Today’s installment of my exploration of organ meats features: cow tongue! I used beef tongue from US Wellness Meats. Eating beef tongue is a part of eating “nose-to-tail”. Making sure that none of the animal goes to waste is more ethical than eating only your favorite parts and discarding the rest. Beef tongue contains folate, ...Read More
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Hot Cocoa
Hot cocoa is a classic winter treat. There’s nothing better than a steaming mug of cocoa when you come in after building a snowman, having a snowball fight, or sledding. And this recipe keeps things simple AND keto. You only need four ingredients! You can dress it up with whipped cream or marshmallows, or enjoy ...Read More
Beef Head Cheese
This post in my series on organ meats isn’t actually a recipe, it’s more of a review. We tried this beef head cheese from US Wellness Meats. Whenever I hear the words “head cheese”, I think of this passage about butchering a hog from Laura Ingalls Wilder’s book Little House in the Big Woods: Ma ...Read More
Braunschweiger Spread
For the second installment in my series on organ meats, I decided to try braunschweiger from US Wellness Meats. Braunschweiger is a sausage made with meat and liver, and can be either beef or pork. Liver is one of the world’s most nutrient dense foods. It contains a lot of vitamin A, and it is ...Read More
I ❤️ Bacon Burgers
For the first recipe in my exploration of organ meats I decided to use beef heart. It seemed appropriate so close to Valentine’s Day. The heart is a muscle, although it has a stronger flavor and denser texture than other muscle meats. It is very lean, which makes it higher in protein than some other ...Read More
Organ Meats: Does Offal Have to be Awful?
Eating organ meats is an important part of the ancestral health movement. Whether they’re paleo, primal, or clean-eating keto, nearly anyone who advocates eating according to our bodies’ biological needs rather than eating what industrial agriculture and flawed nutritional guidelines push at us will say that everyone should be eating organ meats. Historically, organ meats ...Read More
Everly Hydration Drink Mixes
When following a ketogenic lifestyle, some of the foods we eat have less water in them than some of the foods we avoid. This makes it extra important to drink enough water. In general, you should drink 1/2 an ounce of water for every pound that you weigh each day. For me, this is easier ...Read More
Single Batch Sautéed Mushrooms
You know how most recipes for sautéed mushrooms instruct you to sauté in batches? I don’t know about you, but I usually ignore that instruction and just dump them all in at once. Then, they absorb all the oil and stick to the pan, so I add more oil. After that, they release a lot ...Read More
Blackened Salmon with Crispy Skin
In the past, I’ve always discarded my salmon skin. I knew it could be eaten, but it always turned out squishy and limp, so I didn’t want to eat it. I came across this post from Serious Eats, and decided to give salmon skin another chance. I’m so glad I did! This crispy salmon skin ...Read More
Asian Inspired Country Style Pork Ribs
I had some ButcherBox boneless country style pork ribs I wanted to cook – but I didn’t feel like BBQ. I also had never cooked these ribs any way other than BBQ, so I went searching online for a recipe. I found this one from Keto Midwest. I made a few tweaks, and came up ...Read More