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Paleo Sunflower Satay Sauce Recipe

One of my favorite foods is Pad Thai, but now that I've gone paleo, peanut based foods are out.  I've had a craving for some spicey sweet nutty flavors lately, so tonight I set out to make a paleo version of Satay Chicken.  With a few tweaks of a peanut satay sauce recipe, I I hit upon a delicious paleo dish that satisfied my craving.

Paleo Sunflower Satay Sauce 

1 cup raw sunflower seeds

1/3 cup water

2 cloves garlic, minced

2 tsp. sesame oil

1 to 2 Tbsp. raw, unfiltered, local honey, to taste

1 Tbsp. Red Boat Fish Sauce 40°N

2 1/2 Tbsp. gluten free Tamari 

2 Tbsp. lime juice

1/2 tsp. cayenne pepper

1/3 cup canned organic coconut milk

Place all ingredients in a blender or food processor and blend until smooth.

If you're strict paleo, when making satay chicken, cook your chicken first, remove it from heat and then toss the chicken in the satay sauce or just dip chicken in the satay.   This is in order to keep the raw honey in the sauce from warming and becoming "cooked".  

Closer to Black and White

(via The Marion House)

It's been several months since I've seen anything that quickened my design heart quite like this. 

Also, we've been coming to terms with the fact that our house needs major structural work before we can do anything cosmetic like changing floors or kitchens, or even painting.  Structural work will begin this summer.  It will probably be years before I can even dream of a kitchen like this. 

But oh, how clean and gleaming!  The red pattern in the hall shows nicely at the end of the long black and white lines.  Close up the print is a little fussy for me so I would change that out to be a bold modern graphic in orange.  But overall the effect is perfect.

Bravery

"Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work, risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful; yourself."
- Alan Alda

Bedroom Eyes

 
(via Kiwi Collection: Rest Detail Hotel, Hua Hin, Thailand)

This is quite possibly the most perfect bedroom ever.  The colors, the lighting (note the dimmer controls right next to the pillows), the black framed photo montage above the bed.  Bananas!  Out that window is a tropical locale in Thailand, which helps, but I could imagine that on my own.  Couldn't imagine the maid service that irons the bedding and turns down the bed, though. 

Colorwheel

via thisisnthappiness.com

Oh, wow. Must make trip to secondhand bookstore now! This would look great on my wall.

Monochrome Garden Party

 

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via www.modcloth.com

With a pair of candy apple red heels? I have just the pair. Yes?

Someone have a garden party once this snow melts, please!

Meow

via www.modcloth.com

If I could do that meow thing, that low rumble rolling r sexy thing, I would do that about this dress.

color swatch kitchen

via ii-ne-kore.blogspot.com

Oooo, so colorful! This would make me smile every day to cook in.

Snow Angel

via houseofbliss.blogspot.com

So cute.

Watch the Stars

via houseofbliss.blogspot.com

Craft paper stars on string. Perfect.