Clockwise from left: Indian Deviled Eggs, French Deviled Eggs, Mexican Deviled Eggs, Traditional Deviled Eggs Since I’ve started eating primal, my egg consumption has gone way up.  On days when I actually possess a little motivation before 9am, I might fry some with a few vegetables or some apple for breakfast.  More often I eat hard boiled eggs as snacks.  In my opinion, hard boiled eggs are nature’s...

Garlicky Summer Squash Fritters As some of you may be aware, Mark Sisson is running a Primal Blueprint Health Challenge throughout the entire month of August.   Every day he is posting a new primal-related contest on his blog.   Some contests simply require that you post a comment.  Others are a bit more involved.  Recently he posted a contest for the ‘best’ primal recipe video.  I’ve...

Kohlrabi Casserole with Sausage and Fresh Thyme This is my first year eating kohlrabi, thanks to my CSA farm share.  I wonder where this vegetable has been all my life!  It’s like it just appeared out of nowhere.  I have only just begun to explore the possibilities of kohlrabi but so far I am quite taken.  Fresh, the texture and water content (though not flavor) reminds me of jicama.  You can shred...

Primal Coconut Blueberry Muffin I am always on the lookout for a primal baked good that still might taste good without adding honey, agave, or sweetener.  I’ve noticed that if you stop eating sugar for long enough, fruit starts to do a pretty good job at satisfying a desire for something sweet.  It being blueberry season and all I decided I’d try my hand at creating a coconut flour blueberry muffin that...

Did I just say a few days ago that mollusks freak me out?  That sentiment excludes these pure, clean, fleshy gems.   You don’t hear a whole lot about scallops, but in my mind, they are overlooked as a low calorie source of protein.  Four ounces of scallops, at a mere 100 calories, has 19 grams of protein!  I don’t know about you but I can easily put away twice that at a primal dinner of meat...

Have you ever eaten a fresh fig?  It doesn’t surprise me that many people have not.  Their season is relatively short and they can cost $1 or more per fig.  Even at that price, however, it is hard for this primal eater to pass up such a sweet fruit that is so versatile in the kitchen.  You can eat figs raw, sautee them with butter, roast them in the oven, even deep-fry them (can’t wait to try that!). ...

Excepting organ meats and anything that could be classified as a mollusk, I like to try new foods.  The other day I had the opportunity to try two.  It all started at a neat little market in my town that sells a lot of local produce, eggs, baked stuff, etc.…  As I was browsing I came across these odd looking orbs that turned out to be gooseberries.  The sign said they were from a nearby farm that I am...

Yesterday I posted a master recipe for create-your-own primal cookies.  Today I will share with you some of the cookie recipes I came up with. Chocolate Chip Cookies I won’t call these primal because let’s face it, they aren’t.  They are, however, grain free, use a minimal amount of natural sweetener, and to my surprise, look and taste like normal chocolate chip cookies.  No joke. 1 ¼...

Over the 4th of July weekend I decided to mess around with some primal cookie making.  The last thing I need are loads of cookies hanging around the house but I had lots of family in town who politely ate the products of my experiments.  I’ve mentioned before that baking is not my forte mainly because I don’t measure carefully and I get impatient with the process.  There’s something about...

My double batch of soup. I used mostly cauliflower and broccoli with a little asparagus and turnip thrown in for good measure. I prefer to use two pots rather than try to cram everything into one pot. Eating primal is not always very convenient.  It is easy to get caught in a situation where you walk in the door, hungry, and realize there’s not much to eat that doesn’t require a lot of preparation. ...