Last weekend, one of my dearest friends (non-paleo, non-crossfitting) texted me asking for a paleo cookie recipe. What?! I was super excited. She said that she was baking for her mother-in-law, who eats mostly paleo for health reasons … yes! I sent her the following email: Here is my all-time fave paleo chocolate chip cookie…
Category: food
Free From Foods
via Free the Animal / FAILblog Strive to eat whole foods, yeah? No Free From Foods Food. Except the occasional chocolate chip cookie, which may be free from food but is nonetheless delicious. However, it should be noted that saturated fat AND high-glycemic index DON’T affect insulin sensitivity? What the what? Have you heard? Another…
Eggplant sweet potato lasagna
I had an eggplant sweet potato lasagna at a restaurant and thought to myself, “why didn’t I think of that?” But I promptly forgot about it, until I read a recipe for it in a magazine. I tore out the page, magneted it to my refrigerator, and then didn’t follow it at all. Y’all already…
Effing Gluten and Sugar
We ALL know not to eat that junk, right? I’m pretty good about it–particularly the gluten, less so the sugar. But yesterday was my birthday. And That Ripped Guy of Mine(TM) was going to make me an almond flour cake but ran out of time, so after a sunset picnic atop Aspen Mountain (awwwwww!), he…
Primal-ish Scones
How awesome does this look? A cup of coffee and a scone. Almost Paleo, almost Primal, definitely delish! I adapted the recipe so far away from its original that I will reprint it here. It is based on the recipe in Elana’s Gluten Free Almond Flour Cookbook … You Need: 1/4 cup grassfed butter, melted…
Ten Foods to Live
I just returned to Aspen from Austin, and there are a few things I have to buy in Austin that I simply can’t find from Aspen to Glenwood Springs. This time, I brought back hazelnut meal, veggie chips from Central Market/Whole Foods bulk, Perfect Foods Chocolate Raspberry bars, Emergen-C MSM powder, and bulk arrowroot powder.…
Here’s How I’m Gonna Un-Overtrain
If I’m even overtraining 🙂 Anyway, I’m gonna take on this 24 Day Advocare Challenge that Megan (and Alex … and Jess) is so pumped up about. I’ve only tried Advocare once before, during Spartan last year, and I didn’t think it made a huge difference. BUT so many of my friends swear by it…
Turmeric Turmeric everywhere!
Dr. Mercola produced a huge segment on the yellow powder today: turmeric. He discusses its myriad of health benefits, and then addresses what we all REALLY want to know: how does it make me more beautiful? Curcuminoids support important blood and liver functions, healthy joints, and your overall well-being,* which in turn helps promote radiant,…
More on Turmeric’s Benefits
It’s all the rage these days! After my post on spices last week, I posed a question about how in the world to use turmeric. So obviously I was thrilled to see that Mark Sisson at Mark’s Daily Apple devoted a whole post today to the health benefits of turmeric! Lisa assured me that turmeric…
File it under: tonightsgonnabeagoodnight
No really, someone out there arrived at xlyssa by googling “tonightsgonnabeagoodnight.” All one word. You have to love the internet, where a phrase I can’t even find on my own site–with or sans spaces–somehow directed someone out there to me. And really dude, no spaces? Blackeyedpeas would be sad. Anyway, spices are really what’s up…