Yummy Primal Fried Chicken

I've been scraping together random bits and pieces; eating mostly fried eggs at night since it was 'easy' and I didn't have enough ingredients to make anything else.

However, tonight I cooked my first proper primal recipe. The recipe I tried was from the free primal reader-created cookbook from Mark's Daily Apple: Crispy Nut and Herb Fried Chicken with Creamy Avocado (pg. 52). I used all four nuts pictured: almonds, walnuts, macadamia, and pecans. I also chose rosemary as my herb and only 1 egg since I was making just one portion.


Instead of chicken breast I used a chicken leg (the only thing I had defrosted!). First time making this recipe, first time making fried chicken, first time working with chicken leg... the only thing I felt was hard was getting the timing of cooked meet in balance with a too crispy coating.

In the end, served with a quarter of an avocado (3 slices) and it tasted amazing even if just slightly burnt.

I used FitDay.com to estimate the nutritional values of this dish. Everything is estimated, so (disclaimer) may not be completely accurate!

A few berries for desert to top it off. Yummy! Happy belly!

UPDATE (10/Jan/12): After many more attempts at making this (it's my new favourite) I've found the best way to make this without burning is to use chicken breast and flatten it with a mallet like chicken schnitzel. Then proceed with recipe instructions as normal.

Meat Overload

Last night I made my first lamb roast with a spinach, feta, spring onion (eshallot) and balsamic salad. Not bad, loved the salad (mostly the cheese part), but I think I over cooked my lamb slightly. : /

This morning I had 2 fried organic eggs and 2 mini organic beef sausages. I made 3 sausages, but found I got too full to eat the last one. I think this is more meat than I've had in a really long time, so I definitely wasn't liking all the sausage this morning.

I finished eating at 10, did my sprints at 10:30 and only starting to feel hungry at 1:30 for lunch. Time to forage in my kitchen for food. I'm thinking a lamb salad... and maybe some blue/rasp/strawberries or cherries for a little sweetness.

If I'm lucky, I'll pop over to my friends place tonight (also primal) and will partake in primal fish tacos (hold the taco).

Going Primal

I started researching healthy things to eat to help grow healthier, thicker hair and stumbled across the Paleo Diet blog called Free the Animal. 


One holiday and three weeks later, I was back in town at a friend's BBQ and talking about how she and a couple other friends were going primal using Mark's Daily Apple blog. Living like the first humans would have - hunter-gather style. 

Seeing that I'd been researching a lot of different lifestyle changes for diet, including Ayurvedic diets (I'm Pitta Dosha), the primal lifestyle seemed like a good way to combine all of things I've been reading.

So, today I went to the shops and bought a lot of primal approved food for the week. I don't know what I'm going to create yet. There are a lot of recipes and I'm not great in the kitchen, so there's going to have to be a lot of research.

But, this is what I purchased for my first primal shop...

Veggies / Fruit

• Spinach
• Parsley
• Eshallots
• Organic Carrots
• Cherries
• White Onion
• Avacado
• Eggplant
• Portabello mushrooms
• Diced Tomatoes (canned)
• Garlic
• Raspberries
• Blueberries
• Strawberries

Meats

• Organic Eggs
• Organic Chicken Breast
• Organic Chicken Drumsticks
• Organic Beef Sausages
• Lamb Roast

Other

• Coconut Milk (canned)
• Tapioca Flour
• Beef Stock

As part of this change, I want to also head back to the naturopath and monitor my blood as I did in previous posts to see how the diet is affecting it.