This Father’s Day, show your love and appreciation for what a badass Dad is with (what else?) grilled meat. Plus, bacon. Also known as: Father’s Day classics! I’ve collected more than 100 of my favorite Whole30 Father’s Day recipes that celebrate dads while respecting their health goals. That's right, it's a massive Whole30 recipe roundup... with grill marks! These heal[...]
This easy, everyday Whole30 breakfast pairs sugar-free breakfast sausage with a pasture-raised egg, garlicky wilted spinach, and creamy avocado. Since the Whole30 dietary protocol eliminates grains and sugar for 30 days, store-bought breakfast sausage that is Whole30-approved can be hard to find (if you're not familiar with the Whole30, read the Whole30 rules). I used Belcampo breakfast sa[...]
When selecting meat for my meals, I typically choose wild-caught fish and game, or pasture-raised beef, pork, and chicken. Why? Three reasons: animal health and quality of life, nutritional advantage, and environmental sustainability! It's best to avoid industrial meat and source your animal protein from producers that understand and respect the importance of these three principles. I used Be[...]
Here it is, springtime, and I am making stew! But what can I say? This oxtail stew is rich in gut-healing collagen and tastes amazing. The flavors from the allspice, thyme, and ginger marry beautifully together in the flavorful broth that is naturally thickened by the slow-cooked oxtails. Think of this as beef stew, with benefits. Basic beef stew is delicious, but I'm all for using less c[...]
January is Whole30 month. If you're not familiar with the Whole30, it's a dietary elimination protocol to determine which food groups (like sugars, grains, dairy, or legumes) may be having a negative impact on your health. As the Whole30 site itself explains: "Are your energy levels inconsistent or non-existent? Do you have aches and pains that can’t be explained by over-use or[...]
Having traveled to one or two far off lands I can honestly say that the English breakfast is one of the best in the world. It certainly beats the typical American breakfast of various forms of processed, refined carbohydrates stripped of nutrients and doused with seed and vegetable oils (which will send blood sugar soaring, contribute to body fat, throw your omega-3 to omega-6 ratio out of balanc[...]
Keto yogurt is a controversial subject for anyone discussing keto-friendly foods with other keto enthusiasts. "Full-fat" yogurt is sometimes touted as the keto yogurt solution, but the fat and carbohydrate content among full-fat yogurts on the market differs widely. FAGE Total Plain, for example, features 10 grams of fat and 8 grams of carbohydrate per serving. Dannon Yogurt (Plain Whole Mi[...]
Meet my I’m-not-a-breakfast-person kind of start to the day. I love breakfast food but I never have the time or inclination to eat before noon Monday through Friday. So I mix blueberries, coconut, coconut milk, chia seeds, hemp seeds, vanilla, and salt the night before, and wake up to thickened, glorious n'oats (which is short for "not oats" since there's no oatmeal in this recipe). Thi[...]
I experimented with "meatza" (pizza with a crust of meat) today. I'm loving the chance to do some real cooking with plenty of ingredients on this weekend, after this week spent confined in my apartment due to bronchitis and an eye infection. I'm posting the recipe for this meatza's pork crust, which I topped with no-sugar-added pizza sauce, homemade vegan cashew "cheese", r[...]
Today I created a new recipe, for Beef-Rib Pot Roast. I'll take more/better photos of it when I inevitably make it again soon (as early as next week, possibly). But I did set up and take a shot of it in my bowl, so wonderfully meaty and flavorful, topped with fresh thyme. I'd also like to make a slow-cooker or instant-pot version of this, because a three hour cook time is inconvenient, to say[...]
I had pomegranate seeds leftover from another recipe, so what's a woman to do? Hopefully something less labor-intensive than creating a fully original recipe to feature them as a garnish, but that's the route I took! In any case, it turned out well, with a delightful degree of flexibility: it can be as exotic or as accessible as you choose. Don't have ras el hanout spice mix? Use paprika.[...]
These Buffalo Chicken Jalapeño Poppers aren't just a delicious option for snack, party, or anytime food, they also feature a mission-driven brand that I think is doing admirable work to bring a delicious, sustainable, and humane product to discerning consumers. These Buffalo Chicken Jalapeño Poppers feature a key ingredient that is important to source with care: chicken.[...]
These flourless brownies are seriously delicious, only take about 15 minutes to prep (faster if you don't stand around licking the spoon as I did but no raw egg, so why not?), and feature some rockstar ingredients. Are you ready for this? Almond butter and avocado. Yep, totally flourless brownies that include two of my favorite things, with a double[...]
Can you tell that I have a thing for quiche? This is the fourth quiche recipe I've posted here on the blog! The others are my Sweet Potato Quiche, Sweet Pepper Quiche, Sun-Dried Tomato Quiche and Mushroom Onion Quiche Bites. The thing is, quiche is an incredible way to experiment with new flavors in a simple format. I was inspired to make this quiche by my friend Caitlin's Low Car[...]
Compared to baking, cooking is an imprecise exercise. A simple beef stir fry in particular benefits from a free-form technique and a willingness to experiment, so while I have provided measurements for the ingredients I used in this particular combination... feel free to play fast and loose with flavors and adapt this recipe to whatever you have on hand. This is definitely a "until it look[...]
For the past few weeks (ever since I gave up coffee), I've been getting up early to make a green breakfast smoothie. Not that this smoothie takes a long time to prepare! It's as simple as combining some delectable ingredients into a blender. I've never been particularly wowed by smoothies, and I'm not one to feel healthier because I had a green smoothie for breakfast rather than, say, egg[...]
This flatbread is a riff on my Ras el Hanout Pizza recipe... pretty much the same flavors, but different execution. I love to mound toppings up like you wouldn't believe, so this stiff flatbread crust is the perfect enabler. It's made with tapioca flour, so I wouldn't exactly call it low-carb. But it's delicious, and won't result in the same nasty symptoms as if you'd eaten a conventiona[...]
Meat cake? This has been in the back of my mind. Would it be possible to make a "cake" made of meat that actually looks like a real cake? I didn't think it was possible at all, but this one (although very time-consuming) looks pretty realistic. A wonderful choice for a special occasion celebrating someone who following the Whole30 reset protocol, for example, or who simply prefers not to consume[...]
I had a butternut squash to use up, so this vegetable tart was born! Isn't it fun how something utterly delicious can be the result of something so prosaic as the need for new fridge space? Since everything is better curried, I went that direction with the flavor profile and added sweet softened onions, golden raisins and a kick from red pepper flakes to really make this recipe my own. [...]
I spent a few days in the Texas hill country this past week, visiting family and generally being reminded that yes, it is winter. In the Bay Area (especially with the drought in full swing) it's easy to forget! While I stayed at my parents' house I rooted around in their cupboard for ingredients that needed using for inspiration on my next recipe. I almost tried a turnip cake—because the[...]
It may not look like much, but this Slow Cooker Curried Chicken Stew is something that I've made again and again. Each iteration a little different, because why not when it's such a simple formula? The delight is in the tweaking. I paired it with rice, here, but if you're avoiding grains then, by all means, enjoy it with some caulirice, heaped in a roasted bell pepper, or simply by[...]
This recipe uses a ham bone. My roommate hosted a party and I came home to a gorgeous ham bone with plenty of meat left on it that night, which I happily appropriated for service in future recipes. After the first few cups of ham went into the quiche, I boiled the bone for 4 hours to make a rich, savory ham stock for this vibrant split pea soup. If you have quality homemade broth alread[...]
If you need a breakfast idea that looks and tastes legit but takes only 15 minutes (max) to prep before loading into the oven, this Sweet Pepper Quiche is it. I came up with this dead simple idea to use up some leftover ham and mini sweet peppers that were languishing in the refrigerator. Some of my best recipes are the product of constraints such as the need to re-purpose leftovers. Dress[...]
This paleo chili hand pie recipe has been a long time coming. A long time coming as in maybe a year or more. The gears started turning on this when a friend received a delivery of whole-wheat empanadas from his mother. She'd heard he was "eating healthy" and that meant whole wheat instead of white flour, right? At the time we both saw the humor in it (I don't remember if he bit the[...]