SOUPS, SALADS, and SIDES
beef and bacon chunky pumpkin chili
For me, preparing food truly is a love language. This recipe is a perfect example of that. Making a meal at home for yourself and/or the ones you love goes beyond saving money or eating [...]
delicata soup with buttery crab
A good friend of ours is also a commercial fisherman, and he is very good at what he does. He's also an awesome human and member at our CrossFit gym. He surprised Rusty and me this past [...]
any season stew on a budget
*Note: the recipe part of this post was updated December 2018 to what we use today. I like to edit recipes as they're perfected and used most frequently for our family* Original writing commence (circa [...]
arugula, sweet potato, and wild rice salad
Wait for it.... I used to be a vegetarian. Breath. Hard to believe right? Now that I am the one nibbling on beef liver, adding bacon to everything, and loving myself some rare grass fed [...]
the perfect sweet potato fries
Almost every person who has switched over to a paleo diet has attempted homemade sweet potato "fries" with the anticipation of recreating the crispy, oily, salty goodness that so many restaurants have recently started offering on [...]
creamy apple fennel soup
It's winter in California, which means that delicious apples are everywhere. For that reason, it's also the only time of year that I crave them. It's pretty impressive how the body can be so in [...]