Apple pistachio tart

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My Favorite Jewish Holiday Salad: Charoset While it may not have a pleasant sounding name, charoset (prounounced haroset), is a delicious sweet salad made of apples, nuts and honey. It is traditionally served every year during the Jewish holiday of Passover, which takes place in spring time.  Passover is a dinner that revolves around the […]

Paleo bread recipes

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Finding the perfect Paleo bread It’s ironic that I began to bake after going Paleo! In fact, I bought my first hand mixer recently just so I can make Paleo bread. Back when I was eating a standard American diet, I’d never considered baking my own bread. It seem complicated and time consuming, when I […]

High protein muffins

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A great travel food It’s much easier to eat well when I’m home in my usual routine. But out in the world, healthy choices become scarce, especially when flying. Airport food is terrible, unhealthy and expensive. Airplane food is limited to processed snacks or gluten-full sandwiches. That’s why when I travel I equip myself with […]

Flourless cashew cookies

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Cashew Curious I’ve been curious if cookies baked out nothing but nut butter and eggs would stick together and come out like cookies. So I finally put it to the test. I usually like to make up my own unique creations, but I also sometimes enjoy participating in a grain-free experiment. This was one of […]

Paleo carrot cake

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With COCONUT YoGUrt frosting I’ve wanted to bake a Paleo carrot cake for a while. I’ve always been a carrot cake fan and knew it would be delicious. Grating the carrots seemed to be a chore so I procrastinated a bit, until I saw a bag of pre-shredded carrot slaw in the store. I decided […]

Pumpkin seed persimmon bread

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One of the tastiest Paleo baked treats I’ve made If you’re always using coconut and almond flour for your baked goods, why not change it up a bit?  It’s so easy to make your own “flour” out of raw pumpkin seeds or sunflower seeds in your food processor or coffee/spice grinder. And you can substitute […]

Pumpkin tea cakes

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A banana sweetened treat for breakfast, tea time or dessert I meet people all the time who don’t cook. I get it. I used to be one of them.  I though cooking wasn’t worth my time and was slightly rebelliousness about it. This wasn’t the 50s. And there was a world of take out, restaurants […]

Thanksgiving leftovers muffins

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A fresh way to repurpose  Thanksgiving leftovers Thanksgiving was five days ago as I write this blog post. I still have random leftovers in my fridge and I’m hungry. But how many times can you have turkey, green beans, sweet potato and cauliflower without getting sick of it? For some reason eating muffins makes me […]

Experimenting with grain-free tortillas

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The art of following a recipe I like it when people write about their failures. You can learn just as much from what went wrong as you can from what went right. I’m really bad at following other people’s recipes but since I’ve gone back to then Paleo diet I’ve tried different recipes to expand […]