Category: Health & Wellness
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Paleo Beer Dinner (Well…the food is Paleo!)
A few weeks ago we celebrated Joe’s birthday. Last year we were living in Texas and went to a 5-course beer dinner at a local brewery to celebrate. It was delicious but definitely not Paleo. This year instead of going out to dinner, I decided to surprise Joe and create a Paleo-inspired 4-course beer dinner…
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New Product – The Avocado Saver!
One of the things we want to accomplish with pattavina.party is to show our readers some unique but useful cooking products. So with our very first product listing, I wanted to introduce the Avo Saver. Their are a number of Paleo recipes that use avocados and more often than not, you won’t be using the entire avocado. So…
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Pork, Orange and Spinach Salad
A few weeks ago Joe, and I sold our house in The Woodlands, TX. We moved back to Omaha, NE from Texas in July and had our house on the market for about 7 months. It was a long roller coaster ride, but the house is now sold. Luckily we have an awesome family who…
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Coq au Riesling (Rosemary Chicken and Veggies in a White Wine Sauce)
I adapted this recipe from one I found in Good Housekeeping. It’s a yummy twist on Coq au Vin that incorporates dry Riesling with chicken, bacon, rosemary and vegetables slowly cooked in a Dutch oven over the stove. This is definitely a weekend meal because there is a little bit of prep time and the chicken…
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Quick Visual Guide to Eating Paleo
While playing around on Pinterest the other day (you can follow Sweet-Paleo on Pinterest here by the way), I stumbled across this cool infograph that is a quick guide to what the Paleo diet entails. Great for those who are visual people (like my husband!). It’s a good starting point for those who are on the…
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Roasted Rosemary Carrots, Beets and Turnips
I have a tendency to get into recipe ruts from time to time. I end up making the same thing week after week or some variation of the same thing…meat, Brussels sprouts, green beans, butternut squash, sweet potatoes and avocados. These are all things that I love to eat, but my husband definitely let’s me…
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What is Paleo?
The concept of the Paleo diet is to replicate how our hunter-gatherer ancestors ate prior to the Agricultural Revolution that introduced cereal grains and the standard American diet (SAD). Paleo focuses on eating meats, vegetables, fruits and healthy fats. The diet restricts all grains, dairy, sugar and processed foods. What I really like about Paleo…
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First Sweet-Paleo Post and Paleo-Friendly Chicken Fajitas
Welcome to Sweet-Paleo!!! We are excited to join the Paleo online community and offer great recipes that are healthy, easy and fit into the Paleo diet. If you are new to the Paleo diet and are unsure what it entails, I recommend that you click here for some great resources and information. For information about…