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Real Diet Talk + My Go-To Avocado Toast
Hiiiii! HAPPY NEW YEAR! Can you believe it’s 2016?! It’s a new year and maybe a new year’s resolution… has your diet or plan to exercise started? I mean what’s a food blog… written by a registered dietitian nonetheless… that doesn’t address this topic in the new year?? It’s an important topic to me, because as you know, I dabbled in diets before, which you can read about in this post: Closing the Chapter on Paleo Paisan & Top 10. … [Read more...]
Top 10 in 2015
Are you scratching your head too wondering where another year went? I am. This one was a fast one! My heart is filled to the brim as today I get PARTY on my third wedding anniversary with my extended family for my cousin's wedding!! Happy girl. Cause you know otherwise I'd likely be ringing in the new year on my couch. Or in bed by 10 pm. For Laughter and Lemonade, this year marked several milestones. The first of these is well... its birth! … [Read more...]
Rotkohl – German Red Cabbage
I love food traditions. Food is love and love is family and family is memories and memories are food. It's full circle here people. Feel the love. This is one of those food is love dishes. One of the huge reasons I blog is to record these memories. One of my very Italian grandmothers (who cooked everything from scratch) passed away when I was in high school... long before I had the thought to document her recipes. Her Italian wedding soup, … [Read more...]
Quick Honey Candied Nuts
Crunchy + sweet + spicy + salty. That's what you'll get with this 5-minute recipe! These quick honey candied nuts are all over my blog. You can find them on Hot and Cold Power Salad, … [Read more...]
Peanut Butter & Jelly Ice Cream Sandwiches
A real foods recipe AND a video?? I must really like you. YOU'LL like you even more too when you treat your body gooood with this yummy, healthy treat. Eat real foods. What sets this recipe apart is the ingredients. The peanut butter cookie recipe alone is a home run. The main ingredients are {peanut butter + sugar + egg} with a little {coconut flour + baking powder + almond milk}. That's it. Chewy, soft, and BAM, it really hits you … [Read more...]
4-Minute 2-Ingredient Homemade Creamy (or Crunchy!) Peanut Butter
Add peanuts then salt to food processor. Blend for four minutes. Bam, peanut butter. I mean, really. Does it get any easier? C'mon. Don't believe me? I made a video for you just in case you doubted me. And because videos are fun. This one has bloopers at the beginning AND the end. Cause bloopers and laughing are the best parts. Why skimp?? (Don't forget the rest of the post below the video!) … [Read more...]
Grilled Pizza Brava
Grilling pizza. Wow, what an addition of flavor to pizza I can't describe. You've GOT to try this. Because I was making pizza dough by hand for the first time, I watched this very helpful video from Food Network. If you're uneasy about making your own dough this will be very helpful and put you at ease! I used the same method in the video. What I liked the most was that I could do it all by hand! I didn't need a mixer. The video doesn't … [Read more...]
Soul Mac
Soul mac and cheese. I learned recently that another term for legit mac and cheese is Soul Macaroni and Cheese. So not mac and cheese from a box. And not my mom's legendary, simple, everyday, staple mac and cheese I grew up eating (which I will share with you at some point). Soul mac and cheese is legit - you thicken milk with a traditional roux (fancy word for cooking flour in fat like melted butter). Then you add cheese. Then you … [Read more...]
Fresh Tomato Sauce
This is my favorite way to make fresh tomato sauce. The flavors are incredible: sweet, savory, umami (yes, tomatoes have umami!), fresh, Italian, summery. You start by roasting the tomatoes in the oven which makes them sweet. Because of this, you you can actually make this sauce year-round, even when tomatoes aren't sweet or in season. Thankfully we don't have to worry about that right now since it's summer!! The weather's been in the 90's … [Read more...]
Easy Baked Chicken Parmesan
Chicken parmesan is usually made with the traditional breading procedure: chicken dipped in flour, dipped in egg, then dipped in breadcrumbs. Then it's pan fried. This recipe, is a liiiitle different. No traditional breading. Makes it a bit easier. Also, I find baking is easier on the cleanup than pan frying. The secret ingredient for this Easy Baked Chicken Parm? Mayonnaise. That's right. Mix some mayo with parmesan, coat the … [Read more...]
Spicy Kale Caesar with Chicken and Candied Pepitas
You guys. I cannot tell you how much I love this recipe. Caesar salad with kale. Plus candied nuts. Plus hot sauce. Plus chicken. I hope the pictures are conveying the deliciousness or I'm going to have to keep inventing words like deliciousness to describe it. I think I'm loving on it so much because it has everything: salty, sweet, spicy. Crunch and creaminess. Hot and cold. Fresh and cooked. It hits so many notes in one bite. … [Read more...]
Welcome to L&L! Plus a recipe: Not My Daddy’s Apple Crisp
Goodbye Paleo Paisan, Hello Laughter and Lemonade Welcome to Laughter and Lemonade (the blog previously known as Paleo Paisan)!! I’m sooo excited to have you here and to be making this transition! Woop, woop! Don’t worry, all of your favorite Paleo Paisan recipes are still here on the Laughter and Lemonade (L&L) site. You can still even click a link you’ve saved or pinned on Pinterest like www.paleopaisan.com/make-your-own-almond-milk … [Read more...]
Ready, Set, Spinach
Looking for a super quick, delicious, healthy side dish? Ready… set… spinach. Reality, folks. I make dishes like this all the time. Sometimes I feel like I have to share elaborate, complicated, fancy dishes on the blog. Maybe it's the overachiever/ perfectionist in me that feels like something has to be over-the-top or perfect to be well-received. But it doesn't. After all, it's not how I cook all the time! Whose standard am I following? … [Read more...]
Simple Sautéed Plantain Slices
Wanna know what lesson I most recently learned? Take more videos! I learned this for the first time when I studied abroad in Australia. Somehow, I forgot. I lived there with two awesome ladies, Lauren & Melissa. I think it was Lauren who said, "we must take videos", and she was right. The videos are so much more fun to watch after the fact than looking at the pictures!! Hearing people's voices, hearing the way they say things, seeing … [Read more...]