Filed under primal

Parve Palak

Parve Palak

Sagg is a leafy vegetable, Palak is Spinach. Thanks for pointing that Peri out. Its usually accompanied by potatoes or cheese also called Paneer. Sagg Paneer is often what you get at Indian restaurants. Unfortunately its not parve so I had to modify it. I used a recipe by Aarti Sequeira from foodnetwork.com. Its a … Continue reading »

Flourless Pumpkin Almond Bread

Flourless Pumpkin Almond Bread

This was from a recipe I posted on my facebook page. Its from caveman site, I will post the link up when I figure out where I left the URL. However its been modified to be pumpkin flavored. Unfortunately I don’t think you can do brachos over this. It contains no grain which was one … Continue reading »

Lamb and Green Bean Stew

Lamb and Green Bean Stew

This is a recipe inspired by Claudia Roden’s The Book of Jewish Food. The recipe itself is called Avas or Harricot Bean Stew. I used string/green beans instead which might not technically be a bean. I don’t have trouble eating these type of beans and they don’t seem to cause digestive distress. Asparugus or brussels sprouts might … Continue reading »

Honey Sweet Potato Kugel Parve

Honey Sweet Potato Kugel Parve

This is my first try at making a sweet potato kugel.  A kugel tends to be a potato based or root vegetable based casserole which has an almost brownie like consistency. Unfortunately the coconut flour is hard to work with so it does not stick together very nicely like other flours can. But I used … Continue reading »

Pseudo Smoked Broiled Ribeye steak

The best way I know how to make a rib eye steak is to hickory smoke it on a bbq grill. An even better method is to use a long term smoker if the meat is thick enough. However since its in the 30′s generally this works well. I was thinking of calling this a … Continue reading »

Sweet Potato and Pumpkin Chicken

This is kind of an odd combination, but I got this idea from two sources. One was from a protein bar called a pumpkin supreme, which has sweet potato, pumpkin, almond butter and chocolate in it. The other is from Thanksgiving where I would end up putting mashed sweet potato, on Turkey to add flavor. … Continue reading »

Fasting for feasts

One problem I read a lot about and have experienced is eating way too much food on a feast, such as Thanksgiving or Passover Seder. What helps me control how much I eat during these holidays is fasting or eating 2 meals a day. You want to start several days before the feast doing 2 … Continue reading »