Tell Me Your Favorite

What’s your favorite Paleo friendly restaurant in Houston? Name the place and please tell us what you order.

Here is mine. Two words, Coronado Beef.

 

Chicken, Sausage and Egg Bake

Ingredients:
Rotisserie Chicken
Pan Sausage
Onion (chopped)
Red Pepper (chopped)
Spinach
10 Eggs
½ Can Coconut Milk

Directions:
1. Brown sausage in a skillet
2. Mix in ¼ onion with sausage and set aside
3. Pre-heat oven to 350
4. Grease a large pyrex pan with fat of your choice (I used Kerrygold)
5. Add chicken, sausage, red pepper, spinach to pyrex dish
6. Whisk together eggs and coconut milk
7. Pour egg/coconut milk mixture on top of other ingredients and bake at 350 for 40 minutes or until eggs no longer shake

This is another take on an easy and delicious breakfast egg bake. I’ll take a large piece (1/5) to work each day. Cooking one meal and having the convenience of 5, that’s cooking efficiency.

What are you eating?

Do the foods you eat resemble the foods your great grandmother would recognize? How long have the foods/oils you eat been around? Are the foods you eat perishable? If you are still not sure check out this food pyramid. 

This pyramid is a good place to start. I personal do not do much diary because I know it negatively effects me (allergies, acne, gas) and I tend to eat more starchy vegetables. Also, I don’t eat a lot of fruit besides the occasional berries if they are in season and bananas. How do you eat? Does it look anything like this?

Baked Eggs

Try this as an alternative for hard boiled eggs. My roommate sent me the link and I tried them the other night.  Very easy. The eggs had a creamy texture and much less of a sulfurous smell. Bake at 325 for 30 minutes. I like my eggs soft boiled (runny) so next time I’ll try 20 or 25 minutes. Enjoy!

Pad Thai


Ingredients:

  • 1/4 c fat (butter or coconut oil)
  • 2-3 zucchinis
  • 1 onion, finely diced
  • 4 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1 T apple cider vinegar
  • 2 T fresh ginger, minced
  • 3 T almond butter
  • 1 T chili garlic sauce
  • 1 T fish sauce (optional, but adds umami flavor)
  • 1 lime, juiced
  • s&p

 Instructions:

1. To make the zucchini noodles: a julienne peeler works best, but a mandolin sliced as thin as possible and then sliced lengthwise works well also.

2. Saute onions, garlic, and ginger in fat until soft.  Add all the liquid ingredients (vinegar, almond butter, chili garlic sauce, lime juice). Stir it all together.

3. Add in the zucchini noodles, mix around and cook until the sauce is all incorporated and the noodles are hot. This takes about ten minutes.

I have made this with seared duck breast (then using the duck fat to cook with) which was delicious.  We have also done chicken and shrimp. If using shrimp add them last with the noodles as you dont want them to be overcooked.

Enjoy!  Thanks to Health-Bent.com for the delicious recipe.