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Italian Vinaigrette Steak and Roasted Veggie Salad

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The only seasoning you need for this main course salad is Primal Kitchen® Italian Vinaigrette and Marinade . Citrus and red wine vinegar, plus thyme, basil and oregano, infuse Italian flavor into roasted vegetables and steak. Use the vinaigrette to toss the steak and roasted veg into a green salad, and the meal is done. Italian vinaigrette makes a great marinade for meat, tenderizing with vinegar and lemon, and adding flavor with dried herbs and seasonings. Oil in the vinaigrette keeps meat moist and succulent, but all too often it’s industrial seed oil that you don’t want touching your grass-fed steak. That’s where Primal Kitchen® vinaigrettes are different. Primal Kitchen Italian Vinaigrette and Marinade is made with pure avocado oil and high in monounsaturated fats. Healthful and convenient, this vinaigrette makes it easy to eat right and eat well. Servings: 4 Time in the Kitchen: 25 minutes, plus 30+ minutes to marinate Ingredients 1 pound skirt steak (or other cut of...

Easy One-Pan BBQ Chicken [Video]

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This recipe for One-Pan BBQ Chicken  has been on repeat lately. Our DTFN clients love it too because it’s just so stinkin’ quick and easy! Seriously, I’ve made a lot of simple recipes over the years, but this one has to be one of the easiest and most delicious yet! I know a lot of recipes claim to be super easy, but then they end up taking too long with all of the prepping and chopping. This One-Pan BBQ Chicken is no-fuss and the perfect family-friendly meal for busy weeknights. Mal has requested it several weeks in a row now, so I’d say it’s a winner – bacon usually does that! 🙂 I almost always do some sort of meal planning every week to stay on track and simplify our life, but, on occasion, dinner rolls around, I don’t have anything ready to go. Easy recipes like this one can really save the day when life gets crazy and planning falls by the wayside. I often plan this meal for a week that I know we have a ton going on and just need a fast dinner on the table ...

Will CrossFit Make You Bulky?

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Hello! My name is Katie Lyn. I am a writer over at Garage Gym Power . I am also a mom, a woman and an athlete. I am honored to be given the opportunity to write this guest post for Tina. I learned about Tina’s blog at the suggestion of a friend, and was happy to discover a like minded blogger with a lot of great recipes and an interesting CrossFit journey to share. This topic centers around a theme female CrossFit athletes encounter quite a bit, which is: “Will CrossFit make me Bulky?” I am going to attempt to tackle this prickly subject by exploring different definitions of “bulky” and looking at what practicing CrossFit may or may not accomplish for women. So without further ado, let me begin. Maybe you are a gal who has been considering giving CrossFit a try because you see all the benefits gained by CrossFit athletes. Sure! They look happy , energetic, on fire for life. Who doesn’t want that?!? But then something happened… Maybe you were excited to join a box, and you sha...

It’s About Enjoying Life By Being Healthy and Active

Primal Starter: Fasted Mornings

When You Put This On Top Of That

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Happy Friday! Happy weekend! I have to share these breakfast and lunch dishes I had. They’re both amazing combos you have to try! First, I just tried the Key Lime Noosa yogurt – SO GOOD! Key Lime on top of blueberries and bananas (which I heated ever so slightly) plus granola and coconut on top was just the best combination. So much texture variety! : ) And second, this open-faced bagel “sandwich.” (It’s not a sandwich if nothing is sandwiched, right?!) MY OTHER RECIPES Thomas brought home some cinnamon raisin bagels from Bodos for Mazen and me to have for breakfast. I totally forgot to have one for breakfast, so I decided I’d figure out a way to make the most of my breakfast and lunch dishes and enjoy it at lunch instead. I toasted the bagel so it was nice and warm, smeared on a nice layer of cream cheese, added sliced red peppers and a mountain of arugula, and placed honey-roasted walnuts on top for crunch (and healthy fats). Finally, the drizzle of honey was the...

Why the Type of Folate You Take Matters

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We have a problem. When discussing vitamin B9, common parlance is to use “folic acid” and “folate” interchangeably, as if the two are different terms for the same thing. Talk to most OB-GYNs about the type of vitamin B9 in your prenatal, and they’ll say the difference doesn’t matter. Look at the average nutrition label, and it’ll list folic acid rather than folate, even though it’s naturally occurring.  They are not the same. The difference is meaningful.   Our bodies don’t actually use “folic acid” or “folate”; they convert them into 5-methyltetrahydrofolate—the useable form of folate. Folic acid must go to the liver for conversion into 5-methyltetrahydrofolate, but there’s an issue here: The liver doesn’t always make enough of the enzyme necessary to convert folic acid into tetrahydrofolate. Organic folates, like the ones found in food or supplemental 5-methyltetrahydrofolate, don’t have this problem. They’re easily converted into tetrahydrofolate...