TPM Tidbit: A New Paleo Cookbook for Me To Review

Paleo Cinnamon Buns

When I was a teenager, my Uncle Bill taught me how to make real cinnamon buns. You know, the kind with yeast-based bread? It was a revelation and became one of my favorite treats to make. One batch would make a whole delicious pan, full of thousands of gluten-filled calories. And last about an hour.
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Grug’s Barbecued Stuffed Bananas—A Recipe Inspired by The Croods

Who is Grug? He is the overprotective yet loving dad (voiced by Nicolas Cage) in the new DreamWorks Animation film, The Croods. The Croods is about a family of cavemen forced to embrace change. This movie looks like a whole lot of fun and I can’t wait to take my girls to see it (you
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Puerto Rican Plantain Lasagna (Pastelon)

Plantain lasagna? Really? Yes! And what a delicious and comforting meal! Perfect for this time of year! This is another recipe modified from one that Gloria sent me (thank you Gloria!). I made this for my mother-in-law’s birthday while she was visiting and it was a hit! My mother-in-law was amazed—mostly at how you don’t
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Perfect Paleo Pancakes

These hotcake-style pancakes were a serendipitous accident. I was working on a crepe recipe (which I will be posting soon!) and my first attempt was not crepe-like at all, but a light fluffy and delicious, if maybe a little too thin, pancake. Once my crepe recipe was perfected, my next priority became to take a
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TPM Tidbit: A New Paleo Cookbook for Me To Review

September 4, 2012 in TPM Tidbits

I am in the process of reviewing a new paleo cookbook: Weeknight Paleo by Amber Beam. I am so inspired flipping through the book, choosing which recipes I will cook for my family.

I love the layout of the book, which is very unique. Amber lays out nine weeks of recipes, each week consisting of four complete meals that are quick, easy and look delicious! Some of the meals are standalone quick meals while others include ingredients that are leftovers from a previous recipe cooked that week (the previous recipe is purposefully made in a large quantity to accommodate this). This is a great way to cook when crunched for time and Amber is very creating in the way she reinvents leftovers. The idea is that you would shop for your week’s worth of meals on the weekend (Amber includes a shopping list for each week) and then know what you are going to cook all week. You could easily swap out some of the standalone meals from one week to another. Either way, it takes much of the effort of meal planning for a busy week

I am also finding a suitable subset of recipes that are autoimmune-friendly or easily adapted for the extra restrictions of the autoimmune protocol (maybe one quarter of the recipes?). Look for my full review of this book in the next couple of weeks!