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Primal Cream of Vegetable Soup Recipe

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. Sometimes I don’t mind spending 20 or 30 minutes making lunch, but there are a lot of other days when there’s something else I’d rather be doing. Traditional sandwiches are out of...

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Coconut-Orange Pound Cake Recipe

I decided to make a nice dinner for my husband and stepfather on Fathers Day. It was just going to be a casual, outdoor meal on the grill, but since it was a special occasion I felt I needed to include a dessert. Dessert is my least favorite course to prepare so I usually opt for something simple. We still have a huge amount of strawberries leftover from strawberry picking so I decided to make the American...

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Salad with Creamy Curry-Lime Dressing and Seared Shrimp Recipe

Inspired by the homemade mayonnaise I made yesterday I decided to create a primal dressing for one of the many salads I will be eating over the next several days (see my post on my CSA farm share. I got the idea for the flavors in this salad one especially frantic afternoon a few weeks ago. I rushed into Whole Foods hoping to find a quick bite before my night class. I ended up with a delicious curry...

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Homemade Mayonnaise – A Perfect Primal Food

A true representative of my generation, I have spent most of my life without a clear mental distinction between ‘food’ and ‘food product’. Mayonnaise is a perfect example of this modern phenomenon. I grew up with the vague notion that mayonnaise could only exist as something that came from a jar that you bought at a store. How could you possibly make mayonnaise Surely you needed...

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My First Post and My First Green Smoothie

I am so excited to finally get started on this blog! Ideas have been swarming around in my head for weeks about things Id like to write about. I even started making a list until Dave could get this site up and running for me. Unfortunately, when it came time to actually sit myself down and write this first post, I experienced what I can only imagine is some bizarre form of bloggers stage fright which upon...