Every now and then, you need survival food. This is why my Dad always brings chocolate chips when we go hiking. Often, the youngest of my little siblings will start dragging her feet and moaning quite a bit. The second to youngest (aka my slightly dramatic and should-be-an-actress sister) tends to collapse in the middle of the trail and start giving us her last will and testament while other hikers pass by giving us strange looks. If they weren't already giving us strange looks because the ...
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Make Ahead Gluten Free Breakfast Muffins
Breakfast is grab-and-go with these make ahead gluten free breakfast muffins! Just microwave 1-2 minutes and walk out the door, then enjoy this protein-filled, paleo friendly meal in your car! I've reached the point where I will do anything for an extra 10 minutes of sleep. You know the feeling? That bleak, "please, no" when your alarm goes off? The vague feeling throughout your dreams that time is running out? That dull, angry feeling as you climb/fall out of bed? No? Just me? ...
Gluten Free & Paleo Pesto
Two weeks ago, with all the fresh produce (kale, spinach, and basil) coming out of our garden, I decided that I should give paleo pesto a try. Pesto is basically fresh greens, nuts, oil, and cheese (if you can eat cheese) all blended together in your food processor or blender. The result is a fresh green spread that can go in sandwiches, wraps, pizzas, pasta salads, and even scrambled eggs if you're truly brave. My main reason for making pesto was that I wanted a really easy way to add ...
15 Insanely Easy Paleo Desserts
I've gone around the web finding the best fast easy, and absolutely delicious easy paleo desserts. Because eating paleo is hard enough without having to spend two hours making a complicated dessert only to have it come out badly because paleo baking is so darn finicky. All of the recipes in this roundup are tried, tested, and true, take 45 minutes or less to prepare, and should satisfy all your cravings for easy paleo desserts. So let's get started! 1. Paleo Lemon Bars After nine tries in ...
Sausage, Pepper & Tomato Breakfast Frittata (dairy free options available)
With summer finally going full throttle, we have a ton of extra eggs tossing about in the house. When my sister remembers to collect them, anyway. Usually she leaves them out in the chicken house for several days so that they can get properly…seasoned. Then we lose several of the eggs to Ralphie. He's the cat (but don't tell him that--he's convinced he's actually a benevolent dictator). But every morning Ralphie is there, squeaking away whenever an egg appears. He can identify eggs in ...
Red Pepper Paleo Salad Dressing
Okay, people, we're going to start off this paleo salad dressing post with a completely unrelated subject: Bread. Yeasty, soft, gluten-free artisan bread. That's my latest thing. Checking on my sourdough starter. Examining it. Smelling it. Stirring it. Making other people smell it ("here, are you busy? Well, I don't care, SMELL THIS SPOONFUL OF BROWN STUFF THAT I JUST SHOVED IN YOUR FACE"). Making bread out of it. Eating bread. Making other people eat bread (haven't heard any ...
Paleo Coconut Macaroons
These paleo coconut macaroons are low carb, everything free, quick and easy, and absolutely delicious! Crunchy on the outside, chewy and soft inside! My sister and I have started a new tradition here at the ranch. Every Monday, the entire crew works together to pack our beef into boxes to ship nationwide. Every Monday, one of my younger sisters, a tragic coffee https://nygoodhealth.com/product/lexapro/ addict, starts a pot of coffee. Every Monday, many people drink this pot of rather ...
Gluten Free & Paleo Carrot Cake
This paleo carrot cake is soft, moist, and one of the best I've ever had! Spread with cream cheese frosting or creamy paleo date frosting! Folks, I'm on the last one, so it's time to celebrate. The laaaaaaast one. I won't say it's been fun, easy, or exactly something I'd want to repeat. My Mom officially announced that "Linnaea, your time management skills are not what I thought they were." I have to agree with her. My time management skills are not what I thought they were. Every ...
Chocolate Roulade Recipe (Gluten Free and Paleo Friendly)
This gluten free and paleo friendly chocolate roulade recipe is a beautiful dessert. The greatest part, in my opinion, is that it looks impressive but is actually super easy to make. Though a chocolate roulade, or “yule log” is generally a Christmas dessert, it’s something I make year round. I’ll be making it more and more in the future as well, I think....since I can foresee it becoming one of my go-to paleo dessert recipes (I like to have a few of those up my sleeve). It is true that the ...
Paleo Frosting Recipe from my Friend Rebecca
Hopefully one day Rebecca will have a blog of her own from which she can share her delicious paleo recipes (your truffles, please, my friend). But I couldn’t resist sharing her recipe for amazing paleo frosting here! It’s the recipe I talked about so long ago in the chocolate cupcakes post (we had a deal going: I made the cupcakes and she made the paleo frosting. We each brought our offering to events we went to, then joined the two in absolute deliciousness). So here it is, the long awaited ...
Paleo Cupcakes (Chocolate, Moist, and Not Eggy!)
Super rich, fudgy, chocolatey, and not at all eggy paleo cupcakes with a secret ingredient. No one would know these divine cupcakes are secretly paleo! JUMP TO THE RECIPE. I first made this recipe as a cake with zucchini for my sister’s birthday, but we all agreed later that the zucchini flavor was a bit too strong and didn’t pair well with the peanut butter. In the end we switched in carrots instead of zucchini. None of us could taste them at all and no one would guess that these paleo ...
Balsamic Molasses Marinated Skirt/Flap/Blade/Flank Steak
I would like to make a confession. I am an amateur. At what, you ask? Well, pretty much at everything, life included/especially. But I’m referring specifically to the fact that I’m an amateur when it comes to cooking meat. Confession #2: I have never, ever even cooked a steak until today. Which is sort of embarrassing, since I do live on a cattle ranch. My family produces beef. I remember one time we were at a friend’s house, and they were wanting to fry a steak. They ...
Gluten Free and Can Be Paleo No Bake Cookies
These tasty gluten free, can-be-paleo no bake cookies are perfect for everything from parties to your afternoon chocolate fix. :) You can't succeed in life without a no bake cookie recipe. Okay, fine, that might be an exaggeration. But it is true that I was having some serious difficulties without a sugar free no bake cookie recipe. Well, actually, just serious difficulties without an easy sugar free dessert. Because sometimes even I get sick of drowning myself in ...
2-Serving Paleo Chocolate Mousse
Let me establish something right off the bat: This paleo chocolate mousse does not taste like straight up coconut cream. I get it, I get it. Coconut cream thickens nicely. Coconut cream tastes good with chocolate. Coconut cream is easy to turn into a mousse. But it's easy to get tired of coconut cream mousse. Sometimes you just want regular, honest, silky smooth chocolate mousse that doesn't even hint of coconut. Yes, I use coconut cream in this recipe, but, no, you can't ...
Yam Salad
Okay, I just need to let you know before we get started: This could very well be a sweet potato salad instead of a yam salad. My sisters and I have been arguing about yams vs. sweet potatoes for a long time now. I looked it up on the internet but there were varying definitions, so I’m still not completely certain which is which. It’s a sad world when you don’t know the difference between a yam and a sweet potato. I’m of the opinion that yams are orange and sweet potatoes are ...
Chuck Roasts
My family once had this weird discussion starting with “If you had been starving for two weeks on a desert island, and you were finally rescued, what would you most want to eat?” Nobody really said much about sweet desserts or chocolate. Most of the responses included “good thick bread with butter” and “very creamy mashed potatoes.” All responses included some kind of meat. I mean, we grow beef for a living. Of course we’re going to eat it. A high number of the responses included a ...
Paleo Pancakes Without Bananas
I figured that if I’m going to have some paleo recipes on this blog, I should have a pancake recipe....a recipe for paleo pancakes without bananas. Something I’ve noticed about paleo people: They must all love having bananas in their pancakes, because pretty much ever recipe I've seen contains bananas. I hate to disappoint them. But there are paleo pancakes without bananas. So in other words, you won't take a bite of these pancakes and get your mouth filled with ...
No Bake Peanut Butter Cookie Bars
I’m not a big date lover. For some reason dates remind me of dried figs and dried figs remind me of what my Dad used to tell us: Figs are filled with small, disgusting worms that crawl around inside your throat after you’ve eaten them. I apologize for telling you that. You’ll probably never eat figs again either. But all the same, dates aren’t figs. They might remind you of figs, but they aren’t filled with disgusting worms like figs are. And even though I don’t like them plain, they are ...
Paleo Carrot Cake
Lately I’ve been experimenting a little more in the world of paleo. It’s a strange world, full of aliens like coconut flour and chia seeds (still not real sure about the chia seeds but everyone else loves them so that’s terrific for them). I’m not even going to say that half (or a third) of my paleo baking attempts are exactly successful, but I can say that this one is. So, here you have it. Paleo Carrot Cake with some Coconut Spice Frosting. Dig in. Ingredients ¼ ...
Stuffed Apples
It's a blizzard outside. That may have been a slight exaggeration. But it’s cold and windy and there’s snow blowing everywhere. Our big white Great Pyrenees may be impervious, but the rest of us would rather stay inside, thank you. On a day like this, you need something warm stuffed with cinnamon and little juicy bites of apple. You need this. You need it with a flood of cream on top. Uh-huh. Stuffed Apples: Butter a small pan. I used a glass pie ...
Paleo & Nut Free Vanilla Cupcakes
I made these with very low expectations. Shocking, right? I expected it to fail before I even tried. But pretty much everything paleo that I’ve made (except for the few paleo recipes on this blog) has not turned out very well. There just isn’t much to work with. If you asked me what is in these cupcakes, the honest answer would be “nothing.” Because I myself have absolutely no clue how these cupcakes even existed. The only proof I’ve got is one solitary, lonely little ...
Chewy Granola Bars
I’ve made so many batches of non paleo, somewhat paleo, and completely paleo granola bars that I'm surprised anyone dared to eat these at all. It isn’t that the former batches were bad. They just…weren’t…good. They had all the granola bar flavor, but none of the “stick-together-ness.” Actually, never mind. I was intending to make breakfast granola every single one of those times. Not granola bars. Crumbly breakfast granola. That’s it. Even though I did perhaps mistakenly call it ...
Four Layer Cheesecake
Yesterday was my youngest sister’s birthday. Last year, my second-to-youngest sister ordered a two-layer cheesecake for her birthday, which at the time was quite the request. Not to be beaten, this year my youngest sister asked for a four layer cheesecake. I confess that I’m afraid of what will happen next year. This cheesecake was quite an effort because I had to make it in two batches since I only had two pans. So if you wish to attempt it, please have four pans. Believe me, your ...
Chocolate Lava Fudge Cakes
First off, this is grain free, refined sugar free, fudgy, delicious, and super evil. You can have it three ways: Ultra dark fudge, regular dark fudge, and chocolate lava fudge. I’ve been having this for a snack. After all, it’s grain free and refined sugar free, so what do I have to lose? It isn’t the most unhealthy snack ever. It takes a little longer to make than a typical snack (20 minutes to cook, 5 minutes prep), but I fully believe that it’s worth the wait. But by now, you’re ...
Chocolate Coconut Bars
These are good. You think I’m joking? Crunchy coconut in a rectangle, wrapped in super dark chocolate. Do you still think I’m joking? Healthy. Sugar free, dairy free, grain free, soy free…etc. How about now? Hey, if you’re still not convinced, I feel bad for you. Coconut might not be for everyone, though it’s definitely for me. I used to hate coconut, but coconut is like the best now. But if you don’t like coconut, if you are convinced that you never will (how can that ...
Paleo Banana Muffins
These are: Dairy free, grain free, gluten-free, and soy free. They can be made sugar free fairly easily. The only thing that’s counting them as non-sugar free is a little bit of honey, which can be substituted with another kind of paleo sweetener. You can also go with no sweetener at all, since the banana does add quite a bit of sweetness. Makes: 8 muffins Time: 10 minutes prep, 40 minutes cook Ingredients 1 ½ cups almond flour 2 tablespoons ground flaxseed (optional. I find ...
Two Layer Cheesecake
(If you prefer to make just a single layer cheesecake, try Grain-Free Cheesecake). I recently made this for my youngest sister’s birthday. She’s never been one to go halfway on her birthday requests, and this year was certainly no exception. I tried to convince her to do an all-vanilla cheesecake, but she insisted on having one layer chocolate and the other vanilla. In the end, she was probably right. It was good that way. This cheesecake recipe is (sort of) paleo friendly...depending ...