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Salads; the paleo fast food
Yet another CSA Box showed up! Yippeee! I know in the very near future I won’t be so excited but for now the honeymoon is still on. I, once again, was so thrilled about all those lovely, fresh, local...
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Puerco Pibil, A dish to die for ♥
I’m in love with a new dish. It came to me unceremoniously, written in hand, on a scrap of paper. It was very nondescript and so therefore I tucked it into a “safe” place for another day. The other day...
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DIY BBQ sauces and rubs
“Barbeque is bragging food.” Bill Jamison The grilling season is here! Time to fire up the old grill, be it charcoal, gas or smoker and celebrate our short summer season. Now Barbequing is an art that...
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Primal Popsicles
Play along with me here…. It is a hot and sweaty day and you are eight years old. All you can think about are those popsicles that mom is getting out of the fridge. Sweet and cold, the popsicles seem...
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Sweet corn salsa on spicy burgers
“I have no hostility to nature, but a child’s love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.” Ralph Waldo Emerson I’m obsessed with fresh corn. It usually happens this time of...
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Flower power!
“Flowers are lovely, flowers are nice, I like flowers mixed with rice.” Mary Rosewood What a lush time of year! It is like a symphony of colors and abundance. The vegetables that the sun has tenderly...
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Kousa Mahshi
“The generous spirit of zucchini challenges us to get out of the “zucchini bread” box and try some new recipes.” Kousa Mahshi I have a very strange relationship with zucchini. No matter what I do I...
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Enjoying the mighty salmon
The salmon is the profound and enduring symbol of the Northwest that reminds us of the turning of the seasons. Every year, at about this time, the salmon forge upstream and flood our culture. It’s easy...
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Primal Pumpkin maddness
Pumpkin pumpkin pumpkin. Everything has been turning up pumpkin lately. It all started innocently enough. I received a juicy pie pumpkin in my CSA that inspired me to action. After roasting it up, I...
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Stalking and cooking the perfect turkey
“The Turkey is a much more respectable bird and withal a true original Native of North America” Benjamin Franklin Let’s talk turkey. Admit it, this time of year our minds just turn towards that turkey...
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Turkey salad to tickle your tastebuds
Leftovers. I once heard that if Thanksgiving is the biggest eating day of the year then the day after is the second biggest eating day of the year. I completely agree with this! Now I’m one of those...
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The gift of comfort
I can’t think of anything as nurturing as a cup of tea, cradled lovingly in the hands, with the steam rolling up into your senses, promising to make the world a better place. Tea is one of the oldest...
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Start a healthy new year by pigging out
“Everything in a pig is good. What ingratitude has permitted his name to become a term of opprobrium?” Grimod de la Reynière No matter how many years that have gone by, it still amazes me when we come...
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Ready, set, GO!
Hello everyone out there in caveland! I have an announcement to make; I am getting a total knee replacement at the end of February due to an skiing accident that I was in at 17 . Yup, I am finally...
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The pursuit of protein
Week two of the countdown to surgery. This week has been harder. I’ve been eating about 98% on plan but my weight leveled off and then I actually gained a pound over two days! ACK! I kept telling...
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Drunken stew, for a dark and stormy night
Week 3, countdown to surgery Well, I finally moved through my sticking point and lost two pounds this week! Yippee! I did something I didn’t think I would ever have to again with this lifestyle; I...
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“My Fitness Pal” is my pal
Week four till surgery I have found a new weight loss tool online that I am jubilant about! It is “My Fitness Pal” (known as MFP). It is a little like facebook rolled up into a fitness /food tracker....
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Chocolate!
Countdown to surgery, three weeks, eek! This week has been a crazy week filled with the ups and downs of a roller coaster ride in a hurricane. The enormity of the undertaking of getting a knee...
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Bone broth for bounce
Well here we are with just 6 days left till surgery day. Times fun why you’re having flies now isn’t it? I have finally come to harmony with the surgery… or is it denial? Who knows, but for now, I’ll...
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I’m back!!
It has been two weeks since I got my new knee joint. I’m not going to lie to you and say the last two weeks have been easy, they haven’t. The surgery went well and I have a fabulous new knee that I can...
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