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Crazy for Kale

Posted by Matthew on Apr 18, 2013 in 2013, Featured | 57 comments

Don’t miss the end of the post, there’s a GIVEAWAY! One of our boys’ favorite vegetables is kale. I think it probably started when we made Kale Chips for Eat Like a Dinosaur, and then our oldest (a born leader) declared his absolute love for the vegetable. Since then the other boys have followed along like little ducklings in support of his declaration. I mention this vegetable often when talking about their favorite foods on the podcast, so when Hallie asked us to review her Crazy for Kale ebook and submit a recipe for round-up I was shocked to see that the only recipe I...

Guest Post, Eat Recycle Repeat: Stuffed Sweet Potato Skins

Posted by Matthew on Mar 27, 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! This week we’re visited by Kate of Eat, Recycle, Repeat, a terrific blog about healthy and natural living. Whether it’s inspiring posts, or life journey posts or recipe posts, there’s always something interesting on...

Guest Post, Meatified: Grain Free Couscous Salad with Baby Kale & Artichoke Hearts

Posted by Matthew on Feb 20, 2013 in 2013 | 3 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’re joined by Rach of Meatified, a former vegetarian that converted to a paleo style diet to manage her Hashimoto’s. Now that she’s “meatified,” she posts her grain-free and sugar-free recipes on...

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...

Paleo-Vegan Thanksgiving, take 2

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

If you’ve been following our blog for a while, you know that we like to host holiday meals. Not only is it easier to not have to lug the kids around town on a holiday, but it ensures we can eat the food! Only complication is, and you already know this if you’ve been reading our blog for a while, my brother is a vegan. Don’t worry, I won the war and my ex-vegetarian mother is now primal ♥ Out of respect for him and because we want to treat him the same way we appreciate being treated, we attempt to make as many dishes as we can be vegan. Since we’re dairy-free,...

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...

Guest Post, Empowered Sustanance: Dairy Free Cottage Cheese

Posted by Matthew on Oct 17, 2012 in 2012, Featured | 32 comments

If you haven’t yet heard, Wednesdays are our Guest Blogger Series day! It’s a day where Matt and I get a bit of a mid-week break while getting to share with you some of our favorite online bloggers. And for their hard work, they get the benefit of your readership – we encourage you to please show all of them your support by visiting their blog and social media links at the end of this post! This week (second post in our series of bloggers that make the Paleo Parents feel old) our guest is Lauren from the terrific blog Empowered Sustenance. She shares recipes and information about her...

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...

Breakfast Butternut Squash

Posted by Matthew on Sep 4, 2012 in 2012, Featured | 8 comments

Back in my day, a common trope was the idea that carrots somehow gave you super vision. You’d see a cartoon bunny eat a carrot and then be able to see something miles away. I know I paid particularly strong attention to this and spent much of my childhood overdosing on carrots. Turns out that this particular association was a myth. Apparently, the British government spread this rumor (that carrots improve eyesight) as the cover story as to why their pilots were so adept at downing enemy aircraft, when the reality was that advanced radar technology had a more causative...

Pankoconut Fish Sticks and Spicy Mango Salsa

Posted by Stacy on Apr 30, 2012 in 2012, Featured | 23 comments

You know, panko crumbs. And coconut. Stretching that too far? Well, that’s what they remind us of – sorry! Alright, well, no matter what you call these – they’ll remind you of coconut shrimp. But they’re fish sticks! We served these with two “normal” eating young boys and they were licking their lips and asking for more. The whole idea came from Stacy finding fish on super sale at the super market. Now, we have made a vow to only consume sustainable and humane meat. However, knowing that it was 8pm at night and the meat was about to be thrown out if...

Rendering Suet into Tallow

Posted by Stacy on Mar 30, 2012 in 2012, Featured | 20 comments

A few weeks back we visited Mt. Vernon Farms and, among the other goodies we got, picked up some grass-fed beef suet. Suet is essentially pure fat that is sometimes used in its natural form, but is usually used to render into tallow. We love to use tallow and lard in our cooking and making your own tallow from suet is incredibly affordable and easy. So easy, in fact, that we just winged it without instructions and somehow came out with a fantastic final product! For those nutrition heads, tallow is a cooking fat that is 50% saturated fat, 42% monounsaturated fat and 95% fat overall. For those...

Sweet Heart Jerky

Posted by Matthew on Mar 24, 2012 in 2012, Featured | 9 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! Heart. It’s not just for Captain Planet anymore! You’ve heard all the hype about how heart is high in iron and...