The most me apron ever

My wonderful friend Meret has made me a a custom apron! Total surprise design but obviously she knows me well because there couldn’t be a more “me” apron in existence (outer space and David Bowie?!). Totally blown away unwrapping this art piece. Going to be incredibly useful: it gets messy and wet spending hours in […]

What does it mean to completely follow the AIP?

As I was first starting the Paleo Autoimmune Protocol I found the food pyramid below to be a helpful visual reminder of just what I’m supposed to be eating. (Curtesy of A Simple Guide to the Paleo Autoimmune Protocol, by Eileen Laird, a nice basic starting guide to the AIP.) In a nutshell I would say […]

Organ meat for cocktail hour

Apparently liver is one of the most nutrient dense foods on the planet! (Interesting article on the world’s 11 most nutrient dense foods here). I haven’t tried beef liver yet, but there are two big ones waiting in the freezer. I have, however, now tried chicken liver mousse and actually enjoyed it. I’ve made two […]

Krauting success!

My little pint of sauerkraut has been sitting in a dark cupboard for the last week busily fermenting itself, and now it appears that the special lids and jar weights did their job! It’s been a week and the sauerkraut tastes like sauerkraut. I’m pleased with the tools I bought: no need to constantly check […]

First 100 foods! And the hundredth was…

Wild Florida boar! So that’s the easy part done, coming up with another 100 paleo foods will definitely be the challenge. Here’s what I’ve already got on the list: Eating two hundred different foods challenge. A trip to the local farmer’s market furnished some items to put me up to one hundred: shrimp, rambutan, and wild […]

Making Sauerkraut

First attempt at homemade sauerkraut! Fermented foods are an important part of the AIP (or really any healthy diet, yay probiotics), but it seems ridiculous to pay $7 a pop for tiny jars of organic cabbage that probably have 80% of their goodness pasteurized out anyway. Plus more projects! I bought a few tools via […]

Eating two hundred different foods challenge

Current grand total: 219 This is certainly going to be a challenge but I’m going to see if, like the ancient hunter-gatherer cavemen types, I can eat 200 different types of food in the next six months of very healthful dieting. That’s really a lot of variety inside a limited paleo spectrum. I’ll add to […]

The greatness of a food processor

I would never have guessed I would be someone who would want one of these. Though I would also never have guessed I would someday be cooking super meaty meat things like pot roast! But when you are doing all your cooking all the time from scratch and the cornerstone of your diet is 6+ […]