Category: Sides
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Crunchy, Creamy Miso Slaw
I made this as part of one of my weekly Sunday meal preps. Like I’ve said before, a lot of what I make has become semi-homemade in nature, like using pre-shredded coleslaw mix. Chopping up cabbage, let alone 2 colors of cabbage AND carrots, into super thin pieces just takes too dang long, and really,…
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Seared Fish, Garlic Roasted Leeks & Potatoes with Celery & Olive Salad
i haven’t cooked crap for the last year. obviously. crickets. cooking for the week feels like a chore, and i really stopped enjoying cooking. it’d take a solid hour to write a menu, and make a shopping list. then, off to the grocery store to fight the checkout lanes with grumpy biddies–who argue about bogos and .30/lb bananas. and also,…
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Chili, Garlic, Lime Roasted Sweet Potatoes
I know it’s been quite some time since I’ve posted anything–and I don’t really see that changing much in the future. A few reasons why: a.) We’ve got our fingers crossed that our CrossFit gym will f.i.n.a.l.l.y. be open by the end of November, which means virtually zero time logged in the kitchen and b.)…
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Cheap, Easy & Fast Green Salad
Warning. Turn back if offended by the use of some parmesan cheese as a way to make green things taste better. Read more about how dairy fits into a paleo-friendly lifestyle here: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/cheese-unhealthy/#axzz2S9pIbBuL The CrossFit Journal posted a supposedly “kid-friendly” recipe for steamed kale. Here ya go: http://journal.crossfit.com/2013/04/kidscookingkale.tpl. You can just scroll to around 4:20 and watch the…
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Italian Sweet & Sour Pork Tenderloin with French Pork & Beans
Some of you may remember the SousVide contest a few months back. Well, we didn’t win, but they asked if we would be interested in keeping it if we’d post a couple recipes using the machine. I know 99.9% of people in the world don’t have one of these contraptions, but don’t click off of…
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Roasted Fennel Mashed Faux-tatoes
Things have been turned upside down here in the HB household. Brandon gave his two week notice (two weeks ago) and I’ve stopped taking on new web projects–and we both started our new full time careers at Carolina CrossFit this past Monday–exciting (but slightly nerve wracking) experience. So we’re now leaving the house late afternoon…
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Roasted & Marinated Mushrooms
I love marinated _______. Seriously, fill in the blank with any run of the mill vegetable and suddenly, I’m all over it. Asparagus, artichokes, eggplant, olives and mushrooms. Love them. So with that, I’ve taken what’s probably a pretty standard idea, and tossed in a little twist. Most marinated mushrooms come off as a bit…
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Bacon Wrapped Sweet Potato Fries
Mmmmmm, bacon candy canes. This could be a side dish or a meal all on it’s own, who am I to say? Ingredients 2 medium sweet potatoes, cut into matchsticks about the width of your pinky finger. 8 oz bacon, don’t use thick cut Method Get your oven to 425°F and place your oven rack…
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Paleo Pad Thai
I hadn’t made this recipe since we originally published it back in September of 2010…but I still agree with my 2010 self when I said, “This has to be one of my all-time favorite recipes.” Â Zucchinis are pretty tasteless on their own, so a strongly flavored sauce as the base, and a texture that isn’t…
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Roasted Balsamic Acorn Squash
Oh my gosh, I love this squash. I wish I could pick the pieces off the screen and put them into my mouth. I miss it. I was literally scraping every last bit of squash into my mouth. It wasn’t pretty. Ingredients 1 acorn squash extra virgin olive oil salt & pepper red pepper/chili flakes…
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Green (Not Bean) Casserole
Green bean casserole, you know the culprit–canned food mixed together and baked. Oddly enough, I think it may be the only holiday dish that’s made the same way by all regions of the U.S. No? It’s pretty tasty, I suppose, but a fresh, homemade version is all the more tasty. Leaving out the green beans…
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Thanksgiving Stuffing Hushpuppies
Stuffing is my most favoritest (I know this isn’t a word, but I want to illustrate my favoritism) part of Thanksgiving. My mom is the stuffing queen. Homemade bread, homemade chicken stock and a butt load of butter. Doesn’t get much better (and yes I will be eating it this year, and next year and…
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Grilled Prosciutto Wrapped Peaches
Brandon and I got home late from the gym the night that the CrossFit Games started. Dinner needed to be  something I could throw together rather quickly, so we could watch the live stream. This recipe is based on the classic paring of cantaloupe or honey dew melon and prosciutto. Didn’t  have any of that,…
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Latin Fries with Chimichurri
French fries? How about Latin fries? Baked plantains crisp up just as nicely as fried potatoes, for a Paleo-friendly version of this guilty pleasure –for the salt-aholic, like myself. Ingredients 5 green plantains F.O.C. (fat of choice), we used bacon renderings 1/2 handful of cilantro leaves 2 green onions 2 T olive oil salt squeeze…
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Smashed Plantains
If you’re getting tired of potatoes and/or sweet potatoes, I think you should try to source some green plantains. Not all grocery stores carry them, but if they do, they’ll be around the mangoes, jicama, guava, and other tropical produce. Plantains are almost as cheap as bananas. They’re mostly starch and contain almost the same…
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Loaded Celery Root Mash
We’ve taken the loaded baked potato and subbed out the ‘jacket’ with pureed celery root–GROOTS. Groots are our take on grits, Paleo style. Celery root has a–duh, celery flavor, but a texture similar to creamy grits when pureed. All you non-Southerners out there, grits are ground up corn–prepared like rice, but take literally 5 minutes…
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Chipotle, Orange, Maple Twice Baked Sweet Potatoes
Double baked equals double delicious. Sweet, spicy, salty and creamy all mixed up in one convenient, nutritional powerhouse. We are at a crossroads about dairy. We understand hard-core Paleo says “NO DAIRY”. Mark Sisson, Kurt Harris, and many, many others have pointed out conflicting arguments about dairy. Some say, “Yes.” Some say, “Yes, but..”, and…
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Paleo Oven Fried Green Tomatoes
Another classic Southern dish right hereeeeee! We’ve replaced the bread crumbs with almond flour (no big surprise there) and it gives a nice cornmeal-like crunch to the tomatoes. When you coat things to fry, you dredge in flour, then in egg, then breadcrumbs. Well, I’m only using “breadcrumbs” (a.k.a. almond flour). So I did a…
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Paleo Hash Browns
I roasted a spaghetti squash one night, with no actual plan to include it in a meal–I had just neglected it for a few weeks, and started to feel like I was going to waste it if I didn’t hurry up and do something with it. I pulled out the “threads” and WHAM! I had…
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Sesame Kale Salad
The grocery store I most frequent, 14 Carrot in Lexington, SC (for those of you local readers), makes a few salads and what-nots for the ready-made deli case. They’re really those wacky kind of foods like tofu, wheat grass quiche and mock chicken veganaise salad. Bleh! They never, ever look appetizing. I took a look…
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Paleo Hog Dog Chili with Jalapeno Slaw
Imagine eating a chili dog with slaw, onions and yellow mustard. Now imagine taking off the bun and eating it in a bowl with a fork and you’ve got the idea behind this recipe. Another way to look at it, we’ve taken off the sour cream, avocado and cheese from chili and added hot dog…
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Roasted Sweet Potatoes with Balsamic Raisins, Rosemary and Goat Cheese
This dish was inspired by one of my all-time favorite dishes at a little hole in the wall in Charleston, South Carolina. It’s the potato gnocchi with goat cheese, balsamic cream sauce sauce at Five Loaves Cafe on Canon Street. I’m not usually one to order something I’ve had before, as I truly love to…
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Braised Greens
Ah! We’re posting a vegetarian dish. Never thought that would happen! I usually make greens with bacon, good ole Southern style, but I really don’t miss the smokiness in this dish. It’s more of a sweet, salty, spicy combo–a welcomed change from the usual ‘heavy’ Southern style greens. Ingredients 2 T fat of your choice…