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Sweet potato home fries!
Oh my goodness, I love these things. The coconut oil really brings out the sweetness of the sweet potato and, if you’re patient, they build up a bit of crunchy caramelized goodness. And they’re super...
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Coconut milk lattes
The cure for the night before. Coconut milk lattes are amazing. The creamy frothiness and natural sweetness are decadent and delicious. And they’re so easy that they’re perfect for early weekend...
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Taqueria lime fiesta salad!
My sister, Kyla, is visiting today, ostensibly to clean my house. What this translates to, obviously, is that we bathed our dogs (there’s four between us), bought and set up a 20 gallon fish tank...
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Primal portobello pizza
Pizza, pizza, all the time! Primal Portobello Pizza Prep time: 5 minutes Cook time: 30 minutes Ingredients 4 portobello mushrooms 1 c. pizza sauce 4 slices mozzarella cheese toppings of choice Preheat...
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Chorizo, kale, and goat cheese omelet: what what!
Last night I had a serious hankering for some sort of spicy sausage, but all of the sausages available at my supermarket had some sort of sweetener or soy or corn. Well, all except a package of...
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Coconut fried plantains
Avoiding both sweeteners and dairy is putting a major crimp in my sweet-tooth style. Luckily, lots of fruits and vegetables explode with sweetness when they’ve been caramelized, and coconut oil and...
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Eggs: It’s what’s for dinner! And lunch! And breakfast!
I eat a lot of eggs. They’re easy, they’re quick, they’re versatile, and they’re delicious. Oh, and cheap. All of which are good things. My favorite preparation is generally to make a big pile of...
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Five-minute miracle tomato soup
My friends, it is 10 degrees outside. Ten. TEN. I’ll let that sink in for a moment. That’s right, it’s 10 degrees, “feels like” 0 (whatever that means), so it is freaking cold. I come home from work...
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Corsican seafood stew
You guys, I grew up in Maine, where chowder can ONLY be made with a cream base. To even suggest otherwise is blasphemy. But, this darn 90 Day Paleo Challenge allows for only one serving of dairy a day,...
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Maine, mussels, yum
A view from partway up Mount Katahdin in Baxter State Park Growing up in Maine, you take a lot of stuff for granted. You leave your house unlocked. A work commute of more than twenty minutes is...
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Butterflied chicken with garlic butter!
My triumphant return. You guys, this was SO GOOD. Wow, my life has been nuts for the last week or two. So nuts, in fact, that I just had to throw out a bunch of rotten produce that was in my fridge...
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Hey, strangers!
Okay, so you might have noticed that I’ve been totally missing in action, and let me tell you what: I have a really good excuse. I’m pregnant. Pumpkins puking = funny. People puking = miserable. That’s...
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I’m baaaaack: roasted root vegetable and goat cheese salad!
HELLO! I know, you forgot all about me. But lemme tell you what: the last few days have been almost like being a normal, non-pregnant person again. I’ve had energy, I’ve socialized, I’ve gone to work;...
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Bacon: Makes Vegetables Delicious. Duh.
Oh, people, I am SO MUCH BETTER. My dishes are washed, my fridge is full of veggies and defrosting meat, and my garlic is sprouting. Things are good. So good, in fact, that yesterday I scoured my house...
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Portobello cream sauce is unphotographable. So sue me. (Please don’t.)
You know what? I can’t photograph steak. I’ve tried before and the results have been…well, they’ve been so bad that I won’t link to them because I’d rather we all just forget. And previous attempts to...
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Update: allergies!
Hello everyone! I know it’s been, what, a million years? but it’s good to see you all again. I have so far had a spectacularly uncomfortable pregnancy, plagued by more-or-less constant nausea and...
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Cast iron intervention!
I’m such a slave to my cast iron pans that it’s hard for me to imagine that there are people out there who not only don’t use cast iron pans but who don’t even own one, even when their loving older...
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Public safety announcement!- How to hold a knife
Holy crap, you guys. I was innocently meandering around the internet today, and I came across a blog post for pico de gallo that was full of images that stopped my heart. In every single photo, the...
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Baked apples- like apple pie, but with none of the work
Ah, fall, how I love thee! The temperatures are cool enough for sweaters, jeans, and turning on the oven, all of which number among my favorite things. Also, root vegetables. I’d tell you about how...
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No-cereal “cereal”: because sometimes you just want to eat like a normal person
Now, I’m not allergic to all grains. Rice, corn, quinoa- these are all supposedly on my okay list. But the reality is that, for whatever goddamn sadistic reason my body has for this sort of thing, they...
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