Fantastic New Paleo Cookbook

Polly · Post by **Polly** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 6:59 am

It's called "Paleo Comfort Foods" by Julie and Charles Mayfield, and it just came out. I was thrilled to receive it in the mail yesterday as a gift from a very dear PP friend.

I spent the entire evening reading it and drooling over the wonderful photos! It truly does have recipes for the standard old favorite comfort foods, for example: creamed spinach, Caesar salad, chicken breast with mushroom sauce, fried chicken, chicken-fried steak, shepherd's pie, quiche, coq au vin, gumbo, sauces and gravy, etc. And yummy new ideas - brussel sprouts slaw, dates wrapped in bacon, tortillas made with coconut flour, etc.

Even a mouth-watering dessert section: lemon squares, sweet potato pie, banana pudding, apple crisp, peachberry cobbler, strawberry shortcake, chocolate cake, and more. No granulated sugar is used at all in the recipes - at the most, a tbsp. of honey.

The ingredients are virtually 100% paleo. They use a lot of coconut oil and flour, nut flours, fresh herbs and spices, and mashed cauliflower instead of mashed potatoes (many of the tricks that we here have discovered over the years here by trial and error). Also some new tricks, like adding a little anchovy paste to beef stew - it's apparently a flavor enhancer trick known by chefs.

This book is a KEEPER! Bon Appetit!

Love,

Polly

MaggieRedwings · Post by **MaggieRedwings** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 9:15 am

Sounds fantastic Polly!

You got me with the bacon-wrapped dates.

Love, Maggie

Joefnh · Post by **Joefnh** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 9:37 am

Sounds like a great book Polly. Being paleo does that exclude all gluten?

Joe

harma · Post by **harma** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 9:58 am

sounds good Polly, in Dutch "smakelijk eten" (mean something like enjoy your meal). I think the paleo way of eating (it's a way of eating not a diet), it the best and the most healthy one.

Post by **tex** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 10:11 am

Joe,

The paleo diet excludes not only all gluten, but all grains, all dairy, and all soy and most legumes.

Tex

Polly · Post by **Polly** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 10:34 am

Maggie!

Just sitting here laughing at the irony of you and me (both of us previous hard-core vegetarians for many years) excited about bacon! Interesting how "life" often has its own plans for us, isn't it? It was like a bad cosmic joke when you and I realized that we had meat-eater genes! And certainly not funny in the least. Acceptance was not easy in coming. But it is what it is, right? Sigh.

Love,

Polly

harma · Post by **harma** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 11:12 am

Pre MC time, I used to be a vegetarian too, not 100% but hardly ate any meat (or fish), I loved the vegetarian food, but now with a limited food range, I LOVE the taste of meat and fish, meat and fish make my day!!!

Pre MC I was convinced non meat eaters were more healthy, meat was bad for people, now I turned 180 degrees. Since I have read the books of Loren Cordain, of all diets, I am convinced that is the most natural and most logic way for human beings to eat that included meat

sarkin · Post by **sarkin** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 11:46 am

Harma,

Me, too - I was very persuaded that vegetarian or near-vegetarian eating was the answer. But I do find the Paleo thinking persuasive, and eating that way has made a big difference for me, not just in MC but in energy as well...

MaggieRedwings · Post by **MaggieRedwings** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 12:42 pm

Yes it is kind of strange how some of us had to turn our eating habits from veggie to meat eaters. In my case a vegan for 35+ years but had to do it and it was a very, very hard decision since my diet was tied to my religion and not just a way to go. However, I feel much healthier and more healed with the changes. I guess you would say I am now Paleo since I cannot eat legumes, etc. but cannot give up the potatoes.

If I did, I would not be the potato queen.

Love, Maggie