I am almost out of my last order of ground beef from Zaycon and I will not be ordering from them again. I am still going to try to connect with Andi's friend Teena for meat from her cows this year, but from what I understand, they butcher in the fall. SO, what is the update on where to get good ground beef and other cow meats around here? Can you let me know prices and how you have liked what you have gotten from various places?
Thanks ladies!!
Monday, May 12, 2014
Saturday, April 19, 2014
Terra Organics
I'm finally getting around to placing my first Terra Organics order to be delivered next Wednesday. I'm not even done & had to stop to tell you all how wonderful it appears! There's fruit, vegetables, nuts, gluten free products and grass-fed meat! I joined as a "custom order" customer so I just go through the list of available foods & pick what I want. Prices seem pretty comparable, a few high & a few low, but overall fine. I'll let you know how it turns out next week :)
Monday, March 24, 2014
Liar Bars, revisited
Catie's Liar Bars are our new favorite. I read the label of the $2.99 each bars at Tacoma Boys and got some good ideas. Here's what I have tried:
I double the recipe every time and it presses nicely into a 9x9 pan.
I use raw nuts so I add 1 tsp. sea salt.
After I crumble the nuts in the food processor and set them aside, I toss about 1/4 cup of sunflower seeds and pumpkin seeds (not 1/4 c. of each, 1/4 c. total) into the processor and roughly chop them. I sprinkle half of these on the bottom of the 9x9 pan before pressing the date mixture in, then the second half on top after I've pressed the date mixture smooth. I just press them down with my hands so they make a crumbly crust.
Tonight I tried adding about 1 cup of pumpkin (canned) and 1/2 tsp. of cinnamon to the bars. It was very tasty, but it messed with the texture a bit. I will try it again with 1/2 c. pumpkin next time.
I double the recipe every time and it presses nicely into a 9x9 pan.
I use raw nuts so I add 1 tsp. sea salt.
After I crumble the nuts in the food processor and set them aside, I toss about 1/4 cup of sunflower seeds and pumpkin seeds (not 1/4 c. of each, 1/4 c. total) into the processor and roughly chop them. I sprinkle half of these on the bottom of the 9x9 pan before pressing the date mixture in, then the second half on top after I've pressed the date mixture smooth. I just press them down with my hands so they make a crumbly crust.
Tonight I tried adding about 1 cup of pumpkin (canned) and 1/2 tsp. of cinnamon to the bars. It was very tasty, but it messed with the texture a bit. I will try it again with 1/2 c. pumpkin next time.
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
BACON!
We were driving home through Parkland yesterday (112th just past Costco) when I spotted Mt. View Meats and Sausage. We looked up the website and they carry grain fed meats from Iowa and both grass fed or organic meats from Washington. Ryan went there today and came home with lots of beef/pork. BEST NEWS EVER: They carry honey-cured bacon for $5.99/lb!!!! I was excited when Fred Meyer dropped their price back to $6.99/half-pound. This is way better and worth a special trip. Also, Ryan says that while the product is pricier than Butcher Boys, the people are nicer and you don't get the feeling that you're bothering them for coming in and placing an order. :)
I had a piece of bacon yesterday. And a gluten free cracker bit dipped in juice at church on Sunday. This is the sum of my deviance.
I had a piece of bacon yesterday. And a gluten free cracker bit dipped in juice at church on Sunday. This is the sum of my deviance.
Monday, March 17, 2014
Liar Bars
These are from Nom Nom Paleo, they are fake Larabars. My family & I devour them! A great dessert option, very sweet w/a nice salty kick.
1 cup coconut flakes, toasted (on stove-top or oven)
1/3 cup macadamia nuts (especially yummy for this recipe if salted)
10 Medjool dates (I tried knock-off dates from Freddy's & they're not the same, get Medjool)
- crush nuts in food processor until grainy (but not nut butter!)
- take nuts out and put in dates, process until they are a sticky ball or pile of date guts
- add the toasted coconut (once it's cooled down) to the date pile & process them together to blend (don't pulverize). you should be able to pinch it together & have it stick
- add the date/coconut blend to the nuts & mix up (I have to use my hands)
- roll into a ball & put between parchment paper or a nonstick pan & roll them out into a thin sheet (about 1/2 inch) and cut up into bars. i have to chill in fridge a little to firm them up
Enjoy!
1 cup coconut flakes, toasted (on stove-top or oven)
1/3 cup macadamia nuts (especially yummy for this recipe if salted)
10 Medjool dates (I tried knock-off dates from Freddy's & they're not the same, get Medjool)
- crush nuts in food processor until grainy (but not nut butter!)
- take nuts out and put in dates, process until they are a sticky ball or pile of date guts
- add the toasted coconut (once it's cooled down) to the date pile & process them together to blend (don't pulverize). you should be able to pinch it together & have it stick
- add the date/coconut blend to the nuts & mix up (I have to use my hands)
- roll into a ball & put between parchment paper or a nonstick pan & roll them out into a thin sheet (about 1/2 inch) and cut up into bars. i have to chill in fridge a little to firm them up
Enjoy!
Thursday, March 13, 2014
US Wellness Meats
http://www.grasslandbeef.com/StoreFront.bok
This may be a great way to get our meat & they have sugar-free bacon, Whole30 approved!
This may be a great way to get our meat & they have sugar-free bacon, Whole30 approved!
Friday, March 7, 2014
Cusinart Food Processor
http://www.amazon.com/Cuisinart-DLC-2011CHB-Processor-Brushed-Stainless/dp/B0014172J6/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
At Costco now for $140 (Amazon $165) - Almost 800 reviews at 4.5 stars
At Costco now for $140 (Amazon $165) - Almost 800 reviews at 4.5 stars
Rao's Homemade Sauces
raos.com - Natural, sweetener-free tomato sauces, marinaras, etc. Some do have cheese. Haven't tried them yet, but saw them recommended on a paleo site. Good back up idea to have a few on hand when you can't summon the strength to make your own sauce. I grew up on homemade marinara so I'll go back to that recipe, but have to wait until next month since it has honey.
Also available on Amazon & gets great ratings - price is $6-8/jar :(
Also available on Amazon & gets great ratings - price is $6-8/jar :(
Thursday, March 6, 2014
Surviving Whole Foods
Whole Foods is like Vegas. You go there to feel good but you leave
broke, disoriented, and with the newfound knowledge that you have a
vaginal disease.
Unlike Vegas, Whole Foods' clientele are all about mindfulness and compassion... until they get to the parking lot. Then it's war. As I pull up this morning, I see a pregnant lady on the crosswalk holding a baby and groceries. This driver swerves around her and honks. As he speeds off I catch his bumper sticker, which says 'NAMASTE'. Poor lady didn't even hear him approaching because he was driving a Prius. He crept up on her like a panther.
As the great, sliding glass doors part I am immediately smacked in the face by a wall of cool, moist air that smells of strawberries and orchids. I leave behind the concrete jungle and enter a cornucopia of organic bliss; the land of hemp milk and honey. Seriously, think about Heaven and then think about Whole Foods; they're basically the same.
The first thing I see is the great wall of kombucha -- 42 different kinds of rotten tea. Fun fact: the word kombucha is Japanese for 'I gizzed in your tea.' Anyone who's ever swallowed the glob of mucus at the end of the bottle knows exactly what I'm talking about. I believe this thing is called "The Mother," which makes it that much creepier.
Next I see the gluten-free section filled with crackers and bread made from various wheat-substitutes such as cardboard and sawdust. I skip this aisle because I'm not rich enough to have dietary restrictions. Ever notice that you don't meet poor people with special diet needs? A gluten intolerant house cleaner? A cab driver with Candida? Candida is what I call a rich, white person problem. You know you've really made it in this world when you get Candida. My personal theory is that Candida is something you get from too much hot yoga. All I'm saying is if I were a yeast, I would want to live in your yoga pants.
Next I approach the beauty aisle. There is a scary looking machine there that you put your face inside of and it tells you exactly how ugly you are. They calculate your wrinkles, sun spots, the size of your pores, etc. and compare it to other women your age. I think of myself attractive but as it turns out, I am 78 percent ugly, meaning less pretty than 78 percent of women in the world. On the popular 1-10 hotness scale used by males the world over, that makes me a 3 (if you round up, which I hope you will.) A glance at the extremely close-up picture they took of my face, in which I somehow have a glorious, blond porn mustache, tells me that 3 is about right. Especially because the left side of my face is apparently 20 percent more aged than the right. Fantastic. After contemplating ending it all here and now, I decide instead to buy their product. One bottle of delicious smelling, silky feeling creme that is maybe going to raise me from a 3 to a 4 for only $108 which is a pretty good deal when you think about it.
I grab a handful of peanut butter pretzels on my way out of this stupid aisle. I don't feel bad about pilfering these bites because of the umpteen times that I've overpaid at the salad bar and been tricked into buying $108 beauty creams. The pretzels are very fattening but I'm already in the seventieth percentile of ugly so who cares.
Next I come to the vitamin aisle which is a danger zone for any broke hypochondriac. Warning: Whole Foods keeps their best people in this section. Although you think she's a homeless person at first, that vitamin clerk is an ex-pharmaceuticals sales rep. Today she talks me into buying estrogen for my mystery mustache and Women's Acidophilus because apparently I DO have Candida after all.
I move on to the next aisle and ask the nearest Whole Foods clerk for help. He's wearing a visor inside and as if that weren't douchey enough, it has one word on it in all caps. Yup, NAMASTE. I ask him where I can find whole wheat bread. He chuckles at me "Oh, we keep the poison in aisle 7." Based solely on the attitudes of people sporting namaste paraphernalia today, I'd think it was Sanskrit for "go f--k yourself."
I pass the table where the guy invites me to join a group cleanse he's leading. For $179.99 I can not-eat not-alone... not-gonna-happen. They're doing the cleanse where you consume nothing but lemon juice, cayenne pepper and fiber pills for 10 days, what's that one called again? Oh, yeah...anorexia. I went on a cleanse once; it was a mixed blessing. On the one hand, I detoxified, I purified, I lost weight. On the other hand, I fell asleep on the highway, fantasized about eating a pigeon, and crapped my pants. I think I'll stick with the whole eating thing.
I grab a couple of loaves of poison, and head to checkout. The fact that I'm at Whole Foods on a Sunday finally sinks in when I join the end of the line...halfway down the dog food aisle. I suddenly realize that I'm dying to get out of this store. Maybe it's the lonely feeling of being a carnivore in a sea of vegans, or the newfound knowledge that some people's dogs eat better than I do, but mostly I think it's the fact that Yanni has been playing literally this entire time. Like sensory deprivation, listening to Yanni seems harmless at first, enjoyable even. But two hours in, you'll chew your own ear off to make it stop.
A thousand minutes later, I get to the cashier. She is 95 percent beautiful. "Have you brought your reusable bags?" F--k. No, they are at home with their 2 dozen once-used friends. She rings up my meat, alcohol, gluten and a wrapper from the chocolate bar I ate in line, with thinly veiled alarm. She scans my ladies acidophilus, gives me a pitying frown and whispers, "Ya know, if you wanna get rid of your Candida, you should stop feeding it." She rings me up for $313. I resist the urge to unwrap and swallow whole another $6 truffle in protest. Barely. Instead, I reach for my wallet, flash her a quiet smile and say, "Namaste."
~Kelly MacLean
Unlike Vegas, Whole Foods' clientele are all about mindfulness and compassion... until they get to the parking lot. Then it's war. As I pull up this morning, I see a pregnant lady on the crosswalk holding a baby and groceries. This driver swerves around her and honks. As he speeds off I catch his bumper sticker, which says 'NAMASTE'. Poor lady didn't even hear him approaching because he was driving a Prius. He crept up on her like a panther.
As the great, sliding glass doors part I am immediately smacked in the face by a wall of cool, moist air that smells of strawberries and orchids. I leave behind the concrete jungle and enter a cornucopia of organic bliss; the land of hemp milk and honey. Seriously, think about Heaven and then think about Whole Foods; they're basically the same.
The first thing I see is the great wall of kombucha -- 42 different kinds of rotten tea. Fun fact: the word kombucha is Japanese for 'I gizzed in your tea.' Anyone who's ever swallowed the glob of mucus at the end of the bottle knows exactly what I'm talking about. I believe this thing is called "The Mother," which makes it that much creepier.
Next I see the gluten-free section filled with crackers and bread made from various wheat-substitutes such as cardboard and sawdust. I skip this aisle because I'm not rich enough to have dietary restrictions. Ever notice that you don't meet poor people with special diet needs? A gluten intolerant house cleaner? A cab driver with Candida? Candida is what I call a rich, white person problem. You know you've really made it in this world when you get Candida. My personal theory is that Candida is something you get from too much hot yoga. All I'm saying is if I were a yeast, I would want to live in your yoga pants.
Next I approach the beauty aisle. There is a scary looking machine there that you put your face inside of and it tells you exactly how ugly you are. They calculate your wrinkles, sun spots, the size of your pores, etc. and compare it to other women your age. I think of myself attractive but as it turns out, I am 78 percent ugly, meaning less pretty than 78 percent of women in the world. On the popular 1-10 hotness scale used by males the world over, that makes me a 3 (if you round up, which I hope you will.) A glance at the extremely close-up picture they took of my face, in which I somehow have a glorious, blond porn mustache, tells me that 3 is about right. Especially because the left side of my face is apparently 20 percent more aged than the right. Fantastic. After contemplating ending it all here and now, I decide instead to buy their product. One bottle of delicious smelling, silky feeling creme that is maybe going to raise me from a 3 to a 4 for only $108 which is a pretty good deal when you think about it.
I grab a handful of peanut butter pretzels on my way out of this stupid aisle. I don't feel bad about pilfering these bites because of the umpteen times that I've overpaid at the salad bar and been tricked into buying $108 beauty creams. The pretzels are very fattening but I'm already in the seventieth percentile of ugly so who cares.
Next I come to the vitamin aisle which is a danger zone for any broke hypochondriac. Warning: Whole Foods keeps their best people in this section. Although you think she's a homeless person at first, that vitamin clerk is an ex-pharmaceuticals sales rep. Today she talks me into buying estrogen for my mystery mustache and Women's Acidophilus because apparently I DO have Candida after all.
I move on to the next aisle and ask the nearest Whole Foods clerk for help. He's wearing a visor inside and as if that weren't douchey enough, it has one word on it in all caps. Yup, NAMASTE. I ask him where I can find whole wheat bread. He chuckles at me "Oh, we keep the poison in aisle 7." Based solely on the attitudes of people sporting namaste paraphernalia today, I'd think it was Sanskrit for "go f--k yourself."
I pass the table where the guy invites me to join a group cleanse he's leading. For $179.99 I can not-eat not-alone... not-gonna-happen. They're doing the cleanse where you consume nothing but lemon juice, cayenne pepper and fiber pills for 10 days, what's that one called again? Oh, yeah...anorexia. I went on a cleanse once; it was a mixed blessing. On the one hand, I detoxified, I purified, I lost weight. On the other hand, I fell asleep on the highway, fantasized about eating a pigeon, and crapped my pants. I think I'll stick with the whole eating thing.
I grab a couple of loaves of poison, and head to checkout. The fact that I'm at Whole Foods on a Sunday finally sinks in when I join the end of the line...halfway down the dog food aisle. I suddenly realize that I'm dying to get out of this store. Maybe it's the lonely feeling of being a carnivore in a sea of vegans, or the newfound knowledge that some people's dogs eat better than I do, but mostly I think it's the fact that Yanni has been playing literally this entire time. Like sensory deprivation, listening to Yanni seems harmless at first, enjoyable even. But two hours in, you'll chew your own ear off to make it stop.
A thousand minutes later, I get to the cashier. She is 95 percent beautiful. "Have you brought your reusable bags?" F--k. No, they are at home with their 2 dozen once-used friends. She rings up my meat, alcohol, gluten and a wrapper from the chocolate bar I ate in line, with thinly veiled alarm. She scans my ladies acidophilus, gives me a pitying frown and whispers, "Ya know, if you wanna get rid of your Candida, you should stop feeding it." She rings me up for $313. I resist the urge to unwrap and swallow whole another $6 truffle in protest. Barely. Instead, I reach for my wallet, flash her a quiet smile and say, "Namaste."
~Kelly MacLean
Pork Marindade - BBQ sauce
1/2 c. coconut aminos
1 dried date (weird, but it adds sweetness)
3 cloves garlic, chopped (about 1.5 TBSP)
1/4 c. unsweetened applesauce (I steam 1 sliced apple til soft)
1 tsp. rice vinegar
1 TBSP sunflower or almond butter
4 tsp. sesame oil
1/4 tsp. crushed red pepper flakes (omit if you are complicated)
1 1/2 tsp. powdered ginger
1
tsp Chinese five-spice powder (equal parts cinnamon, cloves, star
anise, and two other things I can't remember. Fred Meyer doesn't carry
it pre-mixed, but I think Tacoma Boys does... and you can find a billion
recipes online)
1/4 tsp. ground black pepper
Process or
blend until combined (my date is always chunky). Put your pork and 1/2
the marinade in a gallon bag and refrigerate, 30 min - several hours.
Turn 1/2 cup of the marinade into BBQ sauce by adding 1/4
cup of tomato paste, 1/3 cup unsweetened applesauce and 1/2 TBSP rice
vinegar and warm on the stove top.
~Randi
Costco
I was at Costco today & it wins lowest price for all the products below compared to the other price reviews posted so far...
Almond Flour - $5.99/lb, 3 lb bag for $17.99
Almond Butter - $6.08/lb, big jar for $9.89
Coconut Oil - $0.30/oz, 78 oz jug for $22.99
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April 19 - Costco now has Coconut Flour! $6.99 for 4 pounds. Much better than the $7 for 1 pound I paid at Tacoma Boys before going to Costco...
Almond Flour - $5.99/lb, 3 lb bag for $17.99
Almond Butter - $6.08/lb, big jar for $9.89
Coconut Oil - $0.30/oz, 78 oz jug for $22.99
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April 19 - Costco now has Coconut Flour! $6.99 for 4 pounds. Much better than the $7 for 1 pound I paid at Tacoma Boys before going to Costco...
Sunday, March 2, 2014
How to make ghee
http://www.everydaymaven.com/2013/how-to-make-ghee/
My ghee is cooling right now. Will let you know if it turns out alright!
My ghee is cooling right now. Will let you know if it turns out alright!
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Amazon
I did some pantry shopping on Amazon today, these are only Prime-Eligible products...
Almond Flour
* $7/lb for a 5lb bag of Anthony's Almonds Natural Almond Meal/Flour:
* There was also a "blanched" variety of this, but I don't know what that means & it was a little more expensive.
...well a few minutes later I got notice that this product was no longer available but the blanched was. So I learned that blanched means the almonds are soaked in water & skins removed. Almond flour is finer while almond meal is coarser & usually has skin.
*I'm changing my recommendation to the Anthony's Almonds Blanched Almond Flour 5lbs at $7.60/lb (Winco is cheaper and nuts.com is more for the same size.)
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Ghee
* There is a 56oz jar (3.5lbs!) at $0.64/oz ($35.85), Nanak Pure Desi Ghee. But that seems like a lot.
* Whole30 recommends the Pure Indian Foods brand & that's available as both cultured ($1.64/oz) or not ($1.60/oz). Don't know what cultured means or what the difference is.
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Canned Salmon
* Wild Planet Sustainably Caught Pink Salmon $0.92/oz (6 cans for $33.19) - the Sockeye is more expensive.
* The Kirkland Signature brand of Sockeye won't show the label so I can't confirm added ingredients, but it's $2.21/oz!
* The winner is Crown Prince Natural Pink Salmon Wild Caught - I can't see the ingredients list either, but it's a 12-pack at $0.46/oz. for $41.34. Here's the description:
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Coconut Butter
* Artisana seems to be the leading brand (and recommended by Whole30.) The large container is 16 oz at $0.83/oz, the smaller one at 8oz is twice as much at $1.87/oz. They also sell it in 10-packs (small pouches) at $1.33/oz.
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Coconut Milk - Randi already commented in her post & I got the same thing.
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Tahini - $0.72/oz, only one choice
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Sesame Oil - best deal is Kevala 8oz at $1.32/oz, assuming you don't want to buy gallons.
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Cashews - 5lbs raw for $29.45 ($5.89/lb)
Almond Flour
* $7/lb for a 5lb bag of Anthony's Almonds Natural Almond Meal/Flour:
* There was also a "blanched" variety of this, but I don't know what that means & it was a little more expensive.
...well a few minutes later I got notice that this product was no longer available but the blanched was. So I learned that blanched means the almonds are soaked in water & skins removed. Almond flour is finer while almond meal is coarser & usually has skin.
*I'm changing my recommendation to the Anthony's Almonds Blanched Almond Flour 5lbs at $7.60/lb (Winco is cheaper and nuts.com is more for the same size.)
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Ghee
* There is a 56oz jar (3.5lbs!) at $0.64/oz ($35.85), Nanak Pure Desi Ghee. But that seems like a lot.
* Whole30 recommends the Pure Indian Foods brand & that's available as both cultured ($1.64/oz) or not ($1.60/oz). Don't know what cultured means or what the difference is.
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Canned Salmon
* Wild Planet Sustainably Caught Pink Salmon $0.92/oz (6 cans for $33.19) - the Sockeye is more expensive.
* The Kirkland Signature brand of Sockeye won't show the label so I can't confirm added ingredients, but it's $2.21/oz!
* The winner is Crown Prince Natural Pink Salmon Wild Caught - I can't see the ingredients list either, but it's a 12-pack at $0.46/oz. for $41.34. Here's the description:
- Case of twelve, 7.5-ounce cans with pull-top lids (total of 90 ounces)
- MSC Certified sustainable seafood; gluten free; kosher
- Contains 1.5 grams of omega-3; excellent source of protein; low sodium
- Traditionally packed to include the bones and skin for added calcium
- Sustainably wild caught; product of Canada
Coconut Butter
* Artisana seems to be the leading brand (and recommended by Whole30.) The large container is 16 oz at $0.83/oz, the smaller one at 8oz is twice as much at $1.87/oz. They also sell it in 10-packs (small pouches) at $1.33/oz.
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Coconut Milk - Randi already commented in her post & I got the same thing.
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Tahini - $0.72/oz, only one choice
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Sesame Oil - best deal is Kevala 8oz at $1.32/oz, assuming you don't want to buy gallons.
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Cashews - 5lbs raw for $29.45 ($5.89/lb)
Full Circle Review
After getting two full circle boxes, just wanted to let you know how I like it so far! I love getting a box on my porch every Tuesday. I also like that it is 100% customizable - they give you a list of what is in the standard box, and then you have about 20 options of things you can trade out for. And you have from Wed-Sun to do it. I haven't gotten anything that I didn't want, and the quality is really good. With a few exceptions. The avocados I got last week were bad. I had to throw them all away. And this week, one of my pears was mushy. They have a 100% guarantee, 
Monday, February 24, 2014
WinCo Prices
WinCo has Organic Coconut Flour for $3.24/lb, and Almond Flour for $6.55/lb in the bulk section. The almond flour doesn't say organic specifically...
I would be willing to pick these up for anyone if you are not at WinCo regularly, and/or don't want to go there :)
I would be willing to pick these up for anyone if you are not at WinCo regularly, and/or don't want to go there :)
Sunday, February 23, 2014
Balsamic & Rosemary Chicken
http://www.primalpalate.com/paleo-recipe/balsamic-and-rosemary-chicken/
Ingredients
- 1 Tbsp Olive Oil, Extra Virgin
- 1/4 cup Balsamic Vinegar
- 2 cloves Garlic, minced
- 2 tsp Rosemary, fresh, minced
- 3 Chicken Breasts, boneless skinless
- 1/2 tsp Salt and Pepper, to taste
Process
- Rinse chicken breasts under cold water, pat dry with a paper towel, and place in a baking dish.
- Drizzle olive oil over all 3 chicken breasts, and lightly rub to evenly distribute the oil.
- Sprinkle salt and pepper over chicken.
- Press fresh garlic and rosemary into chicken breasts.
- Roast at 400°F for about 20–25 minutes or until the meat yields an internal temperature of 170°F.
- Remove chicken from oven and pour 1/4 cup balsamic vinegar over fully cooked chicken breasts.
- Serve with a fresh sprig of rosemary.
Friday, February 21, 2014
Cookbooks
On cookbooks: There are things I love about the first Well Fed.
Namely, her explanation of her weekly cookup (which I have yet to try),
and a handful of recipes that we use regularly. I've cooked probably
50% of the things in that book and we've loved some, not most. Well Fed
2 has A LOT more variety and I've had more success with that one. But
it could be that I just had more of a feel for her style and was better
able to pick out what I thought we might like.
One thing I absolutely love about the Well Fed books
(1 and 2) is that at the end of each recipe she has a little text box
that says something like "You know how you could do that?" and then
follows with suggestions for different meat and spice combinations to
change the overall flavor of the dish. It's pretty cool for people who
don't know much about how spices work together (like me).
My new books came Thursday. Practical Paleo is the
beautiful one that I bought based on attractiveness alone. Lots of
handy charts and neat visual displays. If you are feeling overwhelmed,
the charts help to take all that swirly info and tack it down. She also
includes pictures of cooking techniques that you may not be familiar
with, like how to deglaze a pan. Or the difference between chopping and
dicing. Also, she includes a really nice series on different dietary
needs (blood sugar, autoimmune disorders, MS, thyroid support, etc.).
She talks about key nutrients to focus on, which foods you can find
them in, and then puts together a 30 day (!) mealplan for each type of
need. Pretty cool.
HOWEVER, the first half is a summary of WHY paleo...
purely informational. Once you've read it (or skip it because you
already read It Starts With Food or GAPS or Grain Brain or The Body
Ecology...), it's a lot of pages to lug around all the time as you sort
through recipes.
I haven't had much time with The Everyday Paleo
Family Cookbook. Just enough to totally critique the family pictures
she chose to include and to empathize with her very awkward teenage son
who clearly DOES NOT feel comfortable with the whole photo shoot thing.
~Randi
~Randi
Meat
I bought some grass fed ground beef at Tacoma Boys last night for $6.99/lb.
~Molly
Produce
I used Full Circle last year and LOVED it. They deliver, and also
have a pickup option now, but is totally worth it to me to have it
delivered. I signed back up with Full Circle today because I had a 40%
promo code...when I reactivated my account, they gave me this code FCREFER which gets you 40% off the first box and gets me a $10 credit.
~Jen
Prices
Coconut oil:
It's $20-something at Costco for 78 ounces.
Nutiva organic is the brand. Maybe $28, which works out to about
$0.35/oz. I'll confirm the exact price next time I'm there.
Coconut flour:
I have purchased Let's Do Organic 6 pack (6, 1-lb bags) on Amazon (prime) for $31.02, which works out to $5.17/lb.
HOWEVER,
I'm seeing that Nutiva (same brand as the Costco coconut oil) has a
3-lb bag for $11.54 (also Amazon prime) that is just $3.86/lb.
Coconut aminos:
Coconut Secret 100%
Organic Raw is $7.99/8 oz bottle at Tacoma Boys (the only store I've
seen it in). Amazon (not prime, but still free shipping), case of 12
for $72.54 ($6.05/bottle).
Coconut milk:
GAPS has me make my own with shredded coconut (which I buy from Nuts.com). Paleo doesn't care, so...
Organic Native Forest is $3.59/can at Fred Meyer. I found it on Amazon (prime), case of 12 for $29.88 ($2.49/can).
Almond flour:
It's close to $10 per pound
at Fred Meyer. Nuts.com sells in 1 ($8.99/lb), 5 ($8.72/lb), and 25
($5.99/lb) pound increments. It's painful to pay $150 for almond flour,
but I have only ordered twice in about a year and a half...
Cacao Powder:
Raw organic... Navitas
Naturals is what I'm currently using at $14.54/lb. I'm seeing
Healthworks at $12.99/lb (both Amazon prime).
Almond butter:
We use the make-your-own machine at Fred Meyer for $6.99/lb.
Costco carries a creamy version, but we don't like having to stir the
oil back into it.
~Randi
~Randi
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