Cauliflower Chicken Fried Rice

It tastes just like regular fried rice!!!! I love disguising vegetables as other things hehehe. Cauliflower is also an awesome vegetable because you can make it in to sooo many different things!!!!


1. Grate cauliflower (a cheese grater works pretty well) until it is in small rice-like (actually I think it looks more like couscous) bits.

2. Cut up chicken thighs and cook them in coconut aminos and some coconut oil. I like chicken thighs because they are more tender. Coconut aminos are a good substitute for soy sauce.

3. Mix cauliflower rice, two eggs, green onions, shredded carrots, and ground ginger in a bowl (in the picture we didn't beat the eggs first but it would have been a little bit easier if we had)

4. Pour cauliflower mixture in with the chicken and sautee until the cauliflower rice is a little crispy and fried. Add more coconut aminos as desired.

Moroccan Beef Stew

So I got the idea for this recipe here but in reality I didn't really follow it at all.

Here's what it looked like from Jan's Sushi Bar (her's ended up looking a little prettier...)

I was planning to cook basically from her recipe but then I realized it took waayyyy more time that I had (seeing that my brother was coming over for dinner 7:30 and I started preparing/cooking at 7:25....) So instead of following her recipe I used Jan's as a jumping off point and it turned out really really well!

1. Peel sweet potatoes and cut them in to chunks
 - The recipe actually call for butternut squash but we are planning to use butternut squash in a recipe later this week so I decided to use sweet potatoes instead
- We only had small sweet potatoes from Trader Joe's so I used four small ones (probably equal to about two large ones)
2. Put chunks of sweet potatoes in boiling water and cook them on medium heat until tender
3. While the sweet potatoes are cooking put beef stew meat in a pan and cook with spices and coconut oil
- I used cumin, paprika (which are my two favorite spices!), cinnamon (Amelia's favorite spice), and nutmeg
- I don't really measure when I use spices but I tend to use fairly large quantities. It really just matters that the ratio of spices is good. I used a ton of paprika and cumin, a good amount of cinnamon, and only a little bit of nutmeg. I always put in more spices than I think I need and that is usually enough.

4. Add a whole onion cut up in to strips or diced
5. Add garlic
6. Saute together until meat is browned
7. Add one cup of beef broth and one can of coconut milk
8. Stir everything together and let it simmer (I had it simmer for about 20 minutes but you should let it simmer for longer)
9. Add sweet potatoes (which should be tender) and golden raisins

10. Mix together and let simmer for another 15 or 20 minutes

11. Enjoy!!!!

All in all it took one hour from prep time table. I let the rest of the stew then simmer longer while I was eating so that the meat will be softer and it will be thicker for lunch tomorrow. If I had had more time I would have let the meat simmer for about 45 minutes and then added the sweet potatoes and raisins and let it simmer for another 20-30 minutes. It was still delicious the way it was though!!!

Bacon Burgers with Fried Egg

So the paleo challenge has been going pretty well but I am sick of writing down what I ate everyday. It was helpful in the beginning when I was training myself on how to eat but now it is just tedious. From now on this blog won't be about what I ate every meal but instead just about the delicious recipes that my roommate and I make! Today we made burgers wrapped in bacon with fried egg on top and it was soooo delicious.


1. Mix ground beef (we used grass fed, free range beef from the Humble Gourmand) with spices. We used paprika, garlic, and 21 seasoning salute.

2. Make beef in to patties and drizzle balsamic vinegar over the burgers. This prevents them from drying out and brings out the flavor.

3.  Wrap burgers in bacon. We wrapped each patty in one slice of bacon but you could always use more!!!

4. Grill burgers in a pan until cooked as desired. It ended up taking a little longer than we thought and we ended up covering the pan so that they would cook more quickly.

The burgers turned out so well!!!!!

We then cooked onions and mushrooms on the side with more garlic and more paprika and then cooked kale in the pan that we had cooked the bacon burgers in. We came to the decision that kale should allwwaayysss be cooked in bacon burger juice. yum.  We then fried some eggs and put them on top of the burgers!

You can't really see the burger but it's under the egg!

Day 14: Friday, March 25

Breakfast: ssaammmeee oollllddd same old. it gets boring to write about but not boring to eat!!!
Snack: macadamia nuts and almonds
Lunch: leftover tuna steak and leftover vegetables
Snack: carrots, chicken veggie patty, nuts
Dinner: beef stir fry with meat from humble gourmand with an onion, red pepper, green pepper, and spices, side of sauteed spinach with sweet potatoes
Dessert: cut up strawberries with full fat coconut milk whipped cream


Beef Fajita Stir Fry
- put cut up vegetables (peppers, onions, mushrooms) in a large pan or wok

- add garlic and spices!

(we wanted to use paprika and cumin but we were out)

And for dessert strawberries with whipped coconut milk with cinnamon and vanilla!

Day 13: Thursday, March 24

Breakfast: the usual plus half an avocado
Snack: some macadamia nuts (I haven't been super hungry recently for some reason but then I start to feel sick or cranky and realize I should probably eat)
Lunch: spinach salad with hard boiled egg, half and avocado, peppers, cucumbers, sesame seeds, sun-dried tomatoes, balsamic mustard vinegar homemade dressing
Dinner: baked squash and zucchini with tuna steaks


Baked Squash and Zucchini:
- Line baking dish with garlic and olive oil
- put cut up zucchini and squash in dish
- add spices as desired (21 seasoning salute, red pepper flakes)
- Bake at 400 degrees for 20mins then broil on high for 5 mins

Tuna Steaks:
- put Trader Joe's frozen tuna steaks in plastic bag with fresh ginger, garlic, balsamic vinegar, olive oil, half a lemon, and some mustard
- leave to marinate and defrost in fridge over night
- cook in a pan for 3mins on each side or until tuna steaks reach desired done-ness (making up my own word...) ideally it should be a little pink inside and flaky

Day 12: Wednesday, March 23

Breakfast: the usual (i love it but i feel bored writing "the usual" everyday...) plus half an avocado
Snack: veggie turkey patty, carrots
Lunch: leftover curry with green beans
Afternoon snack: turkey patty, macadamia nuts, 
Dinner: leftover pork wrapped bacon (yuummmmmmmm) with sweet potato hash, kale, and onions, frozen grapes, some blackberries

Day 11: Tuesday, March 22

Breakfast: the usual (eggs, chicken sausage, kale, onions, etc.)
Lunch: leftover pork wrapped bacon yuummmmmmmmm and mashed cauliflower
Snack: half an avocado, prosciutto, macadamia nuts
Dinner: chicken curry with veggies, cauliflower rice, frozen grapes


Chicken Curry:
- cut up small pieces of chicken and cook in a pan
- add vegetables (kale, shredded carrots, peppers, mushrooms, etc.)
- add spices as desired (curry, cumin, paprika, crushed red pepper, 21 seasoning salute, garlic)
- we added chicken stock leftover from the crockpot chicken
- add coconut milk
- simmer on stove until warm

Cauliflower Rice:
- grate cauliflower with cheese grater
- put cauliflower in saucepan with olive oil, garlic, spices, and some chicken stock (we used some left over from our crockpot chicken)
- sautee on low until browned