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[...]
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[...]
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.[...]
Pastured bone broth: I finally found a shelf-stable brand that is made from grass-fed cows! If you don't have time to spend hours making your own bone broth, Kettle & Fire makes a game-changing broth from organic bones, slow-cooked to draw out the nutrients and collagen hidden deep inside. Get it here. The recipe for this Slow Cooker Short Rib Chili has been on my mind for a long t[...]
The idea for this Wild Thing Texas Chili started as my answer to the "what kind of chili do you like?" What I consider the essentials of the genre: 1) no beans (this is Texas chili, after all) with 2) a deep, complex balance of sweet, bitter, hot, and fruity flavor plus a robust, meaty kick and thick, rich red sauce to bind the other ingredients together. That being said, let's break dow[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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 coleslaw comes together so quickly, provided you have a food processor. The result is crunchy, tart, a bit creamy and very fresh! One thing: this recipe calls for mayonnaise, but commercial mayo is made with industrial seed oils, the highly processed oils extracted from soybeans, corn, rapeseed (the source of canola oil), cottonseed, and safflower seeds. How are industrial seed oils[...]