re: Anyone eat Paleo?

Is kosher salt ok, or do I use sea salt?

I use both currently, rarely ever table salt.

I made a killer sauce last night. Blended up half a can of chipotles, a chunk of pineapple, two cans of coconut milk, lime juice, and a bunch of cilantro.

Heated some pulled pork loin I'd cooked in the crockpot Sunday in a pan and added the sauce. Smoky, spicy heaven.

I had a friend who made the pizza crust with cauliflower and apparently it was a success. Might have to try it this weekend.

Next time you want pancakes, try one ripe banana, one egg and some blueberries. Hard to flip, but don't even need syrup and naturally sweet.

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almond flour.. $10 for a pound

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Make your own in a food processor or coffee grinder. I know it's cheaper, not sure how much cheaper though.

Also, here's another recipe that will give you some almond flour.
Soak 1 cup almonds overnight (or 4-6 hrs). Blend almonds and 3 cups water for 3-5 minutes. *add extras here.
Pour almond milk through cheese cloth and squeeze out remaining liquid. Save almond pulp for future use. You can use immediately, or dry it out on low temperature in the oven then store and freeze.
*you can enjoy the almond milk plain or add vanilla, agave nectar, honey, maple syrup, strawberries, etc. A pinch of salt is nice.

Spaghetti squash is very moist. You have to cook the squash first. Actually just took one out the oven. Gutted the insides with a fork and bagged some in the freezer for future meals. Chicken parm tomorrow over spaghetti squash

*DISCLAIMER: I have very little counter space and I tend to get really messy when I cook

Introducing: Almond flour crust pizza

Crust ingredients:
2 cups almond meal
2 eggs
3 tbsp olive oil
¼ tsp baking soda
1 tsp garlic powder
1 ½ tbsp fresh rosemary chopped

-Preheat oven to 350
-Wisk all of the dry ingredients together:


-Then crack both eggs into the mixture and drop the olive oil in. Mix very well until very, very thick. The dough won't actually wind up like pizza dough, it should look like a really, REALLY thick hummus:


*VERY IMPORTANT: Grease the bottom of the baking dish with olive oil (or PAM) and grease up your hands with olive oil before proceeding, or the dough will stick to your hands pretty terribly.
-Ball up the dough and place it in the center of your baking dish, and spread it out evenly. The crust should be really thin. I don't have a round pizza pan, so I just used what I have. As you spread out the dough, it should get more "doughy", and easier to spread:


-Place dough in the oven for 20 minutes at 350.
-While dough is cooking in the oven, work on your toppings. My toppings are going to be a fresh cut roma tomato, a fresh cut jalapeno, and italian sausage. Here I have the sausage cooking (with a lot of cajun seasoning mix.. I'm too lazy to cut all of that crap up . It cooked down more where it wasn't so much more seasoning than meat:


-Once the dough has cooked for 20 minutes, take it out of the oven and place all of your toppings:


-Place back in the oven at 350 for 30 minutes.
-Enjoy a completely non-paleo, non-low carb, terrible for you, but delicious beer:


-Take the pizza out, cut it, and eat it.



BON APPETIT

I've already said I don't exclude cheese. And yes I clearly stated "non paleo, non low carb, and terrible for you but delicious beer".

Obviously skip the beer, and if you want to go hardcore paleo skip the cheese.

Just kidding man, it looks great! I am, however, trying to go paleo for lent, and that damn beer is killing me. That may be the hardest part of the whole paleo diet. I have had to give up beer, diet coke, and breads, pastas, and all the fun food there out there, but thank God for BACON.