IT’S SATURDAY – WEEEEOOOOO!! It’s sunny and beautiful out. I’m heading to the Farmer’s Market in a bit, going to try to hit it before it gets busy. I love local food, but I hate crowds and slow people, both of which are rampant at the FM. After that I need to hit the library, the grocery store, the pavement (for a run), and then we’re heading up to Monticello to see Mom and Dad and wish Mom a Happy Birthday weekend. I asked her if she wanted me to make a treat for her birthday, and she wants, instead, for me to make her the Cowboy Breakfast Skillet! I shall get her and Dad on the paleo bandwagon yet!!
I tried a few new recipes this week. Here is the one we are most excited about: Chunky Monkey Muffins. It’s another Health-Bent recipe. These guys are geniuses. They just released a cookbook, Primal Cravings. Based on the recipes on their blog, I’m sure the recipes in the book are fantastic, but I’m trying to be more careful about spending money, so I haven’t purchased it yet. Back to the recipe – these muffins are DELICIOUS!!! Tim loved them, and I took them into work, and my coworkers said I should open a paleo bakery. Maybe they were just stroking my ego, but regardless, these are some tasty sons of bitches. They had a perfect muffin consistency (not too dense), which I think is probably due to the tapioca flour. It was also the first time I’ve used coconut sugar. It smells like heaven. I used pecans instead of walnuts, and I went a little heavy on the chocolate, of course. I used about 1/2 a cup of dark chocolate chips, and then I chopped up a couple of squares from a dark chocolate bar.
So, in reference to the title of the post. This is a DANGEROUS paleo treat. While eating one of these muffins is way better for you than eating a muffin from, say, Panera, there is still a lot of sugar and carbs in these. Tim and I are only 2 people. What are two people to do with 12 muffins?? Well, I took 3 into work, and then Tim and I finished off the rest. I should probably eat like ONE of these a week, not FOUR over the course of 2 or 3 days. This is why I really SHOULD open a paleo bakery, so that like-minded people could go to a nicely decorated, lovely-smelling bakery, spend an exorbitant amount of money on ONE muffin and feel better about themselves than if they saved money, made their own muffins, and then ate them all. Paleo Bakery, here I come. What should I call it? Hmmm…. Heather’s Home-Cooked Creations? Hlo’s Paleos? Suggestions??
Shoot. I have to get booking here – I got to get ready for the FM. So, real quick, I also made The 21 Day Sugar Detox “Fettucini” with Meat Sauce. I think you have to buy the ebook for this recipe – it’s not posted online. The meat sauce was tasty (thanks for making it, Tim!). Tim and I ate it ALL in one meal, which is impressive considering it was a full pound of meat. However, I was not a fan of the “fettucini” which consisted of sauteed zucchini “noodles.” They just seem kind of limp and greasy. Next time I will just cut the zucchini into chunks and put the meat sauce over it.
I also made a new recipe to accompany our Hebrew National hot dogs: Tomato and Olive Salad. The combination of the low rent hot dogs with fancy kalamata olives amused me. This salad was super easy and pretty tasty, but next time I will go lighter on the lemon juice. It made the salad VERY tart! I ate some of the leftovers with eggs yesterday, and that was a tasty combo.
And those are my new recipes for the week. Hope you have a fantastic weekend, and thanks for reading!
