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Guest Post, The Simple Paleo Life: Argentinian Steak with Chimichurri

Posted by Matthew on Apr 20, 2013 in 2013 | 4 comments

Wednesdays used to be our Guest Blogger Series day; but, there’s just so many new and wonderful Paleo and real-food bloggers out there that we’ve expanded our series. We hope you enjoy the new view points and unique content; if so, we encourage you to show these guest bloggers your support by visiting their blog and social media links at the end of this post! Today, Sylvie of The Simple Paleo Life shares a classic recipe of her Argentine heritage: Steak with Chimichurri! We met Sylvie at Paleo FX where we hugged! Go visit her blog where she documents how she is living a paleo lifestyle in...

Guest Post, Paleo Family Eats: How I’m Transitioning My Son to Paleo

Posted by Matthew on Mar 6, 2013 in 2013, Featured | 10 comments

Wednesdays used to be our Guest Blogger Series day; but, there’s just so many new and wonderful Paleo and real-food bloggers out there that we’ve expanded our series. We hope you enjoy the new view points and unique content; if so, we encourage you to show these guest bloggers your support by visiting their blog and social media links at the end of this post! Today we are joined by our friend, Rachel, of Paleo Family Eats. She shares her plan for helping her son’s Inflammatory Bowel Disease by transitioning him to paleo, a topic we are all interested in! After reading her post,...

Last Minute Recipes Perfect for Game Day

Posted by Stacy on Jan 31, 2013 in 2012 | 1 comment

Calling all Paleo people! We’ve been nominated for Best Family & Kid Blog over at The Kitchn. If you enjoy our blog, please click the link and vote for us! We’d LOVE your vote – it helps spread the general idea that paleo can be done with a family in a healthful way! Such an honor ♥ If you, like me, JUST realized you have a party (or in my case two) to go to this weekend for The Big Game, then you’re likely scrambling to put something, anything together. Or maybe, even worse, you’re considering “treating” yourself because you just finished a new...

Halloween’s Gone Paleo: Our Healthy Party Recap

Posted by Stacy on Oct 29, 2012 in 2012, Featured | 14 comments

This weekend with our good friends Bill & Hayley from The Food Lovers’ Primal Palate was beyond fantastic. It’s late Sunday night and the only reason I am able to find the energy to blog is because we could potentially lose power for a week, due to Hurricane Sandy moving in any hour. We threw our Healthy Halloween Costumed Candy-Free party on Saturday, which took all of Friday and Saturday to prepare for. Then Sunday we helped Bill & Hayley with their Halloween shoot for their upcoming entertaining book, Gather, the Art of Paleo Entertaining. We LOVE to entertain, and...

Winter Is Coming

Posted by Matthew on Oct 1, 2012 in 2012, Featured | 7 comments

Where we are, in the temperate Mid-Atlantic region of the US, I’ve noticed that the long pants are coming back. Stacy pulled out boots and cardigans from the back of the closet. I almost put on a sweater the other morning. The hooks outside the preschool classroom are beginning to be populated by coats. Yep, it looks like winter is coming. But all is not lost! We do gain something in the autumn: cold weather recipes. You know what I’m talking about, right? All of a sudden everyone starts using winter squash, like butternut, acorn, and pumpkin. People pull out the slow cooker or...

Beef Bacon 50/50 Braunschweiger Burger Sliders

Posted by Matthew on Sep 11, 2012 in 2012, Featured | 11 comments

Probably the most difficult task most paleo and ancestral health advocates advise you to do is to eat organ meats, particularly liver. Frankly, I just have a really hard time stomaching the preparation of organ meats. One time, I made this with both liver and kidneys and felt so nauseous afterwards that I couldn’t eat it, even though the rest of my family scarfed it up. There is a mental block there, I think, where a liver looks exactly like what it is: an organ from an animal that was once alive. Most of us grew up so separated from the life and death of our food that we are not...

Caramelized Broth Brisket with Beef Jam

Posted by Matthew on Aug 13, 2012 in 2012, Featured | 16 comments

Please note, there are no process photos here. The reason is that I never expected this would be on the site. But never underestimate Stacy’s love of some slow cooked beef! For months now, Stacy has been acquiring beef briskets at a rapid pace. I think my freezer now contains four. Why, you ask? Because of the nonstop hints that she’d like me to make the Primal Palate Braised Brisket recipe, which she had while visiting them and claims it was one of the most divine food ever. Only one problem though, as I pulled this cut out of my fridge: Stacy isn’t eating tomatoes right...

Panang Beef Thai Curry

Posted by Stacy on Jul 9, 2012 in 2012, Featured | 14 comments

My favorite Thai restaurant, Thai Basil, serves the greatest Panang Curry I’ve ever had. It’s slightly sweet, spicy, and full of flavor. I knew once we moved some thirty miles from Chantilly that I had to create it for home. I puzzled for years on how to do it, throwing complicated recipes around and ruining tons of perfectly good beef. Finally, I broke down and took a class with Nongkran Daks, the chef at Thai Basil. In a way, it was great to learn the secret. In another way, it was quite disheartening. Nong makes her own curry paste, you see, with lots of unique and rare Thai...

Father’s Day Prime Rib

Posted by Stacy on Jun 19, 2012 in 2012, Featured | 2 comments

What do you get the best father in the world for Father’s Day? The most beautiful and expensive cut of meat. Slathered in Kerrygold butter. Atop a beautiful hand crafted cutting board. Dry-Aged Grilled Prime Rib 5lb (2 rib) prime rib, dry-aged preferred Butter Salt Pepper Preheat grill to high on all burners (or oven to 450 degrees) Rub the surface of the standing rib roast with butter Sprinkle with salt and pepper Place roast on one side of the grill and close the lid; turn off the roast half of the grill and turn down other burners to medium low Cook roast for about 20 minutes per...

Guest Post: Blackened Burgers

Posted by Stacy on May 30, 2012 in 2012 | 7 comments

A unique guest post this week! We haven’t been posting recipes for a while, so we enlisted the help of Dave Wendel, husband of Ann Wendel of Prana-PT. You may remember Ann from our vacation team where she was helpfully involved when we could not or from the fact she is now part of the Whole9Life Team. Without further preamble, have some delicious burgers! There are many ways to make hamburgers. I prefer a burger with some good flavor as opposed to just tossing a chunk of ground meat on the grill. Making this simple recipe gives the burger a whole lot more flavor and keeps the juices...

Buffalo in a Pig’s Blanket

Posted by Matthew on May 7, 2012 in 2012, Featured | 9 comments

We’re extremely lucky. We happen to have two tenants that live in our basement who happen to be in no position to pay their agreed upon rent! How is this a good thing, you ask? Well, our favorite freeloaders are my younger brother and his girlfriend, both of whom are quite underemployed. They owe us big time as we enter the 14th month of no rent payments. So, when we need a favor, they’re usually very accommodating. Often, this means free babysitting. (Kidding! We Love you Uncleandii & partner!) A few nights ago, we abandoned the home team leaving our basement dwellers in...

Our Easter and Mint Lamb Meatballs

Posted by Stacy on Apr 9, 2012 in 2012, Featured | 7 comments

Wow, what an amazing weekend we had. This post is uber-picture heavy, so I’ll keep the words to a minimum. Friday afternoon I left work early (yeah!) and the family headed out to Algonkian Regional Park. We stayed in a beautiful 4 bedroom cottage on the Potomac River’s edge. On our arrival, a family of deer greeted us! We stayed with friends (Sarah’s actually another member of the Healthy Nation Coalition and has been my guide and resource for everything gluten-free, WAPF and fermented for years). Sarah and Mark have two fun and adorable kids, Kai and Elka. As you can...