Food Challenge

PALEO SOUR CREAM & ONION DIP Creamy, zesty sour cream & onion dip made dairy-free, vegan, and paleo-friendly. This luscious dip is perfect for sharing with friends and family on game day! Every once in awhile, I make confessions about the foods I miss from way back before I started eating a restricted diet. Fudgesicles, Dulce de Leche Ice Cream, and Chocolate Sauce are near the top of the list, along with Pad Thai, Mango Cashew Chicken, and Thai Chicken Pizza. Thankfully with a little creativity, most of the foods I loved in my latter days can be replicated in a way my digestive system will accept. Enter: Sour Cream & Onion Dip. We are adding another make-it-paleo (or essentially make-it-real, or make-it-whole-food, or make-it-healthy…however you want to look at it)  recipe to the mix, because you guys: THE DIP. Do you love it? Historically, anything white and thick (think mayonnaise, cream cheese, any type of gravy, alfredo sauce, etc.) is on my no fly list mainly beca...

GUACAMOLE AND BLACK BEAN LOADED SWEET POTATOES Loaded sweet potatoes with black beans and guacamole make for a super simple side dish, or even dinner! Share them for your friends and family at your Super Bowl party this weekend! Do you ever blink and it’s Wednesday? That’s what happened to me this week. I had every intention of sticking with the ush Mon-Wed-Fri blog post sched, and somehow it just.didn’t.happen. Sometimes you spend the whole weekend pitter pattering around outside and can’t bring yourself to sit down. Sometimes coherent sentences aren’t in the stars. Sometimes life happens. Sometimes… you drink beer. In any case, here I aaaaam! Thrilled to show you these loaded sweet potatoes, which are just the easiest, dreamiest side dish slash meal. While my intention for sharing this recipe was for a sort of Super Bowl-themed appetizer for you to share with your people on game day, one of these potatoes is practically a meal in and of itself. After having gone through the eatin...

GROUND BEEF TACOS WITH ROASTED SWEET POTATOES AND VEGAN “QUESO” Spiced ground beef tacos with seasoned roasted sweet potatoes and cashew-based vegan queso are a delightfully simple yet flavor-blasted taco for any night of the week. Taco Tuesday! Did you know I’ve never actually posted a taco recipe on a Tuesday? Rebellious, I know. I’ve been waiting on sharing this recipe for months and realized I had better hop to it, because I really feel you all need some tacos for your Super Bowlapalooza this Sunday. Truthfully, the Super Bowl is the only football I watch every football season (and sometimes we just go snowmobiling instead, because: priorities); however, I dug this little ditty out of my file folders specifically for your football chowing enjoyment. De nada. These tacos are so silly simple, you’re going to blow a gasket. Spiced ground beef (I like using grass-fed), sweet potato, vegan queso (we’ll cross that bridge in a second), grain-free (paleo-friendly) tortillas. BOOM! Magnific...