Paleo Salad & Honey Dijon Dressing

Hello Everyone, and by everyone, I mean the small handful of my friends that might check this blog, because they are so board at their desk job - this actually sounds interesting. . . ;-) 

I'm starting this blog to document my efforts to cook more fresh whole foods and it will also focus mostly on paleo eating. Yes, I've drank the Crossfit Kool-Aid, and I freaking love it! :-) So stop by and check out some healthy recipes, and some terrible photos of my cooking from my iphone!  :-) (I promise though the recipes should be pretty good.)

I warned you - terrible ;-)

A little background now, I feel I should give some more insight for the reason behind this blog. Like I said earlier, I started doing Crossfit last November, and so far I've lost quite a few inches and 5 lbs. (and I'm on my way to doing a pull up! miracles of miracles!) At the beginning of May, our gym started a 60 day Paleo challenge, prizes go out to the highest percent of change (gain or loss).  Well, me knowing that I needed to overhaul my diet, and having no idea how to, I jumped at this challenge. I found this to be the best way to start, and with so much support it's made it a lot easier!  So here goes nothing for 60 days, and beyond!

First recipe up to bat is a variation of a salad dressing I found on this site.  I love Health Bent, such a great blog and full of fun recipes. I love me some honey mustard salad dressing - so I made a tart version, biased on the health bent version, that only uses a little local honey.

 

Creamy Paleo Honey Mustard Salad Dressing

1/2 cup of dijon mustard

1/2 cup of extra virgin olive oil

1/4 cup of lemon juice

1/4 cup of honey

1 tsp of salt

1 tsp of pepper

Mix these all together in a dressing emulsifier like mine, or use an plane ole' mason jar - works just as well. Then pour it all over your favorite Salad.  Mine is usually: romaine, spinach, red peppers, red onion, avocado and grilled chicken.

NOTE : You can also use less of the lemon juice and honey if you want, I only used about 2-3 tbs. of the honey. So I would suggest starting with 2 tbs of each first and then taste as you go you can always add more later.