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16.5.2010

I can has Mayo

Filed under: Alakarppi,Gluteeniton,laktoositon,Maidoton,paleo,Soosit,Vege — Meri @ 19.32

I know, it’s not really something to cheer on when following a paleolithic diet, the vegetable oils with all their omega 6 fatty acids, but hey, one needs to have some mayo time to time. At least it’s not like it would contain gluten or dairy or carbs or any other sch*it 😉 It’s a decent form of fat! And beautiful. Have a look:

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I tried multiple variations to make it more paleo (virgin olive oil, flaxseed oil et cetera) but no, they ruin the taste. So this is it. And the tuning possibilities are juicy!

Mayonese

  • 1 organic egg
  • 2 tsps organic raw apple vinegar
  • 1 tsp Dijon mustard
  • 0,5 tsp salt
  • 0,5 cups (1,2 dl) olive oil (light one! not the extra virgin stuff)
  • 0,5 cups (1,2 dl) canola oil

Break the egg in a blender, add vinegar, mustard and salt. Let whizz for awhile. Add a quarter of the oil, that is, 0,25 cups. Whizz again and repeat until you’ve added all the oil. And tadaa! The magic has happened. You can has mayo!

Tartar Sauce

  • mayo
  • chopped pickled cucumber

Enjoy with some smoked salmon, awwwh.

Ultimate Tuna Spread

  • a can of tuna in oil
  • mayo

Mix! Eat with a spoon or on a pale bread, lettuce, with veggies or… on a burger? What ever floats your paleo boat. Make some cole slaw! My favourite.

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[Mayo with cabbage. Mmm, mmmmmy boats floating!]

4.5.2010

Paleo Casserole (makaroonilaatikko)

Filed under: Alakarppi,Arkiruoka,Gluteeniton,Lihaa,Maidoton,meat,paleo,Sieniä,Uunista — Meri @ 18.02

In Finland we’ve got this hugely popular and loved dish called makaroonilaatikko. It’s something every kid eats and all adults take a ton when it’s served in the lunch restaurants. In English it would be something like macaroni (pasta) and minced meat casserole so yeah, it’s not quite paleo. Since there’s no brilliant equivalent for macaroni in paleo diet (such as cauliflower rice which isn’t that ricy either imo) I had to come up with a little different solution. The result is somewhat of an application of the paleo loaf and tastes… Yes, GOOD! May be altered with different meats, why not make it veggie sometime as well?

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Monkey Pie goes Paleo

  • couple of onions
  • 400 g canned meat (sikanauta! may also use minced meat)
  • mushrooms
  • approx. 3 dl coconut milk
  • 3 organic eggs
  • salt, pepper
  • coconut flour and nutritional yeast for crust

Cut onions into stripes and cook in butter on a pan. Add minced meat/canned meat and mushroom and cook until done (the meat cooked and the mushrooms lost a bit of their moisture). Pour into an oven casserole. Mix coconut milk with eggs in a separate bowl. Season with salt and pepper, pour into casserole. If you want a crisp, salty crust on the top such as is in the original makaroonilaatikko, put some two teaspoons or so coconut flour and nutritional yeast on the top. Bake about 40 minutes in 220 degrees. Enjoy food and childhood memories!

No-Cream Sour Cream

Filed under: Alakarppi,Elävä ravinto,Gluteeniton,laktoositon,Maidoton,paleo,Soosit,Vegan — Meri @ 17.50

Again the applause go for Aletheia for figuring out this one: how to get some sour cream while following paleo to go with some veggie chips, cold-smoked salmon or taco wraps (in a lettuce, naturally). Well, it’s easy. The taste isn’t quite as the original but serves as a dip brilliantly! Tested with some… err… potato chips *withdraws to a corner to do some SHAME time*

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Sour Cream for Paleo People

  • two handfuls of cashew nuts (soaked)
  • one handful of organic sauerkraut
  • dash of lemon juice
  • salt, pepper
  • dried or fresh dill

Let cashews soak in water for at least a half an hour. Pour away the water and put the cashews and sauerkraut in a blender. Add lemon juice and season with salt and pepper, mix. Add dill and check the taste. I had to add some water to make it mix well but didn’t ruin anything, made it a bit more moist.

If you’ll try this and come up with some awesome ideas to utilize it, please share!

Supergreen! Paleo Pesto.

Filed under: Alakarppi,Elävä ravinto,Gluteeniton,laktoositon,Maidoton,Nuts!,paleo,raw food,Soosit — Meri @ 17.37

Pesto. That’s one thing you wouldn’t want to miss out because of a (healthy) diet. And luckily, you don’t have to! Just omit the pasta.

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[Nigella would be poetic in her words about this gleaming green pesto.]

Paleo Pesto

  • a bunch of fresh basilicum (may as well use the thai version, hint of aniseed in the taste)
  • (at least) 3 Tbsps pine nuts
  • 1 clove of garlic
  • 1 Tbsp of nutritional yeast (for the cheesy taste!)
  • loads of good quality organic extra virgin olive oil
  • salt

Rip off the leaves from the poor basilicum like a decent gatherer and stuff them into blender. Add pine nuts, garlic, salt and olive oil. Let blend and add olive oil until the consistency is creamy and soluble enough. You may also want to add some pine nuts, trust your taste. Nutritional yeast isn’t gonna ruin your batch by it’s absence, but I sincerely recommend it: the nutty, cheesy, salty taste really makes up for parmiggiano in other foods as well.

Mix pesto with veggies, meat or just eat it with a spoon! Goes with nearly everything and suits the non-paleo friends as well.

17.4.2010

Paleolithic Chocolate Sauce

Filed under: Alakarppi,Elävä ravinto,Gluteeniton,laktoositon,Maidoton,paleo — Meri @ 14.35

…and this version is now without avocado, which also makes a PERFECT chocolate mousse! If you don’t know that yet, check out The Crocodile Mousse (in English later in this post). You might also call this more like a chocolate sauce or a pudding, but anyway: it’s chocolate and it’s ALMOST paleo. Only using the stevia (a root, natural sweetener) makes it a tad questionable.

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Smooth Criminal

  • 2 generous Tbsp tahini (sesame seed butter, you may also use raw almond butter, it’s taste it more neutral)
  • 1,5 dl coconut milk or cream
  • 1,5 Tbsp raw cocoa powder
  • 13 drops Vanilla Stevia
  • (optional: 1-2 Tbsp cashew flour (just grind it first in the blender))

Put everything in a blender and blend, adjust the sweetness by using stevia or some other form of sweetener. You may use raisins or dried fruit instead of stevia, but then you have to blend them first. If you want the mixture to be more like mousse, add tahini/almond butter. If you want it to be more like a sauce, you may add a little bit of coconut milk. Using some cashew nut flour adds a bit texture, but you may find it doesn’t need it.

And it’s ready. So easy. If you have the patience to let the sauce/mousse cool down in the fridge, it will settle a bit quickly. Eat as it is or use it in a raw cake or enjoy the sauce with some blueberries. Whatever works for you.

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The Crocodile Mousse

  • 1 ripe avocado
  • 0,6 dl warm water
  • 0,6 dl raw cocoa powder
  • 0,5 tsp natural vanilla extract
  • 0,5 tsp cinnamon
  • 0,5 Tbsp lemon juice
  • Vanilla stevia or other sweetener of your choice

Cut the avocado in half, remove the stone and spoon the flesh into a blender. Add other ingredients and let it smooth out, then add the sweetener and adjust the taste according to your taste buds. You may add some flaxseed if you like to get some texture, but works beautifully without seeds as well. Velvety, delicious and just so very chocolaty.

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!

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[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

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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.

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.

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.

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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.

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