Coconut Cake and Purple! Frosting

November 4th, 2011 by bryan No comments »

Well, with Doreen’s birthday it was time for some treats. Monday we had some paleo chocolate pudding and Tuesday this amazing coconut cake with what had been vanilla icing until I got the urge to turn it purple for fun. Since Doreen doesn’t eat sugar I used stevia instead.

A few items for the icing: egg yolks, stevia, agar agar, coconut milk, vanilla, sea salt, and cinnamon.

India Tree Natural Decorating Colors are made from highly concentrated vegetable colorants. They contain no corn syrup or synthetic dyes. 

Two vanilla cake layers made from coconut flour, pastured eggs, coconut oil, sea salt, stevia, vanilla, and shredded coconut.

 

A slice well worth the 20% cheat if you're strict paleo

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Bryan’s Real Food (Paleo / Primal) Tasting Party

October 25th, 2011 by bryan 1 comment »

As I gear up to launch Bryan’s Real Food, I had another tasting party this past Sunday.  Many people unfamiliar with paleo/primal tasted the food and the response couldn’t have been better.

One of Doreen’s friends, Jennifer, wants to nominate me to get an interview in the Sunday foodie column of The Roanoke Times and Doreen thinks I’m ready to go as far as products. Nell recommended a local business that could refrigerate products in the southwest county as a distribution hub. And Doreen recommends I just make three things to distribute and put in local health food or cooperative stores: Primal pizza, chocolate chip blondies, and Shepards pie.

The tasting party spread included cauliflower rice, Shepards pie, bison meatballs and zucchini pasta, Southwest bacon crustless quiche, raw flax crackers (apple/cinnamon & Mexican tomatillo), chocolate chip cookies, and chocolate chip blondies:

the spread

The center piece for the spread included the most popular item: primal pizza. Moona said it was better than any gluten-free pizza she ever had. Marty mentioned that he couldn’t tell it was grain-free.

Primal pizza, fresh out of the oven:

primal pizza

 

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Making Ghee

October 19th, 2011 by bryan No comments »
  1. Place butter in saucepan over medium-high heat.
  2. Bring butter to boil — 3 to 5 minutes.
  3. Once boiling, turn to a simmer (low-medium heat).
  4. The butter will form a foam that will disappear.
  5. Wait for a second foam forms on top of butter, and the butter turns golden brown (10 to 12 minutes).
  6. Pour into heatproof container through sieve and/or cheesecloth.
  7. Ghee does not need refrigeration and will keep in airtight container for about 6 weeks.
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