Is it possible? Indeed it is. Last night, my husband and I celebrated our sixth wedding anniversary. This year, we opted to stay in town and dine at one of our favorite special occasion restaurants, Melisse, in Santa Monica. For anyone who hasn’t been, it’s a must-do! But wait, you might be thinking, […]
Read More ›Don’t worry; even if you’ve f0und out you have Celiac Disease, Dunkin Donuts has come to the rescue by offering gluten free donuts. An article on celiac.com , a site which is a resource for ‘gluten-free and celiac disease since 1995’ shares the ground-breaking news which, according to their stats, will appeal to the ‘one in […]
Read More ›There can be… but the caveat is that it should be for those ‘in a pinch’ occasions. Please don’t go stocking your pantry with canned tomato paste, coconut milk and chicken broth. All place a far second to True Paleo foods (fresh tomato, fresh coconut an homemade pastured chicken broth) rendering a much cleaner and […]
Read More ›Don’t worry- I’m not about to break my track record of keeping Paleo Paleo and suggest you make a ‘slightly-less awful, pseudo-paleo version of pasta’ by using nut flours and a grass-fed butter sauce. Rather, I’m going to rave about spaghetti squash, nature’s noodle! Requiring little more than some water and a heat source to […]
Read More ›Yesterday, I flipped through a junk magazine in the nail salon and learned all about how I could ‘follow a cookie diet’ and lose ten pounds in week. Or, I could opt to do a ‘cleanse’ in order to ‘jumpstart my metabolism’ which would also render a solid, double digit reduction in weight in […]
Read More ›Real, True Paleo isn’t. What is, however, very likely a fad, is the growing trend of more and more companies using the word at leisure to describe foods (in some cases, more along the lines of food by-products) that may have once been kind of Paleo but are now so far outside the scope of […]
Read More ›Wondering how to ‘break the news’ to your friends and family that you’re now Paleo and loving every second of it? It’s natural to feel uncomfortable the first few times you dine out with friends, or host a dinner party, especially when the group of people you spend time with spends time in the oh-so-social […]
Read More ›I have no qualms admitting it- one of my favorite parts of a meal featured pan-seared or grilled or oven roasted wild salmon or black cod is the skin. So much so, that it makes me cringe when I stop by the fish monger’s counter at my local market and see all the fillets have […]
Read More ›Consumer Reports, perhaps you should stick to recommendations on household products and cars, and not venture into the food category if the recent piece on tips to keep college students healthy is a representation of what you’re going to suggest. A piece published online yesterday, entitled ‘Healthy Foods for College Students to Eat‘ was so […]
Read More ›Sweet as in the flavor experience, not as in added white sugar, that is! One of the many nice things about cooking is that anything is fair game in the Paleo kitchen, as far as what can be prepared with what. If we view cooking as a playful and fun way to approach providing […]
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