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Paleo Pizza

by on June 27, 2011 in Food

I spent some time working on the best way to make a Paleo-friendly pizza, and after some trial and error managed to combine a few online recipes into one that we liked.

Ingredients

  • Crust:
    • 2 cups almond meal
    • 2 eggs
    • 3 tbsp olive oil
    • ¼ tsp baking soda
    • 1 tsp garlic powder
    • 1 ½ tbsp fresh rosemary chopped
  • Toppings:
    • 1 cup of your favourite organic marinara sauce
    • 1 lb Italian pork sausage nitrate free
    • 2 crook neck yellow summer squash diced
    • 3 green onions chopped
    • Handful of torn basil leaves
    • 2 small tomatoes diced
    • 1/2 cup roasted red peppers diced
    • Handful of sliced black olives

Directions:

  1. Preheat your oven to 350.
  2. Using a spoon mix all crust ingredients together until it becomes very thick.
  3. Using your hands, form the dough into a ball.
  4. Lightly grease a pizza pan or a cookie sheet with olive oil.
  5. Place the ball of dough in the center of your cookie sheet or pizza pan and using your hands, push and pat the dough down into the shape of a circle (or an oval in my case…).
  6. You want to make the dough as thin as possible.
  7. Your pizza will be about 12 inches across.
  8. Bake JUST the crust in your pre-heated oven for 20 minutes.
  9. While your crust is cooking, prepare your toppings.
  10. If you use sausage like we did, this is when you should crumble it into a large saute pan and brown.
  11. After the crust if done, remove from the oven and evenly spread the marinara sauce over the crust.
  12. Add the sausage and all remaining toppings evenly over the sauce and bake again for an additional 25-30 minutes.
  13. Get creative and use whatever toppings you might like – ours was great but I also suggest trying chicken, artichoke hearts, and even broccoli!!
  14. Go wild with it and enjoy!
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Paleo… impressions so far Food

Paleo… impressions so far

by on June 11, 2011 in Food

Ok, so it’s been a little over a week on Paleo, and a few people have asked how I’m finding it… And I’m happy to report that I’m finding it just fine. At first, I found it a bit difficult to keep away from dairy and gluton products, but you just keep focussing on being healthier and it’s easy.

Mostly the biggest change has been adjusting how you look at food, a couple eggs for breakfast in the morning, a nice salad and protein for lunch, and then a nice dinner later in the evening.

I’ve found hivelogic’s paleo pancake recipe rocks

And I’ve also found a good image that describes how to look at your plate:

Keep the above plate in mind, and Paleo is pretty easy.

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Starting the Paleo Life

by on June 1, 2011 in Food

Today is the first day of a new way of living for myself and my wife as we start the Paleo Diet. This wasn’t a spur of the moment decision, it was one that I made with a great deal of thinking and researching before making this move.

Paleo is a hunter-gatherer type of diet, you cut out glutens, diary, sugars and processed foods, and focus more on a balanced diet.

To quote Robb Wolf on his website:

The Paleo diet is simple yet remarkably effective for fat loss and halting or preventing a number of degenerative diseases. To reap the benefits of the most effective nutritional strategy known, one need simply build meals from the following:

  • Lean proteins (ideally) grass fed meat, free range fowl and wild caught fish 
  • Seasonal fruits and vegetables
  • Healthy fats such as nuts, seeds, avocado, olive oil, and coconut oil

For me, it means no more processed foods and no dairy products or breads. I drive 60 kilometres each way everyday to my office and back, so it was just convenient to hit a drive thru at some point. Now, I won’t be doing that, as I put my focus on eating healthier and being healthier. It’s also eating food I enjoy eating already.

If you’re interested, click this link to see my first week’s meal plan.
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Food

Turkey Club Salad with Avacado Dressing

by on April 18, 2005 in Food

This quick and easy to make Turkey Club salad is a fine treat for the family. With our house Avacado dressing, this salad becomes something will get requested often.

Our Avacado dressing can also be used as a chip dip or as a sandwich spread.

Preperation Time: 15 min
Total Time: 15 min
Makes: 4 servings.

You need:

  • Salad Ingredients:
    • 12 slices microwave ready sliced bacon (recommended: Ready Crisp bacon)
    • 3 hearts romaine lettuce
    • 3 plum tomatoes, sliced
    • 1/2 medium red onion, chopped
    • Salt and pepper
    • 1 1/2 pounds thick sliced deli roast turkey breast
  • Dressing Ingredients:
    • 2 ripe Hass avocados
    • 1 lemon, zested and juiced
    • 1 clove garlic
    • 1 teaspoon salt
    • 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
    • 1/3 cup extra-virgin olive oil
    • 2 teaspoons hot sauce (recommended: Frank’s Red Hot Sauce)

Dressing Preperation

  1. Cut all around the ripe avocados down to the pit. Twist and separate the halved fruit. Remove the pit with a spoon, then scoop the flesh with a spoon into your food processor bowl.
  2. Add the zest and juice of 1 lemon to the food processor.
  3. Chop garlic on your board and mash with 1 teaspoon salt to paste the garlic. Add garlic paste and the red wine vinegar to the food processor.
  4. Place lid on the food processor and turn it on.
  5. While the blade is spinning, stream in extra-virgin olive oil and add hot sauce.
  6. Stop processor, taste dressing and adjust seasonings.

Salad Preperation

  1. Crisp the bacon in microwave according to package directions. Remove from microwave and chop.
  2. Chop romaine lettuce and arrange on large platter.
  3. Arrange the tomatoes and chopped red onion on top of that.
  4. Season the salad vegetables with salt and pepper, to your taste. Scatter chopped bacon onto salad.
  5. Slice the turkey into 1/2-inch strips. Arrange the sliced turkey down the center of the salad platter.
  6. Pour dressing back and forth over the platter evenly when you are ready to serve this simple and so-cool salad meal.
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English Fish And Chips

by on June 3, 2004 in Food

I was born back in Newfoundland, so sometimes I’ll have some recipes from back there.

Preperation Time: 30 min
Total Time: 45 min
Makes: 4 servings.

You need:

  • 2 lbs fish fillets, remove bones…Red Snapper, True Cod or Halibut
  • 2 egg whites
  • 4 inches hot oil
  • 1 cup flour
  • 2 tbsp melted butter
  • 1-1/4 cup warm water
  • Salt and pepper

Preperation

  1. Place flour in deep bowl. Make a hole in center. Add salt, water and melted butter. Beat well, let stand for 30 minutes.
  2. Beat egg whites to stiff peaks. Fold into batter. Season fish with salt and pepper. Dust with flour and drop one by one into hot oil. Fry 3 or 4 minutes, turning with tongs to brown evenly.
  3. Drain briefly and serve with lemon slices and French fries.

 

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