Pumpkin Cheesecake

pumpkincheesecake

This is one of my favorite dessert recipes. Ever. Many thanks to reader Wanda who made the gorgeous one above and sent me a picture! (It always gets eaten before I can take a picture around here) I use a Cinderella Pumpkin or “old fashioned pumpkin” for this recipe. The one I used for the [...]

Chicken Carbonara (My Way)

healthy chicken asparagus carbonara

I’ve been on an Italian chicken variation kick lately. I absolutely love Chicken Picatta and finally figuring out a great recipe for it which inspired a lot of chicken cooking around here lately. I’ve made healthy variations of Chicken Cacciatore, Chicken Florentine, Chicken Marsala (all coming soon) and Chicken Carbonara. In restaurants, this is often [...]

Strength Training and Carb Cycling

How a 10-Minute workout can be twice as effective as an hour long workoug with a free week workout plan

Note From Katie: Please welcome Marcus of Lift, Drink, Eat for this guest post. This is the method of training I’ve been doing in my Training for Strength program, and I’ve seen great results from it (deadlifting well over 200 lbs!). He also explains Carb Cycling, which can be a great way to make sure [...]

Is Low Carb Healthy?

is low carb healthy

This question has been swirling around the blogosphere lately with many different answers. Some claim that really low-carb is the only way to go, others claim that eating low carb messed up their thyroid or other hormones. One important distinction that must be made is between low-carb and grain-free. These two are often lumped together [...]

Fried Cheese Sticks

healthy grain free gluten free cheese stick recipe

I used to love fried cheese sticks in high school and college and would even just order these as my meal in restaurants. Now that we don’t eat grains or vegetable oils, I decided that we needed to find a healthy version that we could make at home (and much cheaper too!). After some trial [...]

Pecan Crusted Flounder

pecan and walnut crusted fish paleo primal

This is a recipe that I’ve been making about once a week at our house. For my husband and me, it is a delicious way to bake fish, and for the kids, it is similar enough to “fried” fish that they can dip it in homemade ketchup. It is my copy cat of a delicious [...]

Very Berry Cobbler

healthy paleo berry cobbler

Oh Monday… seemed like a good time for a healthy dessert recipe! This is one that we’ve made several times lately, and it is delicious. I’ve now used up the last of our frozen berries from last summer, but thankfully, berry season isn’t too far away, and the strawberry plants should produce well this year! [...]