Best Gift Ever...

Farm fresh, all natural, organic, homemade: Pickles, peaches, salsa, applemaple, pizza sauce, rasberry apple sauce, marionberry, blackberry, peach preserevs, honey butter, barbeque sauce, blueberries...Primal Pantry in full effect

Toasted Mushroom Bun...brillant

Im sure I am not the only one to think of this but it was awesome. I saw some huge Portobello mushrooms at Central Market and at first glace it looked like a whole wheat hamberger bun. (Thats how big they really were)
I just toasted a few minutes under broil setting and paired with organic, grass fed beef burger with homemade ketchup and tons of pickles, lettuce and spicey organic mustard. This was so good. One of my favorites. I even used the mushrooms to make eggs benedic the following weekend. Oh and those are baked sweet potatoe fries with sea salt and olive oil.

Natural Cold Remedies

Even if a cold medicine is called "Non-Drowsey" I still feel light headed or under the influence of medication on top of my cold symptoms. Then an aftermath of taking a lot of cold meds is upset stomach, heartburn and not to mention advanced dehydration that you don't recognize until it's too late most of the time.                                       Even though whiskey isn't concidered Paleo according to Mark Sisson, and the only acceptable alcohol is "red wine in moderation" I feel that this is my own judgement against unnatural sedatives in cold care items.                                                      I just warm fresh organic lemon and orange juice in a small sauce pan, add honey or Agave and pour into a big mug with fresh grated cinnamon and raw ginger. Add a few ounces of whiskey and sip it really hot. It almost immediately relieved my sore throat and cough. Warmed me up and made me drowsey enought to sleep. I was well hydrated pre and post cold and flu, so that helps. I wouldn't recoomend this before work or anything but at night was nice.

Also, using Oil of Oregano is very helpful. I get chronic sinusitis/sinus infections everytime I get a cold or allergies. I used three doses a day at the height of my cold and was able to combate another sinus infection. Just be careful and follow directions. Herbs can be just as harmful as over the counter stuff if used to often or incorrectly.

More on this at http://www.naturalnews.com/030833_oil_of_Oregano_cancer.html

Saturday Morning Breakfast with Bob Marley

This is my twist on cornbeef hash, inspired by my friend Bob Marley and some late winter sunshine on da beach yesterday morning.

I used left-over spicey mustard cornbeef roast that I shredded and baked with sweet potatoes. Original cornbeef hash is made with russet or gold potatoes and is a cheap canned breakfast meat filler product that I think is quite gross...but this tuned out well. I topped with an over-easy North West Nest's organic, cage free jumbo brown egg (best store bought eggs I can find). Not too shabby.

Hot Coconut Green Curry Soup

Brocoli and Spinach base soup. Simmered with chicken stock and creamy coconut milk. Seasoned with curry, bay leaf, kosher salt, organic white and black pepper corn and nutmeg. You can see I had to eat a few bites before I took the picture.
This is a good one

Beef Bamboo Wraps

Beef with bamboo shoots, water chestnuts and a spicy teryaki sauce. Garnished with fresh organic bean sprouts and wrapped in icebergs lettuce. This was an awesome, quick lunch for two and served with orange ginger green tea.

Mint Lamb and Yogurt

Mint Lamb and Yogurt

Pan fried ground lamb, mint and curry meatballs. Baby carrots roasted in a raisin cinnamon chutney and Greek garma masala yogurt.