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Meatloaf Cupcakes

Posted by Stacy on Mar 9, 2012 in 2012, Featured | 25 comments

It’s MARCH! That means Eat Like a Dinosaur is just around the corner! In honor of our book’s release, we are the Featured Chef this month over at US Wellness Meats. We’ll be sharing a brand new recipe every week this month featuring products from the preeminent online pastured meat distributor. We’ve tried a BUNCH of US Wellness Meat items and can tell you two things: (1) We’ve never been disappointed (2) Their customer service is phenomenal! You know how kids love cupcakes? Ever wonder why a kid will always go for a cupcake over a regular slice of cake?...

Pumpkin and Bacon Silver Dollar Pancakes

Posted by Stacy on Mar 7, 2012 in 2012, Featured | 13 comments

We’ve been working on trying to find more affordable ways to get pastured meat into our family. The hardest part? Bacon. It’s just so expensive! But… I can’t give it up. So until Matt starts curing his own pork belly, my solution? Ends & pieces! We had been using Trader Joe’s bits & pieces bacon, but it’s not pastured so we’re not doing that anymore. We were so thrilled to find pastured white-sugar-free bacon ends from US Wellness Meats! Having some leftover pumpkin from recently making pumpkin pucks (yes, sometimes we use canned –...

Licorice Sausage

Posted by Matthew on Mar 2, 2012 in 2012, Featured | 5 comments

It’s MARCH! That means Eat Like a Dinosaur is just around the corner! In honor of our book’s release, we are the Featured Chef this month over at US Wellness Meats. We’ll be sharing a brand new recipe every week this month featuring products from the preeminent online pastured meat distributor. We’ve tried a BUNCH of US Wellness Meat items and can tell you two things: (1) We’ve never been disappointed (2) Their customer service is phenomenal! You may remember when we went on our little honeymoon after our vow renewal to a bed and breakfast in Lovettsville,...

Stuffed Bell Peppers

Posted by Matthew on Feb 2, 2012 in 2012, Featured | 14 comments

Long, long time followers of this blog have probably noticed quite an evolution in the way we think about food. I’m always amused when I look back at Stacy’s first post where she talks about us eating whole grain tortillas and rice cereal. I think we’d be quite embarrassed by ourselves if we ever stopped to think about it! But, everyone starts somewhere – and there’s a reason we say that with a family an “on-ramp transition” is perfectly normal. One of our compromises back then was the widespread use of quinoa in a lot of our foods. Quinoa was awesome...

Spaghetti Squash alla Carbonara

Posted by Matthew on Jan 17, 2012 in 2012, Featured | 57 comments

I make dinner almost every night. It’s the exception, rather than the rule, to have Stacy in charge for supper. So it was a big surprise for all of us when I had to turn over the kitchen to Stacy the other night. Some of you parents may be familiar with this kind of thing. Finian goes to a private co-op preschool part-time because we are suburban neo-hippies like that. Part of the deal with co-op preschools is that the parents do almost all the non-teaching work in the school. That means a flood of emails with instructions on our assigned next “mission.” Frankly, I simply...

Apple & Bacon Stuffed Pork Chops

Posted by Matthew on Nov 8, 2011 in 2011, Featured | 26 comments

So last week was the week of dinner parties. One day, we had James & Brady over for make your own tacos (we served Primal Palate’s Beef Tongue and Liz brought Elana’s Dirty Cauli Rice – yum!). Then we hosted a cookie making party and dinner with FitDaffy. On Sunday, we had our Meetup. And in the middle of it all we had my dad and his wife over. I cook for flavor, not for fanfare. Putting on dinner parties fancy enough to show off a little but be kid friendly can be a challenge. Especially 4 times in one week. It was a mentally exhausting week, but we sure...

The Bacon Chicken

Posted by Matthew on Nov 1, 2011 in 2011, Featured | 43 comments

Some days, you know exactly what you’re going to make for dinner. Those days are fantastic: you have a plan, you know you have all the ingredients, and there is little creative thinking involved. I wish I had more of those days. Other days, you find yourself at a complete loss at 4 PM and have to scramble to throw together dinner. Sometimes, that can lead to disaster. Other times, the result is genius. Like, let’s say, an idea (a dream really) about taking a whole chicken and wrapping it in bacon and just roasting it like that. The Bacon Chicken with Insanely Delicious Bacon...

Southwestern Chorizo Burgers

Posted by Matthew on Oct 18, 2011 in 2011, Featured | 4 comments

About a year ago, Stacy found a *MUST TRY* recipe for chorizo burgers with a fried egg on top. We were very excited about it; we got our chorizo and loved it. Somehow we let a whole year go by before making this delish dish again. When we found fresh chorizo the other day at the Eastern Market we immediately remembered the recipe and wanted to recreate it. But it’d been so long we had forgotten where we even got the idea. I went ahead and winged our burgers (see recipe below). The result, was fantastic. The spicy, rich chorizo with the lean and slightly gamey venison was better than we...

Polyface Pork Backbone and Homemade Texas BBQ Sauce

Posted by Stacy on Apr 28, 2011 in 2011 | 5 comments

Joel and Sherri advertise the Pork Backbone on their site (Polyface) as better than spareribs, so we thought as a reasonably priced cut of meat it was worth trying. And oh boy, was it! Matt uses a BBQ book from the 80′s to govern our grill. The book has some excellent tips and recipes for making your own sauce, we leave out the requested MSG… I prefer the Texas style, here’s Matt’s interpreted recipe. Backbones 4lbs pork backbone, in pieces 1 T palm sugar 1 T sea salt 1 t paprika 1 t black pepper 1 t lemon zest dash of cayenne First, make the rub. Put the...