It’s official. I absolutely love living with a guy. I’ve had wonderful girl roommates for as long as I can remember, but living with a dude is real great. They don’t have near as much hair (or at least my guy doesn’t) to fill the bathroom floor, they don’t use as much toilet paper, they do the dishes when I cook, and they take the trash out. I don’t know why I’m saying they since it’s just one dude. And I’ve never lived with a guy before so it’s hard to say if other guys do those things. But mine does. And I just love it.
I hate that when I get really mad about something, like a package being delivered, I get wrinkles. No one wants wrinkles. No one. But the stress the Fedex is causing me right now is definitely adding some new wrinkles to my forehead. And their lack of help through customer service added increased blood pressure to my daily schedule. Fedex, you suck. Usually you are great. But today, you suck. I’m totally going to Yelp review this. Probably not, but I’ll think about doing it.
So yesterday, good ole’ yesterday. People shart their pants about my greek yogurt chia pudding instagram post that I shared when I found it at Sprouts. People really don’t like that I represent paleo if I don’t post 100% paleo 100% of the time. Obviously, they have never read my blog. Which is the reason I have an instagram. My blog has 99% paleo recipes, 1% primal recipes. I like to add cheese into some recipes. I can count all of those recipes on one hand. Kill me. Anywho, I use my instagram to share paleo and primal and even gluten free recipes on it. Not to satisfy every single person, but to share healthier options that I find along my paleo/primal/gluten free/eat-what-i-want/eat-what-makes-me-feel-good/eat-to-celebrate/eat-to-love-life/eat-to-be-healthier lifestyle path. Sometimes it’s a strict paleo recipe from my blog, sometimes it’s a gluten free treat I got at a bakery. But I will not apologize for posting those things. I will keep posting and let people do their own research about paleo. If they are too lazy to figure out information on their own, I am not at fault. All people eat different things, so stop freaking out, weirdos. Just because you don’t eat dairy doesn’t mean another person on instagram does the same.
I think I’m really opinionated today.
Last thing. I had a gluten free caramel apple pie pancake from Snooze AM Eatery this morning. It was seriously the best thing I’ve eaten in probably 2 weeks. I can’t say life. I could, but that would be just an intense exaggeration. And it comes a close second to the ice cream topped paleo chocolate chip cookie I had on Valentine’s Day. New problem I have: I live really close to Snooze and just found out they have wi-fi. You’ll know where to find me….every morning.
Maybe I’m so opinionated from my sugar high this morning.
Asian “Peanut” Sauce Noodle Bowl
- Yield: 3-4 1x
Ingredients
- 1 pound ground pork
- 1/2 small yellow onion, diced
- 1 red bell pepper, diced
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 3 medium zucchinis, spiral sliced into noodles then patted dry with paper towels for 10 minutes to soak up excess water (I used a Paderno Spiral Slicer)
- 1 (14 ounce) can coconut milk
- 1/2 cup sunflower seed butter (or other nut butter)
- 1/4 cup coconut aminos (or gluten free soy sauce)
- 3 tablespoons chili garlic sauce (or sriracha)
- juice of 1/2 a lime
- 1/2 tablespoon red pepper flakes, divided
- salt and pepper, to taste
- fresh cilantro, to garnish
- cashews, to garnish
Instructions
- In a large dutch oven or high rimmed sauté pan over medium-high heat, add ground pork, onion, red bell pepper and garlic cloves.
- Use a wooden spoon to break up meat and cook down. Add a bit of salt and pepper along 1/4 tablespoon of red pepper flakes. Mix well and cook until no pink remains in the meat.
- Once meat is cooked through, add spiral sliced zucchini noodles to the meat and cook on low for 5 minutes, mixing the noodles into the pork mixture. After 5 minutes, reduce heat to low.
- Place a small saucepan over medium heat. Add coconut milk, sunflower seed butter, coconut aminos, chili sauce, lime juice, 1/4 tablespoon red pepper flakes, and a bit of salt and pepper. Whisk to combine.
- Once sauce is smooth, reduce heat to low and let thicken for about 5 minutes.
- After sauce has reduced, pour sauce on noodle and pork mixture and mix well to combine.
- Serve noodle bowls with fresh cilantro and cashews garnished on top.
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Speaking of Instagram…I’m still waiting for the pic of your amazing couch. You should take a pic while eating Greek yogurt chia pudding
Looks fab can’t wait to try! Just ordered spiral slicer have a feeling it will be life changing. I’ve probably made like 40 of your recipes or more at this point and not one has let me down. Keep up the awesomeness 🙂 also you are the only other female that seems to like sausage as much as I do! At least according to my hubs…he thinks it’s weird but whatever 😉
Good grief that looks delicious. I have to write down the recipe for this. I am trying ti improve my diet. As an elite marathon runner it is one area of my life that I am working to improve upon. My wife eats 100% organic and is constantly eating delicious looking food like this. I have book marked your website and will surely be coming back to take notes and get more of your recipes. Thanks for what you do.
that’s it. I’m adding cheese to EVERYTHING on principle alone, even though it doesn’t totally agree with me lately. so sick of the paleo police.
One of my favorite things about your recipes is how you offer so many alternatives to the recipe. I love it because invariably I am out of the one item but still want to make the recipe, and your (or….) additions to replace items helps so much. My husband, kids, and I are really new to the paleo eating and we exclusively cook from your site because its so flexible and not usually 3000 ingredients that I don’t have time to throw together. P.S helps that we live in Colorado, too so you jumped like another ten points just from that;)
Dear Juli:
PREACH GIRL! love it. Paleo police have their own issues for just trying to put other people down. And like you said, not one way of eating works for everyone. People should find out what works for them, stick to it, and stop bashing. Aka SHUT IT.
p.s. recipe looks baller and can’t wait to make it.
p.p.s. i’m jealous every single day of my life that you live in colorado.
and you couch looks awesome too!
I really like that you have a paleo blog but eat other things too. I tried strict paleo for a while, but I realize I actually feel BETTER when I eat a small amount of grains, like for breakfast, emphasis on the small amount part. It is like brain food for me. Grains are over 50% of calories in most peoples’ diets – and that is the problem. There are toxins in tomatoes, but paleo peeps, yeah I just said peeps, still eat them! And broccoli didn’t exist until like 2,500 years ago from selective breeding… but it is really good for us. There is no such thing as a perfect food, but all food can be good for you in proper quantities. It’s that thing that grandmas say: “Everything in moderation, including moderation.” But yeah… wheat is pretty much the devil unless it is sprouted. And soybeans suck. Plus, eating “paleo” is not sustainable for the environment or for world hunger. So you can feel good about that too!! Anyway, that’s my annoying spiel.
CONCLUSION: People just gotta let Juli do Juli. They are not required to make food off of your blog, little dummies. Although they would be missing out because you are a genius with “paleo” noms.
I know I should figure this out myself, but i’m just sitting here trying to avoid the work I have to do so I thought I’d ask. Do you ‘sweat’ your zucchini noodles or just spiralize and go? I read on some other paleo blog that they should be salted to release some moisture, so I always do that, which means planning for an extra 1/2 hour of prep time (which I really don’t have). Just curious which way you prefer!
Love your blog!!
sorry, I didn’t add that prep time in. I sweated the noodles in paper towels for less than 10 minutes
Recipe was delicious. I used spicy pork and 1/2 almond butter, 1/2 peanut butter because that is all I had- oh and I used Thai noodles instead of zucchini (didn’t have that either) Yummy!
OMG looks delish!