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Texas, Texas, Texas.... What can I say? I was born in St.Cloud, Minnesota...spent my childhood bouncing around the globe, only to settle back in St.Cloud as a teenager to finish out my high school years. Up till that point, Texas was just a place that we lived for a couple years when I was 5 years old. My only real memory of that time is the vague sensation of feeling a little

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Pear, Candied Walnut & Prosciutto Chicken Salad This salad is a delicious balance of savory, sweet and salty. The crunch of the candied walnut with every bite is simply divine!  To make this Whole30 friendly, just use toasted walnut and skip the instructions for the candied walnuts. To make this The 21 Day Sugar Detox friendly use

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Order My Paleo Patisserie Today!  So the day has finally come; My Paleo Patisserie is here and I couldn't be more excited to share it with you! I know that most of you are probably here for the AMAZING KitchenAid + Blendtec giveaway so don't worry....we'll get there pretty soon. :) Before we get there though, I wanted to take just a second to share a few details about why I'm so

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Normally I would try to have something poetic, elegant and subtle in this part of the blog post....but that's just not happening today. Today I'm just going to lay it all out in plain speech because I've got a ton of things going on but I don't want you to have to wait any longer for this amazing recipe.  But before we go there, I just have to pause and announce: we got our book,

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Somewhere around the mid-1980's, when football sized shoulder pads seemed like a good fashion choice for women and men were rolling up their white suit jacket sleeves (I'm looking at you Miami Vice); when we were all walking like Egyptians and the price of gasoline was a mere 89 cents a gallon... I was having my first nearly religious experience with lumpia.&

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Somewhere around 2005 I was deep in the middle of my advanced yoga teacher training. A natural, whole food approach to eating had already been a well established culture for our small little family but as a part of the training program I was encouraged to experiment with different perspectives and approaches to healthy living. We embraced this challenge with enthusiasm and as it

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These days it seems like waiting around every corner there's a profound and thought provoking new perspective anxiously coiled in anticipation for that bright, illuminating moment when our respective smartphones and tablets spring to life. Poised and ready, these new views seek to challenge us to think different and re-evaluate this thing called life and the vast and

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Caramel Apple Coconut Macaroons Makes 12-15 cookies Ingredients: 1/4 cup maple syrup or honey 1/4  cup coconut milk  1 1/2 cups finely shredded coconut (I use  "Let's Do Coconut") 1/2 cup super fine blanched almond flour (for best results use THESE brands) 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg 1/2 cup Bare Fruit Crunchy Green Apple Chips, broken

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Once upon a time...long long ago, a little American girl packed up with her family and moved to Southeast Asia. As you might imagine this was quite an adventure!  It was filled with new smells, tastes, sounds, colors and many more things the girl had never experienced before.   The open markets in Asia remind me of the farmers markets here, only on steroids.  

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  There's a special place in my heart reserved for fall. I think that's true of most people as well, but even more than just a general fondness for fall, I'm specifically in love with the change...... It's not just the cool weather and moody skies that I love; it's feeling those unexpected shocks of cool air that cut through the last steamy remnants of summer. It's suddenly noticing

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Well as a lot of you might already know, with the help of a bunch of amazingly generous folks, our Kickstarter was a huge success. (For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about.....just watch this.) Needless to say, after a crazy 17 day push I was more than a little bit worn out! In fact, it's taken me almost two weeks to sort out all my plans and

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Alright, so it's The 21 Day Sugar Detox time again! Oh.....you say you've never heard of it? Well let me introduce you to my favorite way to detox from sugar, stop my cravings, drop a few extra pounds and just over all, clean up and reset my Paleo lifestyle. So why do I like THIS program so much?  The materials: The downloadable e-files are professional looking and clean with lots

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Masala Cauli-Fried Rice (Revised Version) Grain/Gluten Free/Paleo/Primal Serves 2-4 (depending if it's a side or full meal) (Grain Free, Vegan, SCD, GAPS, Paleo) Ingredients: 3 tablespoons ghee/oil of choice 1 medium cauliflower head, grated (about 4 cups) 1 medium yellow onion, diced (about 1/2 cup) 3 cloves of garlic, minced (about 1 teaspoon) 1 whole

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Poached salmon is one of my favorite meals! Arugula micro greens.....my current obsession. Coconut cream and white wine reduction....do I even need to qualify THAT one? And so I give you this delicious salmon recipe that's super easy to make and yet designed to impress.  Poached Salmon w/ Coconut Cream Reduction & Arugula Micro Greens  Serves 2 

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Living in Texas, the summer can get a little, well.....steamy (at least for this Minnesota-raised northern girl). Don't get me wrong, summer gets plenty hot in the North too, sometimes upwards of 100 degrees. The difference is, it doesn't stay there....day and night for 30 (or 60 or 90) days straight (Gah!).  Despite the heat, I've really grown to love Texas. In fact, at this point

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At this point, if you follow our blog, there's a very good chance that you've already heard quite a bit about Beyond Bacon, either from us or from any number of other Paleo bloggers out there. You might even be asking yourself, "What's the point of another review on Beyond Bacon?" Well the point of this review is not just to tell you how amazing this book is, from it's gorgeous

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For me, being with family after a long stretch is like coming home. Be it months, years, days or even hours......time with family conjures up all the weaving history of hardship and laughter and trials and joy that has shaped me into the person I am today. It's this sense of nostalgia that reminds me to be ever grateful for all that I have been blessed to have: precious healing, moments of

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Ok, so this was supposed to be a Fathers Day post, but alas life got away with me. I actually created this beauty of a recipe with Ben in mind. He wanted me to call this post "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes". Blonde brownies of course. I mean, obviously, Ben prefers his women brunette....ahem! Ok, I'll admit, I was blonde ONCE. Somewhere between my "Run Lola Run" fire engine red hair and my

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I know, I know....I've teased you with pics of this recipe for long enough! These "Samoa" inspired donuts were so delicious and such a joy to make. I mean really, how can you go wrong with all the key elements of a classic Girl Scout cookie.....in donut form?  I am super thrilled to be sharing this recipe with you today over on my friend Juli Bauer's blog. Maybe

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For whatever reason, I don't typically purchase cookbooks. It's not that they aren't useful, or that I don't ever need new ideas, it's just that I get so busy with life and kids and blogging that I sometimes forget to stop and look around. But there are a few instances where even in all the chaos of life, my attention is still captured:  One: if the subject matter of said

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Caramel has many different faces; I mean seriously, it's like a complicated woman....(not that I would know anything about that). It can be runny, soft, hard, thick or even viscous like molten lava. You will find some caramel that's made with butter and some without; the same goes for cream. In fact, this past Christmas we made a dry caramel entirely out of just sugar! Yep....just one

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Today I get to share another great recipe from my stint as the April featured chef over at US Wellness Meats. If you haven't been over there to check them out, do it now. They have a wide variety of grass fed, sustainable meats and seafood as well as pastured goat and cow cheeses, nitrate free meats, sugar free bacon, sausages and more. I absolutely love

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Kashmiri Lamb Lollipops! One of my absolute favorite ways to devour lamb. And if you are gagging over the idea of a lamb flavored sweet round sucker right about now, rest assured it's not that kind of lollipop, haha! "Lollipop" just refers to the way the rib chop is cut and prepared (seen below) Other than that it's a flavorful traditional Indian recipe packed with warm spices

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Truth be told, I am and have always been a sucker for wedding/party food. I remember the first "Mash-tini" bar that I encountered. It was at a wedding (of course) and there was a tall, quiet man dressed in black pants and a crisp white dress shirt serving up elegant, long stemmed martini glasses filled with fluffy clouds of buttery mashed potatoes. With a sweep of his arm he

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These maple meringue kisses are delightfully crunchy and sweet! Though super easy to make, they will ask for a few hours of  your ovens time. To get the that "delightful" promised crunch, meringues have to bake for about two hours at a very low temp and then sit in the cooling oven for about another 2-3 hours more.  I've found that humid days take longer than dry days

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