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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I loooovvee this..a few favourite. Thank u.
It is seriously stupid how much I love this meal. Like scrape the pan and lick the plate love it. I like to wrap it in butter lettuce; it is just so saucy and delicious. Thank you!!!
Great balls of zucchini noodles…this recipe absolutely rocked. I had made it for a party of fellow Ironman Triathletes that are following Paleo and they sighed in sheer joy. Made it for myself tonight…so incredibly yummy!!! Thank you for the amazing recipes, the wonderful commentary, and your stand on your life and ‘your paleo”.
I had a bunch of seafood mix defrosted, so used the sauce over that. Soooo YUM! We are complete wimps about spicy food, so did 1 Tbsp chili sauce (only had Chinese Hunan chili sauce) and then some minced garlic, then I added juice from another half lime and a tad of honey and I used about 2 tsp of tapioca flour to thicken (as the seafood mix was not completely defrosted and I didn’t want it to get runny). This is going on the fancy company list of things to make. Thanks oodles!!!
This was great! And so easy. I didn’t have zucchini, so I threw in a bunch of chopped kale. I also used a little flour to thicken up the broth. It’s a keeper!
This is incredible! We’ve lived in China as English teachers for three years and try to stick to at least an 80% paleo diet. You’re definitely saving us from our cravings of all this amazing Chinese food we’re surrounded by.
Yum! Just made this tonight with almond butter and added half a jalapeno (b/c I had it). Your recipes never disappoint!!
I have to mention that I lived in Boulder/Denver for years and recently went back to visit friends. Snooze didn’t exist when I lived there, but my friends raved about it and tried to take me there the morning of my flight home. I was sooo bummed that the line was way too long, even on a Tuesday! I guess everything happens for a reason though, because we ended up at Jelly which had the MOST phenomenal breakfast burrito smothered in green chili. This was before my paleo journey started, but I probably would have gotten that anyway as I could bathe in green chili. Seriously.
ANYWAYS, I have to be honest…I didn’t expect this recipe to taste this good. However, it was AMAZING!!! Like, I really wanted to eat the entire pot of it but stopped myself so I could pack it for lunch tomorrow. This will be a new staple in my house. Thank you!!!!
I can’t believe I haven’t commented on this before! I’ve made this a bunch of times and it’s just amazing.
I put the zucchini noodles in a colander and salt them while I cook everything else. By the time everything else is done, the zucchini is ready, too. I put the noodles in the bowl and put the meat/sauce mixture on top. Seems to work just dandy for me. I also leave out the red pepper flakes, as the chili garlic paste gives it plenty of kick.
The best part is the leftover sauce. I find that I only use about half of it. Fortunately, it freezes great and puts me a step ahead for the next time.
As for the nitpickers, that’s their problem, not yours. Keep doing you.
this was absolutely delicious. family loved it. we ate it all. thank you!