Moroccan Lamb Sausage & Carbs

Here's some Moroccan Lamb sausage from the DeKalb Farmer's Market.  Quite good, although the Greek version I had last week might be a little better.

Since I'm officially adding back the carbs, here's today's recipe:

3 links lamb sausage
Cauliflower
Red Kale
Red potato (one, medium)
1 cup Koku rice
~2 tbsp ghee (to fry the veggies)
~1 tbsp butter - on the rice

Here are the Nutritiondata.com stats:

http://nutritiondata.self.com/services/referral?messageKey=0d046b5ddc76307c7a68c3306b7d8c2a

Basic stats:

1250 calories

28% carb

48% fats

24% protein   (probably less... had to improvise because the database didn't have lamb sausage)

Leftover Turkey

This is another quick one.  Perhaps you're overloaded with turkey after Thanksgiving?

Turkey

Japanese Sweet Potato

shallot

broccoli

yellow squash

asparagus

1 strip of bacon

cooked in ghee

Buffalo Meatballs

My name is Riley and I have boundless energy!!!

Well, there was a little hiatus from posting as I adjusted to having a new kitchen helper, Riley.  She's about 10 months old now and quite full of energy.  I've been hiking so much that I've lost about 3 lbs.

I also needed to come up with something a little different in terms of a recipe.  So, here are some grilled buffalo meatballs with a veggie mix of Japanese sweet potato, yellow squash, spinach, and shallot cooked in ghee.  I'm upping the carbs in my diet after getting a question answered on an episode of Robb Wolf's Paleo Solution podcast.  Essentially, I was in sort of a limbo land between a ketogenic diet and one with not quite enough carbs.  Listen to the podcast for more details.

Here's the photo sequence.

Garlic and olives

1 lb of ground buffalo from Costco

Mix it together

Add some black pepper and cayenne

Form into meatballs

These are very low fat, so I coated them in Avocado Oil to prevent sticking on the grill

Onto the gas grill with Man Grates

Almost done

Here's a sweet potato that I pre-baked.  This makes it quicker to cook since you just need to heat it up.

Finished product

Return of the Carbs! Or at least 1 red potato

Well, after some feedback and further analysis of my diet, it looks like I need some additional carbs.  I'm not going crazy.  We're talking one medium size red potato in this recipe.

Here's a link to the Q&A with Paul Jaminet that led to this shocking change.

http://perfecthealthdiet.com/q-a/comment-page-33/#comment-89640

Here's dinner:
Grass fed beef coated in turmeric, red potato, cauliflower, onion, brussel sprouts, collard greens, and bacon!

Rufus was the beneficiary of some beef, beef fat, and connective tissue from a bone broth I made today.

A few quick Paleo dinners

here they are... recent dinners.

This one is Pork Tenderloin.   And yes, I have read Paul Jaminet's series on pork, but still eat it.  Yum!

http://perfecthealthdiet.com/2012/02/pork-did-leviticus-117-have-it-right/

I'm going with correlation is not causation and other critiques of this that talk about the quality of the source of the pork.  Also, much of what I eat is organic from local farms.

Next up, we have more grilled lamb chops with sweet potato, cauliflower, brussel sprouts, and shallots.

and finally, grilled bratwurst with veggies from Riverview Farms.

A Couple Salmon Themed Dinners

These are pretty simple.  Anyone who says "I don't have time to cook" isn't really trying.  Total effort in making both of these was under 10 minutes, or up to 25 counting time for the oven to warm up and cook the salmon.

Pretty basic - baked Sockeye with veggies sauteed in coconut oil

Next up, we have a salad.  I cooked an extra salmon filet, with the one above.  So, time for a dinner salad.

Basic salad

Cooked some Asparagus in ghee and bacon fat

I also had some leftover smoked salmon from Whole Foods

Warmed it up in ghee and bacon fat

Finished Product

 I know, eating Paleo is so difficult!

A Few Dinners - Beef & Mahi Mahi

Here are a couple of recent dinners.  The main "new" thing is a slightly smaller portion of grass feed beef.  Instead of my "normal" 1/2 lb pre-cooked weight, I'm cutting back to 1/3 lb.  In part, this is due to reading Paul Jaminet's Perfect Health Diet.  One thing I learned from that is my protein intake was >100 grams on a typical day (in fact close to 140g).  That's essentially more than any human can process, and there are some potential negative consequences of eating that much protein.

There's a potential problem with too much protein. Your body doesn't store excess protein. It either converts it to glucose, if necessary (with 55% efficiency, usually when you're eating very low-carb), or your body excretes the excess. In theory, the excretion requires too much work from the kidneys, and the excretion turns the excess into ammonia, which could leech calcium from your bones as a protective measure. Dr. Christopher Gardner speculates about this in a YouTube video while discussing the results of the A to Z study. link

So, if we're cutting back the protein by 40g or about 160 calories, what are we going to do to replace the calories?  Answers:

   1) add more Ghee to the stir fry
   2) top the burger with 1 tbsp of grass fed butter
   3) make sure to add a strip of bacon to the veggies.

Yum!

The second dish was baked Mahi Mahi, and basically the same veggie mix.  I did not put butter on the fish, but maybe I will next time.

Baked Mahi Mahi with veggies... I love Cayenne pepper

Rufus - the other kitchen helper