My Meals 11/25/10 - Practically Paleo Thanksgiving

Half a turkey breast roasted in a slow cooker with with a sausage dressing.  I seasoned the turkey with garlic powder, rosemary, black pepper, and a couple tablespoons full of grass-finished beef tallow.  The sausage dressing consisted of pork sausage, diced green apple,  celery,  onions, ground sage, and a very small amount of maple syrup*.  
Cranberries and apples cooked in apple cider with cinnamon and a very small amount of maple syrup*.
Sweet potatoes mashed with a small amount of orange juice and some coconut oil.
Brussells sprouts prepared by first steaming, then carmelized in a mix of butter*, olive oil, lemon juice, lemon zest, salt and pepper.
Green salad dressed with olive oil and bacon bits.

We chose to eat our "practically paleo" squash pie on Friday.  We used the dairy-free recipe in The Garden of Eating, page 384, using only honey* as a sweetener.  Tracy created the crust by mixing almond flour with some melted butter* from grass-fed cows.  You could use coconut oil instead of butter for a dairy-free "paleo" crust. 

We ate the pie with whipped cream; Tracy put cinnamon-flavored stevia* and some vanilla extract in the cream. 

* Asterisks mark ingredients that are NOT "paleo" by strict definition.  Hence, this meal was practically paleo, NOT paleo!