Sweet Potato Patties

Plate of sweet potato patties

Can you believe that it’s been 6 months since Joe and I moved to England?! I SERIOUSLY can’t believe it! It’s a strange feeling because when I think back it doesn’t really feel like we’ve been here for that long but I swear the days just fly by! I went back today and read over this post I wrote just before we left the States… Joe and I miss a lot of things from our life in America, I think after 2 years it was starting to feel like home there and then we decided to come here and now we are working on settling down here. I’m not sure it will be a permanent thing… us living here but for now this is where we have to be 🙂 Who knows what will happen in another year, if we’ll be on the move again or if we’ll decide to stick it out here. In any case I often feel like a modern day nomad… the suitcases that have travelled with us since 2011 from Australia are big reminders of that for me! Anyway you gotta do these things when you’re young right! 😉

Now onto more important things like FOOD hahaha! I thought it would be fun to share with you my top 5 favourite vegetables, I know when some people think of the “paleo diet” they think we all just sit there eating bacon and eggs, and well I’m not saying we don’t but we (well I hope we do) also eat a lot of veggies and fruit! I’ve read from a couple of other paleo bloggers that when they made the switch people would often ask them what they ate if they couldn’t eat bread or pasta… as if these are the only two foods on the planet! Paleo for me personally has opened the doors to a much wider variety of food and things that I may not have ever tried before. Now I enjoy picking up a different vegetable or even fruit when I’m out shopping and I have fun experimenting with different ways to cook/use these things. For e.g. I recently picked up a cassava/yuca, I’ve NEVER tasted one before let alone cooked it but I wanted to try something different so I picked it up.

Picture of a cassava

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Paleo Carrot Pancakes with Coconut Butter

Paleo carrot pancakes with coconut butter

Here’s the GOOD news… we’ve found a new place to move into! BUT we can’t move in until early September so we’ll still be in this place for a bit longer but I we seriously can’t wait to move out of here! The new place is bigger, in a better location AND it’s not in an apartment block, it’s in a gated community with the houses attached to each other which means no more having to deal with people above us making noises all night! AND my FAVOURITE part of all is we will be living LITERALLY across the road from a castle! How cool is that! 🙂

I’m looking forward to seeing how the new kitchen works out… it’s always an adjustment when you move into a new place! By the way this will be our 6th move (including moving from Australia to America, then America to here) in 3 years so yes you can call me ‘The Moving Queen’ 😉

Anyway so this recipe I’m about to share with you is not very sweet at all, in fact the only thing that gives it some sweetness is the homemade coconut butter on top… don’t worry coconut butter is EASY to make! It could be sweeter depending on if you add sweetener to it which I didn’t, but other than that there’s no sweetener in these paleo carrot pancakes. [Read more…]

Meatballs with Zucchini & Carrot ‘Pasta’

Plate of meatballs with zucchini and carrot pasta

I’m just going to put this out there but sometimes blogging can be a pain in the arse! And yes in Australia we say arse and not ass 😉 Apologies if that came across too harsh but seriously some days I just can’t be arsed to sit down and post on here!

Take yesterday for example, I had planned on putting this recipe up yesterday but here’s what happened. First off it was a SUNNY day! Which as you may have realised from my weather rants on here this is rare for England. So of course I had to take advantage of this beautiful day, plus Joe had taken the day off work (well he took Monday off too to take me to the teaching agency… more on the below). So instead of sitting at home with me typing away on the computer we decided to head out for a day time walk and ended up running around like kids on the grass in the middle of the park. And you know what it was fun! And I didn’t feel bad about not having put up my blog post, even though on my FB page I said I would.

Yes I love writing here and posting recipes but it’s not my life. If I get the chance to be outside, enjoy the sun and enjoy the company of my husband well then that trumps everything else! I’m pretty sure… or at least I hope that other bloggers feel the same way! [Read more…]

Butternut Squash Meatballs with Zucchini & Carrot

Plate of butternut squash meatballs with zucchini and carrot

Last night at work I was caught in a bit of a situation. As we were closing up the kitchen for the night after the cooking class, one of the other girls working there was telling the chef how her friend is on a Paleo diet. Now I really DON’T like the term ‘diet’ but that’s not what bothered me.

The chef asked her what she meant by Paleo as she had never heard of it before. This person went on to say that Paleo means that you only eat meat and vegetables and nothing else. She also said that her friend who is following this ‘diet’ doesn’t eat grains which means he is probably malnourished…!!! [Read more…]

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