Smoked Salmon Roll Ups

So I had my first paleo faileo this evening (i'm not counting my lamb meat sauce, which had a hiccup, but ended up awesome) and it was really disappointing.

It stared out like this:

I was going for a paleo pizza with bagel topping. I thought it was going to be great. It looked great. I look at a punch of different paleo pizza crust recipes. I used all the advice I could find and ended up going with a mixtures of eggs, olive oil, almond flour, and coconut flour.  The texture was just wrong. It felt like a big crumbly cookie, and tasted like almonds. Maybe with other toppings it would have been better, and I made a tomato tart with an almond crust last week that was great (recipe coming soon).

I ended up taking all the toppings off and just eating a bunch of smoked salmon roll ups. True confession: I also ate a couple before dinner with I was waiting for the husbanator to get home.  They were yummy. Good snack. Easy breakfast. You should make them.

Also, I've been cooking a lot this week, but I started a new job on Monday and haven't really had time to post.  Look forward to broccoli slaw, compound butter, and my first paleo pancakes coming soon!

Ingredients

Smoked Salmon
Marscapone Cheese (this is just made with cream and acid, so while I don't do milk or cheese on the reg I let this in for special occasions)
Thinly sliced onions
Thinly sliced tomatoes
Capers

1) Take a piece of salmon, spread with a thin layer of cheese then top with onion, tomatoes, and capers.
2) Roll and pop in your mouth. If you are shame eating because of your giant kitchen failure chew as you make the next one. If not you could totally make a bunch, put them on a plate and then eat like a regular person. Whatever floats your boat.

Blistered Tomatoes

The summer after 4th grade my parents took my sister and I on our first international trip.  We went to England, and of course being the type of person who thinks of each day based on what I ate, I remember the food we had pretty clearly. In particular the breakfasts, it was pretty similar at every B&B we stayed in, eggs, buttery toast, sausage, beans and warm tomatoes and mushrooms. I was always a pretty adventurous eater, but for some reason warm tomatoes seemed weird to me at the time and I didn't want to eat them. I didn't really connect them with tomato sauce - what do you want from me I was 10. 

But eventually I did try them, and they were amazing. Comforting and refreshing at the same time. Since then I've had a softness in my heart for slightly warmed tomatoes and when ever I eat them I am reminded of that trip to England -  not the boring walking tours, bus tours, museums, and history lessons (all of which I thoroughly enjoyed when I returned to the UK as an adult) but of the same satisfying breakfast we at every morning in B&B's around the country.

This week I decided to make warmed blistered grape tomatoes, not for breakfast but as a side for dinner.  They take about 3 minutes to make and are deliciously fresh tasting when made with the awesome tomatoes available right now.

Warm tomatoes . . . mmm.  Behind them you can see some lemon butter chicken peaking out.  I wasn't planning on sharing the chicken recipe with you when I made it, but it was so tasty and decadent that I feel I have to. Come back tomorrow and I'll have it posted.

Ingredients
1 pint grape tomatoes
1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil (or other fat of your choice)
2-4 cloves of garlic, peeled and left whole
salt and pepper to taste

1) Heat olive oil over medium high heat until it starts to shimmer, about 1 minute
2) Add garlic cloves to oil and cook for about 30 seconds
3) Throw tomatoes into pan, step back - it might sputter. Now don't touch at all for about 1 minute - you want the skins to get nice and blistered.
4) Toss tomatoes around in pan and then let cook for another minute - this should allow your tomatoes to warm threw a bit without popping and becoming a saucy mess
5) Season with salt and pepper and serve imminently*

*i was writing "immediately", but spell check changed it to "imminently" which sounded foreboding and stupid in a way that I really liked, so I kept it :)