March 24th, 2012 
J Just wanted to throw this up here really quick. We made the Meatza recipe from (can you guess?)…
Well Fed by Melissa Joulwan a few weeks ago. I was going through my photos and found one of it the other day. I had completely forgotten about the dish. But finding that photo made me want to a) share it on the blog and b) make it for dinner tonight. So without further ado…
February 23rd, 2012 J 
I’ve been curious about rendering my own lard for several months. I’ve done some research here and there but hadn’t really committed to the idea. A friend who rendered her own shared some with me when we cooked a meal together recently and it was delicious! So when my local farmer said she had some ground pork fat for rendering for sale I decided to give it a try.
Maybe you’re wondering why would anyone want to make their own lard.
We’ve been told for years by conventional wisdom that lard is bad for us. And it’s available to purchase at the store. But grocery store lard is to homemade lard what margarine is to butter.
February 13th, 2012 J 
Hey folks, I just got word of an upcoming event called Paleo Summit, presented by Underground Wellness. It will be a series of FREE webinars from February 26 – March 4. Regardless of your health perspective, this is something everyone should take advantage of.
February 9th, 2012 J Have you ever looked at the ingredients on the back of your bag or can of cashews? It’s depressing isn’t it? I mean, how hard is it to just get some roasted nuts with a bit of salt? Pretty hard, actually. Even Trader Joe’s cashews have rice bran oil listed in the ingredients. Rice bran oil seems to be on the same sh*t list as canola and safflower oils in the Paleo world. I’m guessing that it’s highly processed.
Well over here at Paleomaha HQ, we’ve found a simple answer for roasted cashews with no added crap. We’ve only done this with cashews but I’m guessing (and we’ll verify this later) that you can probably use this same recipe for any other types of nuts that you like.
February 6th, 2012 J 
I recently had the chance to go deer hunting and to also learn how to do all of the “processing” too. I was very interested to see if I could take part in hunting another animal for my own sustenance. I’ve been gardening for the past few years and have even considered the idea of chickens for eggs but I’ve never taken the life of another animal so that I could live.
For nearly all of my life I’ve been very disconnected with where my food has come from. As a child, I picked out my breakfast cereal by which ones contained the best toys. Then when I got older, I chose brands based on what I had for coupons. As I learned more about “healthy eating”, I chose my food based on labels and their claims: “low-fat”, “organic” and “all-natural”. Thinking I was doing my due-diligence by researching where my food was coming from. Sadly, I was still eating such highly processed foods that there is no way I could have known from whence it came.
February 2nd, 2012 J 
Yesterday was the last day of my latest Whole30. And truthfully? I’m glad it’s over. For now. It was a good experience and I plan on doing it again but I’m just really tired of cooking ALL of my own meals. It is insanely difficult to be so vigilant as to make sure you are completely gluten/grain, dairy, and crappy-nasty-industrial-seed-oil-free.
How did I do on my Whole30?
January 10th, 2012 J 
For the past week we’ve been trying very hard to stick to our New Year’s Resolutions. One of those resolutions was to make the Weekly Cookup, from the Well Fed cookbook, part of our routine. We’ve done the Cookup twice so far, and this has really changed the way we feel about cooking. It seems so much less of a chore now.
Some of the exciting results are: we’re eating at home more, eating healthier, sticking to our Whole30 with ease, and saving money!
January 4th, 2012 J 
I don’t normally make New Year’s Resolutions because they generally go like this: Exercise more, Lose weight, be more patient with others…
Those are well-intentioned resolutions, but they do nothing toward making me a better, healthier, likable person. They’re sort of vague, pie-in-the-sky goals. Last year, without any resolutions at all, I actually did lose weight and exercised more. Not because I made a resolution to but because I stumbled across a diet/lifestyle that finally felt natural… intuitive. I’ve always known that weighing, measuring, and logging food was ridiculous and bound for failure.
December 30th, 2011 J 
Most days my breakfast is scrambled eggs and bacon or instead of bacon, some meat from the past night’s dinner. A lot of times I skip the egg altogether and just eat another serving of the leftover “Dinner for Breakfast”.
I think that is one of the most liberating things about living the Paleo Dream (other than not craving carbs all the time but that’s another post, entirely). I don’t base my breakfast on a grain or even on eggs. However, the other morning there were no leftovers from the night before. So eggs for breakfast it was. This recipe is from the awesome, awesome cookbook Make It Paleo. If you don’t have it yet, you should. Go. I’ll wait…
Ok, did you at least go look at it? Beautiful, huh?
Below is the recipe, but with my tweaks.
December 27th, 2011 J 
