Slow Cooker Barbacoa Tacos

Via Nom Nom Paleo aka one of the best, if not the best, paleo foodie blogs: http://leitesculinaria.com/83613/recipes-slow-cooker-barbacoa-tacos.html

Ditch the taco shells, use lettuce wraps or blanched kale leaves, or whatever you fancy.

No indeed, it's not a YouTube video. So what, here's a picture of a little kitten! :)

Carrot and onion hash/ Hutspot

Yesterday, I linked you to Kale Hash, a traditional Dutch winter dish to which Dutch cynics refer to as baby food, because we like to portray Dutch cuisine as unimportant and unimaginative. So today it's time for the number two classic in Dutch winter hashes: Hutspot.

History/folklore tells us that Hutspot is based on a Spanish dish left by Spanish Soldiers after the Siege of Leiden of 1574. Hutspot is basically potatoes, carrots, and onions, but the original Spanish soldier dish mostly contained parsnip.

Traditionally, or not, or in other words: as far as I know, Hutspot is accompanied with piccalilli and stewed beef or pork meat. The sweet and sour of the piccalilli works great with the dish and we need our protein! In the Netherlands we don't fry our smoked sausage but just warm it up in 75C/170F water for 20 minutes, but hey frying looks good too!

Kale Hash / Boerenkoolstamppot

As I'm a Dutch guy living in the Netherlands doing paleo I get a lot of questions from my friends who get all confused when I explain the basics of the paleo diet. Of course the main source of cognitive dissonance for Dutch people is that the paleo diet rejects bread. That's a pretty difficult aspect of the paleo diet for Dutch people as in the Netherlands it's common to eat breakfast twice a day (breakfast and lunch) involving cereal, and lots of bread with sweet and chocolate toppings. Oh well...

What's more easy to get across is that a majority of Dutch cuisine is compatible with paleo. In today's multicultural Holland, the good old potatoes-meat-vegetables dishes are in retreat. And rightly so, because there's a lot of food from all over the world that's tasty and nutritious, so why not eat it?

Anyhow, a traditional winter dish in the Netherlands are hashes of potato and one or more vegetables. A classical Dutch hash is Kale Hash or Boerenkoolstamppot, which is perfectly compatible with the paleo diet. In my opinion the milk can be excluded, just add more butter and optional water when too dry. This version doesn't have fried bacon cubes, so it's obligatory to add it to the mix. Otherwise the Dutch food police might track you down and throw you in jail! Enjoy! ;)

Chicken and pineapple - Filipino style

While browsing YouTube I found this great Filipino cuisine channel. Pininyahang Manok is supposedly a famous dish from the Philippines. A very easy to prepare dish with chicken and pineapple as its signature ingredients. Look for canned pineapple with no sugar added or use fresh pineapple.

Green Coconut Chicken by chef John/Food Wishes

This green chicken curry is pretty awesome, because all fresh ingredients! Ditch the vegetable oil (use coconut oil, duh), the brown sugar (use honey, coconut flower sugar or whatever you like) and the rice if you want (ground raw cauliflower is a great alternative).

Gianni's Frittata

Another great recipe by Gianni. Of course the paleo community is pretty big on frittatas anyway, but this one is pretty awesome, especially when you can find the Italian fennel sausages! Enjoy.

Also check out Gianni's website.

Crab Stuffed Deviled Eggs - Deviled Eggs with Crab Recipe by chef John/Food Wishes

Chef John is a funny chef from San Francisco, who does a lot of mainstream cooking, but is so fun to watch that it makes sense for me to distill out the paleo compatible goodness from his repertoire.