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Paleo Shepherd’s Pie

Jul 03, 2017

Paleo Shepherd’s Pie – perfect comfort food! Beef and veggies in a rich tomato gravy and topped with mashed sweet potatoes!

How does your cooking change in the summer? Like, beyond grilling more often and eating more salads?

I find that I just have zero desire to cook. We’re just so busy and doing so many fun things that most days I don’t even realize that we missed dinner time until my kids are all hangry and we’re minutes away from a giant disaster.

I just don’t want to cook. I want to be outside. I was to be in water. I was to be hiking through the woods. I don’t want to cook anything.

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Korean Beef Cauliflower Rice Bowls

Jun 13, 2017

Korean Beef Cauliflower Rice Bowls – delicious sweet and spicy beef with cauliflower rice, veggies, and a fried egg on top! It’s paleo but even the non-paleo people in your life will love it!

You guys.

I’m in love with this bowl right now.

So much that when I dropped the beautiful heart Pyrex that I love so much that happened to be holding the Korean beef, I may have cried a little. Over the beef. Not the Pyrex.

Yep.

Okay, so if you follow me anywhere, you know I’m obsessed with the bulgogi fries from one of the local food trucks.

Obsessed.

I think about them daily.

But they close on the weekends. And also, I probably shouldn’t be eating fries every day of my life. So I came up with this.

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Dirty Cauliflower Rice

Jan 12, 2017

Dirty Cauliflower Rice is a healthy way to do the classic cajun dish! Spicy cauliflower rice with onions, peppers, and turkey sausage. Use ground turkey to make it paleo!

Heeey guys, happy almost Friday! How’s the week?

I’ve had a crazy busy week but besides one total meltdown that included sending crying snaps to multiple people (about shoes, y’all! SHOES!) it’s been a really good week.

Highlight of my week so far has been street tacos and nobody should be surprised by that. I’m kind of half-heartedly working on a post about the best restaurants in the area (without going to Austin) so if you’ve got any non-chain suggestions, send ’em my way!

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Thai Mushroom Lettuce Wraps

Jan 02, 2017

Heeeeey guys! Happy New Year! Hope you had a safe and fabulous weekend and are ready to get to work on those 2017 resolutions.

First, I wanted to say thanks to you guys for sticking around all these years. I appreciate every comment, every email, every single time you click on my site. I love you guys.

Anyway, I skipped the whole year in review post this year because this last year was somehow the best and worst year of my life and my blog was a total mess because of it. My highs were really high and my lows were really, really, really low and honestly, I don’t even know how I managed to blog most of the time.

I’m going into 2017 knowing it’ll be probably the hardest year of my life but also knowing that things will look a lot better on the other side of this mess.

So, again, thank you for everything.

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Paleo Korean Beef Bowls

Aug 05, 2016

Paleo Korean Beef Bowls – delicious 20 minute meal! Spicy and sweet beef served over cauliflower rice!

I love all things sweet and spicy. This sweet and spicy Paleo Korean beef is inspired by Korean bulgogi which is a slightly sweet and slightly spicy beef dish. This is a much quicker way to do it, using ground beef that cooks in just a few minutes

If you want a more bulgogi like bowl, my Korean Beef Cauliflower Rice Bowl uses flank steak instead and is another one of my favorite.

This dish comes together in about 20 minutes. While I’m cooking, I put a bag of microwavable cauliflower rice in to cook and pull out whatever leftover veggies I have in my fridge. It’s one of my favorite easy weeknight meals.

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Loaded Cauliflower Mac and Cheese

Aug 01, 2016

Loaded Cauliflower Mac and Cheese – cauliflower tossed in a delicious paleo cheese sauce and topped with bacon. Get your mac and cheese fix without the guilt!

Heeeey guys! Happy Monday!

How was the weekend?

I discovered that Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is now on Netflix and umm, it changed my life. You guys. No one told me that it’s a musical series.

A musical!

Anyway, it’s really good and I’m not gonna tell you how many episodes I watched while I was catching up on some work that I’m waaaay behind on.

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Paleo Blackberry Muffins

Mar 28, 2016

Happy Monday!

I know, a healthy recipe from me.

It’s been awhile since we had one of these, huh?

My life’s been kind of a mess (I swear I’ll explain it all when I can) and I’ve been avoiding being an actual adult by doing things like driving to Waco for tacos or driving to Austin for doughnuts. It’s been fun but it’s time to get back to eating healthy.

I mean seriously, bikini season. It’s right around the corner.

I already bought my doughnut-shaped pool float.

So in an effort to make eating healthy as easy as possible, I spent a good portion of the weekend prepping for the week.

We’ll see how it goes.

But I’m really excited to have these Paleo Blackberry Muffins for quick, easy breakfasts. You know I love a coconut flour muffin so of course I’m obsessed with these. They are lightly sweetened with honey and then loaded with fresh blackberries.

Because I can’t get enough fresh berries right now!

If you’re not into the blackberries, try raspberries or blueberries!

Make a batch of these and you won’t have to worry about breakfasts for the entire week!

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Paleo Stuffed Pepper Soup

Nov 09, 2015

Paleo Stuffed Pepper Soup – the classic stuffed pepper soup made low carb! Beef, bell peppers, and cauliflower rice in a tomato base. Quick, easy, and perfect healthy comfort food!

One of my all-time favorite comfort foods is stuffed pepper soup.

I don’t like peppers, I’m not a huge soup fan, but for whatever reason, I loved stuffed pepper soup.

It was one of the first recipes I learned to cook after I was married and I am almost embarrassed to admit that we ate it probably once a week for several years. It was definitely a favorite.

Recently I had a pretty nasty cold (kids went back to school = mom is sick within a month) and as soon as I started feeling yucky, I started craving that stuffed pepper soup. (With paleo cornbread!)

Paleo Stuffed Pepper Soup is so incredibly similar to the version I cooked in the early years of my marriage. The only real difference is the processed canned soup is gone and replaced with tomato sauce and the white rice is replaced with cauliflower rice.

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Paleo Pumpkin Waffles

Sep 14, 2015

Paleo Pumpkin Waffles are an easy and healthy paleo breakfast idea. Made with pumpkin, bananas, and almond butter – they are so delicious!

Meet my newest paleo breakfast obsession.

I am typically more of a fan of a savory breakfast but sometimes a girl just wants waffles. Especially this time of year when pumpkin anticipation has officially taken over my life.

I CAN’T WAIT FOR PUMPKIN EVERYTHING!

As someone who doesn’t like to spend a lot of time in the kitchen first thing in the morning, I appreciate an easy breakfast recipe that won’t have me breaking a sweat before I even finish my first cup of coffee.

No beating egg whites separately and then gently folding them in, you know? This recipe is all mixed in one bowl and then cooks up in minutes.

Paleo Pumpkin Waffles!

These paleo pumpkin waffles are so yummy!

You get just a hint of the pumpkin — it’s not overpowering, but you know it’s there. They are a little spicy thanks to the cinnamon and cloves in the pumpkin pie spice, and super yummy because of the banana.

And don’t worry if you aren’t a coconut person, the coconut flour and coconut oil don’t add much flavor but the coconut flour gives the waffles that texture that I absolutely love in paleo baked goods.

My husband likes to cover his in sunflower seed butter and then fold it sandwich style for a portable breakfast, but I prefer to spread mine with the sunflower seed butter and then drizzle a little warm maple syrup over the top. Because why not? It is so delicious that way, and I definitely recommend that you try it on any waffle.

Paleo waffles can be such a pain. Sometimes they stick to the waffle maker, sometimes they fall apart when you try to remove them, sometimes they are so dense and dry that you can’t even eat them. But these? They are light and fluffy and definitely one of the best paleo waffle recipes I have tried.

More Paleo Breakfast Recipes

Paleo Eggs in a Basket – the childhood breakfast you love made low carb! Spaghetti squash replaces the hash browns and an egg is nestled in the center.

Paleo Banana Muffins – moist low carb muffins that aren’t eggy like most paleo muffins! These are made with coconut flour and sunflower seeed butter.

I’m the Paleo Fanatic over at Food Fanatic! This Paleo Pumpkin Waffles recipe is one of many I’m sharing over there so make sure you check back!

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Paleo Deviled Eggs

Aug 18, 2015

If there is one thing that my husband and I agree on, it’s our love of deviled eggs.

And lucky for us, deviled eggs are one of the easiest things to make paleo. I mean, they are basically paleo to begin with unless you are one of those people that puts salad dressing in them (me!) or… well, I’m not really sure what other non-paleo things people put in deviled eggs. Because I am a creature of habit and I make the same recipe every single time.

So this paleo deviled eggs recipe is the one I make when we are following the paleo diet. I have been known to make a dozen of them (24 halves) every day for my husband and I to have for lunch. And he has been known to eat the entire dozen himself if I’m not quick enough.

My husband is completely obsessed with these eggs. I don’t even think obsessed covers how he feels about them. He has abandoned taking his lunch to work and instead, he texts me every day about an hour before lunch to nicely ask if I’ll whip up a batch of these guys.

They couldn’t be easier to make and it’s 100% certain you have all the ingredients on hand. I’ve been known to decrease the recipe to 2 or 3 eggs if I’m just making it for myself, so don’t feel like you have to make a huge batch. You can definitely make a good little lunch out of a couple deviled eggs and a salad!

For the mayo, don’t use the stuff from your local grocery store. Even the “all natural” mayos have canola oil, so either make your own or specifically order paleo mayo. I make my own with avocado oil and it is SO perfect.

I’m the Paleo Fanatic over at Food Fanatic! This Paleo Deviled Egg recipe is one of many I’m sharing over there so make sure you check back!

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Paleo Fudge Pops

Jul 27, 2015

Paleo Fudge Pops – a healthy fudge pops recipe! You can’t taste the avocado but it makes them super creamy. Only 6 ingredients!

I’ve played around with paleo ice cream recipes many times and as delicious as they are, they just don’t cut it sometimes. If I’m having ice cream, I like a small ratio of ice cream to a huge ratio of mix ins. I want cookies, candy, potato chips, pretzels, caramel, sprinkles, all of it.

None of which is paleo.

At all.

Not even a little bit.

But I’ve found that with popsicles, I’m a little more forgiving. Especially if they are fudge pops. Because I love a fudge pop.

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Paleo Beef Stroganoff

May 07, 2015

My husband’s favorite meal ever is beef Stroganoff. It’s one that he grew up eating frequently, and then I learned how to make it and made it for him at least once a month for years and years – it was definitely a go-to, easy meal that I knew the whole family would love. So once we decided to try a Paleo diet, Paleo Stroganoff was one of the first things on my list of recipes to perfect.

My normal non-Paleo beef Stroganoff includes a couple cans of cream of- soup, packaged onion soup mix, and both cream cheese and sour cream! It is delicious, but obviously, you don’t eat any of that stuff when you are following a Paleo diet. So this version uses fresh onion, fresh mushrooms, and coconut milk.

I feel like even those that don’t follow a Paleo diet can appreciate this recipe since it takes something that’s typically made with unhealthy ingredients (like the canned and processed foods) and uses fresh ingredients instead. If you are not Paleo or don’t love the coconut milk, you could definitely use heavy cream in place of it.

This is also a really quick meal to prepare, and since the ingredients are so basic, we almost always have everything on hand. It has definitely become my “OMG-It’s-5-o’clock-and-I-haven’t-started-dinner-yet!” meal. And bonus points because it is all made in one pot! One pot! So – easy meal, easy clean-up, what more could you ask for in a recipe?

Typically, you would serve beef stroganoff over egg noodles, but when I serve it Paleo-style, I either serve it over cauliflower rice or just by itself as a bowl. I like the cauliflower rice because it soaks up the sauce, but my husband prefers to just eat it plain, almost like it’s beef stew. Either way, it is super yummy!

I’m the Paleo Fanatic over at Food Fanatic! This Paleo Beef Stroganoff recipe is one of many I’m sharing over there so make sure you check back!

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Paleo Meatloaf

Apr 14, 2015

My husband and I have this really annoying habit of putting a “P” in front of any food that we make Paleo. We have entire conversations about picken puggets or papple pauce or, like this recipe, peatloaf.

(I don’t recommend this when making Paleo cornbread. That’s a good way to make things awkward real quick.)

This is our favorite Paleo Meatloaf recipe. If you’ve never made a Paleo meatloaf before, you will not understand the level of frustration that comes with it. You think it would be simple, right? I mean, the name “meatloaf” sounds like it would be Paleo. It’s a loaf. Of meat. How is that not Paleo?

I have tried dozens of different recipes and they’ve all turned out crumbly and dry or just plain gross. In most Paleo recipes, you use almond flour in place of the soaked bread or breadcrumbs that you would typically use in a regular meatloaf and since almond flour is denser, it just doesn’t work out. This one does include almond flour but since I mix only 1 cup of almond flour with 2 pounds of meat, it stays nice and moist. Because of that, you can get away with using super lean ground beef if you want.

It’s a pretty standard meatloaf recipe – just the beef, almond flour, onion, and a couple eggs. And bacon, of course. Always bacon. Bacon inside the meatloaf and bacon on top! If you are feeling extra ambitious, I totally recommend mixing up some Paleo ketchup to go on top. If you are lazy like me, mustard works just as well!

I usually make cauliflower mashed potatoes or cauliflower rice to serve alongside the meatloaf. Add some green veggies (Brussels sprouts or asparagus are my picks!) and it makes for really good, healthy comfort food.

I’m the Paleo Fanatic over at Food Fanatic! This Paleo Meatloaf recipe is one of many I’m sharing over there so make sure you check back!

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Paleo Banana Muffins

Mar 22, 2015

Paleo Banana Muffins – a healthier way to do banana muffins! Add pecans and chocolate chips to make them extra delicious! These aren’t eggy like typical paleo muffins.

I not-so-secretly really love Paleo baked goods. There are times when I would actually choose a Paleo cookie over a regular one.

I will pretty much always choose my Paleo coconut flour waffles over a regular waffle. And most days I’d choose a Paleo muffin over a normal muffin.

Paleo treats are just so good.

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