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  • Cinnamon Sugar Pumpkin Muffins

    Cinnamon Sugar Pumpkin Muffins

    I’m sitting at home, craving something reallllly sugary and sweet. You know why. Usually I’m a salty, crunchy kind of snacker, but I had already eaten a bag of popcorn coated in butter and salt, and was still on the hunt for something to inhale.  I open the freezer, stare into the fridge, and dig…

  • Chunky Monkey Muffins

    Chunky Monkey Muffins

    This recipe is from our cookbook, Primal Cravings: Your Favorite Foods Made Paleo A classic combination of bananas, walnuts, and chocolate chips. Make sure you use bananas that are brown and spotty. If they’re too ripe for eatin’, then they’re perfect for beatin’—errr, baking with. Yield: 12 muffins Ingredients ½ cup coconut flour ½ cup…

  • Cookie Dough Cookies

    Cookie Dough Cookies

    LaraBars were on sale the other day. I hadn’t eaten one of those things in years, so I bought a few. Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, amongst other flavors. Besides the fact that the bar was about the length of my pinky finger, the flavor was so amazingly disappointing. It tasted so “healthy”…and nothing like the…

  • Greek Meatballs

    Greek Meatballs

    This past weekend, I challenged myself to come up with a well-thought out menu and actually shop, prep and cook all (or most) of the dishes on Sunday. So it was pretty imperative that everything I made be able to re-heat well and also travel with us, if need be. I’ll be posting a slew…

  • Bacon & Egg Breakfast Chili

    Bacon & Egg Breakfast Chili

    Adding bacon and eggs to a chili is a really great way to stretch a pound of ground meat. I originally set out to make this in the crock pot, as I’m trying to broaden my crockery cookery horizons, but then promptly realized that cooking this over an open flame would actually allow it to…

  • Salted Chocolate Pears

    Salted Chocolate Pears

    We just got back from the OPTathalon in San Diego, where we got to hang out at CrossFit Invictus, and where I was repeatedly heckled for the use of the word “y’all” in my everyday vocabulary. Who knew that was such a weird word. Anyway… These pears are super addictive. I’m not a chocolate fan–I…

  • Guacamole Bacon Stuffed Pepper Poppers

    Guacamole Bacon Stuffed Pepper Poppers

    Late nights in college were often capped off with a trip to Sonic Drive-In. I craved Cheddar Poppers–jalapeños stuffed with cheese and deep fried. If you’ve ever tried to make pepper poppers at home, you know that a jalapeño is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re going to bite into…a mild, tame…

  • Pizza Stuffed Sweet Potatoes

    Pizza Stuffed Sweet Potatoes

    We’re headed to West Palm Beach, Florida this weekend to compete in the CrossFit Games Southeast Regionals with our team. We’ve been trying to practice the workouts together and what not, which has us coming home later than usual, which has dinner  hitting the table later than usual too. Since I work from home, sometimes…

  • Hawaiian Barbecue Bacon Burgers

    Hawaiian Barbecue Bacon Burgers

    A good burger is hard to beat, but a bad burger…you know, the patties that resemble the charcoal they were cooked over; those are worse than worse. People like to get all fancy and what not, talking about grinding their own meat and which cuts to grind, the right meat to fat ratio, the best…

  • Thai Basil Beef Balls

    Thai Basil Beef Balls

    I am a cheap ass…well, that sounds bad. I don’t leave crappy tips or anything…so maybe I should rename myself thrift-ass. I don’t like to pay full price for clothes and I most certainly don’t want to spend more than I have to on good quality food. I understand “You get what you pay for.”,…

  • Onion Soup with Cheesy Cauliflower

    Onion Soup with Cheesy Cauliflower

    Not like  it’s cold here in South Carolina (I am not complaining), but this soup sure does warm up your insides. Yield: 4 very generous servings Ingredients For the Soup 2 T f.o.c. (fat of choice), we used duck fat 4 large onions, thinly sliced (A mix of onions is great. We used 1 red…

  • Bacon Wrapped Sweet Potato Fries

    Bacon Wrapped Sweet Potato Fries

    Mmmmmm, bacon candy canes. This could be a side dish or a meal all on it’s own, who am I to say? Ingredients 2 medium sweet potatoes, cut into matchsticks about the width of your pinky finger. 8 oz bacon, don’t use thick cut Method Get your oven to 425°F and place your oven rack…

  • Paleo Pad Thai

    Paleo Pad Thai

    I hadn’t made this recipe since we originally published it back in September of 2010…but I still agree with my 2010 self when I said, “This has to be one of my all-time favorite recipes.”  Zucchinis are pretty tasteless on their own, so a strongly flavored sauce as the base, and a texture that isn’t…

  • Asian Pork Meatballs with Dipping Sauce

    Asian Pork Meatballs with Dipping Sauce

    As the month of January is winding down, I assume the Super Bowl is somewhere nearby. I don’t know when the Super Bowl is (Yes, I know how to Google, I just don’t care enough.) or who’s playing (don’t care about that either). I unapologetically know jack shit about football and I plan to keep…

  • Chile Rellenos (Mexican Stuffed Peppers)

    Chile Rellenos (Mexican Stuffed Peppers)

    ***Updated*** Cheese. Considered a cheat by Paleo Purists. We hate the word cheat, by the way. So much so that we’ve written an entire post about it. Dairy is a gray area in Paleo Land and therefore considered a “Scarlett Letter” ingredient. We know that. But we have functioning brains, and decide for ourselves when and how…

  • Cowboy Breakfast Skillet

    Cowboy Breakfast Skillet

    Last Saturday was a busy day. After breakfast we knew we’d have no real time to eat again until that night. So we threw together the biggest, most protein and fat packed meal we could possibly conceive. It was enough food to keep a cowboy full for hours…believe me, I feed one. It’s the usual suspects…

  • Paleo Maple, Pumpkin Custard Cups

    Paleo Maple, Pumpkin Custard Cups

    For those who enjoy the flavors of fall, are afraid of baking (no ovens, tempering or whipping involved) and/or have an allergy to nuts, grains, gluten, dairy and/or eggs, this recipe has your name written all over it. Essentially, the only people who can’t eat this Paleo treat are vegans, but that’s just because they…

  • Paleo Breakfast Casserole

    Paleo Breakfast Casserole

    Breakfast for dinner. Or breakfast…for breakfast. Tastes the same going down, anytime of day… Ingredients 1 lb fresh chorizo or breakfast sausage 8 eggs 3 small yukon gold potatoes or 1 medium sweet potato, cubed 1 small can diced green chilies 4 oz shredded raw cheese, optional Method Preheat your oven to 350ºF. Using a…

  • Paleo Pizza Bites

    Paleo Pizza Bites

    This recipe is for all the Paleo kids out there (young + old alike). Growing up, whenever I’d have a spend-the-night or slumber party, my mom would make pizza dough and take us shopping for toppings. We’d spend the rest of the early evening stretching the dough and topping our pizzas. It was soooo fun…to…

  • Paleo Butternut Squash Lasagna

    Paleo Butternut Squash Lasagna

    I think we’ve all been there. We think we’re so incredibly clever for using spaghetti squash as a sub for spaghetti noodles. Then you realize it’s become a bit Paleo passé, a.k.a. boring. So, let’s start taking that idea further. We’ll sub butternut squash for lasagna noodles, and we can call is B.S. Lasagna. The…

  • Paleo Red Velvet Whoopie Pies

    Paleo Red Velvet Whoopie Pies

    This recipe is an ode to all the singles out there on Valentine’s Day. No one thinks about you guys during this ‘holiday’, I’d imagine a lot of you dub it a ‘helladay’. Well, there’s no longer any need for that. It’s time to start thinking about things a little differently. How about this…all the…

  • Pumpkin Chili with Avocado Cream

    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…

  • Paleo Italian Sub Roll-Up

    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…

  • Paleo Sweet Potato Pancakes with Maple, Pecan Coconut Butter

    Paleo Sweet Potato Pancakes with Maple, Pecan Coconut Butter

    If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again–that was the theme for this recipe. As a matter of fact, the 4th batch was the charm. We tried everything from almond flour to coconut flour, varying the sweet potato ratio, fiddling with the leavener, decreasing the number of eggs, and then finally… when we…

  • Paleo Orange Chicken

    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,…

  • Primal Philly Cheesesteak in a Bowl

    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…

  • Cocoa Roast Almonds

    Cocoa Roast Almonds

    Who doesn’t like Emerald Cocoa Roast Almonds? Maybe you haven’t read the nutrition label, maybe you have. Let me inform you these babies are sweetened with sucralose–the ambiguous name for Splenda. Like we posted on Crash Course on Sugar, Splenda is a calorie-free sweetener BECAUSE we cannot digest it–read diarrhea and the likes. So yes,…

  • Spaghetti Squash Carbonara

    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…

  • Paleo Bacon and Eggs To Go

    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…

  • Paleo Lettuce Wraps

    Paleo Lettuce Wraps

    These take literally less than 30 minutes to make. The leftovers are awesome cold and would be great for lunch. Only drawback, they’re a little messy. Well, Brandon is usually the messy eater and didn’t have a problem, but myself, the neat one, had the sauce dripping down my hands. Nothing I couldn’t lick up…