The Paleo Diet Cookbook: More Than 150 Recipes for Paleo Breakfasts, Lunches, Dinners, Snacks, and Beverages Author: Visit Amazon's Loren Cordain Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0470913045 | Format: PDF
The Paleo Diet Cookbook: More Than 150 Recipes for Paleo Breakfasts, Lunches, Dinners, Snacks, and Beverages Description
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Selected Recipes from The Paleo Diet CookbookGreek Chicken Breast Kebabs
Everyone loves a kebab. This easy-to-prepare and fun-to-eat dish makes a festive presentation and will impress your guests. Be sure to make plenty as there will be many requests for seconds. Serves 4.
- Ingredients
1 tablespoon freshly squeezed lemon juice
2 teaspoons dried oregano
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 garlic clove, crushed
4 6-ounce chicken cutlets, cut into 1-inch cubes
8 skewers, wooden or metal
- Directions
If using wooden skewers, soak in water for one hour.
Combine lemon juice with oregano, oil, and garlic in a small jar and shake well. Pour over chicken and mix well. Cover and refrigerate for at least two hours.
Thread chicken onto skewers. Grill or broil at medium heat for twenty minutes, turning at the halfway point.
Wild Salmon Basil Burgers
These seafood burgers are sure to be a big hit at your next barbecue. Cook them on the grill or broil them in the oven for a mouthwatering delight. Serves 4.
- Ingredients
1½ pounds boneless wild king salmon fillet
¼ cup minced fresh basil
1 garlic clove, minced
1 omega 3 egg
1 teaspoon onion powder
- Directions
Heat grill to medium or oven to broil.
Place salmon in a food processor with basil and garlic and blend until smooth. Place mixture in a medium bowl. Combine with egg and onion powder and shape into patties. Cook for fifteen minutes, turning once.
Dress with your favorite Paleo condiment and wrap with lettuce leaves.
Caramelized Broccoli with Orange Zest
For a sweet twist on this vitamin-packed veggie, we toss broccoli with orange juice, resulting in a lovely caramelized dish. Serves 4.
- Ingredients
2–3 broccoli heads, cut into bite-sized pieces
2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1 tablespoon freshly squeezed orange juice
1 tablespoon orange zest
1 tablespoon walnut oil
- Directions
Preheat oven to broil. Place broccoli in large bowl and toss with olive oil and pepper. Drizzle with orange juice and orange zest and mix thoroughly. Arrange broccoli pieces evenly spaced on a rimmed baking sheet.
Broil for ten to twelve minutes, until bright green and slightly tender. Remove from oven and toss with walnut oil.
Review
'...some intriguing recipes in the new cookbook guaranteed not to leave you feeling hungry.' (Jewish Chronicle, December 2010).
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- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition (December 7, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0470913045
- ISBN-13: 978-0470913048
- Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 0.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
What a disappointment. I've never returned a book before now, but honestly, this one was a dust collector right off the bat. Baked apples? Seriously? I don't know many people who don't know how to put some cinnamom and nutmeg on an apple and put it in the oven. I need a recipe book for that? Maybe it's because of the incredibly strict rules that Cordain follows. Get off grains? Oh yes. Loose the sugar? Absolutely. Avoid soy, corn and other processed oils at all costs? Too right. Toss the processed food? You bet. Try to find grass fed, pastured, free range and organic? I'm with you. But if you then remove all dairy (cheese, butter, cream) and go low fat (why you would do this I have no idea), it's pretty darn hard to create a dessert.
Here's my take on paleo eating in a nutshell (it'll save you the price of a cookbook): Cook some grass fed, free range or pastured meat or wild fish (the size of your palm is about right), put it on your plate and fill the rest of the plate up with organic veggies and salad (raw is always good). Snack on nuts. Easy on the fruit (berries are the best!) and heavy on the veggies. Stay far, far away from sugar, grains, beans, soy, processed stuff and food covered in chemicals. Don't eat animals that were fed these things, either. Dairy? Some say no, some say okay. Honey? Same thing.
Want to approximate your old favorites? Cauliflower is life's wonder food: use it in place of rice or potatoes. Spaghetti squash is pasta, as is zucchini. Cabbage can be lasagna noodles. Romain lettuce leaves = wraps for just about anything you could put in a sandwich. Turnip and rutabagas do just about anything potatoes can do. High heat frying can be done in pork fat, beef tallow or (to some extent) coconut oil.
Want to make desserts?
Paleo diets are certainly nothing new under the sun as they've existed for tens of thousands of years. Modern-day advocates of Paleo/primal/traditional diets are simply trying to get people to hearken back to the nutrition and fitness principles of early man as a means for avoiding the modern epidemics of obesity and chronic preventible diseases that plague us. The influx of highly-processed garbage that has been passed off as "food" in the 21st Century has taken us further and further away from what Paleolithic man was really all about. Thankfully we have people who are championing what it means to be Paleo like Dr. Loren Cordain. His 2002 release The Paleo Diet put the Paleolithic diet front and center in the health debate and it has only gotten stronger from there.
His follow-up book The Paleo Diet Cookbook: More than 150 recipes for Paleo Breakfasts, Lunches, Dinners, Snacks, and Beverages is a response to this increased demand for titles with a Paleo bent as more and more people are looking to eat this way and want to try some delicious recipes for themselves. Dr. Cordain teamed up with his wife Lorrie and well as Paleo nutrition enthusiast and athlete Nell Stephenson to make these Paleo-friendly dishes available in book form. The book itself was written over the span of one month and unfortunately you can tell. While the recipes are not horrible and certainly fit within the mold of the Paleo basics (grain-free, dairy-free, and sugar-free), there are no photographs of the recipes at all. WHAT?! I realize this is likely a cost-saving measure used by the publisher, but a good cookbook will ALWAYS show you pictures to make you drool over which dish to make first.
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