Recent Paleo Food

We've been trying to eat Paleo, and do best when we are at home.  Mark's Daily Apple is one of our favorite web sites for information.  He has a section on the sidebar called "Primal 101" that is a guideline for people who want to eat this way or to learn more about it.

Here's the side dish we had recently with supper.  Kale is a nutrient-dense, green, leafy vegetable, that we can only seem to tolerate when it has bacon in it.  Instead of parboiling it before preparing the dish, I rely on the water left inside the curliness to steam the kale in the skillet:

1. Cut up two pieces of bacon, and sautee slowly in large skillet with butter and/or coconut oil, some chopped onions and/or garlic, and 1/4 cup shredded coconut.
2. Cut up half a bunch of kale, rinse and drain two times, and add to the skillet.
3. Stir in 1 cup coconut milk and a few shakes of powdered curry.
4. Cover and cook on low for about five minutes.

For breakfast this morning, hubby made No-Carb Coconut Biscuits (click here for recipe), with chopped (cooked) bacon and shredded cheese inside:

Sewing and Eating, More of it

Yesterday I made a sample napkin holder.  I had intended to make it in the style of these baskets on Debbie's blog, and I drew the pattern here:

After thinking about it and discussing it with my cousin, who I invited into the creative process, I changed how I wanted to do it.  The calculations are shown here:

The sides are made from the long strip which is folded at the top.  This strip encloses plastic canvas pieces.  The bottom is a double layer square of fabric which is attached to the bottom of the sides.  The bottom encloses a piece of craft foam.  I cut the fabric pieces and did the sewing, while my cousin cut all the plastic pieces.  Here is my first napkin holder for the kitchen:

Even though St Patrick's day was yesterday, we had a very St Paddie's day breakfast today.  The crust of the quiche was nut meal and egg.  The quiche filling was eggs, spinach leaves, and sea salt, blended.  There was cheese sprinkled on top, but it got cooked into the quiche.


The biscuits were made from this recipe.  They are made with mostly eggs and coconut flour, and they are very good.  This was a mostly paleo meal, except for the little bit of cheese:

Today, I went out with DH to buy a step ladder, and we had burgers at Steak n Shake - no fries, no bread, no cheese, but all the other condiments!  Then we went to JA's to get buttons and a zipper.  We got a small pack of very sturdy buttons for the next time I need to replace buttons on his shorts.  We got a 30" light-weight nylon zipper so I can make a cover for the wedge pillow I bought last weekend.

After that, cousin and I laid out in the sun to get our natural Vitamin D and to sweat out the toxins.  The day is not yet over!