Paleo or Primal Recipe

Carrot is the New Pumpkin

Carrot is the new pumpkin! Yes I know there’s many of the larger orange orbs around right now in most areas, but please don’t forget the lowly carrot. Carrots deserve your support as they smaller, tasty and more portable! Ok yes that was weird, but carrots bring out the weirdness in me, maybe it’s all [...]

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Pesto Time!

It’s fall and we are getting a TON of rain. I had to cut the basil plants down today, so I thought I would harvest everything and make pesto! I can’t wait to have a yummy Friday night dinner of pesto on brown rice pasta. This year we had amazing, productive basil plants that I [...]

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My husband ate this Soup and Liked it!

For those of you that have been following the blog for awhile, you’re familiar with my husband Shawn. He is a meat & potatoes guy, the more beef and bacon, the better. He has also been averse to ANY soups and stews for pretty much his whole life, even if each separate ingredient is something [...]

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Squash your Pre-conceived Ideas of Squash!

I now have some really pretty yellow and green striped Delicata Squash, thanks to some Seeds of Change organic seeds! What I really like about this heirloom variety is that it’s kind of halfway between a summer squash and a winter squash, and you can eat the skin since it is thin enough. If you [...]

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Your Body will LOVE this Kimchi

As some of you know, our twin girls are Korean. They have been embracing their ‘asian-ness’ quite a bit in the last year, in different ways. One of our girls has embraced Korean food with gusto, which has surprised us since she’s always been our ‘mac & cheese’ girl. She tried kimchi for the first [...]

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The New Hamburger Helper

This is the ‘new’ Hamburger Helper in our house! Not that we’ve eaten much HH lately, but I do admit to buying it quite a bit when the girls were little (ugh). I call this recipe ‘hash’ in my house, and the family loves it. The best thing? It’s free of many allergens: gluten free, [...]

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Roasted Winter Squash: Simple yet Elegant!

This is a great time of year (in the US at least) to use of some of that acorn or butternut squash that you might have sitting around in your cold storage area. I bought quite a few of these when they went on sale in my area and then roasted them all at once [...]

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Even a Kid Will Eat this Chard

My kids actually ate this chard! And liked it! No one was more amazed than me on this fact. I served this along with a few other vegetables that they like, and with the combination of all of them, all of the chard was eaten. from Nourishing Traditions: Chard is one of many nutritious greens [...]

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Who Knew Beet Soup was so Good?

Are you craving sweets? Turn to beets! This recipe showcases fresh beets’ natural sweetness, no added sweeteners needed. It also requires no roasting, but has a roasted taste.

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Garlic Dill Pickle Recipe

As I’m writing this I’m taking a break with a glass of kombucha and celebrating that I am DONE putting up the pickles for this year. In typical Kim-fashion I bought a huge 25 pound bag of local pickling cucumbers at one of our area farm stores. I hid it from my husband in the [...]

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Bread and Butter Pickles

I love this pickle recipe! It is out of Sally Fallon Morell and Mary Enig’s ‘Eat Fat, Lose Fat‘ book, which is a great book to read in addition to Nourishing Traditions. It’s nice to have a sweeter version of the lacto-fermented pickle, and the honey and lemon juice in this recipe do the job [...]

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Healthy Breakfast Sausage is Possible

This recipe is so easy I’m not sure why I never made it before. Just throw spices and herbs into some meat, mix, form into patties and cook, and voila! You have sausage with no MSG or any weird fillers. And I used beef hamburger of all things to make this, because we have a [...]

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How to make Fruit Scrap Vinegar

This is one of those ‘no cost’ recipes made from things that other people normally throw away. When I made applesauce, I also started making this vinegar at the same time, with all of the fruit trimmings, cores, and cut out bruises. I fermented them in jars for awhile, strained out the fruit scraps, and [...]

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Time to Make the Applesauce!

Last fall I found a great deal on bulk apples and asian pears at our local apple orchard, Oregon Heritage Farms which is just a couple miles from my home. Being the obsessed person that I am, I took home about 80 pounds of a combination of apples and asian pears. The combination of the [...]

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Coconut Chicken Soup

I love Thai food. So. MUCH. So when I saw this recipe in Nourishing Traditions, I jumped at it! An easy soup with Thai flavors that takes less than a half hour to prepare and cook? And, it tastes like something you would get in a good Thai restaurant? I’m all for it! For those [...]

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Israeli Tomato Cucumber Salad

I spent about 3 weeks in Israel this summer and two weeks last summer for work. This was my favorite thing to eat there, hands down, and I ate it at least twice/day. In Israel, this salad (and variations thereof) is served with almost every meal, even breakfast! It is also served with a sprinkling [...]

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Simple Sauteed Zucchini

In the summer, we ALL need more zucchini recipes! This is a simple and quick way to use up your zucchini, as a tasty side dish great with almost any meal. Much better than a zucchini margarita, isn’t it? Tips for making sauteed zucchini If you’re using a more mature zucchini, cut out the seeds. [...]

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Sunday Dinner: Simple Roast Chicken

This is one of my favorite Sunday (or really any night) dinner, roasted chicken with vegetables. And it’s really a very easy dinner, as it’s a one pot meal in the oven! Well, not counting the gravy I guess. Doesn’t it look yummy in this picture? My husband is getting great at taking pictures. Tips [...]

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No-Tomato Spaghetti Sauce

I love this sauce, it is so easy, it’s tasty, and it’s satisfying. I like tomatoes, but sometimes variety is good. I will eat this sauce over rice noodles, rice, or even mashed or baked potatoes. It’s not fancy, but one of those easy meals that you can make on a weeknight when you haven’t [...]

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Beet Kvass – the Ultimate Nourishing Beverage

Beet kvass is another super easy Nourishing Traditions recipe, and a superfood tonic that is extremely good for you! Just 4 ounces in the morning will keep your body humming all day.

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Green Beans with Bacon and Caramelized Onions

I love green beans, what better way to eat them than with caramelized onions and bacon? Even my child who doesn’t like onions will eat this dish! And it’s easy enough for a week night, but fancy enough for a holiday.

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Leg of Lamb

Preparing leg of lamb is great for a fancy holiday meal but it’s pretty low effort actually. I made this as the main course for Valentine’s Day, a.k.a. ‘the week of love’ in our house. It turned out great, yum!

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Is Sauerkraut juice the new Gatorade?

Ahhhh cabbage juice tonic. A very simple yet refreshing Nourishing Traditions beverage! I think it will be the new Gatorade! No more will I need to rob my sauerkraut of its juice, as I can make separate ‘sauerkraut juice’. This is considered to be a super food tonic because of the good probiotic bacteria in [...]

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