – Gluten-free & Dairy-free

October 30, 2016

Get ready to dig into the most delicious Paleo Thanksgiving Recipes that exist on the internet, well at least in my humble opinion they are anyway!! With everything from the turkey to the gravy & mashed “faux-tatos”, crave-worthy casseroles and my two top favorite grain-free “cornbread” recipes EVER! If you have a favorite fall recipe not featured, please share it in the comments below! Wishing you happy days of cooking, rejoicing, and gratitude ahead. ♥
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Rosemary Apple Sauce – Paleo – Instant Pot

October 4, 2016

I gotta give my Instant Pot credit for renewing my love for homemade apple sauce. It’s sooooo easy to make apple sauce in the Instant Pot that it becomes a crime not to take advantage of all the free apples I have growing in our little orchard! We get hundreds of pounds of apples from our trees each year, and each year we do our best to harvest bushels of them which end up being made into hard apple cider, fresh apple juice, apple pies, applesauce, and add them to cheese & cracker snack plates. Of all the things we do with the apples, making apple sauce and fresh juice are the easiest!

There is something so magical about eating food you’ve watched develop from a delicate blossom to a delicious fruit, picked the fruit with your own hands, and used to create delicious recipes you and your family can enjoy! Being apart of the cycle of growing and enjoying nutrient dense organic foods is one of my favorite ways to celebrate life!!…

Edible Wildflower Salad

July 8, 2016

There is something so magical about collecting and eating wildflowers that just makes me happy!! How can you not be happy on a cool early summer morning spent outdoors in a field of wildflowers!! And the best thing about the flowers being featured in this edible wildflower salad is the are very likely already growing in your yard! In our yard we’ve got wild pea flowers, Oxeye Daisies, golden California Poppies in bloom right now, and if you don’t have a large yard, you can just as easily collect these flowers in a park or alongside a country road. Just wander in off the road a bit to avoid picking next to the road where they might have sprayed pesticides….

Grilled Zucchini Salad

June 27, 2016

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This Grilled Zucchini Salad is one of my most favorite summer salad recipes and it’s being featured over at SoFabFood! Let me count the ways I love this all veggie dish!! Let’s see, it features easy to find summer produce that you can pick out of your own garden, at the farmers market, or local grocer! It’s super easy to prepare! And it’s also inexpensive to make! This Grilled Zucchini Salad recipe is also 100% gluten-free, Paleo, Vegan, and easily converted to AIP (just omit the peppers and cherry tomatoes for an AIP version). I hope you all enjoy this summer BBQ salad recipe as much as we do at my house! Now head on over to SoFabFood for the recipe!

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Paleo Tabbouleh with Zucchini Rice

June 5, 2016

This paleo tabbouleh recipe is everything you want tabbouleh to be! It’s refreshing, where you just keep wanting more – bite after bite, and it’s a wonderful cool and flavorful pairing with anything off the grill, or as a stand alone salad for a picnic. Traditional tabouli has a little bulgur wheat in it, but I’ve simply replaced the bulgur grain with “riced” zucchini and protein-rich hemp seeds & pumpkin seeds. Add to that cucumber, parsley, fresh mint, olive oil, lemon juice, and sea salt and you’ve got a nutrient dense salad that feels good to eat. I swear every time I eat this tabbouleh recipe I feel better inside and out, as all those alkaline nutrients get absorbed by my body. It’s 100*F here in little old Oregon today, and this low carb tabbouleh salad is on the menu, along with something grilled on the barbie.

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Foraging Wild Greens for Miners Lettuce Salad

May 15, 2016

I am sharing some photos one of my most favorite places on earth. I feel so incredibly blessed every time I step foot into this little oasis, that it just happens to be right outside out back door. Our dogs also love to explore our woodsy backyard with me any chance they get. This hidden away natural habitat on the backside of our property has oak, cedar and Douglas fir trees, wild edible greens (including Miners Lettuce as featured in the recipe below), wild strawberries, Indian plums, wild flowers, and is a popular haven for the local wildlife including elk, deer, coyote, bobcat, and a wide variety of birds.

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Low Carb Potato Salad – paleo, vegan

May 11, 2016

This low carb faux potato salad recipe has always been a hit at my house. I love that it’s packed with veggies, egg-free, and it is so flavorful! This dish makes awesome leftovers to be enjoyed with lunches (huge plus!) and it’s gotten great reviews when I’ve shared it at summer BBQ’s and potlucks. This recipe is super flexible, as it can be made with a wide variety of veggies, though I think you’ll agree a good potato salad always needs chunky potato-like veggies, celery, red onion, and dill pickles.

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Low Carb Breakfast Hash Browns – paleo

April 28, 2016

When you first go Paleo, SCD, GAPS, Starch-free and/or Low Carb, I think potatoes are one of the first things that you really notice missing from your dinner plate. At least for me I was feeling pretty potato deprived when I first started SCD six years ago, but I gottta say, I have been pretty darn successful at living without them over the years! They don’t even tempt me even more. Now potatoes just look like a tasteless blob of starch compared to all the other flavorful nutrient dense veggies I have learned to replace them with. Meet my new flavorful low carb breakfast hash coming to a plate near you!

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Healthy Mac and Cheese with Veggies – low carb

April 26, 2016

This veggie based “Mac & Cheese” is currently my fave low carb, no-starch comfort food recipe. I love how easy it is to make, and I love that when I am devouring all these nutrient dense veggies and gooey goat cheese, I am whisked away to memories of being a kid at Grandma’s enjoying her old school oven baked (gluten-filled) macaroni and cheese. Don’t tell Grandma, but if I were forced to make a choice between which mac & cheese I want nowadays, it’s THIS one, hands down!! But that’s also because eating gluten & grains these days makes my body feel like utter crap, whereas veggies & goat cheese makes me feel amazing!!

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Low Carb Nachos Supreme

April 11, 2016

Sometimes you have no idea what you are missing until you find it! Let’s just say I have been pretty happy to have discovered the simple process of making crispy tortilla chips out of goat cheese so I could enjoy the heck out of this low carb nachos supreme recipe! I remember seeing folks make cheese chips from cow milk based cheeses when I was on the SCD diet 6 years ago, but since cow based cheeses and I don’t get along I never got to try them. I recently started experimenting with goat and sheep milk cheeses to make these crispy cheesy chips, and I have been thrilled with the results.

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Spaghetti Squash Hash Browns

March 12, 2016

These low carb spaghetti squash hash browns have been pretty revolutionary for my paleo diet. The light crispy texture on the edges and soft golden insides of each patty will have you wondering why the heck in the olden days we ever used potatoes to make hash browns in the first place!?

I hope you find that these hash browns make a perfect side dish on your breakfast plate too! And they are sooo easy to make. When I cook up a spaghetti squash for dinner I simply make extra so I can transform it into hash browns in the next few days. …

Roasted Beets, Grapefruit, and Avocado Salad

March 2, 2016

The flavors in this roasted beet grapefruit salad compliment each other in a way that is off the charts. The white balsamic dances through the layers of sweet and earthy roasted beets, tart grapefruit, soft and creamy avocado, with refreshing shaved fennel. To top it off there are these little hidden gems of mint to add another layer of flavor. In the winter we almost always have these staple ingredients on hand in the kitchen, and this salad has become a staple for me. I sometimes keep the whole thing all to myself for dinner, and other nights I split into 2 servings to share as a side dish with my hubby and top it with a lil’ soft goat cheese for extra flavor and energy….

Green Goddess Dressing (paleo, vegan)

February 18, 2016

This creamy Green Goddess Dressing is one of my favorite ways to enjoy a salad. The avocado adds the perfect dairy-free creamy base, and the basil adds in a touch of bliss, and the red wine vinegar adds just the right amount of tang. The vinegar also keeps the dressing green for a couple days when stored in an airtight container in the fridge too. Feel free to adjust the ingredients to suit your own taste buds. This is one of my favorite recipes to use hemp hearts in, as the earthy taste of hemp seeds pairs perfectly with this creamy Green Goddess Dressing. And if you’d rather sprinkle the hemp hearts onto the salad for an extra serving of protein that tastes pretty darn good too….

Celery Root Puree with Truffle and Leek

February 3, 2016

Hello Comfort Food. This celery root puree with truffle and leek is quickly becoming a winter comfort food favorite at my house.

Below is a photo I took just steps from our front door, in a neighboring forest of 20 to 40 year old Doug Fir trees where wild truffles come to life here in the Oregon coast range. I was lucky enough to have a professional truffle hunter, Goose the black lab, and his owner Kelly, lead us to find wild truffles in this forest a few winters ago. Since then, I have been working on training our black lab, Jack, to hunt for truffles too.

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