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Posted by Sandy Sommer RKC in Dietary & Nutritional Planning, Featured Articles on 03 5th, 2010 | 2 Comments
Why I Put Butter On My Meatballs
Last week, I mentioned that I’d share a week of my food choices with my readers. Well I ate a lot of farm fresh eggs, plenty of grass fed red meat. Tons of leafy greens. Some raw nuts. Pastured pig. Some venison and salmon. Raw milk, cream and buttermilk. Some fried chicken. A helping of mashed potatoes…..etc...
Posted by Sandy Sommer RKC in Dietary & Nutritional Planning, Featured Articles, Training Tips & Tricks on 02 12th, 2010 | No Comments
Sandy Sommer Distance Coaching
As you may know, I’ve been leading a “Pilot Distance Coaching” program for the last six weeks. Over the last few years I’ve had a number of folks inquire about me coaching them but I had always resisted. Frankly, I wasn’t sure it was possible or if it would yield results....
Posted by Sandy Sommer RKC in Dietary & Nutritional Planning on 02 6th, 2010 | No Comments
Grandma Ida’s Chicken Soup
This is from my friend Renee. Enjoy!
Here’s a great Chicken Soup Recipe I’ve adapted from my grandmother’s (which also included non-primal egg noodles and matzoh balls). Feel free to play with the recipe. The secret ingredient is the dill.
1 organic chicken
6 Cups chicken stock
1-2...
Posted by Sandy Sommer RKC in Dietary & Nutritional Planning on 01 25th, 2010 | No Comments
Primal Fajita Steak Salad
Guest Recipe From Jake Weiskoff. Thanks so much and please check out his blog.
Primal Fajita salad (serves 2):
1 lb Grass-fed organic Cube steak sliced into strips
1 medium onion sliced length-wise
1 green pepper sliced length-wise
1 head of Boston Lettuce (I get mine from a hydroponic greenhouse up...
Posted by Sandy Sommer RKC in Dietary & Nutritional Planning on 01 20th, 2010 | 2 Comments
Pan Seared Chicken
Last night I threw together some pastured chicken thighs and some other good stuff and came up with quite a concoction. It wasn’t a recipe per se as I just threw what I had in the pot.
Please share some of your ideas here too. We’d all love to hear from you.
I preheated my oven to 400 °...
Posted by Sandy Sommer RKC in Dietary & Nutritional Planning on 01 13th, 2010 | 2 Comments
Smothered Primal Pork Chops with Mushrooms
Preaheat Oven to 350°
Ingredients:
Pork Chops for Four
3 tbs real farm fresh butter
salt and pepper
1 lb of real raw sour cream
a lot of mushrooms (can’t have enough
Melt butter in frying pan and season pork chops with salt and pepper to taste. Pan sear the chops until well browned in your butter....
Posted by Sandy Sommer RKC in Dietary & Nutritional Planning on 01 12th, 2010 | 3 Comments
Is Pastured Food Worth It?
Only you can know for sure. For me it surely is worth the additional investment. I care about how I eat and where it comes from. I highly suggest you may want to check out Food Inc. and that way you can come to your own conclusion.
Once I educated myself, then it became a “no brainer” for...
Posted by Sandy Sommer RKC in Dietary & Nutritional Planning, Featured Articles on 01 2nd, 2010 | 8 Comments
What’s In My Kitchen?
Many of you have expressed interest in my Primal eating habits so I wanted to pen a short article about that I keep on hand as a matter of course. I feel that a seasonal approach to vegetables and fruit is important for a variety of reasons. So check out this chart for some ideas about it.
My pantry:
Coconut...
Posted by Sandy Sommer RKC in Dietary & Nutritional Planning, Sandy's Journal, Training Tips & Tricks on 12 27th, 2009 | 8 Comments
Thoughts and Week in Review, December 27, 2009
Another interesting week has past and this one presented more challenges than most what with the Holiday season!
One thing I think we all must be cognizant of is that during the Holiday season is that compliance with nutrition and training is fairly challenging. You must do your best obviously, but this...
Posted by Sandy Sommer RKC in Dietary & Nutritional Planning on 12 21st, 2009 | No Comments
High Heat Roasted Chicken w/ sweet potatoesRecipe
This roasted chicken recipe is simple but the taste is resoundingly wonderful. If you like a crispy chicken then you will love this.
Ingredients:
Pastured chicken 3 1/2-4 lbs.
2 large sweet potatoes
2 TBS unsalted butter, softened (from raw cream if possible)
salt and pepper
3 cloves garlic minced.
Directions:
Preheat...
