Paleo Spaghetti Sauce

Paleo Spaghetti Sauce

So this weekend it’s snowing. Again. I know a bazillion people are probably still (claiming to be) knee-deep in “cleanses” and “detoxes”, but not me. I am doing a Whole30, but I consider that less of a cleanse and more like eating real food. In part, it’s a challenge to myself to see if I […]

Citrus and Sage Roasted Baby Carrots

Sometimes I make a scaled down version of these if I’m craving a sweet snack without resorting to fruit. Or if I’ve already eaten all the fruit in the house. It happens. The first time I made these roasted baby carrots, however, was as a side because I’d just gleefully returned home from grocery shopping […]

Cabbage Cakes

Cabbage Cakes

The new year is impending and apparently that means lettuce-recipes are incoming. But if my new year doesn’t include some fried foods then I’m going to go on time-strike and start counting backwards. Kind of like I do for my birthdays. Anyway. Really this is a story about some leftover sweet potatoes. Wicked stepmother Meatified […]

Carrot Dip

Carrot Dip

Every now and then I have a fierce craving… for hummus. Which may not be a typical food craving. Since I don’t really have much of a sweet tooth, apparently being deprived of legumes sometimes makes me cranky! But while I was bumbling around the kitchen trying to come up with a kind of hummus […]

Beef Brisket Au Jus

Brisket Au Jus

Minimal ingredients, barely any prep and almost no hands-on cooking time? Yes, please. This is one of those criminally simple dishes that somehow tends to really impress people – yay! The best part is, this beef brisket au jus reheats so well that I tend to throw it in the oven on Sunday, then rest […]