November 2010
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I love this roasted broccoli recipe. →
I refer to this recipe whenever I want to make fancy roasted broccoli. And by fancy I mean a recipe requiring more than olive oil, salt and pepper. It may just be the best broccoli of your life.
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A Little Bit of Fasting
I normally try to have a 12-hour fast between the time I eat dinner and when I eat breakfast. I can’t seem to stretch it any more than that because I get too damn hungry. Fitbomb, on the other hand, has no issues with daily 16-hour fasts.
Last night, I gorged until around 7:30 p.m. and when I woke up, I wasn’t hungry. Maybe it’s because our kitchen was infested with ants...
October 2010
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Quick Bites
Man, oh man, Halloween weekend is ker-azy BUSY! As a result, my meals were quick or eaten out. I ended up eating mostly Paleo despite going out for lunch and having dinner at our friends’ house.
For breakfast, I ate what I ate two days ago except I subbed out frozen Trader Joe’s frozen haricots verts for the frozen broccoli. Easy peasy. The only difference in preparation is I...
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Super Fast Dinner for Moi
My kids and I didn’t return from a playdate until 6:45 p.m. and since I forgot to leave a note for Fitbomb (or check my numerous text pages from him as to where we were), he ate some leftovers when he got home early.
Hey! Where’s my meal?
Luckily, I had already planned ahead, ahem, for feeding both of us. Before leaving for the playdate, I washed some Mei Quin Choy and left it in...
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Halloweiners
My 5 year-old had his kindergarten Halloween party this morning so I decided we’d bring some cocktail franks that I bought from Dittmer’s to the potluck.
I cut the linked franks to separate them, pierced them with a sharp paring knife, and fried them up before taking them to the party.
Since we were having lunch in the classroom, my lunch was pretty pathetic and not photogenic...
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World Series Mini Party: Yay Giants!
Fitbomb is a huge Giants fan. Me, not so much. But I love having friends over for dinner, so Game 2 of the World Series was the perfect excuse to have a mid-week get-together. Plus, as I mentioned in an earlier post, I HAD to order the 4505 Meat’s World Series DELUX CSA pack. Wanna see what came in it?
See the chicharrones on top? Sadly, there’s a whole mess of non-Paleo...
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Meat Oasis: Dittmer's Gourmet Meats & Wurst-Haus...
Smoked meats, award winning sausages, high quality fresh meat, friendly and knowledgeable butchers — Dittmer’s has it all. I didn’t see a lot of grass-fed beef, but the freezer is stocked with venison, buffalo, and elk and they routinely carry free range chicken and turkey (Diestel). Plus, for all you sous viders out there, they have a variety of pre-marinated, vacuum sealed...
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5 Minute Breakfast
This tasty breakfast can be whipped up in around 5 minutes — as long as you have the staples in your fridge/freezer.
The things I had on hand:
leftover sous vide chicken breast
frozen organic broccoli
Primavera Organic Roasted Tomato Chipotle Salsa
Wholly Guacamole (from Costco)
Clover organic sour cream
I dumped about 2 cups of frozen broccoli in a microwave safe bowl, covered it...
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Argh!
…I bought the SousVide Supreme too early! They’ve just introduced the SousVide Supreme Demi. It costs $299.95 ($150 less than the full-sized Supreme), comes in cute colors, takes up a smaller countertop footprint (Supreme = breadmachine, Demi = crockpot), yet still holds twelve 4-oz servings. It stinks to be an early adopter.
But in all seriousness, I’d probably still get...
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Dinner on Flip Day
Okay, peeps, I’m fricking tired tonight. Today’s my “flip day” so I gotta switch from working night shift (I got off this morning) to full time mommy. Man, I’m a cranky mommy every other Wednesday. Well, crankier than normal. It doesn’t help that I stopped eating at 4:00 a.m. and only napped from 10:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. And I had to go to the doctor’s...
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Eating Out: Paleo Friendly in San Francisco →
What I love about these recommendations is that these are great restaurants. I love Robb Wolf, but Chipotle? Really?
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Lunch Tonight
Leftover sous-vide pork chop, roasted broccoli, and winter squash puree.
I didn’t nuke it since I wanted the pork to stay pink. Tasty.
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My Last Breakfast At Dinnertime for 3 Weeks
After working six 10-hour night shifts in a row, I’m normally lagging. But the one thing that always perks me up on my night is that no matter how shitty the shift goes, I’ll have a whole week off to forget about it. Tonight I’m extra jazzed because I’ll be off for 21(!) fricking days and that’s all sorts of awesome.
Before coming into to work, I got this on the...
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Anonymous asked: Does Paleo = Low-Carb?
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I Coulda Been a Contenda...
…but not tonight. Whenever I’m on my work week, I try to get dinner on the table 30-45 minutes from when I start futzing in the kitchen. We even have a “5 o’clock house rule” where our rugrats can only start watching TV after 5 pm so I can prepare dinner uninterrupted. My kids literally transform into zombies when they start watching TV. It’s a...
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Local Spotlight: Sigona's Farmers Market (Redwood...
Since we moved from San Francisco to the ‘burbs, Sigona’s Farmers Market has become my favorite grocery store on the Peninsula, hands down. Impeccable produce (a mix of local, organic, and conventionally-grown), awesome cheese selection (not Paleo approved, but eff it), Marin Sun Farms grass fed beef, organic and free-range poultry, a myriad of dried fruits and nuts (bulk raw...
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Go Giants! 4505 Meat's World Series CSA Pack →
Wow. This sounds awesome! Yes, I know it’s not all Paleo-approved (cough! Homemade Fritos! cough!) but I’m considering getting it…
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Breakfast/Dinner Tonight
When I woke up this evening, I didn’t feel like making dinner/breakfast. I went to sleep late after spending all morning seasoning and vacuum sealing meats to sous vide for the coming week so the last thing I wanted to do was to cook something else.
But, then again, I didn’t feel like eating leftovers because that’s all I eat in the middle of the night. Sigh. It’d be...
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Breakfast for Breakfast
When I woke up this evening I felt like eating some breakfast, damn it. Sausage and eggs with some veggies on the side sounded really good. Since I had already washed and cut up some broccoli before I went to bed, hubby was already roasting some broccoli in the oven when I got up. Here’s the quick and dirty “recipe”:
Preheat oven to 425 F.
Wash 1 large head of broccoli...
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Wanna Learn How to Butcher a Whole Cow? →
Ryan Farr of 4505 Meats fame (awesome chicharrones) will be offering 2 classes on how to butcher a whole cow — each class will take 9 hours, and you get to take home 100 pounds of cow. For $600. Seems pretty steep, but it works out to be $6/lb of Paleo approved meat that you can share with friends and family. I’m all about eating like a cave girl, but I’ll step aside and let...
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The (Minor) Perils of Buying Organic
This is NOT how I like to get more protein in my diet. I lurv my veggie CSA — until I get a big fat caterpillar in my corn or tons of mini bugs in my broccoli. What can I say? My love is conditional. It must KILL vegetarians to find dead bugs in their cooked broccoli.
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Harold McGee Interview on Fresh Air →
I’ve already told you I can’t stand NPR, but Terry Gross does have some interesting guests once in a while. Case in point – Harold McGee, author of the best seller On Food and Cooking.
I’ve already pre-ordered Harold McGee’s new cookbook, Keys to Good Cooking. If you’re going to eat Paleo, you need to learn how to cook properly and this book gives you the scientific reasoning why your food...
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I Lurv My Veggie CSA
David Chang says, “every restaurant in San Francisco is serving figs on a plate with nothing on it.” By golly, you can do the same thing at home if you join Two Small Farms’ CSA! Well, maybe not the fig part since this is mostly a vegetable CSA, but you can cook delicious dishes with little fuss since you are getting the same stellar stuff supplied to rock star chefs around...
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SFoodie's Snarky Best Practices For Being... →
Ha ha! This is funny! Wait a second, are you making fun of me? Harumph.
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My Husband Hearts Canned Sardines
Here’s his mash note to fish in a tin:
I love Bela Olhão canned sardines — and not just because they’re actually kind of delicious. (Really.) Here’s why:
They’re portable, and you can eat ‘em straight out of the can, so they’re fantastic for long hikes or when you just need an emergency snack. I keep a couple of tins in my office desk drawer; when...
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