Potato Latkes

I do not eat much starch but the odd time I do I prefer its potato as it seems to provide me virtually no issues with GERD, etc...

So when I am not keto currently I have found this a wonderful addition to breakfast, on a plate of bacon, eggs, and some quality sour cream to top it off (full fat of course).

Latkes with a big dollop of sour cream, bacon, left over Christmas ham
pepper parmesan scrambled farm fresh eggs!  Wonderful and by the end of the day
I will be easily under 20% calories from carbs.

Adding Aroma with Mirepoix & Sofrito

Using vegetables to aromatize will subletly flavor foods such as soups and broths providing the flavor profile we have come to expect in modern versions yet allowing us to maintain our way of eating primal quality food.

Aroma and Flavor are Linked

When cooking you must understand the sense of smell and sense of taste are very closely linked, when you cook something with very little aroma the flavor can seem lacking and consequently when you cook something with an unpleasant aroma the food will also taste badly to many people.

Aromatics are a great way to both solve this problem and improve the flavor profile of any dish without messing with its nutritional quality.

Mirepoix and Sofrito's are chopped vegetable mixes that are often then sauted or  cooked in oil to further enhance their aromatic and flavor enhancing qualities.

New "Primal North" Mayonnaise Recipe

My richest and best tasting mayo yet

Tinker with your Recipe

I am always tinkering with my mayo recipe, I never make it the same twice.  But I feel this is my best yet :)

Left Over Turkey, Bone Broth Soup

A wonderful way to use the turkey carcass after a holiday feast.

Rich turkey broth, well made, gelled when refrigerated.

The end result is an aromatic turkey soup

Iskiate or Chia Fresca

Chia Fresca

(and the Primal North Version)

I have found this energy drink of the Raramuri (the Tarahumara / the People Who Run) to be superb when keto-adapted, and no surpise, awesome energy for running.

Iskiate is a very refreshing drink and proven runner's fuel.

Natural Lard - Organic, Pastured and Home Made

Thanks to my recent trip to Dalew Farms for some tasty tasty pork, I went ahead and made up some lard from the pork fat I got.

Home made lard provides the most preferable form of monounsaturated fat you can get in my opinion for those practicing paleo, primal or nutritional ketosis ways of living.

Making Lard

Organic, pastured pure home made lard

Rich in monounsaturated and healthy saturated fat.

Lots of fat from pastured, organically raised pigs from Dalew Farms

Saltwater Keto Coffee - Round out your amino profile

I started drinking bulletproof coffees some time ago and have been tweaking the recipe ever since.  Although I use local organic coffee most of the time, brewed here in North Bay at Twiggs.

It has since evolved into a coffee that serves me well for keto-adaptation.

Rich and delicious although the salty taste may throw some people... adjust as needed and get your salt another way if you like, perhaps in a broth?

Recipe...

Chocolate Blubber - The Ultimate Travel Fat for the Keto Road Warrior

In a salute to Chocolate Covered Bacon Bars Baby! And my friends on Big Primal

One of the hardest parts about travelling every week is the combo of  carb creep and fat absence.

Its pretty fricking hard to get 80% of cals from fat on the road.  You gotta ask the waitress for like 10 patties of butter and you may just get margarine.

Getting lean meat is easy though! So rather than packing both, I thought why not just bring a busload of fat!

Taking my queue from the Inuit hunter who used to pack almost all blubber for his trips that could last weeks or months.

I want something fatty, saturated, healthy, portable, and why can it not taste palatable too if I have to eat it in quantity?

Enter CHOCOLATE BLUBBER BABY!

Recipe

Note:  Due to the melting points of butter, and coconut oil, it is needed to keep this recipe cool in summer for travel.  I always bring a cooler with me travelling with ice in the bottom.

• Melt together
• 1 pound butter, ideally grass fed organic..
• 1/3 as much coconut oil
• 1 bar of 90% dark chocolate with very low carb ( Around here its Lindt at about 8 grams a bar)
• Cool
• Chop into big hunking chunks and add to coffee or just eat as needed for fat

Makes a few days worth of fat I am guessing.

I enjoy the taste a lot, as I like dark chocolate, coconut oil and butter independantly.

Pretty satisfying way to add fat to the lean that is readily available on the road to stay in nutritional ketosis.

Fresh, Amazing Keto/Probiotic Tartar Sauce Recipe

Ideal on some talapia, salmon or other mild fish.
Side is near zero carb lacto fermented pickles

Ingredients: (By the eye is just fine, taste as you go, adjust as you please).

Goals of this dish - Stay ketogenic, high fat, get probiotics, get fish protein, use only high quality fats

Kicked Up Keto Tomato Bisque Bone Broth

Rich, thick, tastey source of bone broth, and fats.

Rich and luxurious, 50% home made bone broth by volume
Extremely nutriotional ketosis friendly, low protein and low carb, high fat.

A dollop of creme fresh/sour cream or even kefir in the center is the perfect service

Pepper Gravy and Wild Deer Sausage

Real wild game and some fine flavors combine to make this awesome dish that could please anyone.

The deer meat is wild tasting but mild.  The sausage is raw so requires extra cooking.

Wild Deer Sausage in  Pepper Gravy (a fat based gravy without thickener)

Ideal for nutritional ketosis and using real, wild game

This is a video based recipe.  Feedback welcome, my first attempt.  I am also seeking some good open source music to use.

I hope you enjoy this 5 minute video as much as we enjoyed the food!

This is a high fat, moderate protein, very low carb recipe ideal for anyone in nutritional ketosis and with an eye on food quality.

It should be noted that in Canada hunters contribute 90% of all private donations to maintain wildlife, PETA less than 1%.

Fried Chicken Hearts - "The Colonel's Castoffs"

Diving into a big feed of hearts!  Having now done it I can see not much feels more "primal" than eating some hearts.

Tempted to name this dish "The Colonel's Cast-Off's" as you won't find this at KFC...

Rating 7/10

Odd bits of animals should be part of a nutritrionally complete ketogenic diet.  Heart is a great experiment as you may or may not love it.

Pan friend chicken hearts taste like very mild liver, have a chewy outside and a soft inside.  Quite unusually the first few bites but afterwards primal instinct may just take over and you will relish this dining experience.

My LCHF creamy coleslaw makes an awesome side.  Dressing is equal parts home made mayo and sour cream (about 1/3 cup each), 2 TB Braggs Apple Cider Vinegre, 1 TSP mustard, salt, pepper, 1 TBSP garlic puree, 1 TBSP sweetener if your way of eating allows but its not needed and I didn't use it (Keto baby!) - Mix with cut up cabbage and  a third as much raddichio 

Fried Chicken Hearts with Creamy Herb Sauce

• One pound chicken hearts
• 2 cups chicken or beef bone broth or regular broth (I had home made beef bone broth handy)
• Half a green pepper, chopped small
• 3 shallots, chopped small
• 3 TB quality butter, pastured organic if possible
• 1/2 cup of 35% cream, pastured organic if possible
• 1/4 cup of cream cheese of similar quality
• Favorate spice mix (I use a roasted garlic and pepper spice mix I love)

Directions

1. Non-Stick pan on medium heat, get broth boiling
2. Add pound of chicken hearts
3. Add 2 TBSP of your spice mix
4. Cover, simmer 10 minutes
5. Drain, return hearts to pan
6. Add butter
7. Add chopped shallots and green peppers, can also add red peppers or other low carb stir fry style veg as you wish
8. Fry over medium heat, brown up hearts, veg should go translucent
9. Add cream
10. Add cream cheese
11. Add 2 TBSP spice mix
12. Stir and reduce until thick
13. Taste and spice as needed

Odd bits! To your health!

Mooseburger Helper - Primal Style

I see your grass fed beef and raise you 100% wild ruminant, Canadian Moose!

Mooseburger Helper - Rating 8 / 10

According to my sometimes fussy step-daughter "Surprisingly good!"

Nearly Instant Blender Mayo - Primal Style

I am often asked how to make mayo since I make my own now.

My personal recipe was inspired by Rolls Royce Mayo, here.

I now use pastured "pullets" eggs from Lowden's Lane Egg Farm.

My blender mayo is excellent warm and fresh made, or chilled.  Keep it in the fridge, whip it up and add spices of any kind to make instant dips or spreads.  100% healthy and natural.  Its even lacto-ovo vegetarian friendly as well as ideal for nutritional ketosis.

Offal Good Paleo Sweetbreads and Dip

After our Big Primal appearance with the gang from Sex, Food and Kettlebells I have been asked a few times for instructions on making sweetbreads.  So here goes...

Lovely lovely glands!  Eating The Odd Bits for Health!

Sweetbreads are a type of offal, most often the thymus gland but the pancreas or other glands are sometimes used

I would like to thank Bay Meats in North Bay for supplying the sweetbreads.

Roasted Long Bones and Double Marrow Broth

Anthony Bourdain describes roasted marrow as one of his "last supper" choices.  I would have to agree, as it is wonderful.

Rich and delicious roasted marrow bown

To really savor it though you do need a contrast that provides crunch.  I indulged in some tallow roasted chips, I am sure Paul Jaminet would enjoy the irony of that.