The Label Says Paleo

Yes, this recipe calls for cream cheese.  Yes, cream cheese is a dairy product.  And yes, I know that dairy isn’t strictly Paleo; but guess what? Neither am I!  I’ve adapted a lifestyle that is live-able for ME, provides results for ME, and most importantly–is something that MY body responds positively to.  No two people [...]

As a nurse, I often work twelve hours shifts.  By the time I get home, I’m tired and ravenous.  Although I’m lucky in that I have a willing ‘sous-chef’, the last thing that I want to do is spend an hour on my feet preparing an elaborate meal.  For that reason, I’ve created several simple [...]

A couple of weekends back I had the privelege of attending a dinner party with a group of people so phenomenal that I actually get a little nervous everytime I get around them. They all have such remarkable life stories and endless spunk! I left that evening inspired for action/direction for my own life PLUS a [...]

A lot of exciting things have been going on in my life lately, and it’s been quite a while since my last post.  In an attempt to get back into the TLSP groove, I thought that I’d share with you a snack that I discovered while vacationing in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Unbeknownst to me, Puerto [...]

Want more Budget Paleo fun? Want to be trendy by using a hot TV chef’s recipe? Here’s Curtis Stone’s recipe from his appearance on The Today Show’s segment “Showdown! Chef’s best meals for under $10.” If you are going so strict as to not include wine of any sort in your paleo diet, just leave [...]

This past weekend I had ever intention of making a how-to video of Veronica’s recipe for cooking a whole chicken. My friend Daniel was over at my apartment for 4.5 hours trying to fix my laptop with no luck. While I had plenty of time to clean my office, kitchen, and living room, I still [...]

For Christmas, I got The Gluten-Free Almond Flour Cookbook. I read the entire thing on the plane ride home, and I was thrilled to get a chance to cook something from it tonight. First things first, Elana is adamant about choosing the proper almond flour. Apparently the ever-prevalent Bob’s Mill doesn’t cut it; I worried [...]

Piggybacking on Georgia’s great article, Paleo Budget Finds, I thought I’d point out how to attack a whole chicken once you’ve got one in your fridge. As Georgia points out, buying a whole chicken is significantly CHEAPER than buying pre-packaged breasts, etc.  My grandmother taught me that you can stretch the use of the chicken [...]

On my one day home between Houston and LA, I hosted the TLSP Friday night dinner, which turned into an epic Apples to Apples session with an amount of wine that may or may not fall into the “Moderate” category. Nonetheless, we had a blast. The food? Bolga’s soup, Faux-caccia Bread, Sauteed Kale, and Cheeeeeze. [...]

I really really like pizza. Like, not-gonna-give-it-up like pizza. Not even on this Paleo Challenge, you hear me pizza gods? So I figured out how to make my own. The best part? It definitely tastes decadent and delicious, but it doesn’t leave the dreaded carb-bomb-brick in the stomach that traditional pizza tends to leave (I’ll [...]