Mince And Spinach

Mince And Spinach

Let’s start off by stating the patently obvious – this dish isn’t likely to have chef Thomas Keller banging on my door, frantically begging me to hand over the recipe any time soon.

Red Cabbage And Spinach Curry

Red cabbage and spinach curry

I am profoundly colourblind.

No doubt you’ve probably encountered those books consisting of page after page of  patterns of coloured dots, designed to weed out those of us with defective cones.

I don’t even make it to page three.

Zoodle Soup With Spinach and Herbs

Zoodle Soup With Spinach and Fresh Herbs

There’s nothing worse than trying to plan your next meal when you’re still stuffed full from the previous one.

We’d both overindulged at lunch – Mrs. Paleovirtus on Schnitzel, myself on delicious Corned Beef Hash leftovers.

Lamb Curry With Spinach and Onions

Lamb Curry With Spinach and Onions

I needed a curry, badly.

More specifically, I needed chillies, because I’ve found that in this life, one thing counts, bird’s eye chillies, large amounts.

Honey and Walnut Crusted Salmon

Honey and Walnut Crusted Salmon

Yet another dish that could easily do the business as a poster child for Paleo.

Jam-packed with taste, supernaturally good for you, and yet ready in a jiffy, its one potential drawback is the  cost of the main ingredient, pushing it into a “weekend special” slot.

Spinach Cauliflower Rice and New Year’s Eve Fruit Salad

Spinach cauliflower rice

Clan Paleovirtus was on the road yesterday, finally heading home after an extended Christmas Holiday.

This means, amongst other things, that I had a day off from kitchen duties. I could have pulled out a camping stove and a wok on the train, but I think it might not have gone down terribly well with the on-board personnel.

Baby Spinach, Red Cabbage, and Clementine Salad

Spinach, red cabbage, and clementine salad

“What, another spinach based salad? You posted a spinach salad recipe only yesterday, Keith!”

Yes. Yes I did.

Regular readers,  however, may recall how much I deplore waste, and I had the other half of a pack of spinach sat in the fridge looking for a dish to make its home. I also had the remains of a red cabbage whose time was nearly up. No-brainer, really.

Pancetta, Avocado, and Egg Salad

Pancetta, avocado, and egg salad

In Stanley Ellin’s brilliant short story “The Speciality of the House”, one of the characters, Laffler, is trying to describe his favourite dish, Lamb Amirstan, to his friend Costain…

Laffler remained lost in thought for a minute. ‘If,’ he said at last, ‘I were to give you in my own unstinted words my opinion of this dish, you would judge me completely insane. That is how deeply the mere thought of it affects me.’

I know exactly what Mr. Laffler means. Some dishes just do that to people.

Quick Spinach and Mushroom Curry

Quick mushroom and spinach curry

Once again I was left to my own devices food-wise, with my womenfolk out and about taking care of “any other business”.

As so often is the case,  when I’m cooking for myself alone, I like to keep things as simple as possible.  I had a good cargo of mushrooms going begging, spinach leaf in the freezer, and tinned tomatoes in the cupboard.

I also had a new batch of curry powder to play with. This particular curry powder had made its way to our home in Southern Sweden all the way from Durban, in South Africa, via a colleague of Mrs. Paleovirtus in Copenhagen.

African Sweet Potato Stew

African Sweet Potato Stew

Once upon a time, clan Paleovirtus lived in Brussels.

Then, in the early part of 1999, the Dioxin Crisis struck.  Suddenly, all locally sourced meat and poultry was deemed to be tainted.