Plaid & Paleo 2013 Top Recipes

My little blog passed it’s six-month anniversary a couple weeks ago. The time has gone by so quickly. I truly love sharing my cooking creations. This year has brought a lot of ups and downs, but I wouldn’t have wanted it any other way.

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Paleo Tropical MCT Smoothie

Now that Christmas is done and over. Sad. The countdown to 2014 is on. I used to love New Year’s Eve, but now it is less about the sparkly dress and more about just staying in and bring in the new year with family. My family normally celebrates the New Year singing some awesome Wii karaoke and little appetizers.

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Paleo Dark Chocolate Cherry Bites

I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas! Mine was full of family, food and festivities. Okay I just threw in that last one to keep with the trend. It really should be family, food and naps. I don’t know why but whenever my family gets together 2PM becomes nap time.

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Merry Christmas 2013

I hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas! I'm spending the day with my family and gaggle of nieces and nephew. 

x vanessa

Paleo Christmas Breakfast Roundup

Yeah I’m so excited it is Christmas Eve! Christmas Eve is the main event at my house. We open all our presents on Christmas Eve except the things Santa brought us in our stockings. I have four very young nieces and nephews who are firm believers in Santa.

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Paleo Prime Rib Seasoning

It’s Christmas Eve’s Eve. Yup I said it. In my family, Christmas Eve is almost as important as Christmas Day. We open all our presents on Christmas Eve, and it is awesome! For years I made my friends jealous by being able to open my Christmas presents a whole 12 hours before them.

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Paleo Sweet Potato Casserole

When I first started eating paleo, I ate a ton of sweet potatoes. Before this I never ate sweet potatoes other than Thanksgiving. I am not sure why, but I always associated them as being sickly sweet. This probably stems from marshmallow covered sweet potato casserole.

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Paleo Gingerbread Men and Decorating Frosting

I’m slightly convinced Amazon doesn’t want my family to receive their Christmas gifts. Maybe it is my punishment for ordering 75% of their presents online. I am not really sure. It is really a double punishment because my Nom Nom Paleo cookbook is also in the same package of goods!

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Paleo Chicken Marsala

The first time I ate chicken marsala was after losing a bet to a friend. If I won the bet, he had to make me dinner but if I lost I had to make dinner. Needless to say I lost. I made a really, really bad bet. I’m almost too embarrassed to say but you can share in my humiliation.

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Paleo Cranberry Pecan Brussels Sprouts

I love brussels sprouts. Seriously I could eat them every day. Sometimes I find this funny because until about two years ago I loathed brussels sprouts. You couldn’t pay me enough money to eat brussels sprouts.

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Paleo BBQ Lil Smokies

Ok so that name is kind of a lie. I searched and searched for lil smokies without any weird ingredients but came up completely empty! All were filled with sugar, soy and weird ingredients I couldn’t pronounce. If you aren't familiar with the goodness that is lil smokies, they are also called cocktail smokies, cocktail links and cocktail weiners.

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Paleo Gingerbread Dip

Yesterday I had one of my worst recipes fails. I was attempting a new pancake recipe, which turned out to be a disaster. They were too thin. Then too thick. Then gritty. I’m still at a lost of how they were so so bad.

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Paleo Apple Butter Pecan Pie

So I posted this photo on my Instagram before Thanksgiving promising the share the recipe, and then I completely forgot to actually share it. I really wanted to make a pecan pie for Thanksgiving even though I have never really been a fan.

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Simple Oven Dill Salmon

I’m going slightly stir crazy. I’m still in Oklahoma, snowed in and carless. It’s been years since I’ve been snowed in, and now I remember exactly why I moved somewhere without snow. Snow is pretty to look at and fun to ski in, but I hate driving in snow.

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Paleo Creamy Chicken Pasta

I’m still trying to come to term with the fact Christmas is less than three weeks away. I can’t say I am a fan of holiday shopping. Don’t get me wrong I love picking out presents for my friends and family; however, I hate braving the crowds of holiday shoppers. People get crazy this time of year!

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Paleo Cranberry Turkey Meatballs

This past weekend, I helped pick out my family’s Christmas tree from a local tree farm. We used to do this every year, but the tradition has fallen to the wayside. After much convincing, we set off to pick out the perfect tree.

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Holiday Gift Guide: My Wish List

For my final installment of holiday gift guides, I am sharing what is on my wish list! As I’ve gotten older, my Christmas wish list has become more and more practical needs and less useful wants.

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Paleo Chicken, Squash and Mushroom Stew

I am pretty sure I stored enough food away on Thanksgiving to hold me over until spring. Ok not really. But I did get pretty full. This year was my second paleo-Thanksgiving, and it was even better than last year.

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