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Cookbook Release Celebration Giveaways

By Slim Palate on 6 March, 2014 in Uncategorized

So my cookbook’s release is almost here, in fact it’s only 6 more days from today! Before I get to my explanation I also wanted to say that I will be having a book release party just outside of Houston Texas and you can get Tickets for it NOW on the Eventbrite page here. Anyway, I’m so ecstatic about it that I cannot contain myself and felt the need to do a series of giveaways leading up to it’s release day on March 11th, 2014 to celebrate.

Starting today there will be a new giveaway every day for 5 days up until March 10th, exactly 1 day from my cookbooks release. Anyone living in the US may participate but some of these prizes cannot ship outside of the US. In order to enter simply choose the giveaway you want to enter in below.

Note: You can enter all of these giveaways, they will all become available to enter in as the days progress and will all end at the same time.

Click the one you want to enter in below:

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4 (Starts Sunday March 9th)

Day 5 (Starts Monday March 10th)

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Why I Wrote The Slim Palate Paleo Cookbook And A Project

By Slim Palate on 3 March, 2014 in Uncategorized

So as some of you may have seen, I recently uploaded a promo video for my cookbook The Slim Palate Paleo Cookbook. First off, I simply cannot thank you guys enough for you endless support. I’m absolutely floored by the heartwarming responses I’ve gotten to the video. Because I got such a wonderful response on that I decided that I would share my reasoning behind writing my book if you didn’t know already. While I was going to write up a post about it, I thought that showing the video actually does a much better job of explaining exactly why I wrote my cookbook than a wall of text.

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Egg Foo Young

By Slim Palate on 27 February, 2014 in Book and Cookbook Reviews, Recipes, Savory

I realize that this recipe has somewhat of an odd name, but fear not as the name doesn’t imply anything unusual at all. In fact the recipe utilizes quite common ingredients other than the fact that it has fish sauce in it, but I’m hoping you have some because if you don’t then you are missing one of the keys to happiness. I promise you fish sauce is like a magic elixir that makes all things umami packed and delicious. Just make sure you find a quality brand like Red Boat who’s ingredients consist of only 2 things; wild caught anchovy and sea salt.

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Coconut Chia Pudding with Roasted Butternut and Honey

By Slim Palate on 20 February, 2014 in Recipes, Sweets/Desserts

I realize I’m late on jumping on the chia seed pudding bandwagon but it was for a good reason. I kept telling myself that I was going to do it but then I kept procrastinating and not doing it. Yes, that’ll do, that certainly counts as a good reason in my book. Actually it doesn’t but still, it’s just pudding my friends. At least that’s what I thought until I actually tried it, only to find out that it’s actually quite delicious, in fact addicting. Maybe even a little dangerous depending on how liberal you are with the honey.

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An Early Delivery (Sneak Peek of My New Cookbook + A Free Recipe)

By Slim Palate on 14 February, 2014 in Baking, Recipes, Sweets/Desserts, Uncategorized

So may or may not have seen my posts on my social media then I’ve got something super exciting to share with you guys. So excited I had to make a post out of it to capture the moment. I also decided to share a recipe from the book at the bottom of this post just in time for last minute Valentines Day Baking. Anyway, my cookbook The Slim Palate Paleo Cookbook arrived at my doorstep on Wednesday afternoon. I wasn’t having the best morning that day but then received the email from my publisher saying that it would be there that day in the middle of class. At that point literally nothing could have ruined my day.

Literally nothing actually, I even got rear ended at a stop sign on the way back home from Cross Fit but I was unaffected to full of excitement to be upset. I simply took the guys info down, and rushed home to eat and look at my finished baby. Because yes, it’s absolutely like a baby to me.

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Smoked Spare Ribs

By Slim Palate on 6 February, 2014 in Recipes, Savory

My mother is a Texas bred woman and is also one of the most selfless human beings on the planet. Everyone that I’ve ever introduced to her has always pointed out that she is the sweetest lady that they have ever met, which I completely agree. The only thing that I’d note is despite her daintiness that some people don’t notice at first is that she is still emblazoned with that burning essence of pure fire breathing southern kick. A sort of hidden tremendous level of strength mentally and physically, and a serious love for barbecue all over her face. I feel that her Texan blood transferred a little in to me so I have a special place in my heart for all things Texas Barbecue. Many a time I kid myself with always concocting the most elegant dishes I can with atypical ingredients but I simply just can’t lie to myself anymore about still loving good old Texas barbecue.

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Bibimbap and a Giveaway

By Slim Palate on 30 January, 2014 in Recipes, Savory

I love various types of ethnic foods and constantly seem to talk about how much I love (x) regions cuisine. Mainly through obsessing over a specific region for weeks on end and then abandoning it for a few months to obsess over another. I’m really trying hard not to seem like an ethnic food floozy with my sporadic ”affairs” with other regional foods but I also can’t help the fact that it looks exactly like I might be. By the way as a side note, that egg yolk is not photoshopped, that is just the work of Yonder Way Farm.

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Paleo Chili Garlic Sauce

By Slim Palate on 27 January, 2014 in Spreads, Sauces, Dips and Dressings, Uncategorized

I’ve been on an asian food kick lately. I don’t know what it is but I’ve just been craving asian food like a pregnant woman craves ice cream and pickles. In fact the pregnant lady joke is completely relevant in my mind since my cookbook is soon to be birthed so maybe that’s all a part of the process. I’m actually supposed to get my early copy and review copies this february, so I’m ecstatic about that. Also you should expect a bibimbap to accompany this recipe later this week because I served this with it. I just decided to make the chili garlic sauce a separate recipe because it deserves it’s own post because it’s a special condiment to me.

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Seared Cauliflower with Hazelnuts and Pomegranate

By Slim Palate on 23 January, 2014 in Uncategorized

Cooking method is just as important as the flavoring behind food. Many people know this but I also think that there are some that aren’t aware of this. I’ve seen plenty of dishes that are heavily spiced or seasoned yet aren’t sufficiently browned, or the adornments to the dish aren’t toned down enough through cooking. I’m not saying that everything needs to be browned, but almost any dish can benefit from it especially meat. Colorless but cooked chicken thighs are not an appealing thing to look at. As Gordon Ramsay once said “if there’s no color then there’s no flavor”.

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Pickled Red Onions

By Slim Palate on 16 January, 2014 in Recipes, Savory

I top a plethora of my meals with various garnishments and flavorings because that’s just how I am. Sure I get by with doing simple dishes without any flavor addition when I’m in a rush, but most of the time I try to keep things interesting by adding some sort of adornment. You know us foodies, and don’t kid yourself, because if you’re a true foodie you will go out of your way to make things a little more extravagant and more of an experience. Typical garnishments like fresh chopped herbs, lemon zest, fresh grated garlic, avocado, fried eggs, poached eggs, heck maybe if you’re feeling fancy you’ll slather some caviar on there. These are all good but most recently my love has been pickled red onions.