.: Long weekends make for great meals.

This weekend has been a great one for many reasons. After a long week of work I was able to spend it with the boy and to top it off the RAVENS are SUPERBOWL BOUND! I was even able to stick to my paleo diet with hardly any trouble.

Saturday I had my normal egg with bacon late in the morning. I spent the rest of the day planning what football snacks we would make for Sunday. When you have restrictions, it takes lot of planning ahead because most of the time you do not have all the necessary ingredients. I knew I wanted to make hummus of some sort but I wasn't sure what else. It then dawned on me that I had came across a paleo deviled eggs recipe the other day at work.

Saturday night we made kabobs which are definitely on my list of top 10 favorite dinners. We used shrimp, squash, eggplant, pineapple, cherry tomatoes, and mushrooms.

I had 3 kabobs to myself and a salad. Needless to say I was stuffed to the brim.

Home made Tahiti!

Unfortunately we couldn't find any Tahiti ( I left mine in DC ugh!) so we had to make it from scratch. All you need are sesame seeds and a food processor and wallah!

We made eggplant hummus and cauliflower hummus. Here's how it went:

2 medium eggplants, steamed
1/4 cup of Tahiti
2 teaspoons of minced garlic
1/2 teaspoons of turmeric
Sea salt & Pepper to taste
1 tablespoon of Olive Oil

Put all the yummy ingredients into the food processor and pulse on high until you get the consistency that you like. I enjoy my hummus thick so I didn't pulse mine very long.

Before processing

For the second batch we used:

4 cups of steamed cauliflower
1/4 cup of Tahiti
1 lemon juiced
1 tablespoon of olive oil
dash of paprika

This hummus kind of tasted like mashed potatoes a little bit. It was also very lemon-y. With our hummus we cut up red peppers, celery, and baby carrots.

Once the hummus was made, we moved on to the deviled eggs. Instead of mayo and mustard we used an avocado. The avocado was not as ripe as it should have been so it was a lot harder to mix. To soften up the mix I added some white vinegar. All in all they came out pretty well. I added pieces of bacon to add a little something extra.