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31.3.2010

Seriously Salty and Sublime

Filed under: Alakarppi,Överi,Gluteeniton,laktoositon,Maidoton,paleo,Uunista — Meri @ 19.05

This loaf is gonna knock you out! That’s how delish it is. I’ve posted in before as a neopaleo version (just change the flour into nut flour) and in a “normal” version with the flour and all, but now I also omitted the cheese. Did it matter? Not really. Still takes your breath away.

Here you go, ladies and gentleman, Pyhäpäivän paras pala, Paleo Loaf to savour!

delish

[Sorry about the messy photo. Still, it’s divine.]

Salty and Savory Paleo Loaf (good enuf to serve demanding guests not on a paleo diet)

  •  3 organic eggs
  • 100 g butter
  • 55 g almond flour
  • 1 Tbsp baking powder
  • 3 Tbsp coconut milk/cream
  • 20 (or more) piripiri olives (spicy olives!)
  • at least 5 strips of bacon (or pork cheek fat, excellent stuff, so so tasty! And do more than 5 strips!)
  • 5-1 sun-dried tomatoes (optional)

Melt the butter, let cool a little, chop the other ingredients (bake bacon first!) and add them to the butter. Mix well with a fork or so. Let stay still for awhile to swell up a little. Grease a loaf tin carefully (butter!) and flour it with sesame or linseeds. Pour in the mixture and bake in 200 degrees for half an hour. Take out and let cool before trying to turn the loaf tin.

This paleo version is a bit more breakable than the one with cheese, but if you let it cool properly, not so much. And it’s totally worth it, crumbled or whole! Eat like bread just biting it away or add some salad to be posh. You’re gonna eat it all anyway. If you want to go neopaleo, just add 100 g crumbled or grated strong cheese (such as cheddar or whatever you prefer) to the mixture ( and you may also change the coconut cream into cow’s cream) and that’s it!

27.3.2010

Thee Number One Paleo Salad Dressing

Filed under: Alakarppi,Gluteeniton,laktoositon,Maidoton,paleo,Sallad,Soosit — Meri @ 6.58

The easiest salad dressings come from a jar (or a bottle) and so does this one. And I don’t mean just the usual olive oil. I mean business! Coconut milk. A divine dressing for salads, steamed or boiled veggies, meat, shrimp, chicken… Particularly heavenly combination is one of crayfish tails (jokiravunpyrstöt), Brussel sprouts (steamed/boiled), avocado and coconut milk. Would change anything for this one! Add some salads and other veggies, season with quality salt and pepper and add the finishing touch with the coconut milk. Can’t get any better, this paleo divine diet! The mix of salty crayfish liquid, creamy coconut, meaty (umami) brussel sprouts and soft avocado would charm anybody.

dressing

I’ve been experimenting with some different coconut milks such as Rainbow, Kara and the one you get from this Asian store Vii Voan, Aroy-D. It’s always thoroughly mixed (not separated as coconut “water” and the white stuff) and the taste is brilliant. It’s also perfectly “light” by texture to serve as a dressing. It says it has no preservatives and ingredients include only coconut milk, but I have my doubts. Still, it’s too delicious to give up so I’m gonna put my head in the bush and use it until proven otherwise. Also, I feel fine using it (and I do use it EVERY DAY) so it can’t be that bad. Recommendable, really.

The more thicker coconut milks work well with minced meat, prepared on a pan and cooked down a little. Moist, velvety and tasty minced meat as a result. And coconut cream’s the one to opt for with berries, a true delight.

21.3.2010

Loaf Reminder

Filed under: Alakarppi,Arkiruoka,Gluteeniton,laktoositon,lammas,Lihaa,Maidoton,meat,paleo — Meri @ 16.21

louf

Just to keep you ON YOUR TOES!! No, but seriously, to remind you of this brilliant possibility to have some alteration in the menu: minced meat bends so easily into a loaf, non of the fuss that’s included in meatballs or burgers but the juicy tastiness! Variable, easy, perfect to keep in the fridge and to bite when ever you feel like it. Could “bake” some boiled eggs into it or whatever you wish. Mine consisted this time of:

  • minced lamb meat
  • organic egg
  • onion
  • garlic
  • fresh basil
  • puréed tomato (I found one from Rainbow which DOESN’T INCLUDE SUGAR! …or any other sh*t)
  • salt, pepper, oregano

Chop onion, basil and garlic, mix ingredients, season and taste. For into a loaf on an oven tray, bake for about an hour, 175-200 degrees.

19.3.2010

Greetings from the Pizza Bar!

Filed under: Alakarppi,Arkiruoka,Elävä ravinto,paleo,raw food,Sallad,Side order,Vegan,Vege — Meri @ 7.29

At least in Finland, at least when I was still eating pizza in some distant past (like 10 years ago), it is common that pizzerias have this tasty and crunchy salad as an appetizer. It’s really a classic in my opinion, I always looked forward to that when having a pizza. It doesn’t smell as good but sure tastes great! Also easy to prepare home to create some authentic pizza feeling to your paleo goods…

cabbage

Pizzeria’s Paleo Salad

  • cabbage
  • olive oil
  • raw apple vinegar
  • salt
  • dried oregano, basil or other herbs

Grate the cabbage. You may grate some red cabbage, carrot or other veggies to go as well, but basic cabbage works the best. Pour in some olive oil, like for a quarter of a cabbage maybe 1,5 tablespoon. Add a little less vinegar, maybe 1 Tbsp. Season with salt and some dried herbs, mix. Eat or better yet, let sit in the fridge overnight. Delish! Perfect with meats.

18.3.2010

Coconut Bliss

Filed under: Alakarppi,Elävä ravinto,Gluteeniton,laktoositon,Maidoton,paleo,raw food,Super foods — Meri @ 7.31

We all know raw chocolate’s a heaven but since I’ve given up coffee I try to stay quite away from cocoa powder as well. Not given that up totally but just to tinker a little and to see what’s best for me. So I’ve been busy preparing some “white chocolates” instead: just omit the cocoa! So very easy. Here’s a couple of mixes you can try.

Coconut Pralines

  • organic coconut oil
  • good quality salt
  • nuts and seeds
  • super foods: incan berries, mulberries, gojis

Melt the coconut oil, add chopped nuts, seeds and berries, season lightly with some salt. Pour into a silicon ice cube mould and let sit in the fridge until settled.

Pure Coconut

  • organic coconut oil
  • organic coconut flakes
  • good quality salt

Melt the coconut, add flakes and season with salt. Again, our into a mould and let settle.

Buttery treats

  • un-pastorized butter
  • organic coconut oil
  • almond butter
  • nuts, seeds, super food berries
  • good quality salt

Melt butter, oil and mix in almond butter. Add nuts and seeds for crunch, sweaten with berries. Season with salt. Into mould it goes, to the fridge and voilá! This one owes to the brilliant Nora Gedgaudas, the author of Primal body, primal mind.

Also found some stuff from Ekolo yesterday: the dried pomegranate seeds had finally arrived! Tasty, delicious, full of antioxidants. Very recommendable, also for chocolates and non-chocolates.

15.3.2010

Something to chew on

Filed under: Alakarppi,Lihaa,meat,Napot,paleo — Meri @ 6.27

Home made beef jerky. Sounds tricky, but is über simple. At least when you’ve got yourself a food dryer. By preparing jerky yourself you’ll save cash loads of money, your gut from unnecessary additives s and may treat yourself RIGHT even when travelling or going to movies. The smell rising from the dryer is divine and the end product… Chewy, tasty, satisfying. Something no paleo monkey would ever refuse.

jerky

Monkey Jerky

  • a good piece of meat (such as ulkopaisti)
  • organic shoy soy sauce (being pure paleo it should be gluten free)
  • black pepper, other spices (optional)

Cut the meat into thin stripes. Put in a bowl and splash soy generously, mix it well. Add some pepper if you want a bit of a bite to the taste. Cover and let sit in the fridge overnight. Next day wipe out the excess marinade by some kitchen towels and place in the dryer. Some good 8 hours of 40 degree drying should do it. You may want to experiment a little to achieve the level of chewiness you prefer and the marinade is of course entirely variable.

There you have it. All you need now is a good movie, easier said than done… 😉

13.3.2010

Meri had a lil lamb

Filed under: Alakarppi,Arkiruoka,Lihaa,Maidoton,meat,paleo,Uunista — Meri @ 8.25

…on her plate!

This is the most simple recipe and thee most delicious! Gotta post it again in English so to enable all the English readers to prepare it as well.

peltikaali

Thee Bää-äääst Cabbage Dish

  • 500+ g minced meat (lamb/mutton or else)
  • small cabbage
  • salt

Cook the minced meat on a pan until browned. Take out an oven tray. Chop the cabbage into relatively think slices and spread onto the tray. Cover with cooked minced meat and place a tin foil over the whole thing, doesn’t have to be tight. Bake in an oven for at least an hour, in 200 degrees, then remove the tin foil and bake half an hour more. Season with salt and soy sauce if you tolerate that, ketchup goes also well with this (but has sugar :-/). Brilliantly delish and tender, makes an excellent meal and is easy to take the leftovers to work the next day.

4.3.2010

Do you have balls to eat these nuts?

Filed under: Alakarppi,Gluteeniton,Napot,Nuts!,paleo — Meri @ 6.26

I understand that it might be a tad tricky to try separate the really good recipes from the really, really good ones here in Monkeyfood because I praise almost everything I ever make 😀 Still, I’m gonna praise these ones as well: these superduper nuts that would give even the almighty Super Goof unseen powers! …and while he’s not here, me.

nuts

Supernuts

  • variety of nuts you prefer (macadamias, cashews, almonds, Brazil nuts, pecans, walnuts, pistachios… )
  • organic coconut oil
  • quality salt

Roast nuts on a medium hot, dry pan. You may want to chop some of the bigger nuts in smaller pieces such as the Brazil nuts. Let roast while constantly mixing them around to avoid burning and let them get a bit color. Add a generous amount (start with a tablespoon, add if necessary) of coconut oil on to the pan and let melt, let roast and mix into the nuts. Turn off the heat and add salt. Move into a jar or a dish and let cool… Dig in! Works as a snack, dessert or a cheer-you-up! Bloody desirable.

3.3.2010

Shameless advertising

Filed under: Alakarppi,Gluteeniton,Lihaa,Maidoton,meat,paleo,Välipalaa — Meri @ 19.34

For all my Finnish readers, I HAVE TO put a word out about this wonderful organic product: Kotivaran Luomumeetvursti. It’s not only organic and unbelievable delicious, it also does not contain glucose or any other sh*t so commonly messing with cut meat. I won’t even mention E621, the most evil monosodium glutamate (MSG) that’s put into so many products it makes me sick. Literally.

metukka

But this beauty saves the day! Brilliantly fatty and tasty it’s a perfect snack with some veggies or a part of a good meal. Doesn’t get much better.

2.3.2010

Artsy stew (or hash?)

Filed under: Alakarppi,Arkiruoka,Kalkkuna,paleo — Meri @ 20.37

Well no, Artsy Stew ain’t some kitsch artist but rather a bit kitsch dish. I don’t even have a photo of it because a) I was too hungry and it was so good and b) because it ain’t that photogenic. Anyway, am gonna share with you, love your artsy stews, create your own!

hash

[A day later: had to make it immediately again since it was sooo good!]

Artsy stew

  • veggies (broccoli, cauliflower, turnip)
  • spring onion
  • salt, pepper, organic shoy soy sauce
  • deli (smoked) turkey or meat
  • coconut milk

Peel and roughly chop the veggies and spring onion and boil in a little water until tender but still al dente, not totally mushed. Pour away excess water and mush the veggies with a fork. Not into a puré but into something stewie. Season with salt, pepper and if you like, soy sauce. Chop some thinly sliced smoked turkey or ham and mix, transfer the stew onto your plate. Finish with a generous splash of coconut milk and enjoy immediately! Delish.

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