Experimenting with a small batch chai tea spice mix recipe for my morning black tea. No special ingredients—a simple mix with things already in my kitchen. To make the mix: 2 Tbsp ground cinnamon 2 Tbsp ground ginger 1 Tbsp ground turmeric a few dashes of ground black pepper (I think it’s 8:1 turmeric to black […]
Oil Free Salad Dressing with Avocado
I’ve never been a fan of oil and vinegar dressings (read: every dressing ever made). I’ve been known to use hummus or salsa as dressings. It never really occurred to me that there might be oil free salad dressings. Angelo Coppola—best known for his awesome Latest in Paleo podcast—posted an oil free Caesar salad dressing […]
Easy Homemade Egg Nog Recipe – raw, real food, paleo, primal – with chai spice variation
I’ve been posting on social media lately, raving about my homemade egg nog.
Chocolate Raspberry Cookie Recipe (paleo, grain-free, gluten-free, dairy-free)
I’m quite new to this whole baking thing. I feel lucky in that I don’t have the standard knowledge of baking to have to unlearn. I wouldn’t know what to do if you dropped white flour, white sugar, and Crisco in front of me, but give me some almond flour, eggs, and coconut palm sugar, […]
Cold-Brewed Fruit Tea with Honey Recipe (Better Than Juice!)
Throughout the summer, my fridge is a science lab of cold-brewing, with usually between 3 and 5 glass jars of various things brewin’: the obligatory black tea, lavender flowers, mint tea or leaves, and my newest love, dried-fruit herbal tea. (I’ve never liked hot-brewed fruit teas, but cold-brewed they are completely different and really, really […]
One-Ingredient Cheese Crisps Recipe
This is possibly the best, and certainly the easiest, gluten-free and grain-free cracker you can make at home. The hard cheese (parmesan and romano are my favorite) melts together quickly, and hardens when it cools. They stay together well and are a little crispy and a little chewy (depending on how long you cook them). […]
Cold-Brewed Lavender Lemonade with Raw Honey Recipe
I’ve been experimenting with making lavender lemonade since I heard about it pretty recently. It’s such a yummy combination, and perfect for what will no doubt be a stiflingly humid New England summer. In addition to being delicious, the health benefits of this drink are pretty sweet (NPI): Lavender is a great soother; it helps […]
Cold-Brewed Coffee Recipe and Cold-Brewed Tea Recipe
We recently had our first cookout* of the season. It was a good turnout. Lots of families and kids and friends. Many more to come! *I was asked, by a West Coast transplant, if “cookout” was an East Coast term. I assume it is. Maybe even just a northeast term, since I think of “barbecue” […]
Homemade Dried Cajun Spice Mix Recipe
Cajun food is comfort food for me; I’ve been eating it since I was a kid. There’s nothing like a good crawfish boil, a bowl of jambalaya, and some fried gator-on-a-stick. Several years ago, I tried my hand at Cajun-style cooking. I’m no pro, and not really authentic—not actually being Cajun, and not learning from […]
Homemade Hot Cocoa Recipe
I used to make a hot-cocoa mix to be made and served at my college cafe. I called it Vee’s Magical Hot Cocoa. And magical it is. Not only will it kick the buns of any hot cocoa you’ve ever had (let alone made yourself), its variations are nearly infinite, to fit any dietary restriction […]
Irish Colcannon (mashed potatoes and cabbage) Recipe
I originally learned how to make colcannon from Irish movies. “Learned” is a strong word. Basically, I found out there was an Irish dish that consisted of mashed potatoes and cabbage. When I made it, people would say, “Why is this so good?? What’s in this?” I would tell them the ingredients, which they hardly […]
Yay Eggs! Part 3: All About Eggs
Many of my real-food-blogging comrades have written more about eggs than could fit in a crowded factory chicken farm (from which we do not recommend buying eggs). Here’s a lot of information on, recipes for, and pretty pictures of eggs. Egg-ucation (sorry, I couldn’t help it) All About Good Healthy Eggs – getting all the good nutrients […]
Yay Eggs! Part 2: Jenn’s Paleo Egg Muffin Recipe
This is a guest post from my friend Jenn Galloway-Boyce. -O. My introduction to a Paleo lifestyle came from this simple, yet delicious recipe. I had just birthed my first child and trying to find time to cook myself something healthy for breakfast, (while nursing him 200 times a day) was no easy feat. I […]
Yay Eggs! Part 1: My Favorite Recipes
I have shared my love for eggs through a few recipes in this blog: herbed eggs and greens and my quick-scramble technique; egg, avocado, and tomato salad (posted on Mark’s Daily Apple with the addition of, oddly enough, bacon); my discovery of an Irish technique for perfect scrambled eggs; open-faced omelet sandwich. I get these beautiful […]
Open-Faced Omelet Sandwich Recipe
I’ve been mostly wheat- or gluten-free or primal/paleo the last 5 years, and sometimes play around with alternative grains and things. I recently picked up some wheat-free German bread—dark rye and “fitness bread” made mostly with rye and oats—from Ocean State Job Lot (the Rhode Island version of Big Lots). One morning I was inspired […]
Grain-Free Sweets: Get This Book (with Recipe)
I really, really love sweets. But starches and sugars don’t love me. So I’ve had grain- and refined-sugar-free goodies, and I find that not only do they agree with my body and brain better, they are frequently tastier, richer, and more satisfying than their mainstream counterparts. Carol from Ditch the Wheat has created an e-cookbook […]
Perfect Scrambled Eggs Recipe
I like eggs. A lot. So I’m always working to improve my egg-making. A while back I blogged about my herbed eggs and greens, where I showed you my high-heat, quick-scramble technique. Since then, I have changed how I scramble eggs, thanks to Malachi McCormick’s Irish Country Cooking, a wonderful cookbook with traditional and modern Irish […]
Traditional Family Chocolate Bread Pudding Recipe
I grew up eating the most amazing chocolate bread pudding the world has ever known, which came from my great-grandmother. I’m not sure if it came from her originally; that’s as far back as I can trace it. My mother remembers that her mother often made it for my grandfather (who would have grown up […]
Herbed Eggs and Greens Recipe
I harvested chard and herbs from my garden: For breakfast, I chopped up some of the chard: I coarsely chopped some herbs (oregano and sage pictured, plus chives): I sautéed the herbs in butter for a bit: I added the chard, with a bit of salt and pepper: While that was cooking, I added some […]