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 for a birthday, and named it the way I did because it totally the stuff of dreams if you're a tropical pineapple lover. Nibbling the last littl[...]
Healthy eating on Valentine's Day can be tricky, let alone maintaining a paleo Valentine's Day! Luckily real food is very romantic. Sure, you can eat something drowned in cream or a trussed-up confection of gluten and sugar but why not rely on the clean recipes to show you how to get it done in the kitchen on Valentine's Day without derailing your wellness goals? Love your body... tha[...]
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 cooking methods, plus attempts reintroduction regularly) my mother insists on the highest standard of food quality.[...]
I drove down to my parents' ranch northeast of Austin, TX for a small family reunion this week to celebrate Independence Day together. It was everything a July 4th celebration should be: plenty of BBQ, family lounging on the front porch, dogs twining between legs and panting in the shade. It was also wonderful to see the newest foal on the ranch again... Zing Tiki was hardly standing on wobb[...]
Today I filled out a mandatory health assessment at the office (an on-line form in which you answer questions about your sleep, perceived stress, diet, cholesterol, blood pressure and other biometrics). I don't have accurate data on blood pressure or cholesterol at the moment so I left those numbers blank...and the form AUTO-GENERATED that I have high blood pressure and high cholesterol based[...]