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28.6.2010

A Seasonable Treat

Filed under: Banaani,Gluteeniton,laktoositon,Maidoton,Nuts! — Meri @ 16.36

I know, I know, this looks all but inviting being a shapeless colorless mush but as you may imagine if you’ve read Monkeyfood for awhile, it’s of course – AWESOME! Even better than the previous paleo pudding in my opinion. And the best thing is that NOW is the season to eat this. Finnish strawberries, some fair trade bananas and freshly yielded coconut milk. Those cows really know how to make things nutty! ;-D

mush

Coconuts about Strawberries (sweet paleo pudding)

  • 3 bananas
  • 500 g strawberries
  • 1,5 dl (half a cup) coconut milk
  • (cinnamon, vanilla)

Smash the bananas with a fork so that they form a nice childish puré. Clean the strawberries and cut them in slices. Add to the banana mixture and mix. Add a generous splash of coconut milk and mix again, check the taste. Season with cinnamon and vanilla if you like, works without seasoning as well!

27.6.2010

Kick Ass Comfort Food!

Filed under: Alakarppi,Gluteeniton,laktoositon,Lihaa,Maidoton,meat,paleo — Meri @ 8.48

Here’s a killer side order that’s almost so good, it threathens the main course status. Being no ordinary “paleo mashed potatoes” this nasty delicacy is guaranteed to satisfy even the most demanding comfort need. I served this with some salad and minced lamb meat (seasoned with paprika and salt, a little butter).

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[The photo doesn’t do this side order justice! It’s beautiful!]

The Ultimate Mashed “Potatoes”

  • a big cauliflower
  • 2 onions
  • 4 skinny chorizos
  • salt, butter
  • (garlic)

Rip the cauliflower in pieces and boil until tender. Slice the onions and cut the chorizos into a dice size bites and bake them on a pan. You may add some garlic, I did. Also a knob of butter and/or a little salt will do the food good.

Set aside and pour away the water from the cooked cauliflower. Puré with a blender and add the onion chorizo mix into the mash. Mix well, taste to adjust the salt. Dig in! You’re so gonna dig it.

19.6.2010

A Junk of Meat

Filed under: Alakarppi,Arkiruoka,Gluteeniton,Lihaa,meat,paleo — Meri @ 21.10

…and what to do with it. I arranged a huge (well not huge but 130 kg anyway) order of meat some weeks ago. The idea was to buy some well kept (meaning ethical raising conditions) grass-fed meat of a quality beef from Highland Cattle. The whole procedure was more than easy and so the day arrived and our 10 kg share of meat. Six kilos minced meat, two kilos soup meat and two kilos silverside roast (or bottom side roast, ulkopaisti in Finnish).

meat

Minced meat’s a piece of cake and the soup meat’s obvious. But in care anyone’s wondering what to do with the silverside roast here’s an ultimately easy and delicious recipe.

Love me tender

  • silverside roast
  • butter
  • garlic cloves
  • meat bouillon, from a cube or a fond (NOT containing MSG)
  • a carrot

Cut the roast into rough cubes. Fry on a pan in loads of butter to get a nice tan for the cubes. Put into an oven casserole together with peeled whole garlic cloves, cut carrot and enough beef bouillon to cover the meat. Cover the dish with a tin foil and let it cook in the oven 1,5 or 2 hours on a mild heat (150 degrees or so). Remove the tin foil and let it still cook for about an half an hour. And whoomp there it is! Tender, garlicky, tasty meat. Can’t get any better than this. Veeeeery paleo.

Andy Deas works his magic!

Filed under: Alakarppi,Gluteeniton,laktoositon,Maidoton,paleo — Meri @ 14.52

Andy Deas from the marvellous Paleolithic Solution has shared his recipe for a soft and tasty paleo pudding. Thank (the neolithic) goddess! Because this is good. If your sweet tooth is really sweet I’d suggest to add something to sweeten it but for a genuine paleo hippie this does the trick. I added the roasted and salted cashews to get some crunch and that nicely tied the thing together. Feel free to try it on your non-paleolithic friends, I did o_O

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Andy Deas’ Coconut Pudding

  • 4 apples (preferrably organic)
  • 2 cups (5 dl) coconut milk/coconut cream
  • lots of cinnamon
  • (salted, roasted cashews)

De-core the apples, slice them and cook in coconut milk until the apples turn tender. Cook cinnamon sticks along or add grounded cinnamon. Remember to take the sticks out before the next step! I forgot the first time. So, after you’ve removed the sticks and the apples are nice and soft, whizz everything in a blender into an even pure. Let stay in the fridge overnight and voilá, you’ve got pudding! Serve with cashews or maybe some additional apple slices baked in butter.

I’m already planning in turning this into a cheesecake sort of gig… 😛

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