500 Paleo Recipes: Hundreds of Delicious Recipes for Weight Loss and Super Health Paperback Author: Visit Amazon's Dana Carpender Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1592335322 | Format: PDF, EPUB
500 Paleo Recipes: Hundreds of Delicious Recipes for Weight Loss and Super Health Epub DownloadDownload 500 Paleo Recipes: Hundreds of Delicious Recipes for Weight Loss and Super Health Paperback Epub Download from 4shared, mediafire, hotfile, and mirror link
About the Author
Best-selling author Dana Carpender was startled to discover that limiting her carbohydrate intake not only helped her control her weight, but produced the health and vitality a low fat diet had promised but never delivered. Years later, she laughs at people who say “You can’t eat that way long-term.” Her cookbooks are the result of her realization that the key to permanent dietary change is the answer to the age-old question, “What’s for supper?” To date they have sold over a million copies worldwide. Dana blogs about low carb nutrition at http://www.HoldtheToast.com; her weekly blog digest goes out to over 20,000 readers. She is also Managing Editor of CarbSmart Magazine at http://www.CarbSmart.com, as well as a featured staff writer. Dana lives in Bloomington, IN with her husband and a menagerie of pets, all of whom are well and healthily fed.
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
Jerusalem Fries
1/2 pound (225 g) Jerusalem artichokes
Coconut oil
Salt
Pick fairly straight, long, not-too-knobby Jerusalem artichokes for this. Scrub them well, then cut them lengthwise into strips about the size of a French fry.
Put your big, heavy skiller over medium heat and melt enough coconut oil in it to get it about 1/4-inch (6 mm) deep. When it's good and hot, throw in your 'choke strips and fry, turning often, till they're a good golden brown all over. Drain, salt, and serve.
Yield: 4 servings
Nutritional analysis:
Per serving: 43 calories; trace fat; 1 g protein; 10 g carbohydrate; 1 g dietary fiber; 9 g net carbs
Direct download links available for 500 Paleo Recipes: Hundreds of Delicious Recipes for Weight Loss and Super Health Paperback Epub Download
- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Fair Winds Press; 1 edition (December 1, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1592335322
- ISBN-13: 978-1592335329
- Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 0.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
I ordered this book before it was published, and just received it.
When buying cook books I fall into two categories: (1) Wanting lots of pictures, mainly so I can ignore most of the recipes and just use the pictures as inspiration, and (2) Wanting no pictures, but lots of quality recipe ideas.
This book falls into the second category - there are no pictures. (Unless a clipart representation of a flame counts.)
Instead you will find lots of recipes that conform to paleo guidelines. Luckily for those of us who would rather jump off a cliff (possibly fleeing a now-extinct large animal) than surrender our cheese and milk, the author acknowledges this fact and "won't think any less of us for adding dairy where appropriate". Praise Primal!
There's a decent explanation of what the paleo movement is at the beginning. "Controversial" ingredients are covered, explaining why they're acceptable or not. While I understand the logic behind allowing stevia, personally it's on my prohibited list. Several other commercial products are also referenced, which dogmatic purists may not appreciate. (I'll allow canned coconut milk; that's about as processed as I'll go.)
Ingredient-wise the recipes have got everything needed to be complete and tasty. (Disclaimer: the first thing I do when making new recipes is ignore the quantities, so I only ever gather the ingredients called-for and follow the general directions.) Some of them are very simple (bacon and brussels sprouts is a classic, after all) and others are more involved. The accompanying instructions are clear (though I've tried the method listed for mayo and ended up with not-mayo more times than I've ended up with mayo; providing the fix if it splits would have been a useful addition.
This Paleo cookbook is fantastic. I like the writing style of the author and her tastebuds and my tastebuds are similar. She uses lots of Paleo ingredients I really enjoy: avocado, coconut butter, eggs, seafood, bacon and bacon fat, anchovies (I'm SUCH a fan of them as in ingredient) and the rare umami taste I crave so much.
It doesn't bug me that there are no pictures... some of my best cookbooks don't have photographs. If you follow the directions, you should be fine without a visual. In my humble opinion most cookbooks are all glossy pretty pictures and no substance, if you get my meaning. More eye candy than actual candy anyway. And having had worked in lifestyle publishing for over a decade I can tell you that many of those photographs aren't of the actual recipe anyway. (Yes, really!)
So moving on to the recipes themselves... I really found some fantastic ideas and food in this book. Just to name a few of my favorites: the pork rind pancakes are delicious, the beef cauli-rice side dish, the eggplant spread, the pecan catfish. That's off the top of my head, there are more I love. Also, despite what you will read below, she had some really easy takes on popular Paleo base items like "bone broth," demi-glace, coconut milk and coconut butter.
One of my personal favorites (and worth the value of the book itself) are the recipes for umami, both liquid and powder form. Fabulous! It's like bottled magic. That stuff is seriously addictive. For those of you who really like to get down in your kitchen with the food processor and have some time on your hands, there is also a great recipe for sunflower seed crackers.
But on that point is where I would have my issues with this book. Some of the recipes are a pretty complicated and sometimes unnecessarily so.
{shorttile} Epub Download
Please Wait...