Coconut Baked Sweet Potato Rounds

If I’m really in a rush to throw a side together that needs no attention while I’m cooking something else, this is it. Sweet potato rounds. It takes all of 5 minutes to chop, season, toss and then get these into the oven. They also have the awesome side effect of making grumpy people, well, […]

Lazy Oven Braised Leeks with Lemon

Lots of people seem to have yet to fall in love with leeks. They’re so often relegated to that wingman status in the kitchen, turning up in mirepoix or “bulk out this soup”-position, but never really getting any action or appreciation themselves. If they are on occasion the star ingredient, it’s usually in that oft-repeated […]

The Cheap Way To Make Vegetable Stock

And by cheap, I mean free. Sure, it takes a little time, but 98% of that time is unattended, no-effort needed time. Yay. Double-yay because if you go through a lot of stock, you soon begin to realize that it is pretty pricy at the store. Even more so if you want organic or salt […]

Leftovers Love: “Not Quite Cabbage Rolls”

This is a quick breakfast I threw together the other day, using some leftover meatballs. All I did was sauté up some onions, poblano peppers and coleslaw mix and top the veggies with the meatballs. Of course, I don’t consider breakfast to be breakfast without some avocado, so I finished my plate off with some guacamole, which […]

Magic Shrimp

This dish came about on one of those nights when you’re so hungry that you actually can’t wait to cook something and are teetering very close to the edge of either (a) eating something super unhealthy or (b) forgoing dinner altogether for a miscellaneous assortment of randomly selected snacks that isn’t very satisfying. That’s where […]

Potato-free Breakfast Potatoes

Breakfast (Sweet) Potatoes

I know that these look like standard-issue white potatoes. The kind that we’re not really supposed to eat if we’re following a Paleo diet. But, guess what? They’re not! However, they did fool a certain someone I know into exclaiming, “but I thought we weren’t supposed to eat potatoes?!”, as he was eating them. With […]