Sides

Beef Taco Salad

Beef Taco Salad

SERVES 4 Ingredients Taco Meat • 1 teaspoon coconut oil or Rendered Animal Fat (see page ix) • 1 onion, chopped fine • 2 tablespoons chili powder • 3 garlic cloves, minced • 1 pound ground beef • 1 (8-ounce) can tomato sauce • ½ cup Chicken Broth or Stock (see page...

White Sandwich Bread

White Sandwich Bread

MAKES 1 NINE-INCH LOAF Ingredients • 1 cup warm coconut milk • 3 tablespoons coconut oil, melted and cooled • 2 tablespoons honey • 2 cups almond flour • 1½ cups coconut flour and ½ cup extra if needed • 1 tablespoon baking powder • 2 teaspoons salt • Extra coconut...

Cheesy Garlic Bread

Cheesy Garlic Bread

SERVES 8 Ingredients • 5 garlic cloves, minced • 1 tablespoons coconut oil • 1 tablespoon plus ½ teaspoon water • ½ cup Mayonnaise • ¼ teaspoon pepper • 1 recipe White Sandwich Bread baked in French bread loaf pan • 6 ounces shredded Coconut Milk Cheddar Cheese...

Raisin Bread with Cinnamon

Raisin Bread with Cinnamon

Cooking Time: 40 minutes Servings: 10 Ingredients: • 2 cups almond flour • 2 tbsp. ground cinnamon • 1 tsp. baking soda • ¼ tsp. sea salt • 5 eggs • ¼ cup honey • ¼ cup coconut oil • 2 tsps. vanilla • ½ cup raisins Directions: 1. Preheat oven to 350. 2. Use parchment...

MOCK-A-MOLE

MOCK-A-MOLE

Makes 2 cupss Sometimes we put forth the effort to make a real guacamole, but considering how often it’s requested in our house, we usually use this simple recipe to create a quick dip our kids use for just about everything! It’s nice to make this way because you...

MAPLE BUTTERNUT SQUASH PURÉE

MAPLE BUTTERNUT SQUASH PURÉE

Serves 4-6 Butternut squash is an interesting vegetable that’s shaped like a bell and is light orange on the inside. We get so excited when we start to see this funny-shaped squash arrive in the farmers’ market. It’s super-easy to grow in your garden, too. Every year...

ROASTED SWEET POTATOES

ROASTED SWEET POTATOES

Serves 4 We don’t know why sweet potatoes aren’t even more loved than white potatoes. They are so much cooler! First, they taste better. Second, they’re bright orange! Who doesn’t love orange food? We eat orange foods like sweet potatoes, carrots, and pumpkins because...

GREENS & BACON

GREENS & BACON

Serves 4 Popeye may eat spinach from a can, but we think you’ll prefer fresh spinach! You may have had spinach in a salad, but it’s really neat to cook spinach because it shrinks in the pan! We also think you’ll like spinach better with bacon. Lots of bacon! We eat...

NATURE’S SPEARS (ASPARAGUS)

NATURE’S SPEARS (ASPARAGUS)

Serves 4 If you’re like our boys, you probably see the world as being full of weapons. Any stick becomes a sword or a gun and any string becomes a whip. Well, it shouldn’t be a shock, then, that the first time we had asparagus they were immediately used as spears....

LITTLE CABBAGE (BRUSSELS SPROUTS)

LITTLE CABBAGE (BRUSSELS SPROUTS)

Serves 6 When we were growing up, Brussels sprouts, or as we like to call them, little cabbages, were famous in movies and TV shows for being yucky to kids. Our boys are lucky they give everything a chance though, because these Brussels sprouts are some of our very...

Cedar-Plank Salmon

Cedar-Plank Salmon

This omega 3-, vitamin-, and mineral-packed recipe offers a simple way to impart the taste of fireside cooking indoors. SERVES 4 • 1 pound wild Alaskan king salmon fillet • 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil • 1 tablespoon freshly squeezed lemon juice • 1 tablespoon...

CUMIN-ROASTED CARROTS

CUMIN-ROASTED CARROTS

SERVES 2 to 4 “The Incident” in my elementary school cafeteria left me cooked-carrot averse. (Think mean lunch lady, waterlogged carrots from a can, tepid milk, and force feeding.) But my mom introduced me to the sweet goodness of roasted carrots and saved the day....