Potato Salad with Easy As Homemade Mayonnaise

05 Friday Sep 2014

Posted by Wendy in All recipes, Sides and Salads

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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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Primal Smoked Salmon & Cream Cheese Blini

30 Saturday Aug 2014

Posted by Wendy in All recipes, Lunch, More or Less!, Savory Bakes

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Blini, canape, capers, clean eating, cream cheese, dairy-free, Eggs, gluten free, Grain Free, lunch, paleo, pikletes, Primal, smoked salmon

Recently I have been posting heaps of sweet treats – #pimpingpaleo! So for the next few postings you are going to see more savoury recipes to balance it all out! The first hitting the interwebs is… tada… Primal (cos I’m using dairy) Smoked Salmon & Cream Cheese Blini. Why blini, beside its history, I think it sounds so much more classy and exotic than piketes, don’t you?

Anyho here we go…

Sometimes you just need a little something under your smoked salmon. So searching the web for a paleo or primal blini/piklete/pancake recipe I found this one at wholesomekids. It was so quick and easy to make, I had them out of the mixing bowl, into the pan and onto the plate in less than 10 minutes.

Perfect for a weekend brunch/lunch or how about making them tiny and cute to taste tempt a party.

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Chocolate Coconut Rough Berry Tarts

29 Friday Aug 2014

Posted by Wendy in All recipes, Cakes and Bakes, Sweets & Treats

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berries, berry tart, chocolate, Chocolate Coconut Rough, chocolate recipe, coconut, Dark Chocolate, gluten free, Grain Free, marscapone cream, Primal

Yes it definitely is a Chocolate Blog Week.

Someone recently tweeted a comment about Paleo bloggers forever posting treats, pimping cookies and brownies! Are we still Paleo? We have supposedly forsaken sugar and all sweet things. Well here’s the thing. Yes, we do seem to be obsessed with sweet stuff but actually we are obsessed with food full stop/period. Now this will sound crazy, but I think we are so obsessed because we are no longer in the thralls of sugar/carb addiction.

We can eat guilt free, we can now stand back and look at food in a more intellectual and creative way. We have lost that feeling, “if I don’t eat something, right here, right now I am just going to chew my arm off”. So we are more objective. Ok now I am going to stretch this a bit – feel free to laugh or comment, whatever! Now I think the reason we post more sweet stuff is because it looks better in photos (haha!). Yes and also it is more inclusive, both to Paleo and non Paleo folks. Ok maybe I should stop right now, it is starting to sound like a crazy lady excuse to bake tasty treats – even to me.

So onward in my chocolate saga. I posted my Chocolate Coconut Rough slice – or should I say “our”, as the base was from Heather at Cook it up Paleo. I had a bit left over and pressed it into one of those cute tiny flan tins and it ended up looking like this.

Almost too pretty to eat – yeah right, that thought didn’t last long.