That title just kind of gave away my whole post.
I figured I should try some new recipes this week since for the past 2 weeks I’ve just been recycling tried and true favorites (these were the recipes I used to the build the 21-Day Challenge meal plans for my friends).
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I started using PaleoTrack to track my food during the challenge. The creator of the site wrote a post about some common diet deficiencies he’s identified using the data logged by his users. He goes on the list foods you can/should eat to remedy the deficiencies. My personal experience mirrors what he is seeing on a macro level. My vitamin levels are usually great, but I really struggle to get the RDA of minerals. This has been a very eye-opening experience for me. You just assume that if you eat a lot of whole foods, fruits, veggies, meat, etc., you will be getting pretty much everything you need. Nooooope. You have to be methodical. So I made on the recipes he suggested, Indian Delhi Saag.
I have to say, it turned out looking absolutely disgusting. For proof look at my Instagram feed to the right. But! BUT! It tasted really good! Tim was very trepidatious about it. He thought it smelled like a tobacco shop. Granted, he is not a huge cumin fan, and this has 2 tsp of cumin seed and 1 tsp of ground cumin. It’s very cuminy. It also has a lot of turmeric. My white stove is now plastered with streaks of neon yellow. I will be keeping this recipe in the roster fo sho. Although, I’m going to make Tim smell my breath tomorrow morning and see if I smell super funky from all the spices. This thing has a sh!t-ton of spices. I’m now plumb out of coriander and turmeric.
So now we’re all loaded up on vitamins and minerals – thank you Marc of PaleoTrack!
I do not know what you *should* pair with Indian Delhi Saag, so I complicated my evening by trying another brand new recipe – this one for Poached Salmon with Green Herb Sauce. We accidentally bought skinless frozen salmon at Target, and when Tim grilled it, it was very dry. I though poaching it might yield better results. It was very meh, however. I’m not linking to the recipe because I found it in some magazine. You’re not missing anything, believe me. The salmon still came out dry. I kind of doused it with the Saag, and that livened it up.
My coworker who is doing the 21-Day Challenge with me is having a primal party at her house on Saturday. I’m still finalizing what I’m going to make – maybe a cucumber salad, kale chips, and sweet potato muffins. If you have any bonkers good paleo recipes, let me know!
