Margherita Pizza-Primal/paleo/gluten-free/grain free

I made some yummy primal pizza for my dad and I for dinner last night! It actually turned out and my dad liked it! I took a bunch of recipes from a bunch of paleo and primal blogs and kinda made up my own recipe. (picture below also has ingredients for the salad on another post!)

CRUST INGREDIENTS:

4 eggs

1 C coconut milk (full fat from can)

1/3 cup coconut flour

1/3 cup Anutra

1T garlic powder

Salt to taste

TOPPING INGREDIENTS:
Pizza Sauce
Basil
Parmesan cheese
Mozzarella
Fresh tomato

MIX crust ingredients together or blend
It will be like pancake mix but a little thicker.

Pour it onto a pan lined with parchment paper and use a spoon to make the rectangle shape and smoothed it out

PREHEAT oven to 350 and cook for 20 minutes.
Broil for a couple minutes after until crispy
Take it out of the oven and place parchment paper on top and flip

Then put toppings on!

Pizza sauce (tomato paste, water, oregano) simmer 15 minutes.

Basil (lots of basil! If I remember anything my mom every said growing up is that you can never have too much basil) Also, always go FRESH with basil. Look at the plant I have! Used MOST of it (cheaper too)! :D

 Parmesan cheese (raw a.k.a. not pasteurized)

* Mozzarella (Supposedly can't find raw in US because it's too young and can harm pregnant people and infants)

*Fresh tomato (I sliced it thin & laid it on a paper towel and put another on top. Not a fan of slimy tomato or soggy pizza)

*****obviously, you can omit cheese for a TRULY paleo dinner)

Now for my special method...top secret ya hear...

I put sauce on, then line with basil, then tomatoes, then parmesan (lots), then some mozzarella, then more sauce, then more mozzarella then more basil! WALA!

The type of tomato I used...yum! 

Before toppings were cooked!

After! ( I cooked on 350 for 5 minutes then broiled till it looked nice and crisp)

Don't forget to thank God for your food and dig in!

*Clean as you go, then after you eat you can relax and know that you're kitchen is clean!) Yay for clean kitchen! Yay for clean soul (oh wait I forgot to say go to confession before cooking)... :P

Dinosaur Smoothie

This is the Dinosaur Smoothie because it is purple with green polka dots all throughout it!

Barney?

Ingredients:

-Frozen spinach (Buy fresh, then freeze)

-Handful of Kale (clean and take off stem!)

-Handful of blackberries (purple!)

-Banana 

-Coconut milk

-Ice

-Primal Fuel (or protein powder of choice, or nothing!)

**Try Rainbow Chard too

Blend it all together! 

Acorn Squash Fries

Acorn Squash fries!

Cut and gut the squash (save the seeds for later)

Peel the back of the squash...I hope he wasn't trying to be modest...

Slice very small (about a cm in width and 2 inches long)

Mix with 1 tsp of melted coconut oil 

Add spices of choice

 (basil, sea salt, cinnamon, red pepper flakes, and rosemary. Really it's whatever)

Baked it on 400 for about 30 minutes 

Throw those seeds it too for about 15 min

Baking

YUMMY!!!

Acorn Squash Fries

Acorn Squash Seeds!

Pumpkin Puree

Cut the pumpkin into 6 pieces.
(It helps to use a hammer!)

Then dig out the insides and put the seeds aside to cook later!         

Preheat the oven to 400 and put the pieces face down with two cups of water.
Then cook for 45 minutes.








Allow the pumpkin to cool, then scoop out insides!

 Then smash with a fork

Yummy puree! This could be the finished product but you can also blend it.

Sometimes you make a mess and spill about two cups of puree on the floor :)

Brussels Sprout Slaw

DRESSING INGREDIENTS:

1/3 of Extra Virgin Olive Oil

 1.5T Apple Cider Vinegar

1tsp Pepper 

 1/3 C Dijon Mustard 

SLAW INGREDIENTS: 

 One Apple (chopped)

Bacon (crispy)

1 C Walnuts (Roasted)

  2 T Green Onions (sliced) 

 1/4 cup dried cranberries

Bag of Brussel Sprouts

Slice the Brussels sprouts about 1/4 inch thick. Personally, I think the thinner, the better!

Toast the walnuts in the oven

 Crisp the bacon

sauté the brussels until crispy brown

then mix all ingredients. 

Primal Fudge

So I'm trying to stop eating sugar FOREVER! (Well at least for the most of my life). This will help with health and skin. Sugar actually makes you age faster and, well, give you acne. So while I still have a HUGE sweet tooth, i'll stick to primal/ sugar free stuff!

INGREDIENTS:
1/2 cup coconut oil
1/2 cup high quality cocoa powder
1/2 cup almond butter
1/4 cup raw honey 
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Lots of cinnamon (optional)

(found at this blog: Practical Paleo)

I did one plain, one with walnuts, one with cranberries and one with extra almond butter swirled in to make like a "peanut" butter cup! :P

So the plain and walnut one are not full, forgot to wait to take the picture!