Category: Food

When I was younger, my mother used to make bacalao fritters, a Puerto Rican cod fritter.  So when my son made these fritters they reminded me a little bit of what I used to have growing up. They’re not the same but still brought back the memory.

These Cod Fritters were quite tasty and included sweet potatoes in the filling (my favorite). With fish, one normally has tartar sauce, right?  We had homemade tartar sauce that complemented the fritters very well.

The cod fritters were served with a tomato and cucumber salad and baked sweet potato fries. Yum!

Another paleo dinner hit!

(Note:  The Puerto Rican bacalao fritters can be bought at most stores or online (click on the picture below to buy them online). However, if you purchase them in a box, remember that you don’t get a whole lot of fish … just so you’re not surprised if you decide to try them.

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So, goulash is basically a stew — a nice hearty and fill-your-stomach kind’ve stew.

Hungarian Goulash usually has paprika as one of the ingredients and this one was no exception. The ingredients call for lard, tallow, olive oil or butter — we used olive oil in ours.

Side note: I remember that when we moved to Minnesota from Seattle, we brought our Hungarian Paprika with us. I don’t recall how old it was though (laughing) but it was a large container and I didn’t use it too often (although when I made scalloped potatoes I would use it).

The beef was really tender in this stew (a good thing) probably because it simmered for approximately 1.5 hours. It kind’ve reminded me of when my mother makes Carne Guisada (a Puerto Rican beef stew).

This goulash was filling but we still had a side dish – Cabbage Stuffed Peppers which I found quite delightful. I know, I know, you wouldn’t think of cabbage as being delightful, would you? But I did. There was a sweetness to the cabbage and the peppers also tasted sweet.

The strange thing about the Cabbage Stuffed Peppers? I didn’t know I was eating cabbage. It’s true! I had to ask my son what the peppers were filled with in order for me to know. I believe that’s a good thing since I know a lot of people don’t like cabbage although I’m not sure why.

This would be a good recipe to try on someone who doesn’t like cabbage — but they do need to like peppers.  (smile)

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This was the best paleo bread I’ve tasted so far on the paleo diet — a Blueberry Pumpkin Loaf. 

Some of the ingredients are bananas, fresh blueberries (and it’s not even spring yet!) and almond flour.

I was surprised that the loaf didn’t taste like almond flour. It tasted like a “regular” blueberry loaf which was wonderful.

Shortly after the loaf was made, we had a friend come visit and he had a slice. He thought it was delicious also. My husband tried to tell him (before eating some) that it was paleo but we hushed him up quickly so we could get a true picture of whether he liked it or not. Yesterday I saw my friend again and he again commented how much he liked it.

So if you’d like to try something new yet “old” (in the sense of blueberry loaf), this is the recipe for you. And if you try it, let me know how it turns out.

This Cranberry Walnut Chicken Salad was one of my favorites as it uses three ingredients I enjoy eating — dried cranberries, walnuts and, of course, chicken.

The celery that’s also in this salad gives it a nice crunchy taste which compares nicely to the softer ingredients.

I had this for lunch a couple of days in a row as it was quite tasty.

This makes for an excellent paleo lunch.

Are you tired of reading about sweet potatoes? I hope not as I could live on them. I’m not sure why my taste buds love them so much.

These sweet potato latkes (pancakes) were moist and used very few ingredients to make.

They make for a great paleo breakfast or even a snack and can be served with pure maple syrup if you’re so inclined.  I didn’t really need to add maple syrup to them though as they were sweet and moist enough.

They are fried instead of “on the grill pancakes” but didn’t taste too oily for me.

Have you ever fried pancakes before?