Thanks to my wife for this delicious dinner! Chicken Provençal on a bed of spinach with some sour cream:
Alas, her version was served on a bed of wheat pasta. Forgot to take a picture of that or I could have featured a "Paleo dos and don'ts” column.
August 30, 2010
Chicken Provençal on Spinich (Paleo dinner #19)
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August 27, 2010
More Better Cauliflower Rice (Paleo Dinner #18)
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This is a really tasty way to do cauliflower rice. After grating, I fried it up in ghee with bacon, onions, and mushrooms, then put some cheese on top. Served with boiled kale, and a pork chop.
August 17, 2010
Paleo Riding Fuel
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With a 5-hour ride coming up the next day, I like to increase my potato consumption just a bit to top off those glycogen stores. In this case, sweet potato and butter, topped by a whole lot of pacific salmon.
July 2, 2010
Paleo Dinner #11
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If you love Thai but want to eat Paleo, it might seem challenging since so much of Thai food is rice based. But the rice is really just filler to the delicious sauce anyway. So why not make Paleo Thai soup? If you use enough vegetables, meat, and coconut milk, it makes a fine dinner by itself, and no rice is needed. Here’s a dinner I made using Mahi-Mahi, potatoes, carrots, and onion. The sauce is coconut milk, red curry paste, ginger, and lemon grass.
June 30, 2010
Boring Paleo Breakfast
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When I explained the Paleo diet to a colleague of mine once, she said “sounds boring to eat that way all the time.” I guess you do have to get a bit creative when so many traditional recipes rely on grains for filler, but honestly, how could I ever get sick of eating like this?
Omelet with mushrooms and Tabasco cooked in ghee, swiss chard in olive oil, and two slices of bacon.
June 22, 2010
Paleo Dinner #10
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mmmmm, boy, this one is good! Sliced up lamb sirloin served with sautéed zucchini & tomatoes, then topped with feta and pine nuts. I added some potato to my side salad since I want to do some MTB riding tomorrow.
Thanks to my lovely wife for making it! This almost makes up for the TV dinner thing.
June 18, 2010
WTF Fridays
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Try as I might, I can’t seem to get my wife into the whole Paleo thing. I can understand if someone doesn’t want to go 100%, but when she is being kind enough to make me the lovely dinner on the left, why then microwave a TV DINNER, such as the one pictured on the right for her own meal? To each her own, I guess.
The white rice is a nice touch too, coming as it does on the heels of the new study by the Harvard School of Public Health that white rice is a contributing factor for type two diabetes.
June 16, 2010
White Rice Linked to Higher Risk of Type Two Diabetes
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According to a new study by the Harvard School of Public Health, Americans who ate more white rice had a moderately increased risk of diabetes, but Americans who ate brown rice had a slightly lower risk. Given the glycemic load of white rice, this is hardly surprising. Just because you aren’t eating a candy bar, doesn’t mean what you’re eating doesn’t spike your blood sugar and insulin with all the attendant effects!
What I’d like to see is a study that asked the next logical question. That is, what about a diet that eliminates grains all together, but which still includes plenty of the fiber via vegetables, etc, that some are now getting from whole grains? That’s the Paleo approach at least.
June 14, 2010
Paleo Dinner #9
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This is a tasty one. The meatballs are made from ground elk, egg, walnuts, fresh herbs (Thai basil, cilantro) and spices. I fried them up in coconut oil. They are sitting on a bed of cauliflower rice, carrot, and onion, which I fried up with some coconut milk, Thai curry paste, lemon grass, garlic, and ginger. I used just enough coconut milk for it to cook into the cauliflower and infuse it with flavor, but not enough to make an actual sauce.
Paleo Thai, anyone?
June 8, 2010
More Riding Fuel
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This is a good one for more active days when going too low-carb will leave you without enough aerobic energy: sweet potato, bacon, and a little sour cream. I wouldn’t eat this right before heading out for a big ride, but as a breakfast 2-3 hours before a ride, it works pretty well.
