BBQ Rump Steak, Roast Beets & Pumpkin with Salad

Posted by on Mar 29, 2012 in Paleo lunch & dinner, Real Food | 0 comments I’m beginning to get convinced that anything you throw on that BBQ comes out delicious… The roast beets and pumpkin were leftovers from last night and we just heated them up in the oven. They came out just as tasty, if not even more so. Maybe a good argument for cooking a whole bunch at once and heating up for lunches and sides the next few days?   Recipe for Roast...
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Paleo Pad Thai with Prawns and Zucchini Noodles

Posted by on Mar 26, 2012 in Paleo lunch & dinner, Real Food | 0 comments   This meal is quickly becoming one of our kitchen staples and favourites. So quick and easy to make, versatile and utterly delicious. I doubt we’ll ever get bored of this one!   Recipe variations: Macadamia butter instead of sunflower seed butter resulted in the best batch of sunshine sauce yet! Zucchini noodles instead of spaghetti squash - I’m really beginning to...
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Webber Roast Lamb with Roast Veggies, Broccoli and Gravy

Posted by on Mar 20, 2012 in Paleo lunch & dinner, Real Food | 2 comments Nothing’s better than a good lamb roast when you get the taste of coal roasting infused all through the meat! We served the meat with roast pumpkin, carrots and onions, steamed broccoli and delicious dark gravy. Unbelievably...
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Mexican Beef Marinade & Grilled Capsicums upgrade for Paleo Fajitas

Posted by on Mar 18, 2012 in Paleo lunch & dinner, Paleo Meal Recipes, Paleo Recipes, Paleo Side Dishes & Snacks, Real Food | 0 comments   Paleo fajitas has got to be one of our favourite dishes. It’s utterly delicious, eating with hands is much more fun and Mexican food is just simply awesome. However, we’ve been thinking that this traditionally mince based dish could be done better… and I think we just cracked it: replace mince with Mexican marinated BBQ beef and raw capsicums with grilled...
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Giant BBQ T-bone Steak with Salad

Posted by on Mar 17, 2012 in Paleo lunch & dinner, Real Food | 0 comments BBQ truly makes everything better. This steak was slightly indulgent size-wise (read: the size of my head) but the dinner was of celebratory nature and it was rather...
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Lemon & Herb Grilled Chicken with Fennel, Orange & Chilli Salad

Posted by on Mar 16, 2012 in Paleo lunch & dinner, Paleo Meal Recipes, Paleo Recipes, Real Food | 0 comments   This chicken cooked on the BBQ was absolutely amazing!   The recipe is from Delish Dinners and worked a treat. This is possibly the best chicken I’ve ever eaten! Mind you… flame grilling it on the BBQ probably helped too… Recipe on Delish...
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BBQ kingfish steaks with parsnip puree and roast tomato sauce

Posted by on Mar 15, 2012 in Paleo lunch & dinner, Paleo Meal Recipes, Paleo Recipes, Real Food | 0 comments   This dinner was simply amazing. The kingfish steaks were just cooked on the BBQ and the salad was simple with just added fennel.   Parsnip puree recipe: The parsnip puree was the star of the meal though! I boiled the parsnip in small cubes, and pureed it with an egg beater, mixing in a tad of macadamia butter, a good slosh of olive oil and adding water...
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Moroccan Lamb Tagine gone paleo

Posted by on Mar 15, 2012 in Paleo lunch & dinner, Paleo Meal Recipes, Paleo Recipes, Real Food | 0 comments   This was a delicious Moroccan Lamb Tagine we cooked recently. It’s based on a Master Chef recipe, which is very easy to tweak paleo-friendly.   How to make it paleo? Make sure all the ingredients you are using are organic, clean and high quality Skip the Creme and Saffron Catalana Skip the yoghurt Serve on bed of cauliflower rice Recipe for...
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Paleo Spaghetti Bolognese

Posted by on Mar 13, 2012 in Paleo lunch & dinner, Real Food | 0 comments   Recipe for Paleo Spaghetti...
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Marlin Steak with Sweet Potato Mash, Egg and Salad

Posted by on Mar 7, 2012 in Paleo lunch & dinner, Real Food | 0 comments Moving was such hard work that extra carbs were in order - sweet potato mash is a lovely comfort food ideal for some tasty carb loading. Marlin is very dense and can easily get a bit dry while cooking, so we always tend to serve marlin steaks with friend eggs sunny side up. Not only does the egg compliment the taste beautifully, is also stops it from being too...
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Paleo Pad Thai with Chicken

Posted by on Mar 5, 2012 in Paleo lunch & dinner, Real Food | 0 comments This Pad Thai is turning into a kitchen stable already - I absolutely love it! No matter the variation, it always turns out delicious! This time using spaghetti squash as noodle and chicken for meat. Yum! Recipe from Well...
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Pad Thai with Chicken and zucchini noodles

Posted by on Feb 20, 2012 in Paleo lunch & dinner, Real Food | 0 comments     I’ve tried cooking the pad thai recipe from ‘Well Fed’ using prawns before - which was delicious - but I wanted to try the recipe with chicken too. I also wanted to try how this would work using sweated zucchini as noodles. Both noodle replacements work great, although the sweating leaves a bit of added saltiness to the zucchini, which I really like. If...
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Roast Venison with Kumera Mash, Sautéed Spinach and Roast Beetroot

Posted by on Feb 17, 2012 in Paleo lunch & dinner, Real Food | 0 comments
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Hot Thai Fish Cakes

Posted by on Feb 16, 2012 in Paleo lunch & dinner, Real Food | 2 comments Made from self-caught bonito.
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Self-caught Kingfish Steaks with Zucchini Spaghetti and Roast Tomato Sauce

Posted by on Feb 13, 2012 in Paleo lunch & dinner, Real Food | 0 comments
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Second attempt at paleo Spaghetti Bolognese

Posted by on Feb 12, 2012 in Paleo lunch & dinner, Real Food | 0 comments I took another attempt at cooking spaghetti squash and this time it turned out just right! The insides were super easy to just scrape into strands! On a plate it behaved just like spaghetti and I could even twirl it around a fork. Recipe for Bolognese Sauce   Made of tasty...
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Empty Fridge Special: Lamb Chump Chops with Roast Kumera and Sautéed Cabbage

Posted by on Feb 10, 2012 in Paleo lunch & dinner, Real Food | 0 comments You know those days when ‘there’s nothing in the fridge’? Last night was one of them and this is what we came up with. Lamb chump chops with roast kumera and sweet potato with sautéed cabbage. Quick, easy and...
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Venison with Mushrooms, Spinach, Tomatoes and Carrots

Posted by on Feb 9, 2012 in Paleo lunch & dinner, Real Food | 0 comments
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Pad Thai Goong gone paleo (Prawn Pad Thai)

Posted by on Feb 7, 2012 in Paleo lunch & dinner, Real Food | 1 comment This paleo-variation of pad thai was absolutely delicious! We used the other half of the already cooked spaghetti squash and followed Well Fed’s recipe - though instead of chicken, we used prawns. The result was amazing and when garnished with chillies right out of our own little garden, it had enough heat to keep us smiling and sweating all through dinner! Two thumbs up and...
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Quick lunch of leftover Chicken & Orange Salad

Posted by on Feb 6, 2012 in Paleo lunch & dinner, Real Food | 0 comments
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Paleo Meatball Stew with Spaghetti Squash

Posted by on Feb 6, 2012 in Paleo lunch & dinner, Real Food | 3 comments Woohooo! After more than a year of desperate searching, I FINALLY got my hands on some spaghetti squash!! The big melon-like squash was labelled ‘Vegetable Spaghetti’ and the tag listed it grown & packed by Milano Brothers. Sydney-siders: I found mine at the Norton St Grocer, opposite Coles on the bottom floor of Bondi Junction Westfields. It exists in Australia, so I’m...
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Best Chicken You’ll Ever Eat with El Minzah Orange Salad

Posted by on Feb 3, 2012 in Paleo lunch & dinner, Real Food | 2 comments Ever since I got my hands on this book, I’ve been dying to try out the recipe for ‘The Best Chicken You Will Ever Eat’, the book recommends serving it with El Minzah Orange Salad, which is exactly what we did. The chicken was amazing with a beautiful spicy surface, and the orange salad did a wonderful job balancing the heat with the juicy fruit sweetness. The meal was an...
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Venison Cutlets, Roast Kumera and Spinach with Mushrooms, Garlic & Almonds

Posted by on Feb 3, 2012 in Paleo lunch & dinner, Real Food | 2 comments The man went hunting & gathering again and returned victorious with an entire free-range, grass-fed venison from a friend’s farm. Normally he only grows venison for his own needs, but this time he happened to have an extra animal. The freezer shuffle was a bit of a hassle, but boy was it worth it! Our visiting chef Christian*** did a fantastic job threatening the cutlets with a...
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Kingfish Steaks with Waldorf Salad with Prawn

Posted by on Feb 1, 2012 in Paleo lunch & dinner, Real Food | 0 comments   I am so in love with this cooking book, it’s ridiculous - everything I’ve cooked out of it is just amazing. This time I made the Waldorf Salad to go on the side of the last of Sunday’s self-caught kingfish, but I altered the recipe slightly: instead of tuna I used prawns and it was a raging success. Everyone loved it and despite making a double batch for 3 of us,...
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Lettuce Wraps with Roast Pork

Posted by on Jan 31, 2012 in Paleo lunch & dinner, Real Food | 0 comments   Confession: I have a tendency of getting lazy with cooking when alone at home. The man is away on a business trip for the night, so I just whipped up a quick plate of lettuce wraps for dinner: roast pork, avocado, tomato, cucumber, red onion and large lettuce leaves. Delicious, easy and...
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Kingfish Steaks with Greek Broccoli

Posted by on Jan 31, 2012 in Paleo lunch & dinner, Real Food | 1 comment The only difficulty I’ve faced with the Well Fed book so far, is to choose what to cook - it all looks and sounds so delicious! Based on one day’s reading and first meal cooked, this has already become my favourite cook book of all times! We still had some kingfish left from the w/e and wanted something tasty to accompany it - the Greek Broccoli sounded like the perfect...
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Traditional Sunday Roast

Posted by on Jan 23, 2012 in Paleo lunch & dinner, Real Food | 0 comments Quite often we finish the week with our favourite traditional Aussie meal: a roast. When we have quests over for dinner, we crank it up a notch by firing up the Webber and cooking both the meat and veggies on the coals instead of the oven. We bought the organic lamb leg from a butcher who was able to tell us everything about animal’s breed, her life story (we named her fluffy) and...
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Hot Thai Chilli Garlic Prawns with Lime

Posted by on Jan 20, 2012 in Paleo lunch & dinner, Real Food | 0 comments
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Shrimp Skillet

Posted by on Jan 16, 2012 in Paleo lunch & dinner, Real Food | 0 comments Recipe for Shrimp Skillet from ‘Paleo Comfort...
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Lamb Curry with Cauliflower Rice

Posted by on Jan 14, 2012 in Paleo lunch & dinner, Real Food | 0 comments
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Eating in NZ: Three takes on the kiwi ‘Meat & Three Veg’

Posted by on Jan 13, 2012 in Paleo lunch & dinner, Real Food | 0 comments At it’s best, NZ food was fresh, simple and utterly delicious. Also, looking back, I think just about every meal we ate was cooked on the BBQ and stacked with beautiful fresh veggies. Our typical meal during the trip looked something like this: BBQ steak with kumera chips roasted nice and crispy and steamed broccoli and carrots. Or maybe BBQ steak with roast pumpkin, steamed spinach and...
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Larb Moo (Thai Spicy Pork Mince)

Posted by on Jan 12, 2012 in Paleo lunch & dinner, Real Food | 0 comments Recipe for paleo Spicy Pork Mince...
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Chicken Chorizo & Pine Mushroom Salad

Posted by on Jan 11, 2012 in Paleo lunch & dinner, Real Food | 0 comments I love a good meaty summer salad - delicious, fresh and light yet filling. This concoction was the result of Kurt finding some chicken chorizo that he wanted to trial and me coming across pine mushrooms in our local fruit shop. chicken chorizo, sliced thin pine mushrooms, sliced and sautéed pumpkin, squared and roasted rocket & spinach leaves sherry tomatoes (from our own...
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Eating in NZ: BBQ Lamb with Watercress & Kumera Salad

Posted by on Jan 9, 2012 in Paleo lunch & dinner, Real Food | 2 comments
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Hunting & gathering in NZ

Posted by on Jan 8, 2012 in Paleo lunch & dinner, Real Food | 0 comments     During our trip to North Island, NZ over Christmas and New Years, we had the pleasure of indulging in some pretty special food. To be honest, just about everything we ate was delicious, but the absolute highlights of the trip were paua and venison on the BBQ.   While we visited Kurt’s uncle Gus’ beach batch in Hawke’s Bay, he took...
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Self-caught Kingfish with tomato, garlic, capers and homegrown herbs

Posted by on Dec 20, 2011 in Paleo lunch & dinner, Real Food | 0 comments Once again the man returned victorious from a fishing trip with this gorgeous 13kg kingfish! To do the beauty justice, he whipped up this delicious dinner of fried kingfish fillets, served with roasted tomatoes, garlic, capers and garnished the lot with homegrown herbs. Unbelievably...
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Burger in a bowl

Posted by on Dec 15, 2011 in Paleo lunch & dinner, Real Food | 0 comments
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Burger plate

Posted by on Dec 14, 2011 in Paleo lunch & dinner, Real Food | 0 comments Recipe for tasty paleo...
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BBQ Chicken with Rocket, Pecan and Roast Veggies salad

Posted by on Dec 13, 2011 in Paleo lunch & dinner, Real Food | 0 comments The best thing about firing the Webber up, is cooking two chooks at once, as the meat is even tastier the next day! To accompany the chicken, I whipped up a simple tossed salad from rocket, cucumber, tomato, red onion, pecan nuts and leftover roast veggies from the night before. As dessert, I thought I’d treat the man to some pecan stuffed fig. They’re quick and easy to make and...
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BBQ Chicken with Roast Veggies

Posted by on Dec 12, 2011 in Paleo lunch & dinner, Real Food | 0 comments Sunday is a great day to fire up the Webber and roast a chook or two! This time we served the BBQ chicken with a stack of delicious roast veggies that we cooked simultaneously in the...
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Lamb Roast with Veggies

Posted by on Dec 9, 2011 in Paleo lunch & dinner, Real Food | 0 comments
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Pork loin chops with creamed spinach, mushrooms and bacon

Posted by on Dec 8, 2011 in Paleo lunch & dinner, Real Food | 0 comments The creamed spinach we did the other week was so delicious, that I wanted to make that again. It just goes so very well next to a nice hunk of pork! This time we added in mushrooms again and topped the whole lot with crispy grilled bacon. Yum! Recipe for Creamed Spinach from ‘Paleo Comfort...
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Steak & Salad with Sweet Potato Chips

Posted by on Dec 7, 2011 in Paleo lunch & dinner, Real Food | 2 comments
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Kingfish with fried egg & salad

Posted by on Dec 6, 2011 in Paleo lunch & dinner, Real Food | 0 comments I don’t know what it is about fried egg with fish, but the combination is beyond delicious! All that’s required on the side is a simple salad tossed in olive oil and the egg-fish combo will carry the meal. Recipe for shallow frying the...
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Leftover Chicken Salad

Posted by on Dec 5, 2011 in Paleo lunch & dinner, Real Food | 0 comments
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Self-caught Kingfish Sashimi

Posted by on Dec 5, 2011 in Paleo lunch & dinner, Real Food | 0 comments   This was just the pretty plate arranged by the man - after this picture was taken, he brought out the STACK of sashimi that ended up being dinner. The dipping sauce is a mix of fish sauce, lime juice, chillies and ginger. It’s such a treat to get to eat a full stomach out of self-caught sashimi, out of the water for less than 12 hours! Here’s the beauty in the morning....
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Quick Chicken Lunch on the go

Posted by on Dec 4, 2011 in Paleo lunch & dinner, Real Food | 1 comment   Lunch seems to be the most challenging meal in the paleo day, as most people tend to be in the office or on the go, and therefore unable to cook something themselves. Of course it’s best to pack a whole lunch to go, but what about when you’re in a hurry, unprepared or unable to keep food cold until lunch time? Just pack a carrot and an apple (or something along those lines)...
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Smoked Paprika Chicken & Cajun Sweet Potato Fries

Posted by on Dec 1, 2011 in Paleo lunch & dinner, Real Food | 0 comments I’ve been spending a lot of time in the kitchen and tonight I just felt lazy and wanted something that didn’t require a lot of fluffing about. While browsing through Make it Paleo, I found delicious recipes for Smoked Paprika Chicken Thighs and Cajun Sweet Potato Fries - both of which only took about 10 mins of prepping and then could just be chucked in the oven for 45 mins....
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Pork Rib Eye Fillet with Creamed Spinach

Posted by on Nov 30, 2011 in Paleo lunch & dinner, Real Food | 0 comments A little bit bored with our usual side dishes, I wanted to try something new on the side of a big hunk of a pork rib eye fillet. I found a promising sounding recipe for Creamed Spinach on Paleo Comfort Foods, so I thought I’d give it a go. We had a bag of mushrooms that needed to be eaten, so we chucked them in as well. The result was an unbelievably delicious creamy side of spinach &...
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Burger in a bowl

Posted by on Nov 29, 2011 in Paleo lunch & dinner, Real Food | 0 comments Recipe for paleo burgers
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