February 2012
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Vote Paleo FTW!
Over at The Kitchn, they’re hosting a contest called The Homies that celebrates the best new home design and cooking blogs.
It’s no surprise that Melicious, over at The Clothes Make the Girl, is nominated for The Best Healthy Cooking Blog. But, I was shocked to see Nom Nom Paleo listed in the Best Food Photography in a Blog category — especially since all my shots are taken on...
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Paleo Eats: 2/28/12
Only two more nights of work until vacay starts!
For my chow at work, I gobbled up leftover roasted curried cauliflower and sous vide beef tongue ‘n cheek.
When I came home in the morning, I washed and hulled a mess o’ strawberries to bring to Lil-O’s co-op to feed all the pint-sized cuties in his preschool class…
…and fried myself a Thai omelet (a.k.a Khai...
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Paleo Eats: 2/27/12
Is it vacation yet? Um, no.
On my third to last night of work, I packed myself a thermos of beefy bone broth and some leftover pressure cooker porcini and tomato short ribs (recipe forthcoming, I promise), root vegetable puree, and roasted broccoli.
When I came home in the morning, I ate a nuked yam and a few slices of Applegate Farms organic roast beef. Then, I hustled Big-O to school,...
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Giveaway Time! Win A Signed Copy Of The Healthy...
**UPDATE: The giveaway is over and our winner is lucky number 190, Shannon Weiland!**
Who wants to win something for nothing? Okay, you have to do a little something but it’s so easy to enter and the prizes are groovy.
I recently received a review copy of Tammy Credicott’s The Healthy Gluten-Free Life ($34.95 value) and I’ve really enjoyed many of the quick and fresh recipes....
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Paleo Eats: 2/26/12
My night at the hospital was so busy, I didn’t get around to eating my packed meal until close to dawn.
In about five minutes, I gobbled up some leftover Turkish slider burgers, roasted broccoli, and sauteed mixed veggies.
When I returned home in the morning, I filled my pressure cooker with meaty beef bones…
…veggies, and water to make a big pot of bone broth.
As I...
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Slow Cooker Korean Grass Fed Short Ribs
I recently bought Slow Cooker Revolution from the editors at America’s Test Kitchen and I keep it on my nightstand so I can peruse it for tips and good recipes before going to bed. I’ve bookmarked a bunch of recipes I want to try but the one I was most excited about was Korean-style spare ribs.
I’ve made this dish several times and it was easy-peasy and tasty. The main tweaks...
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Paleo Eats: 2/25/12
Another night, another buck…
For my chow at work, I scarfed down leftover pressure cooker porcini and grass fed short ribs, roasted broccoli, and cauliflower, parsnip, and carrot puree.
In the morning, I mailed off a bunch of socks and picked up my weekly Siren SeaSA delivery. The haul this week was fresh black cod fillets, my favorite.
When I got home in the morning, I grabbed my...
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Paleo Eats: 2/24/12
Another day of chow coming right atcha!
In the middle of the night, I ate leftover cauliflower, carrot, and parsnip puree topped with pressure cooker porcini and grass fed short ribs.
After work, I visited with D at her appointment before heading home to sleep.
When I woke up in the evening, I mixed up some Turkish slider burgers…
…and fried them up on the stove.
While...
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Paleo Eats: 2/23/12
Wanna see my eats for the day?
For my meal at work, I packed some leftover curried lamb spare ribs, sauteed cabbage, and roasted curried cauliflower.
Throughout the night, I also sipped from a thermos filled with steaming bone broth.
When I returned home in the morning, I took the kiddos to school and dropped off some sock packages at the post office. Big thanks to all of you who’ve...
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Video: Veggies 4 Ways
Wanna see how quick and easy it is to throw together four of my favorite vegetable sides? Watch the video below to see how I made roasted kabocha squash, garlic cauliflower mashed “potatoes,” pressure cooker braised greens, and stir-fried kale and bacon — all in just one hour. I did this after working a 10-hour graveyard shift, so I don’t want to hear any complaints about...
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Pressure Cooker Braised Kale and Carrots
Everyone should eat kale. That statement’s irrefutable because it’s uber-healthy, versatile (e.g. chips, salad, stir-fry), and ‘cause I said so. Still resistant? Well, here’s another quick and easy method to cook kale where you’ll end up with a bowl of tender greens and carrots in about 15 minutes. Grab your pressure cooker and let’s get some dark leafy greens...
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Paleo Eats: 2/22/12
Since I was turning into a zombie/night shift worker tonight, I was a busy bee in the morning harvesting brains preparing food for the week ahead.
For breakfast, I downed a bowl of bone broth with shredded beef shanks and gulped down a plate of scrambled eggs before heading to the women’s class at CrossFit Palo Alto.
We had a full house today and it was fun working out with a room full...
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Paleo Eats: 2/21/12
Ay caramba! Because my week of night shifts starts tomorrow night, my day was filled with loads of laundry and meal prep.
As we were getting the Double-O’s ready for school, I reheated a bowl of beefy bone broth with leftover braised kale and carrots for breakfast.
When I finally had the house to myself, I seasoned a bowl of grass fed beef short ribs and stored them in the fridge…
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Grilled Calamari & Roasted Peppers
In a previous life, I was a ravenous sushi hound, but there was always one sashimi variant that made me turn up my nose: Raw squid — a.k.a. ika. (As in “EEEK! AAAH!”) I found it too slimy, inky, and just plain icky. Cooked calamari was a different matter — I’d down a plate happily — but my aversion to the raw stuff caused me to avoid squid altogether at the...
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Paleo Eats: 2/20/12
Happy Presidents’ Day!
Lincoln and Washington were awesome and all, but my primary reason for celebration was that it wasn’t a typical manic Monday. Instead of frantically rushing the kids off to school, I leisurely got my stuff together for my women’s class at CrossFit Palo Alto.
For breakfast, I reheated a couple of Big-O slider burgers and fried myself an egg in butter.
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Paleo Eats: 2/19/12
Today was filled with minimal cooking but lots of outdoor time with the family. Now, if I could only get some more sleep, things would be peachy.
For breakfast this morning, I fried some bacon and eggs for the kiddies…
…and broiled a skillet filled with leftover Cheater Sous Vide Crispy Duck Confit Legs, roasted butternut squash, frozen spinach, eggs, and Magic Mushroom Powder...
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Paleo Eats: 2/18/12
Even though it was Saturday, I had many errands to run before lunchtime. My life is so hectic these days — but I wouldn’t change a thing. Okay, I lied. I’d love to get a few more hours of sleep each night…
For breakfast, I fried up some Prather Ranch sugar-free bacon…
….and made Pig in a Skillet with leftover Dutch Oven Pork Roast, braised kale, and eggs.
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Paleo Eats: 2/17/12
Happy Friday!
This morning, I had two goals for myself:
1. Package and label all my sock orders, and
2. Braise a couple of pastured pork leg roasts languishing in the fridge.
I gotta admit — I HATE pork leg roasts. Every method I’ve tried in the past results in dry, stringy meat and my lack of success makes me MAD. While I was perusing my advance copy of Tammy Credicott’s The...
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The Healthy Gluten-Free Life's Dutch Oven Pork...
I’ve never had great success with cooking the pastured pork leg roasts that come in my monthly CSA box. In fact, there’s a big pile of ‘em in my freezer because I’d almost given up on them; I hate ending up with dry, stringy meat.
A few days ago, I got two more pork leg roasts, so I knew it was time to find a way to cook them properly. As I was perusing my advance copy...
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Paleo Eats: 2/16/12
Today, the Double-O’s and I spent a fun yet exhausting day in San Francisco. Both boys are off for the next five days and I didn’t feel like being cooped up at home stuffing socks into envelopes all day (sorry!). Instead, we followed Fitbomb up to the big city.
Before heading out the door, I slurped up a steaming bowl of meaty pressure cooker bone broth for breakfast.
Yesterday, I...
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Paleo Eats: 2/14/12
Happy Valentine’s Day! Who ate some heart today?
While I was dealing drugs out of my corner at the hospital, I sipped a warm mug of pressure cooker bone broth and ate some leftover slow-roasted chuck eye roast and stir-fried kale and bacon.
When I came home in the morning, my sweetheart showed me the alpha build of the new Nom Nom Paleo iPad cooking app. It may be one of the best V-Day...
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Paleo Eats: 2/13/12
Did you guys get your Nom Nom Paleo socks yet? If you purchased a pair or five, thank you! I’ll do my best to send them out by the end of this week, but please be patient because I’m the only person doing the stuffing and mailing.
Enough about my socks. Let’s cut to my chow for the day…
For my main meal at work, I ate leftover sous vide rib eye steak, roasted kabocha...
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Sous Vide Grass Fed Shredded Beef Chuck Roast
Chuck roast isn’t normally my favorite cut because it can get powdery and stringy by the time it finally tenderizes. Enter the magical water oven to the rescue! I’ve found that with a little bit of seasoning and a long soak in the SousVide Supreme, you can get a big pile of tender and moist shredded beef with almost no work at all. To make it even fancier, you can toss the beef with...
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Socks! Socks! Socks!
Admit it: You haven’t been this excited to buy socks since…well…EVER.
Click the image below to get yourself a pair (or three) of my limited edition Nom Nom Paleo knee-highs!
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Paleo Eats: 2/12/12
Yay! There’s no better way to spend a weekend night than working in the hospital. Is it that obvious that I’m working on my positive thinking?
While I was burning the midnight oil, I chowed on leftover tandoori chicken, sauteed broccolini and ‘shrooms, and garlic cauliflower mashed fauxtatoes.
For dessert, I ate an ounce of dark chocolate and savored every bite.
When I came...
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Paleo Eats: 2/11/12
As I dispensed meds to everyone unlucky enough to be stuck at the hospital on a Friday night, I shared a package of beef sticks from U.S. Wellness Meats with my co-zombies in the pharmacy. I would’ve chowed on more food but my night shift got progressively busier towards the end.
When I returned home in the morning, I sauteed some baby kale and bacon…
…braised a pot of...
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Tuna and Avocado Wraps
As a rule, I always have cans of tuna in the pantry and limes, ripe avocados, and jalapenos in the fridge. With these items at my fingertips, I can whip up a couple of satisfying wraps whenever I’m hangry. If you don’t have Paleo mayonnaise on hand, a quick guacamole is the best binder for salads like this one.
Ingredients (serves 1)
1 (5 oz) can of wild albacore tuna in water
1...
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Paleo Eats: 2/10/12
Another day of eats coming right up!
On my second night of work, I packed myself some leftover slow roasted grass fed beef back ribs, roasted escarole, and sauteed mushrooms.
I also snacked on a small container of homemade coconut butter to keep me satiated for the rest of my shift.
When I returned home in the morning, I seasoned some thawed U.S. Wellness Meats boneless rib eye steaks with...
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Paleo Eats: 2/9/12
On my first night back at work, I wasn’t hungry until 6:00 a.m. I think it’s because I stuffed my face with slow roasted beef back ribs at dinnertime.
For my only meal at work, I slurped up a big bowl of beefy bone broth.
When I came home in the morning, I tossed some chicken drumsticks with Tandoori marinade and stored them in the fridge.
After the kids were shuttled to school,...
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Paleo Eats: 2/8/12
I started my night shifts tonight so I was busy, busy, busy in the morning and afternoon.
Before I headed to the women’s class at CrossFit Palo Alto, I slurped up a bowl of beefy bone broth and gobbled up a scrambled egg.
I also placed the two remaining seasoned beef back ribs into the oven to slow roast for eight hours.
It was my one year anniversary at the box and I had a fun time...
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Slow Roasted Grass Fed Beef Back Ribs
When I was gifted grass fed beef back ribs from Brandon Natural Beef, they also included a simple recipe for slow roasting the racks in the oven. Since all three racks wouldn’t fit in the oven, I decided to cook one rack in the pressure cooker and slow-roast the other two in the oven for 8 hours: I was gonna be a one-woman America’s Test Kitchen and compare the two cooking methods.
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Pressure Cooker Grass Fed Beef Back Ribs
Grass fed beef back ribs are normally cooked low and slow for many hours to break down the collagen in the tough meat. What if I told you you could get the same results in less than an hour in a pressure cooker? Seriously. Don’t be afraid of your pot exploding. If you get a good pressure cooker AND follow directions, you’ll save time and energy PLUS get kickass results. If you...
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Paleo Eats: 2/7/12
After a couple of days of cooling my heels in the kitchen, I was ready to cook my way through the day. My night shift work week starts tomorrow night and I had to prep food so my family won’t starve. See? I am a good mother.
After I shuttled the kids off to school, I roasted half a mongo kabocha squash…
…and blitzed a batch of garlic cauliflower mashed fauxtatoes.
I was...
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Paleo Eats: 2/6/12
When I got up this morning, I was still coughing and congested but I was feeling more like myself than death warmed over. That being said, I still skipped out on the women’s class at CrossFit Palo Alto. Naughty Nom Nom.
For breakfast I heated up a bowl of beefy bone broth that I topped with chopped scallions.
I spent the rest of the morning washing and folding heaps of dirty laundry and...
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Paleo Eats: 2/5/12
While most of you were slaving over a hot stove/grill/oven to create nosh for your Madonna-viewing party, I just sat on my ass and didn’t lift a finger. Taking a cooking break is key to my sanity.
For breakfast, I reheated a bowl of Pressure Cooker Bone Broth and added leftover barbacoa and baby chard.
The tang from the barbacoa made this soup reminiscent of a steaming bowl of...
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Paleo Eats: 2/4/12
I’m pooped after a long day of cooking and eating. But it’s a good tired because being with friends that make me laugh until I have a coughing fit is what life’s all about.
Before the rest of the house was awake, I checked on the barbacoa in the slow cooker. It had simmered on high for 4 hours and kept on warm overnight. When I poked it, the brisket was still a little tough....
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Paleo Eats: 2/3/12
I woke up phlegmy and congested so I skipped out on the women’s class at CrossFit Palo Alto this morning. Instead, I simmered a batch of Pressure Cooker Beef Stock with a huge grass fed beef shank…
…leeks, carrots, onions…
…water, and Red Boat fish sauce.
While I waited for the broth to cook, I transformed sous vide chicken breast, diced apples, and...
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Paleo Eats: 2/2/12
Did you guys read about my big reveal? I hate secrets — and since we’re all friends, I’m glad to finally be able to share the news with you. Either that, or I’m just a big blabbermouth.
Thanks for all the wonderful and encouraging comments, tweets, and constructive feedback. Fitbomb and I are happy that the meteoric spikes in our cortisol levels aren’t for nothing.
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The Big Reveal!
I know I’ve been a tad sadistic for the past few months, dropping hints about a mysterious “side project” and taunting you with new dishes while withholding the recipes. I’ve been a total see-you-next-Tuesday, and for that, I apologize.
But know this: It gives me zero pleasure to keep secrets from you. In fact, IT’S KILLING ME INSIDE.
I’ve never been able to keep secrets. I can’t throw...
