Nut-Free Yeast-Based Paleo Bread
My original yeast-based Paleo bread recipe has received so many enthusiastic comments. I know that having a delicious Paleo bread recipe has been essential in my home. It can be …
TPV Episode 1 Show Notes: Paleo Kids in School
Listen in iTunes or download and listen by clicking the PodBean player below Podcast Powered By Podbean The Paleo View (TPV), Episode 1: Kids in School In this …
Announcing The Paleo View Podcast!!!
A few weeks ago, I received a private message on Twitter from Stacy of Paleo Parents. I quote: “I want to do a podcast. Will you be my partner?”. Ah, the brevity of twitter …
Artichoke-Stuffed Artichoke
I love artichoke. As a kid, our standard way of eating it was to boil/steam the whole artichoke until cooked and serve with very garlicky melted butter to dip each leaf in and …
Basil-Avocado Baked Salmon
What better way to follow up a post on the safety of eating fish (it’s safe!), with a recipe for my favorite fish, salmon! The inspiration for this recipe came from three …
The Mercury Content of Seafood: Should we worry?
We are often warned not to consume too much seafood over fears of the mercury contamination in these foods building up in our systems and leading to mercury poisoning. Pregnant …
Greek-Inspired Slow-Roasted Leg of Lamb
I love lamb. And I love to roast large chunks of meat (for the ease of preparation and for the leftovers). So, leg of lamb is a fairly regular occurrence in our house. It is …
Liver Pâté
Pâté is one of my favorite ways to incorporate organ meat into my diet. I love to spread it on cucumber slices or celery. There are many different seasonings for pâté …
Modifying Paleo for FODMAP-Intolerance (a.k.a. Fructose Malabsorption)
One of the many challenges that people face when adopting a Paleo diet is dealing with the confounding factor of additional food sensitivities. Sometimes these sensitivities are …
Kitchen Tip: My Recipe for Green Eggs
What we call “green eggs” in our house is simply a plain omelette with spinach blended in to the egg mixture. I make a 2-egg omelette, which is the prefect size for my frying pan …
Ginger-Garlic Cauliflower Rice
I have to admit that I’ve never really liked rice, not unless it was drenched in the sauce from several different Chinese food dishes from an authentic restaurant. When I first …
Teriyaki-Inspired Poached Salmon
My father-in-law was a very good cook. One of his staple meals was to bake meat in a homemade teriyaki-inspired sauce, typically pork or chicken. I always liked the clean flavor …
Chocolate Haystacks
These no-bake cookies are based on one my mom used to make when we were kids that was nuts and oats held together with chocolate. This Paleo version ditches the dairy ingredients …
Moroccan-Inspired Cauliflower “Couscous” Salad
This sweeter side salad was a bit of an accident. I was looking for a recipe in one of my old cookbooks for Moroccan Couscous with the idea of creating a Paleo adaptation. It has …
Paleo for Eczema
Eczema is a general term used to describe a collection of skin conditions (the most common being atopic dermatitis) in which the skin is inflamed and irritated. The inflammation …
Pan-Seared Tarragon Whitefish Fillet
I love recipes for simple meals that can be quickly thrown together mid-week with very little effort. This is one of my “go to” methods for cooking white fish, simple and quick …
Paleo Spice Cake with Maple-Cashew Frosting
My 2.5-year old announced “let’s make cake!” and started pulling random seasonings out of the spice drawer. She pulled out cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, cardamom, vanilla, paprika, …
Kitchen Tip: My Favorite Sides for Bunless Burgers
We are quite in the habit of eating hamburgers without buns (even a Paleo version like this recipe). Our favorite side dishes are sautéed onion and mushrooms, grilled avocado, a …
Apricot and Arugula Salad
Apricots are just coming into season and we are enjoying them! They can be hard to find the rest of the year (especially organic) and when you do, they just don’t taste the …
Ginger-Lemon Jasmine Kombucha
I have mentioned kombucha in a number of posts as a great way to consume probiotics. Kombucha is sweet tea that is fermented by a symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast and can …
Asian-Inspired Chicken Wings
No, this is not teriyaki. This is something so much better! The flavor combination was actually inspired by the traditional Chinese preparation of chicken or duck feet (yeah …
Shrimp and Avocado Salad
This is probably my favorite dinner salad. Something about this shrimp and avocado salad screams summer, refreshing and satisfying all at the same time. And it tastes …
Lemon Cupcakes with Lemon Frosting (2 Variations)(Nut-Free)
(Created as a guest post for Fresh4Five) If you are a lemon lover, then you will love these nut-free Paleo lemon cupcakes. This recipe makes 12 cupcakes but can be easily halved …
(Re)Defining Paleo
When someone asks you “what is a Paleo diet”, what do you say? The classic tag line is something like “Paleo is eating the way our bodies evolved to eat for optimum health”. As I …
Paleo Biscuits (Nut-Free)
This biscuit recipe is based on Irish Fadge, which is typically made by incorporating last night’s leftover mashed potatoes into a biscuit dough for breakfast biscuits. I was …
Pumpkin Gingerbread Muffins (Nut-Free)
I love the flavor of gingerbread and don’t see the need to restrict it to the winter holiday season. This is actually my first nut-free muffin recipe, created especially for my …
Simple Cucumber Salad
This versatile salad has a simple, fresh flavor that so delicious beside just about any meat, from poached fish to grilled lamb chops. It keeps very well so it’s still tasty …
Modifying Paleo for Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO)
Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (or SIBO) is one of those hot topics in the alternative medical community that is often misunderstood, so I thought I would take some time to …
Recipe: Shrimp, Tilapia and Cabbage Curry
This Indian-inspired meal cooks up very quickly and is very easy for a mid-week meal. I like the mix of shrimp and tilapia, partly for the flavor, partly for the texture, partly …
Garlic Beef Sausage
I have grown very fond of experimenting with different sausage seasonings lately. Because I am on the Autoimmune Protocol and can’t eat eggs, sausage has become my “go to” …
Chocolate Cupcakes with Ganache Frosting (nut-free)
This cupcake is light, spongy, not-too-sweet, and richly chocolaty. You could serve these at a birthday party and no one would suspect that they were eating something so healthy! …
Paleo Pork Chow Mein
This Paleo Pork Chow Mein is another delicious Asian-inspired stir-fry. I really enjoy recreating my favorite takeout flavors in healthier form! The thinner you slice your meat …
The WHYs behind the Autoimmune Protocol: Eggs
Eggs are one of the most allergenic foods with approximately 2-3% of the population affected. However, people are still surprised when I advertise an egg-free recipe or mention …
Chocolate Frozen “Yogurt”
One of our favorite pre-Paleo treats was going to Pinkberry for frozen yogurt. Although I always enjoyed their original flavor (like sweetened plain yogurt), my husband and kids …
Greensicles
My children are fairly typical in that they don’t really like vegetables all that much, especially green ones. They will eat some steamed broccoli or green beans; but really, most …
Paleo Mallomar Ice Cream Sandwiches
These are a wonderful decadent treat (great one to pull out for a summer barbecue or birthday party!). My kids love helping me dip the ice cream sandwiches into the chocolate …
“Cream” of Broccoli Soup
This simple “Cream” of Broccoli Soup combines the health benefits of bone broth, the cruciferous broccoli with all of its vitamins, minerals and antioxidants, and the good …
Raisin Seed Cookies (Nut-Free and Egg-Free)
I have greatly enjoyed the challenge of creating more nut-free Paleo baking recipes for those of you with nut allergies in your home (and for when my mother-in-law comes to visit …
Simple Shrimp Feast
Have you ever looked at the whole shrimp in the seafood counter display and wondered what to do with it? It’s much, much, much cheaper per pound than shelled shrimp but those …
The Paleo Mom Pemmican (a.k.a. Caveman Protein Bars)
Pemmican is a traditional food of the native peoples of North America. It is a concentrated mixture of fat and protein, and was adopted as a high-energy food by explorers and …
“If I Can’t Always Afford Grass-Fed Beef, What Should I Buy?”
We all know that grass-fed meat is much healthier for us than “conventional” grain-fed meat, but it can be expensive, especially when we venture away from ground meat and start …
Ginger Chocolate Freezer Fudge
I adore ginger, especially sweet ginger, so for me, there are few things better than the dark chocolate ginger combination. Plus this fudge is egg-free, dairy-free, and nut-free. …
Honey-Candied Ginger
There is something just so delicious about the sweet potent punch of candied ginger. As a kid, I never understood the enjoyment my mother took from candied ginger. As an adult, I …
Treating Constipation without Destroying Your Gut
Perhaps you are wondering how on earth I am going to address this topic delicately. The answer is: I can’t. It’s an impossible task and I’m just plain old going to be frank, …
Cold Coals Mashed Sweet Potato
We use a charcoal barbecue, which I love for the flavor it adds to our food. But often, when our meal is done cooking, the barbecue is still quite hot and it feels like a waste (I …
Italian Fennel Beef Sausage
On the Autoimmune Protocol, my standard breakfast consists of sausage, some sauerkraut, spinach or other veggies, and a bit of fruit, usually berries. I avoid monotony by changing …
Pumpkin Spice Dehydrator Cookies (AIP-friendly)
One of the hardest aspects of eating Paleo is the feeling of being deprived of treats. Fortunately, there are hundreds of recipes out there for Paleofied versions of our old …
Falling In Love With My Food Dehydrator
I never really understood the lure behind owning a Food Dehydrator until going Paleo. Once jerky became my emergency snack of choice, I was faced with having to read labels to …