Category: Meat
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Paleo Moroccan Chicken Salad
A riff on one of our favorite salads from California Pizza Kitchen. Ingredients For the Chicken 1 ½ lbs. chicken breasts, cut into chunks 2 t paprika 1 t coriander 1 t cumin ½ t cinnamon ¼ t red pepper flakes salt For the tasty stuff that goes in the salad 2 heads romaine lettuce…
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Fried Egg Chorizo Burgers with Caramelized Onions
Visiting family and eating Health-Bent is always a tough situation. That’s why, most times, we just offer to cook. It a.) allows us to stay the course and b.) exposes our lovies to the way we eat. We made this for my grandmother and uncle during a visit a few months back. This meal helped…
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Turducken Meatloaf with Cherry Compote
If you’ve had a million roast turkeys, you’ll probably have a bazillion more… Ever heard of turducken? It’s a creole/cajun dish where an entire, de-boned chicken is stuffed into a de-boned duck which is then stuffed inside of a de-boned turkey. Of course, the duck is stuffed with stuffing too. We’ve never made nor tried…
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Baba Ganoush Turkey Meatballs with Eggplant and Fennel Marinara
Meatballs that are breadcrumb and gluten free, check. We know that’s possible. What about meatballs that don’t need almond flour? Cccchhheeccckkkkk. We were inspired by our love of lemon and mint to make these Greek flavored meatballs. The only logical choice for a bread crumb/almond flour alternative was….eggplant. Ingredients 1 lb ground turkey (94% lean/6%…
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Paleo Beef Lo Mein
We never have ordered take-out all that often, even before we started eating “Paleo”. So this recipe wasn’t inspired as an “ode to take out” so much as it was, “What the heck can I do with the vegetables in the fridge and this freaking spaghetti squash before it goes bad?” Bam… Ingredients 1 lb…
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Mushroom, Hazelnut Stuffed Chicken with Sage Pan Gravy
Hmmmphh, fall is still not in the air, down here (up here, for some of you) in South Carolina. High temperatures around 70ºF do not bring visions of sugar plum fairies dancing in our heads, that’s for sure. I suppose we’ll just have to pretend for now… Ingredients 1 1/2 lbs boneless, skinless chicken breasts…
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Pumpkin Chili with Avocado Cream
“Oh dear Lord, not another Paleo chili recipe!” I know. You’ve seen tens if not hundreds of chili recipes and you’ve probably eaten it that many times too. You’re probably sick of it. But, please, let us explain… Making this spice mixture yourself is the key to the unique flavor of this chili. No chili…
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Fajitas with Grilled Pineapple Salsa
One last hurrah before summer is officially over. Well, it is officially over, but in South Carolina, it’s still getting to 85ºF outside. So what I’m sayin’ is…one last taste of summer even though it’s not summer but still feels like it to us South Carolinians. So I guess what I’m really sayin’ is…enjoy! Ingredients…
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Paleo Italian Sub Roll-Up
We wanted to call this, Paleo Italian Sub Mariner–the Rolex of Paleo subs. But alas, often times we think we’re very funny when others do not. Most Paleo, low-carb sandwiches use the lettuce as the “bread”–that makes no sense since lettuce breaks and tears so easily. So–why not use the meat, the most flexible component…
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Mexican Acorn Squash Soup with Smoky Chicken and Spicy Seeds
Though this is a multi-step, multi-component dish, I would like to say it’s also multi-tasty. Make all of the components–or just some of them, either way you’ll be feasting on a mouth load of flavor. Ingredients For the Chicken 1 lb boneless, skinless chicken thighs 1 T smoked paprika 2 T olive oil s&p For…
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Paleo Orange Chicken
Chinese food, without the MSG. Ingredients 1 lb. boneless, skinless chicken thighs (cut into bite size pieces) 3 T fat (coconut oil works well here) juice of 2 oranges* zest from 1 orange 1 t fresh ginger 3 T coconut aminos or wheat-free soy sauce 1 t chili garlic sauce or sriracha 3 green onions,…
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Seriously Tasty Paleo Meatloaf
We were having some friends over the other night and I had 2 hours to get to the store and have dinner ready and sitting on the table. What the heck was I was going to make? Meatloaf. Instead of shaping it into a mound-shaped loaf, I decided to cook the meatloaf in cake pans.…
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Primal Philly Cheesesteak in a Bowl
Cheap, easy and a quick go-to meal, if you ask me. Who needs bread, when you can knife-n-fork it? You’re not losing any flavor, just a bit of texture–but really, who likes soppy, gloppy bread? No one. I stand corrected, some people. Skirt steak is substituted for the normal cheesesteak meat: ribeye. Skirt steak is…
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Melt in Your Mouth Beef Stew
Practically every recipe for beef stew calls for “stew beef.” I’ve seen it in the store. I’ve used it without much success in stew. But really, what the heck is it? After a bit of research, I found it’s typically chuck or round. Chuck is around the shoulder and round is around the rear of…
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Paleo Chicken and Andouille Gumbo
This is a serious multi-tasking kind of recipe. I don’t typically make/write recipes that require dirtying lots of dishes or require multiple steps or too many ingredients, because I know most people (including myself, most days) just want to eat something a.) that tastes good b.) is good for us and c.) doesn’t require washing…
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Nachos
Okay, I’m going to start right out by saying these suckers have the same carbohydrate load as a regular corn chip set of nachos. We just had a hankering for a cheat night, but really didn’t want to ingest corn, wheat or other cereal grains. We are so embarrassingly barbaric with these, we lay down…
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Paleo Cuban Meat Sandwich
Have you ever tasted this super special, amazingly yummy sandwich called The Cuban? It’s a toasted sandwich with honey mustard, pickles, ham, pork loin and swiss. We have been to Miami and tried to source the best Cuban sandwich we could find…and we have also frequented Publix supermarket for its Cuban sub as a meal…
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Paleo Curried Chicken Salad
Alright, alright, I know, you’ve probably made this before. BUT…here’s our twist, we have found the PERFECT oil for homemade mayo, mixed it with a pile of easy to find ingredients and you’ve got an easy, fast, refreshing and flavorful meal. Ingredients 1 lb. boneless, skinless chicken breasts 1 lb. boneless, skinless chicken thighs 1…
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Paleo Hog Dog Chili with Jalapeno Slaw
Imagine eating a chili dog with slaw, onions and yellow mustard. Now imagine taking off the bun and eating it in a bowl with a fork and you’ve got the idea behind this recipe. Another way to look at it, we’ve taken off the sour cream, avocado and cheese from chili and added hot dog…
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Roasted Throw Together
So it’s 9:00 p.m., I have nothing planned for dinner, as we just got back into town that afternoon and, we’re both pretty darn hungry. I try to keep my pantry and freezer well stocked (post about this to follow, read this), so that I can always have something to throw together in a pinch.…
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Mini Pizza Meatloaves
This was inspired by my love of pizza, my lack of ingredients in the fridge and a shortage of time. This look about 10 minutes to put together and another 20 minutes to cook. This is LITERALLY a 30 minute meal. Kids would probably love to customize each mini meatloaf with their own pizza “mix-ins”…
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Spaghetti Squash Carbonara
Most people eating Paleo or low-carb are already aware of the glorious spaghetti squash. So I thought, let’s see how it takes to other dishes that are pasta based…hmm, carbonara. Traditionally its sauce is egg yolk based, but since spaghetti squash is rather wet, I figured we could nix the yolks and still end up…
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Paleo Chicken Nuggets
Chicken nuggets. Probably on the list of every kid’s ‘Top 5 Favorite Foods’. I’ve never really understood why. I’m more of a pizza & ice cream kid…I mean woman. But anyway..I’m no expert, but I imagine kids would never notice the switch-a-roo. If you’re rushed for time, I’d suggest flattening out the nugget, so it’s…
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No Fry Crispy Chicken Wings
There is no longer a need to go out and gorge on chicken wings at some seedy sports bar. This is the easiest way I have every cooked chicken in my entire life. Chicken wings are my idea of a perfect food. They require very little attention in the oven and don’t need lots of…
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Paleo Bacon and Eggs To Go
We didn’t get home until 10 p.m. the other night so this recipe was inspired, once again, by my lack of time mixed with hunger pangs. We try our best to make a menu every week and shop for the necessary ingredients, but it doesn’t always happen. This is a nice example of it “not…
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Grilled Smokey Skirt Steak with Cucumber, Mango Salad
I L-O-V-E skirt steak. It has a wonderful amount of marbling (read: flavor) and does really, really well charred up on the grill. So what is skirt steak? It’s the diaphragm muscle of the cow, located right next door to the flank steak. It’s usually cheaper than flank steak. If you can’t find a skirt…
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Mediterranean Beef Stew with Green Olive Pesto
Beef stew, also known as beef bourguignon, is good, but boring–and we personally think it tastes like straight up sour wine and that is not very tasty, especially by the spoonful. So we’ve added a bit of balsamic vinegar and raisins to counter the sour with a bit of sweet. We’re also swirling in a…
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Pork Fried Rice
A buddy of ours at our CrossFit box asked us if we had a Paleo style Fried Rice recipe. We had never tried, so we immediately set to work. The rice is replaced with cauliflower we pulverized in the food processor. This recipe messes up a few more dishes than I like to clean, but…
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Primal Chili Cheese Dogs
You’ll never want a chili cheese dog in a bun ever again after you’ve had a sweet potoato “bun” . The combo of sweet, salty and spicy is my absolute fav-o-rite. We had enough leftover to heat-and-eat for lunch and let me tell ya, it was even better than the night before. If you’re in…
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Reuben in a Bowl
I bought a raw corned beef brisket from U.S. Wellness Meats. Free overnight shipping? Unheard of! In a pinch, you could just go to your deli counter at the grocery store and pick up a pound or so of pastrami, get it sliced thick and heat it up in the oven. We made a quick…