The Book that Changed My Life and a recipe

When The Soldier first introduced me to the Paleo diet, he told me to go to the bookstore and buy The Paleo Solution by Robb Wolf. It is a wonderful book that explains EVERYTHING about the Paleo diet. It isn't some science filled textbook with mumbo jumbo that you never understand. Wolf is hilarious and describes everything on such an everyday human level. The book also has a 30 day diet plan that is sooooooo easy to follow. The Soldier and I did it. And we loved it.

Here is one of the recipes that we fell in love with and use all the darn time is this salmon recipe. It is tried and true and easy as anything you can make.

Here is what you need!!!

Coconut Oil

1 lb of salmon

2 Tbsp of chopped up pecans (although, we've tried this with almonds as well...)

2 tsp of rosemary

pinch of sea salt

Here is what you do!!!

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.

Take your coconut oil and spread it over a cookie sheet, Make sure its even.

Place your salmon on the cookie sheet, skin down.

Then pour your rosemary over the salmon. I sometimes need a little more and I don't feel bad about it!

Then, if your nuts aren't crushed...crush them. I've had the walnuts in bigger chunks and I've crushed them down to a fine powder and either way...it's still delicious!

Cover the rosemary covered salmon in the nuts.

Sprinkle a little bit of sea salt over the salmon.

Cook for about 15 minutes. For, Sully...this was too long.

You want your salmon to be flaky but still moist.

So since The Soldier and I have eaten this time after time, I like to change it up. I plated the salmon on some baby spinach and put some grape tomatoes around it. I also roasted some asparagus (tossed them in some olive oil, spread them out and put some sea salt over them and roasted them at 350 for about 20 minutes).

Makes for a beautiful plate.

And its so very filling.

The Soldier mentioned that he wanted to try this with some balsamic.

We poured some over a bite of salmon with spinach and a tomato. We both shrugged our shoulders. We think that if you put the balsamic over the bed of spinach and maters BEFORE you plate the salmon...then it would be fantastical!

Then, we cleaned the kitchen and threw the dogs on their new dual leash and walked them till they begged us to stop. Now, they look dead, kinda.