Posted April 5, 2013 by Hayley
On Monday The 30 Day Guide to Paleo Cooking goes to print, which means that we are done with cookbooks!!! Well, done until we start working on our next book š Which we already have an idea for, but we know a few people who may kill us if we dive into another book right away. Truthfully, with the wedding getting closer and closer (eeek!) and new development for our website needing to be done, we really donāt have time to start on another book until after our wedding (which is August 31st if you didnāt know!)
Do us an enormous favor, and please order both books if you havenāt already!
Order Gather here, and The 30 Day Guide here.
Gather is due out April 30th, and ā30 Paleoā is due out June 11th. If you pre-order the books, youāll be guaranteed the lowest price between time of ordering and time of shipping. Pre-ordered books also typically ship on or before the release date.
The good news about all of this is that we can get back to blogging!! Yay! We are so excited to get back to blogging. This is how it all started for us anyway! Things you can expect to see on our blog in the coming months will be, (tons of)shameless book promotion for our two new awesome books (seen above), new fun recipes, gardening things from Bill mostly-because heās the expert on plants having graduated top of his class in Landscape Architecture (Iām marrying a smart cookie), and maybe some wedding stuff. Our wedding is going to be strictly gluten free, and as grain free as possible. We think we have upset a few non-Paleo people by not allowing for bread at our wedding, but tough gluten free cookies. This is who we are, and we are not going to budge on this one. Itās our big day, one of the most important days of our lives, and itās also JUST two meals out of our guests entire lives that they wont be served bread. More importantly, we have many guests who get extremely ill if accidentally glutened and since most weddings donāt cater to gluten intolerance itās really important that our guests can eat freely at our wedding. If you really want to hear my rant, let me tell you how many times Bill and I have gone to an event and not been able to eat the food (or the dessert). Many times. A little lack of bread wont kill anyone, in fact it will only help their health! Did I mention we will have a gluten free cake at our wedding, AND a gluten free cookie table? AND we are making sure to have a gluten free vegetarian optionā¦Iām pretty sure nobody will leave our wedding saying āMan that meal just wasnāt the same without the rollsā¦ā /End rant.
Speaking of our wedding, Iāve come into a bit of a dilemma with the whole wedding thing. And Iām going to get really real with you hereā¦I, like any bride, would like to be thinner for our wedding (or at least a little leaner, or in better shape, or whatever), howeverā¦I donāt feel like doing the work to get there. Yeah, totally. I said on a recent podcast that when I first started Paleo I was super into being lean and thin, of course I was really happy that this way of eating made me feel better than I had ever felt before, and it was the first time I didnāt have to really try to keep weight off. But now I couldnāt care less if I am the leanest chick out there. Now, I just want to be healthy, and I donāt really think skinny is healthy for woman. I donāt know if healthy for me is a size much smaller than I am now. I do want to look my best for our wedding, and I wont deny that. So that is my dilemma, not something Iām obsessing about by any means, but itās definitely in the back of my mind. Pretty much like āUgh, do I really have to try to look better for this whole thing??ā My first dress fitting is in July, so maybe Iāll just try not to eat Jeniās Grass Fed Ice Cream or Hail Merrys and make sure I go to yoga. That probably will be good enoughā¦
Now for the recipe. The other day we were shopping in Whole Foods and I spotted kelp noodles near the tofu. Donāt ask me why I was looking at tofu, but for whatever reason I was. I think I may have been looking for kelp noodles and figured they might be with tofu, but I canāt really remember. Anyway, we had yet to try kelp noodles, but have many friends who love them, so we figured why not give it a shot! Our first try was adding them to our super yummy Italian Wedding Soup from The 30 Day Guide to Paleo Cooking. I absolutely love this recipe. Wedding soup was one of my favorite soups as a kid, and making this soup also made me realize that I have a huge obsession with escarole, really huge. Itās awesome. Anyway, I decided to toss a bag of kelp noodles into the soup while it simmered at the end just for some added texture to the soup. I had heard that you want the kelp noodles to sit in warm liquid or under hot food for a little while so they soften. This seemed to work great. I added the noodles at the end, and just let the soup simmer for about an hour. The kelp noodles were awesome! We slurped up big bites of the long noodles like angel hair pasta, and Bill couldnāt stop saying how much he was loving that soup! Success.
Tonight for dinner I decided to throw together a simple Korean inspired beef and vegetable noodle bowl using the kelp noodles again. If you cannot find kelp noodles near you, then spaghetti squash or zucchini noodles would work fine in itās place. Next time Iām going to try zucchini noodles since we just got the super fun spiral slicer! A few of our friends used zucchini noodles from a spiral slicer in their cooking demos at Paleo FX and they looked amazing!! As soon as we came home we ordered one, and a Berkey water filter system (sweet).
We hope you guys enjoy this easy stir fry dish. We love adding coconut aminos to our stir fryās for that delicious Asian flavor, itās fantastic every time!
