Coconut Salmon and Sweet Potato Fish Cakes (Gluten Free)

Wow, it's been quite some time since I've posted something. It's not hard to tell I started nursing school in September hey? Today I completed my second Anatomy and Physiology term exam, and I don't have another exam until the middle of next week. So, I took this evening off! I cooked dinner, drank wine, attempted to learn a song on guitar, and also took some time to clear up some space on my macbook. It felt grrrreat. Especially after such a high strung week!

So this evenings creation was a fish cake of sorts! haha These cakes tasted incredibly good...

Ingredients:

2 med sized sweet potatoes

1 can of salmon

2 eggs
1/2 c coconut flour

1/4 c nutritional yeast

pinch of nutmeg
salt to taste

Spiralize or grate your raw potatoes. Combine potato, salmon, and egg in a medium sized bowl. Mix together dry ingredients in a small bowl and slowly add to the wet ingredients. Form mixture into small patties and fry over medium-high heat in coconut oil!

Give them a try! and let me know what you think!
Back to my night xx

Lemon Blueberry Layer Cake, with ICING (that's right)

So, I've decided that instead of writing the food categories in each title, I'm just going to start each blog off with a list of what categories each recipe fits into. It's just easier to look at ! :)



PALEO, GLUTEN-FREE, GRAIN-FREE, DAIRY-FREE, REFINED-SUGAR-FREE!


This cake was a complete experiment! I came home one evening last week from berry picking and started in on this right after supper. I think it may be the best paleo cake I've made thus far!

I looooooove berry picking by the way. I actually find it hard to stop once I'm into it. Come ants or darkness, I really don't care! haha

This is my haul <3

Cake Ingredients:

1 1/3 c almond meal
1 c coconut flour
2 pinches of salt
3 pinches of cinnamon
1 tsp baking soda
9 eggs (yep)
1/2 c honey
1 tbsp vanilla
2 tsp lemon zest
juice of 2 lemons
1 c blueberries (fresh or frozen)

A medium bowl will do, but I like using a super big bowl because I like to get pretty vigirious with my hand mixing. One of these days I'll have the Kitchen Aid mixer of my dreams....
and ya need 2, 8x8 baking pans.

1. Combine all dry ingredients. Be sure to work out any clumps that may exist.
2. Add all nine eggs and mix thoroughly.
3. Add the honey, vanilla, zest, and lemon juice and mix, mix, mix! (This is where the big bowl comes in)
4. Fold in your blueberries
5. Line your pans with parchment paper and pour in your mixture evenly into the two pans. Bake for about 30 minutes. Do the toothpick test to determine of it's ready. Let the cake completely cool, you can make the icing in the meantime!

Icing ingredients:

1 160ml can of coconut milk
1/4 cup honey
1 170g package of creamed coconut
4 tbsp of coconut oil
juice of 1 lemon
2 tbsp dairy-free butter

Just mix all these ingredients together! You can refrigerate it while your cake is cooling, just be sure to take it out 5 minutes before you plan to use it, and give it a good stir.

When your cake has cooled, ice it! I put a layer of icing and blueberries between the two cakes and used the rest of the icing for the top. Make it look pretty by adding some blueberries as a finishing touch! :)

The cake is fine to eat immediately after icing, but I found it best left to chill for a while. The icing and cake formed together really well!

It makes a great breakfast with a glass of almond milk!

KB's BLT with GOAT CHEESE - (Grain-free, Lacto-Paleo)

I love coming up with quick, easy, yet DELICIOUS meals. Thought this up on a day when I was craving a BLT. I was about to make a BLT salad, when I had the thought to use my romaine hearts like BREAD.

I cannot stress how simple this is.

Cook the bacon. I used turkey bacon!

Take two romaine heart leafs, put some goat cheese in one, and some tomato sauce in the other.

Sprinkle whatever herbs and spices you'd like to use, if any. I sprinkled some basil.

Put the bacon on top of the cheese and assemble your "sandwich". Toothpicks help keep everything together while you're eating.

Since the moment I first made these, I crave them alllll the time. Go try it, like right now!

Chocolate Covered Macadamias and Raisins (Paleo, Refined Sugar-Free)

Run out of Larabars? Need a quick and easy snack? This takes about 10 minutes, produces a crunchy, sweet treat, and there's no baking required!

I used:

- organic raw macadamia nuts
- organic jumbo raisins
- Enjoy Life chocolate chips

These chocolate chips are the best! They're gluten free, soy free, nut free, and dairy free, for those who have sensitivities. They also only have three ingredients: Natural Chocolate Liquor (Non-Alcoholic), Non-Dairy Cocoa Butter, and Evaporated Cane Juice.

All I did was melt down the chocolate, threw in the nuts and raisins, mixed well to make sure everything was well coated, and then spooned the raisins and nuts onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper! After that I let them cool in the fridge for about five minutes.

Tadaaaaaa! Easy peasy!

Healthier Camping Alternatives

I spent a night "camping" in a trailer in Holyrood. I planned nice meal and dessert to make with my friend, camping style!

We grabbed some skewers, pork loin, orange pepper, bacon, and pineapple, and roasted kabobs over the campfire! We glazed half in Mr.Spice's Ginger stir-fry sauce, and half in Mr.Spice's Honey BBQ sauce! Oh, and this meal is paleo-friendly!

The pineapple and peppers were organic, and the bacon was gluten-free with all natural ingredients. Everything complimented each other perfectly. It flavours reminded me of Hawaiian pizza. I was pretty into it!

For dessert we roasted bananas instead of marshmallows. THAT'S RIGHT. They don't catch fire either!  Aaaaand we made s'mores with them using gluten-free graham crackers, and organic 70% dark chocolate.  I feel a little guilty about the refined-sugar that's in the graham crackers, but mannnn were they good. I still think I did pretty good for camping considering I'm used to homemade bread smothered in cheese whiz topped with hotdogs.

I may like these better than the original s'more! Saving those crackers for the next time I camp! :)

Bison Ragu (Paleo)

On Friday after work I took a trip to the Real Food Market. I went there searching for organic, free-range, grass-fed meat, and left with some ground beef and ground bison. BISON.

I cooked the Bison up as soon as I got home. My meal was pretty random, originally inspired by spaghetti, but ended up being more of a stew or ragu.

Use my spiralizer for the first time! It's the only one I could find, got it at Paderno out on Stavanger Drive. I used it on zucchini and got spaghettini-like strands!

I laid that aside and started to brown my bison on low heat. Where it was extra lean, I had to add a bit of extra virgin olive oil to make sure it wouldn't burn.  Added shallots, garlic, organic carrots, and organic mushrooms and cooked everything in organic tomato and basil pasta sauce with some extra garlic.

While that was stewing I roasted some baby red tomatoes in olive oil and sea salt.

In the last 5 minutes I sauteed my zuchinni in some olive oil, and then everything was ready to go!

Dad plated it right nice. :)

We all adored this meal and went for seconds. The Bison tasted like beef, only fresher. I don't know how else to describe it. I can't wait til my next grocery run to pick up more! Big fan.

The strands of zucchini made a great substitute for pasta, all the strands twirled around my fork perfectly!  I knew my spiralizer would be a good investment!


Eating organic is completely changing how I view food, and for the better. It's satisfying having control over what you put in your body. Being able to identify every ingredient is so important! As well as understanding the pros and cons of each ingredient, especially if you have a sensitivity too certain foods, or other health issues like an auto-immune disorder.


Someone should farm Bison in Newfoundland.

Garden Progress and Gluten-Free Beer

Better late than never!

That's my motto for this garden. I sowed my seeds late in the season so I'm just getting things beginning to sprout. But I'm so proud!! I'm a first time gardener so any progress is very exciting. The tomato and rosemary plants I transferred are doing very well! They've both over doubled in size!

Tried a new gluten-free beer while lounging by my garden. Well, new to me. New Grist. It wasn't awful, it was actually kind of good! I've tried other gluten-free beers before that left me less than impressed. It had all the qualities that a beer would have, golden colour, bubbles, crisp taste. This beer is flavoured with green apples, which I liked! It isn't made with wheat or barley, but it is made from other grains; rice and sorghum. I'm trying to avoid all grains so I'll only have this product once in a while as a treat, but I will definitely buy it again!

Oh, here's my baby radishes...

My baby lettuce....

and my single baby swiss chard :)

Some sweet right?

Turkey and Broccoli Goulash with FETA! (Gluten Free)

Today's another beautiful day in the city of St. John's! I worked, spent some time in the garden, and cooked supper for the fam.

I'm pretty excited tonight because I'm getting a deep freeze!!! Yup. That means my dream of stocking up on loads of awesome meat (ie: free range, grass fed, organic, local, no hormones or antibiotics, all that good stuff) is a possibility! Ya see, I'm going to be quite poor when nursing school starts up in September. So, the more I can stock up on now the better. Yay! Deep Freeze. <3.

Oliver's Farm in Whitbourne sells grass-fed free-range beef, pork, lamb, and poultry! How great is that?! They're also at the St. John's Farmers' Market on Saturdays from 9-2, but this Saturday I'm doing a day shift. I may try to adventure to Whitbourne on one of my days off.

Here's Oliver's Farm's Contact info:

Oliver’s Farm

Dave and Del Oliver
Phone:709-687-1639 or 709-687-3173

Placentia Junction P.O. Box 435
Whitbourne, NL
A0B 3K0

Shop Real Food. That's something else to be excited about. The little organic grocery store on Logy Bay Road. I'm heading there on Friday afternoon! They're only open on Tuesday's from 10-7, and Friday's from 10-6. However, they do home deliveries daily, and you can shop online!
Let me show you what I cooked for supper!


I made dinner for my parents and I. When I'm cooking for them I don't always do a completely paleo dish. However, this was a gluten free, and very healthy meal. If you continue to read this blog you'll come to learn that I go all over the place in the "paleo spectrum". hahaha.

Here we go...

I cooked up extra lean ground turkey with some garlic shallots and brocolli.

I used Dominion's PC Organics frozen broccoli. I got it on sale for $2.99 a while ago! Loves a sale.

Then I boiled my gluten free pasta which was Prairie Harvest's Organic Corn Macaroni (gotta use Macaroni in a goulash). I got it in Dominion's organic section. It only has two ingredients, which I like, corn flour and water. It's also fairly low calorie, low fat, no sodium, no sugar, AND it has protein and iron. Score!

I added my new favourite pasta sauce to my meat and veggies. Simply Natural's Organic Tomato and Basil Pasta Sauce. You can get four 739ml jars at Costco for $8.79!!!

I seasoned my meat and sauce a bit more with a dash of salt and pepper, and some paprika. Right before I was about take it off the stove I added a sprinkling of arrowroot powder and coconut flour to thicken it up. Then, everything was mixed in a salad bowl and topped off with crumbly feta cheese.



It made a great family meal...warm and comforting. Mom and Dad were big fans. :)