Egg-Stuffed Avocado Olé (Is Avocado Eco-Friendly?)
So, here’s the thing: people LOVE avocado. Because avocado is delicious, healthy, and versatile. It’s possibly one of my favorite foods, I enjoy avocado very regularly, and it has that magical capability to elevate even the simplest meal to something very special: I’m much…
Lumberjack Omelet (How to Decode Egg Cartons)
THIS. This breakfast is… huge, and unrepentant. Enough to feed Paul Bunyan (and Babe, too) which is why the “Lumberjack Omelet” name seemed to fit. You can’t go wrong with an omelet filled with sun-dried tomatoes, bacon, mushrooms, and accompanied by avocado, smashed potatoes, and…
30 Minute Thai Beef with Basil (Carbon-Farmed Beef)
This quick and tasty 30 Minute Thai Beef with Basil is my first recipe introducing carbon farmed beef. What is carbon farming? The TL;DR version: it’s a style of farming that removes carbon dioxide from the air through agriculture. How it works involves a quick science…
75 Healthy Kid-Friendly Snacks
Today I have a boatload of recipes for healthy kid-friendly snacks, which remind me: have you been following the drama between the FDA and Kind bars? The FDA is re-evaluating its definition of what counts as a “healthy” food, because healthy fats—such as the fats found in nuts…
Building a Balanced Breakfast
Something I’m probably going to be talking about a lot more here is the strategy behind building a healthy meal, rather than just one-off recipes for you to piece together for a healthy diet. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll still be posting recipes aplenty, but….
One-Pan Spaghetti Squash Chow Mein (Grain-Free)
This Spaghetti Squash Chow Mein is just my latest tribute to a long-time love: the versatile, delicious, easy-going spaghetti squash. Once I tried cooking spaghetti squash in the microwave, it opened up a whole new world and I’ve never looked back. If you’re looking for…
Mealmade’s Spicy Cranberry Salsa
It’s 7:40pm in San Francisco, CA. It’s been dark for hours, and the wind has picked up in the South of Market district, where I’m racking my bar and weights after a CrossFit session—deadlifts tonight, plus my 20-rep back squat extra credit—and dreading 1) the solitary…
Pineapple Dreams Coconut Cake
I‘ll bake you a cake, yes. But you should know that it will likely be a recipe I invented the same day, and its debut for you will be its raison d’être. That’s certainly the case with this Pineapple Dreams Coconut Cake. I invented it…
Easy Chocolate Strawberry Cake
I know. I know! But trust me when I say that this is a cake that you can throw together on short notice. A cake that goes with coffee, and friends coming over, children and dogs underfoot. It might be breakfast. It is fruit-sweetened, nut-free, grain-free, and dairy-free, sure….
12 Fresh Avocado Recipes
Avocados are just one of my favorite food on the planet, no big deal. It’s always the right time to eat avocados, they can hold my interest meal after meal. Equally delicious as guacamole loaded onto plantain chips, sprinkled over baked eggs for breakfast or eaten plain with a…
N’Oatmeal Breakfast Bowl
Taking a moment at the end of the day to bring you this sweet little bit of a breakfast recipe/strategy. Sunday is Olympic Lifting day at my Crossfit box, which means one and a half hours of strength, skill and metcon work instead of the usual one. #win Without…
Easy Sweet Potato Sausage Layers
I debated whether to post this recipe here on the blog, as it’s really just a “cook this stuff in a skillet and then mix or layer” situation. But! After posting it to Instagram, a few folks piped up that they’d like some specifics to…
Easy Crab Curry
I‘m guest-posting this Easy Crab Curry on Civilized Caveman Cooking today. Mr. George Bryant was one of the first Paleo bloggers that I discovered years ago when I began my Paleo journey to focus on cooking and eating real, whole foods that make me happy and healthy. I’ve been following…
Wild Thing Texas Chili
The idea for this Wild Thing Texas Chili started as my answer to the “what kind of chili do you like?” question, which came up over the Christmas holiday in Texas with my family. This isn’t the chili I was raised on, because that chili is…
Chocolate Gingerbread Cake
My mother is really a paleo original. She raised my brother and me on a diet remarkably similar to the paleo nutritional template, long before “paleo” entered the national vocabulary. But more than adhering to any particular dietary dogma (she experiments with new foods and…
Grain-Free Goji Cookies
Late night cookie cravings: I have them. Thank you Goji Cookies for your perfect timing as a #cleancheat solution last night! I almost didn’t post them because they’re yet another in my series of coconut cookies. I may have a slight obsession; most recently I…
Smoked Salmon Stuffed Dill Bites
Salmon and dill are an amazing flavor pairing! Something about the herbaceous bite of dill perfectly complements the fatty, fishy flavor of salmon. The flavor pairing is great prepared simply (a salmon steak slathered in a buttery dill sauce, for example) but even better in…
2 Ingredient Banana Coconut Cookies
I saw some two ingredient cookies on Instagram, then on Tumblr. I didn’t see THESE two ingredient cookies, let’s be clear, I saw banana plus oatmeal cookies. That version, which inspired my banana coconut cookies, is pretty common in vegan circles but I thought when I saw…
Raspberry Cream Pie (Grain/Dairy-Free)
This recipe was 100% the impulse of a moment. When the calendar flipped to August a few days ago, I happened to think “I wonder which weird holidays happen in August?” You know, weird holidays in the International Bacon Day or National Donut Day category….
Bison-Stuffed Black Pepper Biscuits
I flipped through this month’s issue of Bon Appétit (such luscious photography that I’m getting hungry just remembering it) and a single line from a Father’s Day feature stuck in my head. The author of the piece was describing what he’ll be doing with his daughters on…
Savory Sweet Potato Waffles (Grain/Nut/Dairy/Sugar Free)
Who’s ready for sweet potato waffles? I call these savory sweet potato waffles because there’s no “added sugar” in the form of honey, agave, maple syrup, coconut sugar, dates, etc. There’s just coconut flour, eggs, coconut milk, salt and cinnamon. Cinnamon is one of those…
Coconut Banana Panna Cotta with Bacon and Chocolate
I had some vague idea of calling this recipe “Elvis Panna Cotta” (named after the famous flavors of his peanut butter, banana and bacon sandwich) but peanuts aren’t that exciting and the chocolate balances the taste of these beautifully. Sorry, Elvis. Banana and chocolate is such…
Mexican Chocolate Macaroons
The pairing of chocolate and cinnamon in Mexican chocolate was the inspiration for these cookies. While chocolate with cinnamon may not be an authentically Mexican combination, it still makes for a bangin’ cookie. I personally like it spicy, I added chili powder and cayenne pepper…
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