Spinach with Mushrooms and Red Peppers

18 Thursday Sep 2014

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Chicken Korma, clean eating, Devika, mushrooms, Primal, red peppers, spinach, vegetable recipe, vegetables

I recently posted one of my favourite spicy recipes Chicken Korma. Now I am the first to say (as I did) that my camera skills can be rather, shall we say, marginal at times! There are some recipes that well, just look blah on the plate. Tasty in the tummy though. Now if I had added a few beautifully coloured vegetables, or even a tiny bit of garnish things may have looked better.

Anyway, I have just found the perfect accompaniment to the Korma. This simple but tasty looking (better camera skills!), recipe from Devika’s Kitchen, I think will be a perfect addition to Chicken Korma!

Thanks Devika.

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Potato Salad with Easy As Homemade Mayonnaise

05 Friday Sep 2014

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dairy-free, gluten free, Grain Free, homemade mayonnaise, light tasting olive oil, mayonnaise, paleo, Potato, Potato salad, Primal, Resistant Starch, sweet potatoes

When I started primal/paleo eating November 2013 I stopped eating potatoes – well I switched to sweet potatoes. Now don’t get me wrong I love sweet potatoes so it was no hardship. However there is a family dish that I generally make during the summer and always make on Christmas Day (NZ Christmas is in the summer!), Potato Salad. So being new to the lifestyle and with the whole family embracing primal eating, that ended up being Sweet Potato Salad – a different dish entirely.

Then there was the mayonnaise – store bought full of revolting seed oil and my attempts at homemade were really not good.

A couple of things have happened since then.

I learned about the gut feeding qualities of resistant starch, I discovered that cooked and cooled potatoes fall into this group of starches. The second thing was I found that the key to making homemade mayonnaise that tasted yummy was to use a light tasting olive oil.

It did take me a while to click into these two separate discoveries, and think Potato Salad is on the menu again!! It’s now Spring in New Zealand and time to start thinking about outdoor cooking and cold salads.

So here is my so simple it’s silly, Potato Salad – I hope you enjoy it as much as my family does.

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Creamy Mushrooms and Spinach

22 Tuesday Jul 2014

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clean eating, mushrooms, Primal, shallots, spinach, vegetables

The wonderful thing about not freaking out about fat is that you are open to all sorts of possibilities.

Consider a Tuesday night, you are nearly through to Hump day, the week is still blah! So do you really want to prepare food when, let’s face it, a heathy slug of red wine is so much more tempting. But feed the inner you is what needs to happen at some point. Well, luckily for me our supermarket (food market, call it what you want market), sells BBQ free range chicken and nice and moist it is. But chicken on it’s own, although rather enticing, needs a little something extra. So a forage in my fridge comes up with sour cream, mushrooms and a 1/2 bag of baby spinach.

Brilliant – so here we go!!