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Blueberry Coconut Milk Smoothie

Posted by Matthew on Nov 14, 2011 in 2011, Featured | 17 comments

Today, we have a special guest writer to introduce our blueberry coconut milk smoothie. His name is Cole; he is 6 years-old, in 1st grade, loves to read, play hard and just learned to tie his shoes. Also, he happens to sleep across the hall from us. “We made a blueberry smoothie for breakfast one day. It was red. It tasted sweet and it was creamy like ice cream. I like smoothies for breakfast, but I don’t ask for them all the time. Eggs give me more energy for school than smoothies. Making smoothies is fun because you get to push the button on the blender.” From time to...

This Week in Ground Meat: Week 2

Posted by Matthew on Nov 11, 2011 in 2011, Featured | 2 comments

This week, in addition to the metric ton of venison in our basement freezer, we were elated to receive a couple of pounds of grass fed 75% ground beef from US Wellness Meats. We are late on the train to join the league of US Wellness Meat supporters (like Primal Palate, Balanced Bites, Everyday Paleo and countless others). We’re fortunate to have wonderful local resources and couldn’t wrap our brains around how meat would fair in the mail. But, hearing wonderful feedback from everyone everywhere in the Paleo world we decided it was high time we check it out. We struggled to come...

Garden Update and Goose-Egg Scramble

Posted by Stacy on Jun 11, 2011 in 2011 | 1 comment

We’ve been watching our garden grow. We aren’t diligent garden pruners, we have not mastered the art of botany, and we do not have the time or patience to worry about (gasp) weeds! But by golly our garden grows anyway. Amazingly, all plants need to provide you their bounty is a bit of natural rain water and bright sunshine. The old adage of, “If we can do it, you can to!” definitely applies here. And hopefully what you’ll end up with are some goodies to add to your own body to make it grow healthy and strong. As a result of our flourishing garden, we have...

Quick Dinner: Meatball Salad

Posted by Matthew on Jun 3, 2011 in 2011, Featured | 5 comments

Stacy needed to go to the mall to buy (more) new clothes the other night, so we all trekked over to Ye Olde Nordstrom around 5 PM. When we were done we were shocked to discover that it was 7:30 PM, only thirty minutes until bedtime for the boys! Sensing impending crisis, I rushed through the front door and threw together a simple but amazingly delicious salad in 20 minutes flat. We used to love basil-tomato-mozzarella salads in the before-Paleo era and I was kind of craving it ever since Stacy brought me a magnificent basil plant from the farmer’s market a couple weeks ago. I threw a...

Lemon Dill Salmon Filets

Posted by Matthew on May 13, 2011 in 2011, Featured | 0 comments

On a recent hot day I was trying to keep my kitchen cool and thought about some lemons and salmon filets I had on hand and decided they’d match pretty well on the grill. Stacy has recently become obsessed with putting dill on everything , so my dinner idea came together there. Lemon Dill Salmon Filets 5 Ingredients: 5 Steps! 2 Salmon filets 3 cloves garlic, minced 1 Tbsp dill (use more if dried) 1 lemon, sliced salt and pepper Preheat your grill to medium ♥ On a sheet of foil large enough to enclose, lay your filets down ♥ Rub garlic, dill, salt and pepper into flesh of...

Paprika Roast Chicken

Posted by Matthew on May 5, 2011 in 2011 | 2 comments

Stacy’s grandfather is Hungarian. He was over for our Easter Dinner and we decided to add a little flavor to the chicken that reminds him of home… And for those looking for some easy recipes, this is it. Elegant enough to have for guests, easy enough to prepare in 10 minutes, don’t let a little bird intimidate you! Paprika Roast Chicken Ingredients: 1 lemon 1 onion 1 garlic head oil of choice (we recommend olive oil, needs to be something not solid) salt and pepper paprika dried herb blend (I use 1 Tbsp each rosemary and thyme which pair well with chicken) ♥ Pat...

Root Veggie Egg-stravaganza

Posted by Matthew on May 3, 2011 in 2011 | 5 comments

The meal that introduced and turned a dinner guest to Paleo! For our Easter dinner Stacy was looking for root vegetables to roast. While looking for parsnips she found some interesting (reasonably priced) new items she brought home for me to experiment with. She brought home golden beets and celeriac, or celery root. She loves beets and was thinking they’d make a gorgeous Spring looking dish with the sweet potatoes we had at home. But the celeriac… we were both starting from scratch. It’s probably one of the most interesting vegetables out there as it looks like...

Mint Rubbed Boneless Leg of Lamb

Posted by Matthew on Apr 30, 2011 in 2011 | 1 comment

For Easter I had a boneless leg of lamb I wanted to make but didn’t quite know how I wanted to flavor it. Now Primal Palate has a delicious looking recipe but I didn’t have any thyme (which wasn’t a bold enough a flavor for me anyway), but Stacy does not approve of the practice of placing garlic cloves into meat, despite the fact that this is awesome and should be done by everyone. So, I changed up the approach and went with what I do have: a metric ton of mint. So I pulled out my awesome recently purchased Spice Lover’s Guide to Herbs & Spices to come up with a...

Coconut Cream Curry Sauce and Thai Meat Sticks

Posted by Stacy on Apr 16, 2011 in 2011 | 10 comments

Matt made these for dinner. I think it should be weekly. I think you should make it too. Yum! Holy cow I love the results coming out of our kitchen now that he’s had cooking lessons at Thai Basil with Nongkran. Please note: the title of this post is not meat sticks with cream sauce, but it is in fact cream sauce with meat. The sauce is THAT good. Thai Meat Sticks with Coconut Cream Sauce (Recipe by Matt) First the meat 1 lb ground lamb 1 lb ground beef 2 T Thai red curry paste 1 tsp salt 1 tsp paprika 2 tsp ground cumin seed 1 egg skewers Combine ingredients in a bowl and...

Shearing Sheep

Posted by Stacy on Mar 20, 2011 in 2011 | 5 comments

This week the weather in NoVA has been phenomenal. We rearranged our plans in order to have the whole day to go gallivanting all over Loudoun County, driving with the windows down and exploring nooks and crannies we hadn’t previously discovered. We started off the day with Sheep Shearing at Fields of Athenry. The farm was open for it’s annual event and we toured the grounds, enjoyed the animals, picked up a couple items and then ate a wonderful, fresh lunch over their open flame BBQ. The boys enjoyed seeing an alpaca, a barn cat, a goat, turkeys,...

Halupki Stirfry

Posted by Stacy on Mar 14, 2011 in 2011 | 14 comments

When my family gets together, someone’s showing up with a giant pot of Halupki’s. It’s a family tradition and they’re incredibly comforting to my grandfather, who lost his wife of over 50 years not too long ago. Since then Matt and I have been making meals for my grandfather (93) every week. We thought we’d make some stuffed cabbage for him this week. His diet is pretty restrictive, due to a kidney condition, so tomatoes are a “splurge.” We modified the traditional recipe to not include as much tomato and modified the volume of rice with a...

Lady Gaga’s Egg Cups

Posted by Stacy on Aug 18, 2010 in 2010 | 2 comments

As a working mother, my time is limited in the mornings. I’m lucky if I get to sit down and enjoy breakfast at the table one day a week. Our family makes a lot of fritatas, hard boiled eggs and almond flour muffins but these little guys are a tasty surprise that will add something special to your morning. We prefer to make these with nitrate-free apple chicken sausage inside muffin liners but we’ve adored them with buffalo cranberry and buffalo bourbon fennel sausage, too; we haven’t specified in this recipe because we’re sure they’d be good with hot pork sausage or whatever...