Not Baaaaaad!

This is the delicous lamb stew my husband Trey made from the leftover lamb leg. The meat was so tender and it combined nicely with sweet baby carrots, celery and onion. This is cooked up in a nice big cast iron dutch oven, gotta sneak in that iron!


It has always been tough for me to find food that I enjoy eating that is healthy too. This year at Thanksgiving, I struggled to find recipes for traditional foods that were on our eating program. ( Basically we follow the Maker's Diet with all non processed organic foods and grass fed meats and dairy with no hormones or antibiotics). Thus I created my Cranberry Orange Relish. So many people asked for my recipes that I decided to create a whole website, blog, and cookbook to help others who search for the same good foods.

I am recreating recipes and turning traditional into tasty and healthy using only whole, organic ( if avail) foods. I am asking for recipes from readers who would like me to give their recipe a makeover. Please send it via email to whobunny@gmail.com with the subject Recipe. I will chose one recipe each week to make over, and post it on this blog, so please send as many as you like. I will run them through the famous Russell Test Kitchen and see what the Official Russell Food Tasting Panel has to say.

I look with great anticipation to a flood of email! I have a few recipes in the works including Guacamole and "Som Tam" which is a Thai Green Papya Salad. Until we meet again- Eat Whole Tasty Food!

Marinated Lamb

So here is the lamb, you can see the paste over it. I am roasting itat 325 degrees for a couple of hours. When the juices start to drip I will slice potatoes and turnips and let them roast in the juices. The potatoes are organic, the turnips not.

I will only eat organic potatoes after I learned that regular potatoes are sprayed 5 times with chemicals to keep them from sprouting. Also any pestisides in the earth can leech into them. I suspect that any root vegetables have this problem, but spraying to prevent growth is mostly for potatoes.

  I can smell the roasting garlic as the meat cooks. Here is a picture of the lamb roasting in the oven. I have sliced organic potatoes and turnip cubes drizzled in olive oil roasting along side.  The meat drippings give so much flavor to the vegetables.   This is a fantastic meal to start off the New Year. I think my next blog will feature my famous cranberry-orange relish made entirely without processed sugar or sugar substitutes. Until then  Eat Whole Tasty Foods.

It is a New Year with a new beginning

Another chance to do better this year, another chance to eat healthier.  I have slipped so much since Christmas.  I ate cookies, pumpkin pie and so much more.  This new year is a return to the earth, a return to what my body craves, a return to what people ate thousands of years ago.  Away with processed foods!

Today in celebration of the New Year, I am making roasted leg of lamb. I have a 7 lb bone- in New Zealand leg of lamb.  New Zealand lamb is the best with no hormones or antibiotics.  Australian lamb is second best and American lamb is my last choice.  It might be fresh, but it is more fatty and not as flavorful.

Last night I made a paste of:

5 sprigs of fresh rosemary, chopped
3 bunches of fresh  mint, chopped
2 heads of garlic, chopped
2 cups of dried mint leaves
1 cup of olive oil
juice from one large lime

I rubbed the lamb with 1/2 cup of kosher Rock salt and then smeared the paste all over.  I covered it and let it sit in the fridge overnight.  I will post pictures as I cook it!