I have actually bewailed the lack of hummus in my Paleo life before. I used to practically live on the stuff. Not only did I consider it healthy, I just adored the flavor. When I realized that I had to give up eating beans, pretty much my first thought was, “oh, no, not the hummus!”. […]
Almost Ranch Dressing
Just as Mr Meatified doesn’t consider soup worth eating unless he can practically stand a spoon up in it, so he prefers a dressing that is so thick it is almost incapable of being poured. He also hasn’t eaten ranch dressing in years, much to his horror, and I had never found a way to […]
Chorizo-Spiced Lamb and Date Mini Meatballs with Cilantro Dipping Sauce
I make my own chorizo fairly regularly and it is fantastic in so many things. One of my favorite ways to use it is as a filling for stuffed peppers. I don’t recall exactly how I came up with the idea of adding chopped, dried dates to the chorizo, but it was a brilliant one, […]
Bacon & Berry Bites with Dairy Free Chocolate Sauce
Everything is better with bacon. And these addictive morsels of awesomeness prove that rule. It is also true that almost everything is better with chocolate. Therefore, logic dictates that these may well be the best thing you ever put in your mouth. Bacon + chocolate = win. I’m not sure I really need to tell […]
Lemon & Cilantro Calamari with Roasted Red Pepper Sauce
Calamari is one of those things that sounds really intimidating to the home cook. Especially if they are a little seafood-scared. But that little bit of squid-squick-factor may be one of the things that makes this wild caught seafood option stay relatively affordable: where I live, a delightfully land-locked state, already cleaned calamari is often […]
Bacon & Green Onion Guacamole
I’m going to start off here with the Captain Obvious of sentences: bacon is an amazing wonderfood. Fact. Now if bacon is a wonderfood, then it can clearly be deduced that bacon makes everything better. Well, almost always. At least when it comes to food. Now, when I make brunch at the weekend, my two […]