Easy lemon & garlic marinated chicken that can be frozen or cooked immediately.

Dijon Seared Lamb Chops with Leeks & Bok Choy - a flavorful, healthy one-pot meal that you can put on the table in 30 minutes or less.

A deliciously unique way to serve cranberries at your holiday table this year. The combination of savory and tart is finished off perfectly with creamy goat cheese and luscious rosemary.

“Low and slow” is the only way to prepare a quality beef brisket. Our recipe is cooked for five hours, resulting in tender meat that can be cut with a fork.

Sweet fresh figs and roasted squash meet salty prosciutto spirals for a hearty, delicious winter salad perfect for Holiday entertaining or just everyday life!

Paleo Cauliflower Chicken Chowder is unbelievably good and good for you, gluten free, grain free, dairy free, and soy free. You will be amazed at how hearty flavorful and satisfying this chowder is, and it is super easy to pull together. Use a Cooked Organic rotisserie chicken from your local store to cut down on cook time. If you want to keep this vegetarian, skip adding the chicken the chowder.

Delicious comfort food! Loving this chicken with sun dried tomatoes and wild mushrooms. One pot meal that cooks all day over low heat

If you’re looking for a “bake it and forget it” side dish, this would be it. Simply combine the cabbage with chopped apples and onions, then roast in the oven until the edges just begin to brown.

Slow cooker apple butter BBQ chicken. One pot wonder with apple butter, mustard, hot sauce, and smoked paprika. Easy recipe!

Jamie Olivers Prosciutto Parmesan Chicken, a trick for perfectly cooked chicken every time, 3 ingredients 20 min. and a classy dinner is all yours

Writing about this pork is a sort of torture right now. You see, I'm sitting at the island in the kitchen, working on my third bowl of mush for the day. My wisdom teeth were removed this morning, and cold to luke-warm mush is the only food group I get. Writing this blog post about spicy green chile pork with stewn chiles, tomatillos, and lime is a bit like being stuck in the middle of a desert and talking about ice cream for an hour straight. Ok, that's a bit of an exaggeration. My bowl of mush isn't that bad. It's actually a slow cooker (very soft) chicken stew in a spiced bone broth, coconut milk, and vegetables that any other day would be considered overcooked, but their mushy texture is about all my jaw can handle right now, so I'm not too unhappy. Still, comparing it to last week's Slow Cooker Pork Chile Verde is pathetic. See that bowl? It's full of texture, from tender pork shoulder to crunchy pepper seeds. It's all bathing in a savory green chile sauce made with late summer hatch chiles. An acidic punch from the lime and roasted tomatillos play a balancing game with the richer pork meat. (Pretty much everything my bowl of mush lacks). I know the chile is good, but I also know I'm biased: green chile, for some unknown reason has fallen into place as my idea of "special". I don't know if it reminders me of my Dad's side of the family, and in turn symbolizes family holidays, or if it's just because it feeds a crowd, and therefore seems to always come with memories of good friends, but green chile stew always fills me with a warm fuzzy feeling. And why not? Pastured Pork is full of Vitamin D, omega-3s, and CLA (you know, the "good fats). (I talk about comfort food a lot, don't I?) Looking for a dessert with enough tex-mex flare to follow this dinner? Try my raw, paleo Margarita Pie.

Rustic Venison Pot Roast, flavored by a rosemary-molasses brine and slow roasted with garlic, onions and seasonal vegetables.

Garlic & Rosemary Slow Roasted Tomatoes are a flavorful alternative to canning for preserving tomatoes. Toss with spaghetti squash for a quick, elegant side dish, or use as the ultimate condiment atop chicken, steak, or pork tenderloin.

Thinly sliced lamb shoulder is stir-fried with vegetables in a skillet and then tossed in a sweet and sour glaze.

Beef Ragu was a meal my husband and I really enjoyed back when we lived in Canberra - the perfect meal to get through a winter in one of Australia's coldest cities! Back then we often served it with pasta, which we later discovered had contributed to some health problems - which kind of took the fun out of things. With a few key adjustments to the ingredients list, I am really pleased to bring you my latest (re)creation: Slow Cooker Beef Ragu. What I really love about this meal is that the flavours work so well together, the beef is really tender, and the sauce is rich - even though I have substituted in beef stock for the more traditional red wine (in the interests of keeping it healthy!)

This easy chili tastes great over spaghetti squash or sweet potatoes.

Gremolata is an Italian ingredient perfect to brighten the flavor of comfort food dishes like Osso Buco, lamb, and fish. Just 4 basic ingredients and you'll enhance your food in a second. PARSLEY ALL THE THINGS!

Slow Cooked Grass Fed Beef infused with Bacon

Some foods are cozy and comfortable whether you grew up with them or not. Avgolemono soup, cashews, and winter squash make my short list of "new" comfort foods. A few things immediately come to mind when I think of what comfort food used to mean to me: microwaved zucchini with garlic salt, creamy chicken over rice, dad's fried rice, and marshmallows. Not much overlap, is there? Zucchini is still one of my favorite vegetables, but I can't remember the last time I microwaved it, or had creamy chicken over rice. Some days you just want your food to make you feel cozy from the inside out. This bread does exactly that. It sends cinnamon aromas through the kitchen, swirled with scents of nutty toasted pecan and sweet bread. You start to feel cozy even before it's out of the oven. Still warm, butter and honey melt over slices of this bread with ease. That's the real secret: melty butter and sticky honey. It doesn't matter if this is the first time you've had a bread made of sweet potatoes. There's something about this home-style bread that wraps you up in a blanket and takes you home. This rustic skillet bread will be on your list of "new comforts" soon. Very soon. How could a single slice that marries cinnamon-roll smells and pecan-pie flavors not make your list? Paleo bread made from sweet potatoes and almond flour! Topping with cinnamon pecans. My one regret: cooked in a 10-inch cast iron skillet, this bread comes out thin, like a flat bread. This is great for optimizing the pecan-topping to bread ratio, but I found myself wishing the bread was a tad thicker. I foresee some kitchen experiments in my future.

Littleneck clams are hands down my favorite seafood. I eat them raw, steamed or cooked Portuguese style. They are so delicious and relatively easy to cook with a cooking time of under 15 minutes you can have an amazing appetizer or meal. Littlenecks are loaded with protein, with an estimated 22 grams of protein per 3 ounce serving. They are also low in fat, high in potassium and loaded with vitamins and minerals. According to SeafoodHealthFacts.org, they are one of the most sustainable seafood resources, thus making them a great choice to eat.