Paleo Hoisin Sauce / Marinade
This Paleo Hoisin Sauce has all the components of a traditional hoisin without artificial ingredients or refined sugars. It is great on chicken and pork.
Paleo Comfort Food
After losing over 40 pounds in the first year of being on the Paleo diet, my progress stalled…. and I started gaining weight again. What had changed? Reluctantly, I have to admit that Potatoes were a big part of it. I went along with the folks who said potatoes could be included in the Paleo diet.
Sunday family dinner is often done French style in our household: a whole roast chicken. This is what the French typically eat for their main Sunday meal; and it’s often what I serve at home on a Sunday evening at least once a month. This meal is simple, delicious, and comforting. Paleo comfort food for sure.
Paleo comfort food. That’s what I want to eat. If I am going to eliminate processed foods, grains, legumes, bad fats, non lean meats and sugars from my diet, I am going to enjoy it. Isn’t comfort food what we really want to eat on a …
Paleo comfort food. That’s what I want to eat. If I am going to eliminate processed foods, grains, legumes, bad fats, non lean meats and sugars from my diet, I am going to enjoy it. Isn’t comfort food what we really want to eat on a diet? Diets are about what we can’t eat, but that’s all wrong. Your diet is what you eat – not what you don’t eat.
I started cooking Paleo foods in order to lose weight and generally improve my own health. One thing I know about maintaining a diet is that you have to enjoy what you are eating and you shouldn’t feel restricted. You need to enjoy the food you are eating. By eliminating grain-based carbohydrates, dairy and refined sugars, my appetite naturally declined along with my waistline. Seven months after turning Paleo, I dropped over 40 pounds and had never enjoyed what I was eating more.
Cooking is my passion. I am a self-taught home cook. My cuisine is typically American with a strong French influence. Roasted or grilled meats, fish and vegetables. Seasonal, fresh, local, organic ingredients. Good ingredients make a huge difference in the outcome of dishes. Don’t ever compromise on ingredients.
Ultimately, we are going to eat what we want to eat, and what I found I wanted to eat was comfort food. So I embarked on this journey to Paleoize the foods I most loved to eat. Replacing one ingredient for another; finding alternative cooking methods; experimenting with proportions; modify, taste, repeat until it comes out right.
My definition of comfort food might not exactly match yours. I make a lot of traditional American comfort food dishes of which there is no question: Meatloaf and Fried Chicken and Chili and Beef Stew and Barbequed Ribs – but also French comfort food that I can’t live without – Duck Leg Confit and Coq au Vin and Braised Short Ribs. I’ve also recently been rediscovering my Greek heritage and making traditional Greek comfort foods: Moussaka and Keftedes and Leg of Lamb and occasionally Greek Roasted Potatoes (for a skip meal).
Does this sound good to you? It sounds good to me. Paleo Comfort Food. Yeah – I’ll have some of that.