I don’t go looking for grass fed beef. It seems to find me – a concept I still cannot fully grasp. After exhausting the treasure chest of organic, grass fed beef from Rocky Mountain Organic Meats, I thought I’d have to go back to buying my grass fed beef (poor me, right? Somewhere, someone is playing the worlds smallest fiddle for me). However, as fate would have it, I was gifted with some more grass fed goodness from a client…

re charged to come up with a delicious recipe using the Tx Bar Organics beef, cooked using the Sous Vide. This is a match made in heaven. When you’re cooking with high quality, grass fed beef, the last thing you want to do is overcook it. Sous Vide takes this disastrous scenario out of the equation. We were given two tenderloin steaks and two top sirloin steaks to cook with, and decided to use all four in this recipe. In our own opinion, wh…

t in a bigger pant size? Luckily for most paleo folks, those chances of putting on the hibernation pounds over the winter are a bit slimmer than the grain eaters. Can you gain weight eating paleo? Absolutely, yes! I’ve done it, and know quite a few others that have as well. However, if you are keeping it pretty clean, and keep moderation foods out of your diet for the most part (this means over-consumption of nuts, nut flours, fruits, drie…

…o try out a coffee marinade for the grilled steak, and top it all off with a fried egg. This meal was amazing, and although it makes for a great breakfast, we would gladly gobble this up at any meal during the day. In fact, I don’t think we’d be too quick to turn down a second round for a repeat meal one day. Ingredients 4 US Wellness Meats ‘Flat Iron’ Steaks (1 package) 3/4 cup strongly brewed organic (SWP) decaff…

oduce sugar back into our diet. Today, while at the grocery store, Hayley wistfully paused in front of the artisan dark chocolate and pointed out a 90% bar. “Do you want some?” she asked. I said “of course I do, but we don’t need it.” She acknowledged that I was right, and I think we both proudly walked away from the drugs chocolate. While it might not always be that way, we’ve come far from our first days of t…

package. Holy moly. They were bigger than a small child (okay, that’s an exaggeration, but not too far off!). Anxiety aside, we knew we had to figure out a way to make these babies amazing, and we were really excited to do so. We knew the grill was out of the question. We don’t have a smoker, and we weren’t sure that even one individual rib would have fit in a crock pot. After realizing the oven was our only bet, we did some res…

I have been coloring my hair pretty regularly since I was about 21, maybe a bit younger. I am 27 now. So that’s at least 6 years of chemically treating my hair. I really don’t need to color my hair, I don’t have any grays, and based off of other family members, I don’t think I will start to get any until I’m close to age 50. My dad really isn’t very gray at age 51, and I still don’t think my mom is at ag…

We recently had the opportunity to try some of Tropical Traditions Green Label Virgin coconut oil. We have loved every product that we have tried from Tropical Traditions, so we were really eager to try out their coconut oil. Coconut oil is our staple cooking fat in our home. Coconut oil does not have an overpowering coconut flavor, so it is really ideal for all cooking. The slight hint of coconut flavor adds even more dimension to the dishes…

I have been meaning to write this post for a while. I know I touched on my skin care products when I wrote the henna post, but I didn’t really go into full detail (that I remember) of what I actually do for my skin. Skin has been an interest of mine since I was very young. As many of you know I am a certified high definition makeup artist. I was trained in Hollywood by Margaret Kimura, celebrity makeup artist. I have done bridal makeup for…