A few posts ago, I wrote about this Paleo challenge I've decided to take part in at our Crossfit affiliate. It started yesterday at 3:00. Saturday evening was epic. Arris pizza, Orange Leaf, and grape martinis, lovingly dubbed "grape time." It really doesn't get any better than that. Well, until I started feeling sick. Regardless, I've hit Paleo hard and fast and I've stayed strict. Yesterday and the majority of today I stuck to the basics: chicken, veggies, a piece of fruit here and there, raw nuts. However, tonight I came home and for some reason spent a great deal of time in the kitchen working on some Paleo banana muffins and a winter squash soup.
Yeah...it is absolutely delicious. All of it. So I called my mom.
"Mom...?"
"Yes, Amber?"
"What are you doing? I don't care. I just made caveman food. Come taste test."
And this is reason #581 why I love my mom. I played the part of the Next Food Network Star and plated my soup in a small ceramic berry bowl, complete with freshly ground pepper on top. It was picture perfect. And the almond flour muffin was sitting atop a lovely shallow glass plate. Bobby Flay would have beamed. And then asked me what the hell I was thinking. That is the most likely scenario that plays out in my head.
As for the ingredients--the muffins were baked of almond flour, eggs, bananas, cinnamon, vanilla, and not too much else. A fellow primal eater had lovingly passed on that recipe to me. The soup was more an inspiration from other recipes I'd seen. I didn't follow one to the tee, but more just went on my own path and it turned out absolutely swimmingly. Roasted acorn squash, caramelized onions and carrots, coconut milk, fresh pepper, and ginger. All pureed in the blender.
Oh. My. Gosh. I have found the holy grail of the cavemen. Because I know they loved their stone age blenders.
My cooking experience took my mind off the fact that I read ONE syllabus today and immediately wondered just when I lost my mind. Syllabus? What is a syllabus? Or a research paper. These are foreign concepts.
More later. My non-trad brain is tired and ready for my Jersey Housewives.
Amber! You could be the next Aarti! Also... except for the bananas I think your muffins sound amazing! I wonder if you could do the same thing with applesauce... is organic applesauce "Paleo"? It's pretty much just apples put in a stone age blender and then cooked down a little, right?
ReplyDeleteI love this. I too had a syllabus moment yesterday - but it was with blackboard. What is this "blackboard" you speak of? Zipcards? Course Reserves? What?
ReplyDeleteApplesauce is definitely paleo! Just have to make sure and get the kind that just contains apples and no sugar. The muffins are awesome. :))))
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