Tag: vegetables
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Nutty Kitchen Thanksgiving 2010
Oh my…what a great week! No post this past Monday because we will be featuring and sharing our Thanksgiving Menu with you this Wednesday before the wonderful celebration. We will be posting all of our recipes following Thanksgiving. Hmmm….ceviche you say? A bit unconventional? …absolutely! But, Luis is visiting from Bogotá and this is one…
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Bacon Baby Portobellos
Make these as an appetizer or as a party item in advance. Bake it in 10 to 12 minutes and voila! 6 Baby Portobello Mushrooms 4 strips of bacon, chopped 3 – 4 green onions, chopped 3/4 tbsp butter 1 Thai chili, chopped (optional) 1 tbsp shredded cheese (optional) Sautee all ingredients, with the exception…
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Bacon Mango Butternut Hash
We are hoping to inspire different Thanksgiving side dishes for you this year that are tasty and ultra complimentary to Turkey Dishes. We will be posting several more leading up to the great sharing Holiday. Enjoy each one and see if you’d like to serve one of our dishes as part of you interesting Thanksgiving…
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Tamarind Duck with Rosemary Tuber Hash
While I did laundry and ran some errands, Henry got busy in the Nutty Kitchen. We had our wonderful friends Amy and Zach over for dinner and enjoyed what we call an orgasmic meal together. The only thing that Henry let me do was to chop the Serranos, otherwise, I got to chill and have…
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Breakfast Special: Sausage and Beef in Coconut Milk
As of a couple of weeks now, Robb Wolf is also a New York Times bestselling author of The Paleo Solution: The Original Human Diet. We recently received our copy of this awesome book and will be providing a more detailed review in a future post. If you are newcomer, or considering this Paleo lifestyle, this…
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Ratatouille & Pork Chops
Ratatouille is a traditional French dish that is simply mixed vegetables baked in a casserole dish. There are hundreds of ways to prepare this savory dish and most of the recipes you’ll find are already Paleo, or nearly so. We made ours with some squashes that are in season and available at our farmer’s market. For the…
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Beets, Beets, Beets
We love beets, white with red swirly ones (candy-cane), yellow ones, dark red ones…we love them all. They not only taste amazing, but they are super nutritious too. Beets are high in folic acid (great for pregnant women), potassium, calcium and antioxidants (betacyanin, which is what gives beets their rich red color.). Now the beets…
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Primal Gazpacho Nieto
As some of you know, we were fortunate enough to have our wonderful family from Spain visiting for most of the past month. Henry’s cousin Luis Humberto and wife Marta spent some wonderful times with us at the pool, the lake, and the mountains… They also shared some amazing traditional Spanish and Catalan dishes with…
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Persian Cucumber Salad
It is hot out, so we are opting for side dishes a little lighter and more refreshing, like this delicious cucumber salad, made with fresh ingredients. Pair it with you favorite protein, we enjoyed it for dinner with our favorite pork chops – watch for the post coming up! Here are the simple, but yet…
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Jicama Root
We haven’t introduced a new vegetable in a while, so today, we wanted to invite you to try some Jicama. It is readily available and it excellent raw or cooked. So what is Jicama? Jicama is the edible starchy, tuberous root of a South American vine of the morning glory family, and is sometimes called a Mexican…
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