Zucchini boats and 5 more zucchini recipes

Zucchini boats and More If you think versatility is sexy then meet my friend the zucchini. You might have been set up on a blind date with zucchini when it came in your weekly veggie box delivery and weren’t sure what to do with it. Or you’re in a zucchini rut serving them the same […]

BLT Caesar salad & my favorite Paleo croutons

Welcome to my salad heaven Caesar’s salad is my favorite salad. I always order it when I go out to eat. But when you eat out you never know what you are getting. Traditionally Ceasar is made with olive oil but some places use an inflammatory oil like canola or canola mayo because it’s cheaper. […]

Pizza egg bake

Italian-style eggs with Tuna I love easy egg dishes, but they can get boring. That’s why when I came across this Italian-style dish in the 2010 Food and Wine Cookbook,  I was excited to try it. Until this past year, I had never used cookbooks. This one was a gift that sat languishing on my […]

Two no-bake pie crust ideas

Coconut butter pie crust I’ve been wanting to make Paleo pie lately but been imagining the difficulty of working with and rolling out grain-free crust. Then I had the idea for two unusual and super easy solutions. Coconut butter and coconut crepe wraps! This is the coconut butter version below. One of my favorite Paleo […]

Oxtail & romaine stir fry

Stir-fried lettuce?? I would have never thought to stir fry lettuce until years ago, on a camping trip, my friend Eric made some sauteed ice berg lettuce over the camp fire in a large pan. It’s true that food seems to taste better when camping, but I was impressed with this lettuce dish. Despite how […]

Thai-spiced pork chili with cauliflower rice

Thai pork chili I have always loved fusion food. When two traditional cuisines blend together into a new combination, I’m in heaven. When I lived in New York city 15 years ago, I was enamored with a Chinese-Cuban fusion restaurant in my neighborhood. I wasn’t the only New Yorker who was gaga over the fried […]

How to make the perfect (sushi) omelette

The Art of OMeLette Making I don’t like following rules when I cook. I like to create my own recipes and make up my own rules. But if you want to make a perfect, fluffy, restaurant-quality omelette there are a few simple rules that need to be followed. I used to dislike omelettes because they […]

Borsht

An Eastern European Veggie Soup I was never a fan of soup growing up. Especially not the two main soups in my native Russian/Ukrainian cuisine. There was a brothy chicken soup,which I couldn’t stand and there was Borscht, a colorful beet, potato and cabbage soup eaten with generous amounts of dill. Borscht (pronounced with a […]

Paleo Egg Mcmuffin

Paleo fast food? Not exactly. While this may look suspiciously like an Egg Mcmuffin, it’s a gazillion times healthier. The bun is made from cashews, tapioca and coconut flour and the eggs and bacon are both pastured.  And it’s topped with super thin slices of goat’s milk Parmesan cheese. Yes, you can eat your egg […]

Tortilla Espanola (Potato Fritatta)

You can call it a potato frittata, but it’s one of the most popular dishes in Spain: THe Tortilla Espanola. Over a decade ago when I lived in Spain I learned how to make this traditional national dish. I was disappointed in the restaurant food in the Southern Spanish town of Granada, where I lived […]