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If you’ve found your way here, it means you’ve probably been cooking from our salad magazine, and I’m really glad! I hope it also means that you have a few favorite recipes and are excited to learn more about how to have fun in the kitchen. This page includes info and resources to help you become a paleo master in the kitchen.
- Newsletter Signup
- Favorite Posts
- Free 70-page preview of my latest cookbook Well Fed Weeknights: Complete Paleo Meals in 45 Minutes or Less
- Free 30-page preview of Well Fed: More Paleo Recipes For People Who Love To Eat
- Free 35-page preview of Well Fed 2: More Paleo Recipes For People Who Love To Eat
- How-to videos
- Recommended Resources
Newsletter Signup
Every week, I send a newsletter with recommendations for Five Paleo Dinners to cook the next week, tasty information that doesn’t make it into its own blog post, and goodies that are only available to subscribers, like exclusive recipes and special discounts. Plus, if I’m being honest, sometimes I share stories about my cat Smudge. (Fun fact! Our publishing company is called Smudge Publishing, LLC. Smudge is the CEO, and napping is written into the bylaws.)
Favorite Posts
These are some of my favorite blog posts to help you be the best version of you.
Being Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable
Kind of about front squats but really about life
Five Easy Ways to Eat More Vegetables
Delicious tips to increase your veggie intake
Why I Lift Heavy Things
A love note to strength training and its positive impact on my life
How to Be a Paleo Social Butterfly
Easy ways to make socializing as a paleo person stress-free and more fun
The Best Versions of Ourselves
A call to action to discard external measurements and live as your best self
Emotional Appetite vs. True Hunger
Advice to help you curb cravings, feed your body, and identify what you really need
20 Ways to Make Paleo Easier and More Fun
A joint post with Steph Gaudreau, crammed with tips, tricks, and advice to win at paleo
Think About Something Else
Easy-to-follow advice to help you stay committed to good habits without making yourself miserable
Five Paleo Dinners to Cook Next Week
A weekly collection of five dinner recipes, a treat, and a condiment to simplify meal planning
Free preview of Well Fed Weeknights
Enjoy this free PDF preview of my latest cookbook Well Fed Weeknights: Complete Paleo Meals in 45 Minutes or Less. This 70-page sampler includes a dozen recipes for Meat & Potatoes—stuffed baked potatoes or oven french fries topped with meats, veggies, and sauces—as well as Italian Hoagie Salad, Fried Chicken Meatballs, and more. [download the Well Fed Weeknights sampler]
Free preview of Well Fed
Help yourself to a free PDF preview of my first cookbook Well Fed: Paleo Recipes For People Who Love To Eat. This 30-page sampler includes my tips for how to do a Weekly Cookup, the secret awesomeness of Hot Plates, and seven recipes, including the one for my award-winning Chocolate Chili. That’s right: chocolate. [download the Well Fed sampler]
Free preview of Well Fed 2
Treat yourself to this free PDF preview of my second cookbook Well Fed 2: More Paleo Recipes For People Who Love To Eat. This 35-page sampler includes My Paleo Story, Quick Meal ideas, and seven recipes, including Old School Italian Meat Sauce and Deconstructed Gyro. [download the Well Fed 2 sampler]
How-To Videos
Most of my recipes aren’t very complicated, but I have learned a few tricks that can help make your time in the kitchen go a little more smoothly. Here are quick and handy demos for some of the recipes, including how to smash and peel garlic, how to flatten chicken breasts for Chicken Paillard, and how to cut nori sheets for the Deconstructed Sushi Bowl. (You might also be interested in this video about how to make zucchini noodles with a julienne peeler.)
Recommended Resources
My Amazon Store
I’m a big fan of Amazon because they sell so many things I love. My store is a curated collection of “Good Stuff You Can Buy From Amazon,” including essential kitchen tools that I use every day, the paleo books I read, “take me away” fiction, and other things that catch my fancy.
Spices
These are my trusted suppliers for the spicy substances that turn ingredients into meals. They’re owned by real people, not giant corporations, and their spices are fresh, vibrant, and reasonably priced.
Penzeys Spices
Some of my favorite spices and blends
Primal Palate Organic Spices
First-rate, organic spices and blends from paleo chefs Bill and Hayley of Primal Palate
Spicely
Unique blends, salts, and whole spices
Grass-Fed Meat
All of these sites offer delicious, nutrient-packed meat, a wide variety of other healthy products, and reasonable prices (with deals for ordering in larger quantities). They are all staffed by real people, who seem to genuinely care about their products and the people who eat them.
Lava Lake Lamb
The tastiest, sweetest pastured, grass-fed lamb and grass-fed beef. Top-notch environmental practices. Lively blog with plenty of paleo-friendly recipes.
Rocky Mountain Organic Meats
Extremely flavorful organic, grass-fed beef. The best ground beef I’ve ever eaten.
Tendergrass Farms
The best place for pastured bacon and lard. Very friendly people behind the company and excellent customer service.
U.S. Wellness Meats
Wide variety of products like grass-fed dairy, wild-caught seafood, snacks, and
pet food, in addition to grass-fed beef, lamb, poultry, bison, pork, and rabbit. Plus, sugar-free bacon!
Other Paleo Foods
Barefoot Provisions
Purveyors of awesome paleo products, including pastured beef tallow, pork lard, and cage-free duck fat, as well as nuts, nut butters, and more.
Primal Kitchen
Launched by Mark Sisson, an expert on primal living. Products include reasonably-priced avocado oil, mayo, salad dressings, protein bars, and more.