Bard Valley Dates

Took a stroll on my bike through part of Bard Valley California today.  The mecca for Medjool dates! Anyone who knows me, knows I love my dates and love them frequently Sometimes eating 7-10lbs

Carrot Pizza Recipe

How to make Carrot Crust Pizza Step 1:   Juice yourself a delicious 16-20oz glass of fresh carrot juice & drink it. Toss the 2 cups-ish of carrot pulp into a bowl. Add 3 eggs & spices

Guacamole Deviled Egg Recipe

I bought some avocados last week, so I decided to make the recipe that was featured on Marks Daily Apple today. Tasty stuff. Give it a try! [gallery link="file"]

I Can’t Believe It’s Not Sausage!

photo credit Spigoo Here’s a colorful primal dish I created on the fly recently when I was low on cash and groceries. I was so pleased with the results, hat I immediately shared my

Where’s The Beef?

Here are some pictures from the slaughtering of the grass-fed beef steers the other day. I blurred out the steer, because the original picture was just a little on the creepy side. It almost felt

Primal Pancake Recipe

Update: 1/4/2010 I’m now fully endorsing my new version recipe #2 “Almond Butter Pancakes” Inspired by MudBeard, I set out to try my hand once again at primal almond pancakes. I

How Paleo Is Your Diet?

According to The Guidelines Below, How Paleolithic is Your Diet? Paleo Food List Guidelines Meats: Beef, Flank steak, Top sirloin steak, Hamburger, London broil, Chuck steak, Veal, Pork, Pork

“Chocolate Milk May Reduce Inflammation”

Response to New York Times headline required  IMMEDIATELY! Exactly the kind of headlines keeping Americans fat, sick & disease-ridden. I don’t recommend drinking pasteurized milk at

Deer, Grouse & Squirrels! Oh, my!

[pro-player width='740' height='416' type='video' image='http://castlegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Find-deer-740x415.jpg']http://www.vimeo.com/7467521[/pro-player] After the squirrels

Got Pests? Grok Doesn’t!

Last and this week I’ve been having problems with pests in the cave. This isn’t the first time. Pests seem to love the cave as much as Grok. I generally don’t have a problem with

What Our Ancestors Ate…

Probably Nothing That You Do! I’m writing this for a few reasons: 1.  I’m sick of people telling me what is/isn’t “Primal”. Primal to me and the #primal hashtag on

Kill to Eat – Episode 8

Day 3 – The Finale! Details: 3 Days hunting alone with no food. More Episodes More “Kill to Eat” stuff The challenge’s original details.

A Day of Cooking & Preserving

A day full of cooking & preserving. Everything from field to table I filled two 5 quart Grok-Pots full of apples (from the two trees below) for apple butter. I used nothing but cinnamon in one

Happy Birthday Mom!

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Gathering… It’s Not So Easy!

Grok doesn’t need to work out on hunting or gathering days. If you’ve never been on a several hour (3.5 in this case) gathering mission through the woods, well then you just wont

Best of the last 90 days

Ok, there are a few 20%-ers in here, but they were some of the best Which is your favorite? Tell us which row or picture #. Click to enlarge Also see my realtime page for some other primal

Grocery Day

Chicken Crust Pizza (aka Meatza)

No Plants in this crust! (well a few herbs) 30oz of pureed raw chicken breast, 3 eggs, 1T red palm oil. Added spices to the meat dough. Parsley & Italian. Buttered a pizza pan (This is very

Cucumber Crust Pizza Pie

Huh… Cucumber! Who would have thought? The Recipe Graded 450g Cucumber. Baked somewhat dry on cookie sheet. Buttered a pizza pan. (This is very important to not forget!) Added Cucumber, 4

Tomato-less Zucchini Crust Pizza Pie

  The Recipe Graded one 245g Zucchini. Baked somewhat dry on cookie sheet. Buttered a pizza pan. (This is very important to not forget!) Added Zucchini in a bowl with 3 eggs, 1oz graded

Vita-Butter! Are you kidding?

Ever wanted to make raw-organic-grass-fed-butter from home? You know the kind that’s full of Vitamins A, D, E, K, CLA, Omega-3 fatty acids, Lipase, on-and-on…. The same stuff Weston

One Reason to “Go Primal”

Crazy Good Omelet!

Round 4 Pizza Had to put this at the top Should be at the bottom. 8 egg omelet (4 whole, 4 whites) with: 2oz of Danish Blue Sheep Cheese, 5oz White Tuna, Brushed with Butter. Eggs blended

Vita-Mixes Are Badass

Cheesy commercial explains why you should own this not so cheesy Vita-Mix blender. This thing really does perform culinary magic, cleans up in seconds, has a killer warranty, and great customer