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A food blog with healthy and delicious recipes

Portland Forest Mushrooms

It is so easy to say that I really enjoyed my time living in Portland, Oregon.  Don't even get me started on my favorite restaurants or favorites places I adored because this post will turn from 400-some words into 5,000. One of my favorite things to do in Portland was on Saturday morning to take the street car from my South Waterfront neighborhood into the Portland Farmer's Market at Portland State University.  It was close, just into … [Read more...]

Apple Breakfast Sausage

When I was training for my Ironman Triathlon in 2009, I was focused on trying to incorporate more protein into my diet.  This was because after a self-analysis of my diet, I found I was not eating near enough protein. The easiest and quickest way I found to add protein to breakfast was to have this … [Read more...]

Roasted Fennel

Roasted fennel is one of those foods that I can eat, and eat, and eat, and eat.  I just love it.  This recipe is only fennel, olive oil, salt and pepper.  That's it.  You'll notice the serving size is only two, because in my family (Shaw and DiCello) we love our fennel.  So I plan for 1 fennel bulb per person, … [Read more...]

Nana’s Italian Tomato Sauce with Pork & Sausage

I come from an Italian family.  My mom's side is from Sicily and my dad's side is from Calabria.  Like any good Italian family, we have a spaghetti sauce that's been passed down through generations.  Grandma DiCello's tasted a little different than my mom's, and Grandma Purpura's tasted a little different from hers.  As for "Grandma Purpura", that just sounds odd.  To us, she's Nana.  (In Italian nonna means grandmother.  I guess when my sister … [Read more...]

Chocolate Raspberry Muffins

To close out Chocolate Week, why not chocolate for breakfast?  After all, cocoa has anti-aging properties, antioxidants (two times more than touted superfood acai), calcium, iron, and magnesium.  It's been known to be energizing, mood stimulating, a mild central nervous system stimulant, increasing of serotonin levels, rich in polyphenols (help reduce bad cholesterol), and … [Read more...]

Chocolate Chip Meringue Cookies

Chocolate Week (in honor of Valentine's Day this Friday) continues today with Chocolate Chip Meringue Cookies! These meringue cookies are not your traditional cookie.  They're, as titled, a sort of meringue which is egg white and sugar.  So in the same family, if you will, as macaroons and one of my Aussie favorites: pavlovas.  Generally, they're incredibly … [Read more...]

Fudgy Brownie Bites

With Valentine's day on Friday, I'm declaring this week at Paleo Paisan Chocolate Week.  Three recipes this week... all with chocolate. To start us off, I have my Fudgy Brownie Bites.  These puppies are flourless!  By flourless, I mean totally flourless: since we're talking paleo, obviously no wheat flour, but also no almond flour and no … [Read more...]

Basic Spaghetti Squash

This recipe is the base for many creations.  It's your starting point.  You can take it from here and put sauce on it, sauté it in ghee (or butter), season it up, add some herbs, toss it with pesto (like Arugula Lime with Walnuts and Jalapeno), whatever you like. Whether you follow a special diet or not, spaghetti squash is a great sub for pasta if you're looking to increase your vegetable intake. It's not the most vitamin-, mineral-, … [Read more...]

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