Review & Giveaway: The Paleo Slow Cooker

*UPDATE: The winner has been chosen… Fatima Sewani is the winner of this giveaway! Thank you all for playing along… I hope to do more of these giveaways in the near future!

The Paleo Slow Cooker Book

Pumpkins, apples, leaves changing colour and making crunching noises as you step on them… warmth and the smell of pumpkin pie spice are all things I associate with this time of year, Autumn/Fall.

There’s something else that’s synonymous with this time of year and that’s the slow cooker. There’s nothing like adding ingredients to a slow cooker, letting it do all the work then coming back a few hours later and opening it up to find a magical smell inside and some delicious food! Slow cooker meals are some of the tastiest! They’re also great because you can use cheap cuts of meat and the low slow cooking process will result in soft, tender meat in the end. Plus, there’s always the time aspect of it… with slow cooker meals you just set and forget AND you can make recipes in bulk so you have leftovers to freeze or enjoy for a few days after.

I use my slow cooker on a fairly regular basis. If I’m not using it to make recipes then I’m usually using it to make bone broth. If you haven’t got one then I HIGHLY recommend you go out and get yourself one, they are not very expensive and are a BIG help in the kitchen!

Speaking of slow cookers, I recently received a copy of ‘The Paleo Slow Cooker’ by Arsy Vartanian of Rubies and Radishes. Arsy was kind enough to send me a copy of her lovely book… actually it was there waiting for me at our new place on the day we moved in! What an amazing welcome home present that was :).

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Rubies and Radishes (Guest Post)

Happy Friday! Today I’ve got a very special guest post for you with the wonderful Arsy of Rubies and Radishes! Arsy and I connected via our blogs and she has truly become one of my favourite go to paleo bloggers and she’s also just super sweet! I recently asked Arsy if she would be interested in doing a Q&A type guest post for me and she kindly said yes! So get to know the face behind Rubies and Radishes… enjoy!

arsy

Welcome Arsy! Before we get into the questions can you give Cinnamon Eats readers a brief background of who you are?

Sure! First of all I want to say thank you Naz for inviting me here today. I am a huge fan of your blog and I’m excited to connect with your readers. What can I tell you? I’m Armenian, my parents are from Iran. I grew up in a very traditional culture with lots of traditional food. In my teens I believed all the media hype and thought my parents lifestyle was unhealthy, so I adopted a vegetarian diet which caused a whole host of health problems for me. I spent the later half of my 20s trying to understand them and recover.

Your blog, Rubies and Radishes (p.s. I LOVE the name) is focused on living a paleo lifestyle. Can you tell us how you came to paleo yourself and what has come out of this journey for you so far?

I started Crossfit in 2008. Shortly after some friends and trainers at the gym started talking about the paleo diet. When they described this “caveman” diet I thought it sounded strange. But being an information seeker I picked up Dr. Cordain’s book to read up on it and instantly a light bulb went off in my head and I understood the cause of all of my health problems. [Read more…]

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