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OK so I am looking to hear about your 'unconventional' culinary concoctions?

I tend to come up with some bizarre combinations when I am either in a rush to head out the door, go to bed or have very limited ingredients. It's important that I get the calories and nutrition in as I am currently IFing from bedtime to 14:00 and so I dont want to just snack for dinner.

Earlier this week I made:

4 x Pan fried chicken breasts on a bed of a whole large diced cucumber with melted butter and coconut oil.

Tonight I just made:

6 egg butter-fried omelette with a handful almonds and garnished with coconut oil.

Obviously these are not quite the balanced meals, but quick focused meals nevertheless, especially if I am now even more late for a night out since I decided to right this post. :)

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I was wrapping blueberries and strawberries in roast beef slices last night...

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A woman after my own heart. :) – AlohaSpeck Feb 11 2012 at 4:26
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Haha, really sounds like this is going to be another great "food porn" thread :D ..let's go

Pork liver and pureed asparagus was the only thing left in the fridge and turned out to be really delicious:

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Well, not sure if it's really weird, but I've never seen anybody puree asparagus, so at least it was weird for me :)

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Had this super weird meal as a kid. Some sort of dehydrated lab product. They basically worked really hard to take all of the usable nutrients out of it then they went and added synthetic ones back in along with a bunch of other things and a but load of sugar. I think it was called "fruity pebbles" or some such thing.

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I'll wrap pretty much anything up in nori, avert your eyes if you are a sushi purist.

Last night the combo was pickled herring, smooshed avocado, mustard and a little wasabi.

Other grab-n-go rolls I've made:

Just Kerrygold butter

cold potato chunks, salt and butter

sauerkraut

aged cheddar cheese and mustard

cilantro and kippers

lunch meat of any variety

egg salad, tuna salad

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So this might not be weird, but my coworkers made me feel weird. This was my breakfast earlier this week: I had a pile of white rice, a pile of carrot salad (shredded carrots, dried cranberries and pineapple chunks), 2 pieces of bacon, 2 boiled eggs with homemade guacamole and a side of fried plantains (in bacon fat) and decaf coffee with tablespoon of coconut oil. NOMNOMNOM. Being weird feels soooooo good.

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I am so grateful to not have co-workers to scrutinize my morning eats – malapert Feb 12 2012 at 3:10
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I frequently make an omelet with 4 eggs, a can of sardines, frozen chopped organic spinach, garlic powder, fennel seeds and red pepper flakes. It smells wretched (especially to those not eating it) but I love it so. I top it with extra virgin olive oil and go to town on it.

A few weeks ago I came in to eat lunch with my psych teacher, and she said that the other day when I'd been absent I'd missed out on chocolate chip cookies (experiment-related, apparently). I casually mentioned that I don't eat grains or sugar anyway, and then pulled out a huge container of cold, fat-covered sardine omelet pieces. The look of confusion and shock my teacher gave me was priceless.

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I'm eating chunks of raw sweet onion dipped in dark raw honey right now...

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I can't even compete, I bow down. – Celine Feb 12 2012 at 9:24
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This is what I came up with that allows me to eat liver.

Equal parts liver and bacon
Chopped onions
Some butter
Salt and pepper

Cook in a skillet until the liver is just cooked through.

So what's weird? In the end I add a handful of coconut flakes to sop up the grease. mmmmmm...

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I guess this isn't super weird but kind of a throw everything together conglomeration that turned out awesome! Pan fried some chorizo sausage with onions, peppers, mushrooms. Popped it in the oven on broil with some spicy cheese on top. Made some zucchini latkes in bacon fat until nice and crispy. Threw them on top of the previous mix and put it bake in the oven. Fried 2 eggs over easy & put them on top. Delish.

A quick go to when running out the door is a few boiled eggs with a nice scoop of butter, salt & pepper. Warmed & mashed up. (add crispy broken up bacon for extra yum!)

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I just finished a grass fed steak that I cooked lightly in lots of butter with a couple of anchovies in it. After the steak was done, I drizzled the butter into a beatten egg yolk.

So, rare steak with anchovy hollandaise sauce. Would have been really good with asparagus, but I didn't have any.

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The other morning for breakfast I sauteed ground beef, banana, onions, garlic, and kale, seasoned with turmeric and cinnamon. It turned out really tasty.

Lately for dinner I've been making what I affectionately call "iodine stew". I just boil a few anchovies, tamari, shrimp, eggs, and dulse. It's also really tasty to me.

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I make pretty much the same thing (banana one) but with hot sauce! – Olivia Feb 11 2012 at 7:03
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When I dated a certain other blogger, he said that one of the worst meals I made was salmon roe mixed with plain raw milk yogurt. LOL, I always thought it was delicious. Another favorite of mine is seasnax seaweed spread with duck rilettes and liver pate. NOT a meal to eat with friends since it is super messy.

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Duck riettes are the best, I will have to try that. They are really good spread on sliced green apples.... also weird I guess. – Olivia Feb 11 2012 at 7:05
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I often eat just a large hunk of leftover rare hanger steak with blueberries for lunch. Not so weird for paleo peeps but my coworkers think I'm gross.

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I get a lot of lean ground beef in my co-op packages, so I tend to throw 1lbs of beef into a pan, cook it with two handfuls of different veggies, and call it a day.

I had leftover bacon fat in my pan from breakfast today. Browned onions, garlic, and a pound of beef in it. Added some chopped kale, some chopped parsley, and some curry powder as well as a few other spices.

Ate the whole damn thing. 1200 calories worth.

Normally if I'm in a hurry, a tablespoon of coconut fat gives me my morning calories if I know I'm gonna miss breakfast and I dont want to IF.

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The "we're going out of town, let's throw all the meat and vegetables we have in the crockpot" meal is always weird and wonderful.

The people I work with think my breakfasts are bizarre. I come in with a tupperware filled with pulled pork and eat it at 8:00 in the morning.

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I've been making a dip for celery out of warm bacon grease and nutritional yeast. I put in enough nutritional yeast to make it somewhat scoopable, but it's still runny. Don't knock it 'till you try it! I can go through two celery hearts with that.

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coconut milk yoghurt and baby octopus

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I started making a weird paleo baby food for my kid when he was 6 months old and I would end up eating half of it. I still make it a lot. It's chicken livers and ground beef sautéed with garlic, ghee, sea salt, and kale. Then I blend it up in the food processor with some sweet potato or roasted winter squash, a little cracked pepper, some egg yolks and butter. It's like a weiRd ultra nutrient dense pâté but it tastes really good. My kid loves it. Sometimes I use some marinara sauce instead of the squash/potato. Y Son is 15 months old and still seems to like it.

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Today I had for lunch at work: Ground beef and ground turkey mixed with vegetables and olive oil and avacado. One time my manager at work said he thought I was eating cereal!

I also tried for the first time (and I would recommend if you are a banana person) coconut flakes with some raw chocolate powder mixed in, and dipped my banana in that and ate it. Sooo good!

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For dinner I've made hamburgers with a gravy made from pureed kidney, liver, red wine, cream, and butter. Delicious, but one serving (half a cup of organs in the gravy and 1/2 lb of hamburger) is almost 2,400 calories.

For an afternoon supplement sometimes I'll make a smoothie with half a package of lightly steamed kale, a cup of tea, fruit, coconut oil, ice, some nuts and sometimes some raw eggs. Not terribly tasty, but not bad, and an easy way to get tons of nutrition.

Both of these I eat primarily because they are some of the most nutrient-dense recipes I've managed to come up with.

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A couple nights ago I had tripas, the bovine equivalent of chitlins. Could only eat half of the two pound bag I bought, just wasn't turning out right in the frying pan, so I threw the rest into the slow cooker and tried it again yesterday morning. Not good. Lotta tallow. Looks like 80% tallow, lousy value even at two dollars/pound.

This is one of those things the Latinos and Latinas know how to cook with lotsa salsta and stuff, but here I'm trying to be a carnivore purist, doesn't work out too good.

How do you get rid of that barnyard smell, anyway? ;)

No, that's not a retraction-type smilely. I seriously did eat cow intestines with a barnyard smell.

Do I win anything?

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Sardines with scrambled eggs. Not the best tasting thing I've eaten, but it's what I had and I was in a rush.

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Anchovies with scrambled eggs and two handfuls of veggies. Started out as an omlete but apparently I suck at egg origami. Delicious! Now scrambled eggs seem bland and unexciting without the hairy little fish. – Qommon Feb 12 2012 at 20:00
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right now i am eating cottage cheese, raw liver, milk thistle seed flour, carrots and sunflower greens........hmm...

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haha after i posted this was the first time paleohacks asked me to verify that i am indeed human........ – jessica Mar 15 2012 at 2:22
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Lamb liver covered in dark chocolate

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I make green smoothies in my Vitamix with spinach, kale, chard, or collards and a little bit of fruit, ice and water. Blend it all up. My kids grew up with it and still love it. But their friends always think it looks gross. Lately, I'm really into lemons, limes, and herbs so my new smoothies consist of berries, basil and/ or mint, and lemon or lime juice. Sometimes I add a handful of spinach or some green apple.

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My breakfasts are on the weird side. Often it's pan roasted cabbage with some precooked seasoned ground beef tossed in. Or occasionally pan roasted cabbage with hot chiles and chicken liver, somehow chiles & liver go together really well in my world. But stir fried cabbage hash of some sort is the basis for most of my breakfasts these days.

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Hey, this is what I have for breakfast all the time! Red cabbage, ground beef, little bit of liver, chiles! Nice, weird in the same manner. – JeJ Feb 11 2012 at 0:50
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I'm eating whole Mackerel Pike (Pacific Saury) with steamed broccoli and curried sweet potatoes. Not too weird, but my coworkers probably think it's weird (at least smells weird).

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Egg yolks atraight.

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sometimes my "dessert" at the end of a day will be a little protein/nutrient/probiotic bomb. partially lightly cooked/partially raw ground beef with basic seasoning (tastes way better to me than wholly cooked or wholly raw), a package of natto, some cabbage kimchi, nori, ginger powder, egg yolk, and heck maybe some cottage cheese or coconut milk kefir for good measure.

no smoochies with the wife on those nights

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I like to wrap crap in nori. Mostly scrambled eggs. I also add lots of chipotles in adobo.

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