We butchered our goat last week, and look what we ended up with! The sheep were done a couple of weeks ago, and so the freezer is once again replete with red meat as well as poultry. Hurray! Sunday: • Breakfast: OJ (not from concentrate, no sugar added), nitrate-free bacon, fried eggs, hash browns • [...]
Back to basics this week; the freezers are full of pasture raised chickens and ducks, so chicken and duck we shall eat! Seriously, folks– if you’ve never tried local, pasture-raised poultry, you won’t believe the difference from the factory-raised supermarket stuff. Here’s the meal breakdown: Sunday: Breakfast: OJ (not from concentrate, no sugar added), nitrate-free [...]
Last week’s experiments with Paleo shepherd’s pie was a complete success, while the Paleo clam chowder was painfully lame. This week, the chowder gets spruced up with far more seafood and better seasoning, while the shepherd’s pie becomes cowboy pie and gets a final bit of tweaking before I share the recipe. So, anyway, here’s [...]
We’re trying a couple new recipes for this week’s healthy meal plans, including shepherd’s pie made with mashed cauliflower instead of mashed potatoes, and clam chowder made with coconut milk, chicken fat, and diced kohlrabi instead of cream, butter, and diced potatoes. Here’s this week’s breakdown: Sunday: Breakfast: OJ (not from concentrate, no sugar added), [...]
Unlike the last couple of weeks, I didn’t cook a big load of meat on the weekend to use in my healthy meal plans throughout the week, so this week will have a bit of everything, including a package of ground grass-fed beef, some leftover cooked chicken chunks from the freezer, and a big, beautiful [...]
So, this week’s healthy meal plans are based around a chicken and a duck that we roasted together in a 350 degree oven on Sunday, along with a rabbit cut into quarters and sealed in bags with a couple of tablespoons of duck fat (lard works, too) for sous vide cooking at 160 degrees for [...]
When you’re trying to eat healthy, meal plans can mean the difference between sticking to your goals and falling off the wagon. Here’s what my husband and I are eating this week. We pulled a couple of our pasture-raised chickens out of the freezer to act as the “anchor” for this week’s meals (mostly because [...]