Chicken parmesan is usually made with the traditional breading procedure: chicken dipped in flour, dipped in egg, then dipped in breadcrumbs. Then it's pan fried. This recipe, is a liiiitle different. No traditional breading. Makes it a bit easier. Also, I find baking is easier on the cleanup than pan frying. The secret ingredient for this Easy Baked Chicken Parm? Mayonnaise. That's right. Mix some mayo with parmesan, coat the … [Read more...]
Archives for 2015
BLTC Salad
Bacon. Lettuce. Tomato. Caesar. BLTC. Heck yeah. So I lied. I said two posts ago when I talked about stress that I'd not just share mental, physical, and spiritual symptoms of stress but also what the speaker said you can do to alleviate stress. Annnd I didn't. I left you all looking at a long list going, I have that, that, that, that, that, and that. Great. Now I'm more stressed realizing how much I show signs of stress! … [Read more...]
Spicy Kale Caesar with Chicken and Candied Pepitas
You guys. I cannot tell you how much I love this recipe. Caesar salad with kale. Plus candied nuts. Plus hot sauce. Plus chicken. I hope the pictures are conveying the deliciousness or I'm going to have to keep inventing words like deliciousness to describe it. I think I'm loving on it so much because it has everything: salty, sweet, spicy. Crunch and creaminess. Hot and cold. Fresh and cooked. It hits so many notes in one bite. … [Read more...]
Blackened Salmon Caesar
ALL HAIL CAESAR! Let this recipe kick off the first of THREE Caesar recipes on Laughter and Lemonade! Caesar salad is one of my all time favorite foods, so I have three Caesars coming your way, starting with this Blackened Salmon Caesar. If you saw my teaser photo on Instagram or Facebook you know that a Spicy Kale Chicken Caesar with Candied Pepitas is on its way shortly too... … [Read more...]
Welcome to L&L! Plus a recipe: Not My Daddy’s Apple Crisp
Goodbye Paleo Paisan, Hello Laughter and Lemonade Welcome to Laughter and Lemonade (the blog previously known as Paleo Paisan)!! I’m sooo excited to have you here and to be making this transition! Woop, woop! Don’t worry, all of your favorite Paleo Paisan recipes are still here on the Laughter and Lemonade (L&L) site. You can still even click a link you’ve saved or pinned on Pinterest like www.paleopaisan.com/make-your-own-almond-milk … [Read more...]
Paleo Banana Blender Bread
Though I'm not strictly paleo and vow to never even remotely follow any diet again, I still cook and eat a lot of things that would be considered paleo because I do like the idea of eating whole, real food. Enter Paleo Banana Blender Bread! … [Read more...]
Spanish Radicchio Salad with Manchego
One of the best things about living in Portland was the amazing restaurants. My favorite of which was probably Toro Bravo. I think I ate there more than any other restaurant in Portland. It's a Spanish tapas type restaurant and I enjoyed it so much because most of the time the menu looked quite simple like "tomato rubbed toast" for example. What came out was … [Read more...]
Ready, Set, Spinach
Looking for a super quick, delicious, healthy side dish? Ready… set… spinach. Reality, folks. I make dishes like this all the time. Sometimes I feel like I have to share elaborate, complicated, fancy dishes on the blog. Maybe it's the overachiever/ perfectionist in me that feels like something has to be over-the-top or perfect to be well-received. But it doesn't. After all, it's not how I cook all the time! Whose standard am I following? … [Read more...]
Moroccan Lamb Stew
Spring time and Easter is often filled with lamb, a protein I only recently started cooking. Have you ever cooked lamb? Over Christmas, Dan and I drove to his family's in San Diego. While we were there, … [Read more...]
Mexican Braised Beef
I talked in my last post about a recent trip to Tulum, Mexico for the wedding of two amazing people. I shared a few moments Dan captured from the dance floor...which deserves one last mention below. Also because that trip inspired this dish too. … [Read more...]
Simple Sautéed Plantain Slices
Wanna know what lesson I most recently learned? Take more videos! I learned this for the first time when I studied abroad in Australia. Somehow, I forgot. I lived there with two awesome ladies, Lauren & Melissa. I think it was Lauren who said, "we must take videos", and she was right. The videos are so much more fun to watch after the fact than looking at the pictures!! Hearing people's voices, hearing the way they say things, seeing … [Read more...]
Could cooking rice differently be our answer to obesity?
Articles were published yesterday across many news platforms sharing the latest research where scientists figured out a simple way to cook rice that dramatically cut the calories. (Here's a link to one of them.) Their basic idea is that if you cook rice with a little coconut oil (or any medium-chain triglyceride [MCT] oil) then cool it down, it forms resistant starches. Resistant starches are not normally the type of carbohydrate found in … [Read more...]
Roasted Eggplant with Miso Dressing
This is one of my favorite creations as of late. I've made it time and time again. Mostly because my husband claimed he didn't like eggplant... until this dish. Do you ever feel like you make the same things over and over? Or at least you cook with the same flavors over and over? I sure do. This is such a simple dish, only 5 ingredients (minus oil, salt and pepper) and bursting with different flavors. At least they're different than my … [Read more...]
Closing the Chapter on Paleo Paisan & Top 10
Note: You've been warned. This is a long post. I feel an explanation of the changes coming is due, but if you'd like to just skip to the Top 10 you can do so by clicking here. As you know, last month I announced that I was going to be making some changes to my blog. Enter transition phase. Hello, nice to meet you. While I updated my about and about me pages with my new perspective, they're more top-line summaries of what I want to … [Read more...]
Peanut Butter Chip & Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Ooooh these cookies. They have almost become known as "THE Cookies" over the years. They are by far one of the best cookies I've ever eaten. The name of them is quite long, so maybe the nickname The Cookies works out well. Or PB-3C Cookies? I don't know that might sound a little too much like "PVC pipe" to me. Or maybe I've just been spending too much time doing Crossfit. Over Valentine's/President's Day weekend we had some friends coming to … [Read more...]
