What I’m eating

I thought for my own sanity, it might help to keep track of what I’m actually putting down my gullet while I’m trying to eat as close to 100% primal as I can. So breakfast was an over hard egg and two sausages. I just had a banana. And I’m trying really hard to not [...]

Sweet Potato Casserole

Anyone whom I’ve ever told about Thanksgiving in my family never quite seems to believe me. Growing up, Thanksgiving was always held at my dad’s aunt’s house (they still do it, but 18 plus hour car ride to get there from WI doesn’t appeal to me at this time of year). We’d usually have in [...]

Green devils

I’m going to guess these were at least passable, if not good, as I bought a dish of them to a gathering tonight and came home with an empty dish. Plus I got a few ‘wow, these are good!’ comments. I got the idea from Marks Daily Apple and made modifications based on a comment [...]

Dinner, now with pictures!

This time, I actually remembered to try to take pictures both before AND after cooking my dinner! I was on my own for dinner tonight, so I decided to embellish a little bit and make myself something nice. Here’s what I started with (ok, well, most of the ingredients): I picked up a 0.8 lb [...]

High Temperature Eye of Round Roast

If you read the pumpkin brownie recipe yesterday, and you cared at all about the nutritional information, you should go back and see the correction. When I put the original into DailyBurn it was as 1/8th the recipe as a serving size. If you cut like me. You cut the dish in quarters one way, [...]

Brussel sprouts, the good way

I hear rumors that many people don’t like brussel sprouts. I’m not sure why, as to me, they are quite tasty. Here’s how I did them last night to go with some bland and disappointing Porkchops with Mushroom Bourbon Cream Sauce (granted, I did forget to add the basil at the end). According to the [...]

GF grainless chocolate chip pumpkin brownies

That title is way too long. I think these should be renamed light and fluffy awesome bars. This Primal Life provided the base recipe. I took some of the comments, combined them, and made the recipe my own. This recipe comes out shockingly light and fluffy. It’s definitely going in the make again pile. The [...]

Carbs (again) and some links

I finally got into Daily Burn and figured out how to do the whole nutrient counting stuff. As I was really just interested to see how much of the macronutrients I was eating (carbs, fats, calories, protein), I wasn’t too worried that the rest of the nutrient profiling is behind a pay wall. Using just [...]

Carbohydrates

As I’ve been mulling over the idea of the primal diet in my head I’ve been doing a lot of reading. At first I thought I didn’t know where to start looking for research into what humans used to eat, but then realized that I have a human evolutionary genetics textbook collecting dust on my [...]

Crispyish nut and herb fried pork

This was my base recipe. I think the recipe needs a bit of work. My dining companion said it was good, so I guess thats the go ahead to continue playing with the recipe. I’ll give you what I did below, and then some ideas for how I’ll make it better in the future after [...]

Primal challenge irony

I really want to post right now about my mostly primal food today, plus two new recipes. And biking to campus. But part of the primal challenge is getting enough sleep. And as I feel like I’m falling asleep sitting here, I should probably just go to bed already. Hopefully I’ll find time tomorrow to [...]

Primal Blueprint – 30 day challenge

If you’re not here to hear me rant about food theory/dietary ideas, the next month might not be for you. So, um, yeah. I’m *half* jumping on the bandwagon and sort of doing the Primal Blueprint 30 day challenge. As someone said in the forums over there, it’s probably more like I’ll do it at [...]