Paleo Alfredo with Caramelized Leeks & Bacon

Paleo Alfredo with Caramelized Leeks & Bacon from http://meatified.com #paleo #glutenfree

I know it doesn’t look like it, but this bowl of Paleo Alfredo doesn’t have even a teeny tiny bit of dairy in it. And that’s not pasta. Not even gluten free pasta. Those, my friends, are noodles made out of white sweet potato! You’ve got to love your handy dandy vegetable spiralizer, right? I […]

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 […]

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 […]

Braised Pork Wings with Apple & Onion Gravy

Braised Pork Wings

Pork wings. They sound a little bizarre – pigs can finally fly! Except, not quite. Once cooked, these porky pieces do look a little like supersized “wings”, but they’re actually part of the pork shank, the lower part of the leg. Since these are part of a working muscle, they don’t have a lot of […]

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 […]