I love lamb; it is one of the few proteins that almost have to be raised naturally. The flavor is amazing it has great fats. I only knew of lamb roasts, legs or racks of lamb to cook. I honestly was a bit shocked that such flavorful steaks could be cut out of the lamb shoulder. The lamb shoulder steak recipe turned out so well I am going to have to do a few more lamb recipes this summer on the grill. The beet recipe is one of our favorite recipes ever. We stumbled across this particular beet salad on one of our trips to Sonoma at the Dry Creek General Store. We got it for a picnic lunch, loved it so much that we went back every day we were in wine country to get this salad for lunch.

• 3 lbs. Lamb Shoulder Steaks
• 1 tbs. Oregano
• 2 tbs. Basil
• 2 tbs. Rosemary
• 1 tbs. Garlic
• 1 tbs. Tarragon
• 1 tbs. Salt
• 1 tbs. Pepper
• ½ tbs. White Pepper
• 1 cup Olive Oil
• 2 lbs. Beets
• 1 cup Feta Cheese
• 2 tbs. distilled white vinegar
• 2 tbs. chives

1. Combine all the ingredients for t
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I get asked all of the time are my green drinks healthy? This is becoming one of the more frustrating questions that I get asked in the office.

People falsely believe that these drinks are healthy. The theory sounds great, run a bunch of the things that we do not eat enough of through a juicer and is supposed to be healthy for us.

A concentrated version of the things we do not want to eat and we do not have to actually chew or work to eat our food. Plus, it fits perfectly into a little cup that you can take with you.

All this sounds great for our modern fast moving lives. Sadly, there are several problems with these highly concentrated drinks.

First, there are way too many ingredients in these drinks. They tend to concentrate the vitamins and minerals from the fruits and vegetables.

This concentration leads to a problem, you will usually have to juice or blend significantly more than you would ever sit down and eat in order to feel like you have eaten anything. Because of this you...

This is a really simple and great paleo honey chicken recipe that the whole family will love.  Just whip the main ingredients, pour it over your chicken and bake.

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 - 2 lbs boneless chicken breasts
• 2 tbsp. melted butter
• 3 tbsp. coconut aminos
• 1 tsp. sesame oil
• 5 tbsp. honey
• 4 tbsp. minced garlic
• 1/2 tsp. ground ginger
• 1/2 tsp. ground black pepper

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees.  Line an 8x8 inch pan with tin foil.  Be sure to only use an 8X8 because you don't want the mixture to be too thin.  You really want it baking around the chicken.  See the picture below on how to line the pan, so you're also capturing all the juices (and making clean-up way easier).

2. Whisk all of the ingredients, except the chicken together until mixed well.

3. Place the chicken on the tin foil, and pour the mixture over the chicken.

4. Bake the chicken, uncovered, for approximately 35-40 minutes, until cooked through.  If your chicken is browning too quic...

One of my mantras in the office is that most people should avoid wheat, corn, dairy, soy, and sugar. Inevitably people ask what about butter isn't that dairy?

Well, yes but it is much more fat than protein. What makes butter so different is that it is a water in oil emulsification. What this means is that the water is suspended in the oil and is solid at room temperature whereas the cream, which is used to make butter, would be liquid. This emulsification leads to increased stability and less spoilage.

Also, since butter is just the cream, fat and protein, it has no or at least very little lactose or milk sugar present. It is this difference that makes butter not quite a dairy and more of a fat, plus butter just makes everything taste better.

The lack of lactose and increase in fat tend to make butter safe on a Primal or Neolithic diet plan. Let us talk about why butter is a lot healthier than the powers that be have lead us to believe over the last 30 years.

First off butter is mo...

The coulotte is a phenomenal cut of meat that many people have never heard of or seen at their local grocery store. The culotte is the cap of the top sirloin. This is honestly one of the most versatile steaks there is to cook. The coulotte is great grilled, pan-fried or braised.

Some chefs recommend marinating, but in my opinion, it has excellent steak flavor. All you need to do is salt, pepper, and grill this amazingly flavorful cut of meat.

In today's, Friday feast we are going to use a culotte. I went to my friends over at Local Yocal to get the meat for our family. If you live in Dallas, you do need to make the trip up to McKinney for one of their Steak 101 classes.

The great thing about them is that they are hyper-local farm to consumer concept. The owners are also the ranchers of the grass-fed beef, and they carry All Natural Wagyu and Angus beef. While the Wagyu is not grass feed, it is raised as naturally as possible and not in Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation or feedlo...

Your doctor tells you your cholesterol is high. You're confused. What does that even mean?

Is cholesterol bad? Is it good? Should you avoid it in food? Do you need medication?

The answers might surprise you.

Cholesterol isn't the villain you've been told it is. It's actually essential for life.

Here's what you need to know.

What Is Cholesterol?

Cholesterol is a waxy, fat-like substance found in every cell of your body.

It's not a fat (lipid), but it travels through your bloodstream attached to prote...

Local Yocal is a fantastic butcher shop in McKinney Texas.  They have a great philosophy.  If you live in the Dallas area, you have to make a trip up to McKinney for a Steak 101 class. 

One of the cool things about any specialty butcher shop they can and serve some of the unique cuts of meat that you don’t normally get from your local supermarket. 

At Local Yocal you can pick up unusual cuts like the spinalis or the McKinney (Las Vegas) steak along with your usual favorite cuts. The spinalis muscle is the “cap” to the rib eye, and if you haven’t had it, you are missing out. 

This can also be called a Coulotte in France, but that isn’t correct. They are the same but from a different section of the cow.  In my opinion, the spinalis is more marbled and more tender than its calotte sister.

You probably don’t realize it, but you have had this cut, but it was part of the rib eye.  When you are looking at your typical ribeye, this is the part of the steak that is outside of the fat vein t...

I often get asked if prescribed drugs can cause nutritional deficiencies, and the simple answer is yes.  It is widely known that drugs force physiology to do something that it is either incapable of doing or can't do for some other reason. 

This bullying of physiology is going to tax and strain other parts of your physiology which will imbalance your available nutrients.  Think of it like a robbing Peter to pay Paul balancing act. While it is sometimes necessary to take drugs to either save your life or balance things out in the short term, there is always some price to pay.

Now I am NOT telling you that you need to stop taking medication.  You need to consult the physician that prescribed the medication and be sure you do before starting a supplement regimen of these vitamins and minerals. 

However, I felt it was necessary to let you know the potential deficiencies these drug classes may cause along with the foods that may help increase those nutrients. 

This was one of those meals at the end of the shopping week that I just hunted and gathered what we had in the refrigeration and freezer to come up with this one. 

I had some organic grass-fed ground beef in the fridge.  A patient made me some bone marrow broth, which was fantastic.  I also had some zucchini left from a meal earlier in the week, and I had a tube of tomato paste. 

Plus I always seem to have a ton of herbs and spices in the cupboard. So I picked up some garlic and onion powder and basil.  I have to say making this one pan bone marrow broth saute was fast and easy. 

It was so good that Lilly and TJ attacked Erin when she sat down with her bowl.  The best thing to me about this bone marrow saute is that the broth and zucchini are so healthy for you, this is as close to a super bowl of food as you can get. 

The broth will help heal your leaky gut, and the zucchini will help heal the adrenal glands.

Ingredients:

• 4 slices of bacon, humanly raised
• 2 pounds of Ground b
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This is one of those very hard, very personal topics that always brings out the passion in people, no matter what side you stand on.   The choice to vaccinate your child could be one of the most agonizing decisions you have to make in the first few years of your child’s life. 

If you choose to not vaccinate, you have to wonder if you're risking their lives to all the horrible diseases that those vaccinations might protect you from.  If you do vaccinate, your question then becomes what are the real potential consequences for injection your child with potentially damaging chemicals?

Honestly, for me it was an easy decision to not vaccinate.  One of the main reasons that we will talk about today is that vaccines do not create immunity. Immunity is defined as:

1. The state of being immune from or insusceptible to a particular disease.
2. The condition that permits either natural or acquired resistance to a disease.

Not to get to in depth here in the function of your immune system, but ...