In weekly installments, otherwise known as TwoFaced Tuesday, Melissa, blogger at CupcakesOMG, and I will choose a shared ingredient. Then, using our own culinary talents, we’ll make whatever delicious paleo dish we can think of. TwoFaced will be a dual blogging adventure. If you start here, you will finish there and vice versa.

To see all of our TwoFaced recipes, visit here!

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Have you ever read Like Water for Chocolate? For those of you who haven’t taken fourteen too many literature classes, it is a love story woven with recipes and magic set near the Mexican border. The protagonist Tita, cooks with all of her heart. Sounds magical right? Her curse? Every emotion she is feeling while cooking is baked directly into that dish. At first bite, her guests are overcome by that same emotion. It’s great. There’s a film too.

If you were over for dinner last night, enjoying the following recipe, centraled around the TwoFaced ingredient of red onion, you would be a raging hormonal bitch by the end of the meal. Because that’s exactly how I felt during this rather painless process.

Every dice, slice, sizzle, whisk and pour was performed with seething anger.

Luckily, you weren’t over for dinner last night.

James on the other hand…. not so lucky.

Broccoli Crunch Salad

TwoFaced Ingredient: Red Onion
Inspiration: Whole Foods

serves 4

3 cups broccoli, florets only
1/4 red onion, diced
1/2 cup raisins
2 pieces bacon, cooked until crispy and crumbled
handful of sunflower seeds, optional

Dressing:
1/2 cup homemade paleo mayo
2 tsp apple cider vinegar

Directions

Prepare mayo, place in fridge until ready to use.

Cook bacon on stove top, blot with paper towels, crumble and set aside.

Place broccoli, onion, raisins, bacon and seeds in a large bowl.

In a small bowl, whisk mayo with apple cider vinegar.

Pour dressing over salad and mix completely.

Serve cold.

Now, head over to Melissa’s red onion recipe which I’m sure was made with nothing but laughter and love!