Paleo Recipes & Expat Living
I’m SUPER excited and honoured to be sharing this recipe over on Rubies and Radishes today! Head on over and read the post! 🙂
Also tomorrow is moving day for us into our new place! I’m very excited about moving but not so excited about all that’s involved! It will probably be a bit quiet on the blog front until we’re settled in but I’ll still be updating the Facebook page.
Hi guys! Today I’m guest posting over at Paleo in PDX and sharing my recipe for ‘Persian Spiced Lamb with Salad Shirazi’. You can find the recipe here…. enjoy!
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.
As some of you may know from reading this blog and me mentioning it on a few occasions, I’ve had ongoing issues with my digestion for a number of years now. I’ve been through numerous tests, medications, antibiotics etc but still suffer from poor digestion. Paleo has helped somewhat in terms of me becoming more aware of how my body reacts to certain foods/drinks, for e.g. things like coffee and even dark chocolate upset my stomach (the latter is harder to let go of). Gluten is another trigger for me which I wouldn’t have known if I hadn’t done a 30 day elimination challenge (hello Whole30!). Also I need to REALLY focus on and chew my food properly and then give myself time to sit and digest. If I rush and chow down a plate of food without any thought and then leave the table without giving myself time to digest then I feel it and it’s not pleasant!
Paleo is NOT the answer to everything though, even if people think it is. Yes it has helped me tremendously by like as I said above helping me to become more in tune with my body but sometimes more needs to be done. So with that in mind I’m FINALLY, after a long time of indecisiveness going to see a naturopath tomorrow, I personally suspect some sort of gut bacteria issue like SIBO but I won’t know for sure until I get tested. So fingers crossed I leave the naturopath tomorrow with some answers!
Anyway lets move onto more important issues like today’s recipe (she says after talking about her digestion problems!). So most of the recipes I share with you here are things I know I want to make for the blog, I don’t plan weeks in advance but I know for example the day before cooking that I’m putting such and such meat out because I want to make something for the blog with it and so on. On some occasions though I don’t plan on using what I make on the blog until the very end, so I’ll make something and then when it’s done I’ll think hmmm this might be a good one for the blog. This is of course usually a savoury dish because dessert/treat recipes usually need to be tested more than once and need specific measurements.
This dish is one of those that I chose to put on the blog last minute. It’s super simple, like most of my recipes but has amazing flavours and definitely satisfies!