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Avocado Shake Recipe

Tyson — Mon, 24 May 2010 19:02:50 +0000

I have been wanting to do this one ever since I saw a variation of it on Mark’s Daily Apple. Overall it tasted pretty good. I sort of wish I had some vanilla or even some unflavored protein powder. A lot of the flavoring of the avocado was lost in the chocolate protein powder. The texture was really thick. Adding some more almond milk would have taken care of that.

Recipe: Avocado Protein Shake

Ingredients

1 Cup Almond Milk
1 Scoop Chocolate Protein Powder
1/2 Avocado

Instructions

Combine all ingredients into a blender and blend until smooth.

Cooking time (duration): 5

Diet (other): High protein, Gluten free

Number of servings (yield): 1

Meal type: breakfast

Culinary tradition: USA (General)

Pumpkin Shake Recipe

Tyson — Fri, 21 May 2010 14:24:33 +0000

I am always trying to come up with ideas and recipes for protein shakes. I had some left over pumpkin fixings from some Almond Butter Pumpkin Brownies I had made so I thought I would see how it tastes inside a shake. Here is what I came up with.

Recipe: Pumpkin Protein Shake

Ingredients

1.5 Cup Almond Milk
1 Scoop Chocolate Protein Powder
2 Tablespoons Almond Butter
1/2 Cup Pumpkin Filling
1/2 Cup Strawberries

Instructions

Combine all ingredients into a blender and blend until smooth.

Cooking time (duration): 5

Diet (other): High protein, Gluten free

Number of servings (yield): 1

Meal type: breakfast

Culinary tradition: USA (General)

Cauliflower Fried Rice

Tyson — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 03:32:21 +0000

Ashley and I have been experimenting a lot lately with cauliflower, mainly as a substitute in our Sweet and Sour chicken. Last night I got the itch to make some fried rice with it. I set out on a search of the Internet and found a few that I thought would be good but I didn’t have all of the required ingredients. So I did what I do best and improvised. The end result came out awesome and there wasn’t much left of it afterward. I figure there was probably enough there to feed a family of 4 but it was so good that I couldn’t resit eating most of myself. Here is what I did.

Ingredients

Head of Cauliflower
2 onions chopped
2 clove garlic
coconut oil
3 eggs
1 teaspoon of paprika
3 tablespoons gluten free soy sauce
1/2 cup frozen peas

Instructions

I started out by chopping the the cauliflower, onions, and garlic cloves using our Vidalia Chop Wizard. If you don’t have one of these, you need to get one. It makes chopping vegetables so much easier than by hand and the cleanup is painless. After chopping I cooked the ingredients in a large pain along with some coconut oil for about 5 minutes. At about 3 minutes into that, I added the frozen peas, soy sauce and paprika.
At the 5 minute mark I moved the mixture to the side and added 3 whole eggs. I made sure to break up the yokes a bit and allowed it all to cook. Once the eggs where cooked but still soft, I mixed them in with the rest of the cauliflower mixture that has been set aside in the pan. I let it cook for a few more minutes and then promptly removed from the heat. The key to all of this is to continuously stir the mix or it will burn to the bottom of the pan.

Cooking time (duration): 10

Diet (other): Reduced carbohydrate, High protein, Gluten free

Number of servings (yield): 4

My wife commented that it was really good and suggested maybe adding some chicken in next time. That is a great idea and would really add some protein to it and could really make it a meal by itself. I actually served this particular one with some almond encrusted tilapia.

I apologize for the quality of the picture. All I had was my camera phone.

Primal Guacamole

Tyson — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:57:52 +0000

I had a few avocado’s getting ripe in the fridge so tonight I decided to make some dip out of them. I must say that I am quite proud of what I came up with. So much so that I cannot stop eating it!

Recipe: Primal Gaucamole

Ingredients

3 ripe avocado’s
half an onion
half a red pepper
1 tablespoon lime juice
1 clove of garlic
1 teaspoon sea salt
1 teaspoon cilantro

Instructions

Saute the onion and red pepper in some coconut oil until both are soft. While that is cooking, begin on the guacamole by cutting them in half length wise, removing the seeds and scooping out the good stuff into a bowl. Begin to mash. Once mashing is complete, add in the onion, red pepper and the rest of the ingredients.
Blend well and serve!

Cooking time (duration): 10

Number of servings (yield): 6

My rating: 4 stars: ★★★★☆

Let me know what you think.

Quick Primal Lasagna

Tyson — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:02:03 +0000

Tuesday night is what my kids like to call “Fun Night”. Fun Night usually consists of the kids making their own form of pizza (English muffins, sauce, cheese, pepperoni, etc). My wife and I will usually make a gluten free version for ourselves. Lately that option has also been primal (consisting of almond flour). We missed last weeks fun night because of unforeseen circumstances so we decided to make up for it on Friday.

While the kids ate their pizza, I decided to do something different for the wife and I (mainly because I had no almond flour for crust). Since this was last minute and I was short on time, I put some ground beef in the microwave to defrost. A few minutes later, I took it out, drained the excess grease into one pan and threw the beef into another. While the beef was cooking, I cut up an onion and threw it into the hamburger grease and put a spaghetti squash into the microwave to cook.

After the onions, hamburger, and squash were all done cooking, I set out to make my lasagna. Since my spaghetti squash was small and my pan large, I decided to use a meatloaf pan instead of a typical 9×9 baking dish.

I put my first layer of squash down on the bottom.

I followed that with a layer of beef and onions

and then a layer of spaghetti sauce.

I followed it up with another layer of squash, then meat, then sauce and topped it with some cheese.

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The end result was fantastic.

This would be considered Primal because of the cheese but not Paleo for the same reason. Lose the cheese and gain the Paleo tag. Easy enough.