I’ve been on an Italian chicken variation kick lately. I absolutely love chicken piccata and finally figured 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, and chicken carbonara.
In restaurants, this is often made with an extremely thick cream sauce and served over pasta. I substituted spaghetti squash, made a healthier (and optional) sauce, and added some wilted spinach and asparagus for flavor and extra nutrition. My kids liked this one and my hubby (who despises the texture of wilted spinach) even ate it without complaint.

Chicken Carbonara Over Spaghetti Squash
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Ok so I made this. The second of your dishes that I’ve made. My family LOVED IT!!! But every fiber of my being was screaming too much bacon grease too much butter. I was terribly worried that it was unhealthy. All my meats were organic and I used organic veg and grassfed butter. Are my tastebuds and old ways of thinking fooling me? Could this really be healthy?
That fat *is* healthy: https://wellnessmama.com/1265/saturated-fat/
Oh boyyyy!!!! Is this good! I made this, prepared the asparagus with butter, but ate them all while preparing the chicken! I only used crushed garlic and salt for the seasoning and it came out super tasty with the bacon and a side o boiled green beans. Yum!
Any suggestions for helping us older(45+) paleo gals with perimenopause and menopause symptoms?
Thanks for any help!
Robin
The magnesium will help a lot, and red raspberry leaf, wild yam, and red clover will help ease the symptoms. Some people also get a lot of benefit from natural progesterone cream used on the skin for the second half of each month.
Excellent post for the Feast of St. Joseph!! Thank you!