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Welcome!
So you heard about the Paleo diet? You might already know everything about it or maybe your just getting your feet wet. I think the hardest step is to get into the habit of eating Paleo. Once it's done, it's a piece of cake (Careful with the cake!). Paleo diet recipes will help you find great recipes and paleo meal ideas for all your cooking needs. 
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What is it exactly?
The Paleo diet is all about natural foods to help achieve great health and a perfect physique. The human body evolved for more than 2 million years eating food we could find in nature: game meat, fish, vegetables, wild fruits, eggs and nuts. The human race was thriving on this diet high in animal saturated fat and proteins and low in carbs up until we introduced unatural foods to our bodies. 
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Your body will thank you
What would you say about melting fat away without even thinking about it, building muscle, staying healthy and sick-free all the time, feeling constant energy or develop that six-pack you always wanted? Too good to be true you might say! The truth about what you eat and how you can reprogram your genes might surprise you! 
Paleo Snack: Homemade Pork Rinds
Pork rind is simply roasted or fried pork skin. Also called cracklings, they are a snack enjoyed all over the world. Most people think of them as unhealthy indulgence, but we no very well that there is nothing wrong in eating fatty pork skin. However, making it yourself it probably the only way to go because you can control the amount of salt you use and you’ll know there won’t be any other nasty ingredients.
Dipped in dill flavored paleo mayonnaise or tartar sauce, they make a delicious and crispy paleo diet snack that will cost you pennies. Butchers will sell you pork skin for almost nothing.
They will keep for a long time if cooked long enough for all the fat to be rendered out and you can crush them to make a Paleo breading for your chicken or fish.
And now for this very simple paleo recipe:
Ingredients
- Pork skin;
- Salt (this is optional, saltless rinds are also excellent and it’s usually the way I make them)
Technique
- Preheat your oven to 325 F.
- Put the skin on a baking sheet. Put in on parchment paper and it will be much easier to clean afterwards.
- Put the skin in the oven for anywhere between 1.5 hours to 3 hours. Most recipes call for 3 hours of cooking, but my experience tells me that most of the time it’s ready after 1.5 hours. You want them crispy but you don’t want it to be hard as a rock.
- Get it out of the oven, let it cool a bit and enjoy. They are delicious when still a little hot. If there was a lot of fat attached to it and you don’t cook them for too long, there will be a crunchy and moist side and you’ll enjoy the best of both worlds.
Featured: Caveman’s Mayonnaise
And to think that I thought I wouldn’t enjoy mayonnaise ever again on the Paleo diet, boy was I wrong! The Paleo diet is the chance to discover blends and flavors of mayonnaise that will stay unknown to most people. For example, the baconnaise, the duckonnaise or the beefonnaise all made from the fat of their respective animal, pork, duck and beef. Most people think that this is an heart attack in a jar, but we know better and know that it’s really a health food.
I’ll give you two different versions of mayonnaise recipes today, a coconut oil mayonnaise and the now famous baconnaise. The technique of preparation is the same for both and also keep in mind that you can extend this delicious concoction with spices, fresh herbs (dill is delicious in it), garlic or even chopped pickles for a tartar sauce.
As for the technique, you can use either a blender, a food processor or your soon to be sore hand and a whisk. I prefer the version made by hand because it’s really not that bad and it makes for less things to clean afterwards. The technique is basically the same for all those techniques, so I’ll explain it in a comprehensible way for the three techniques.
The coconut mayonnaise is made with half olive oil because it would become way too hard in the refrigerator. I don’t recommend a full olive oil mayonnaise unless you use the light version because it will taste too strong.
Ingredients for the coconut mayonnaise (yields about 1 and 1/4 cups)
- 2 egg yolks
- 1 tsp mustard (this is optional)
- 3 tsp lemon juice
- 1/2 cup olive oil
- 1/2 cup coconut oil
Baconnaise variation
- 1 cup liquid bacon fat (you can of course use rendered lard, it’s the same thing) in place of the olive and coconut oils
Technique
- Put the yolks in a bowl (blender, food processor) with the mustard, if using and 1 tsp lemon juice and mix those ingredients together;
- Start whisking vigorously (blender or food processor on low) while dripping the oil very slowly, even drop by drop in the beginning. You’re creating an emulsion and if you put too much oil at once, it will separate and will be very hard to save. Whisk non-stop and use a towel under the bowl to help stabilize it;
- As you add more oil, the emulsion will form and the mayonnaise will start to thicken and you can pour the oil faster at this point;
- When all the oil is incorporated and the mayonnaise is thick, add the rest of the lemon juice and taste your creation. You can season to taste with salt and pepper;
- Enjoy without guilt and put the store in the refrigerator!
And here you go, it’s that simple. Of course I encourage you to play with it and to come up with new variations. Happy Paleo mayonnaise making!
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