A few years ago, before it became ridiculously popular and was still relatively unheard of, I went strictly Paleo for more than a month (no grains, no sugar, no dairy, no legumes) and saw some serious results in the way I looked and felt.  Paleo was really hard for me to maintain though, because I don’t really like enough of a variety of proteins and vegetables to keep it interesting.  So since then, I have dabbled off and on with the Paleo diet – sometimes I will go strict for a month to clean up my diet; sometimes I will be Paleo during the week and eat whatever I want on the weekends.  And sometimes I just go off the rails completely and turn into a pasta-eating fiend.

What can I say, ya girl loves carbs.

But then, with the rise of Crossfit in popularity, I feel like I also saw an equivalent rise in the popularity of the Paleo diet.  I mean, back when I went Paleo a few years ago, I could barely find any Paleo recipes on Pinterest.  It seemed like the same 20 recipes over and over.  I had to get creative with menu planning.  Now – gosh.  Go search ‘Paleo Recipes’ on Pinterest and be wowed.  They have recipes for Paleo sandwich bread now, Paleo fudge, Paleo brownies, Paleo hamburger rolls, Paleo this and Paleo that… it’s a lot easier to be Paleo now than it was when I did it!

I even found a cookbook by America’s Test Kitchen (whom I trust on all things food) called //Paleo Perfected//.  You know I had to buy it!  Well imagine my delight when I paged through to find a recipe for Paleo Bearnaise sauce…. ?

Bearnaise sauce is only the greatest sauce of all time.  I put it on steak, I dip French fries in it, I ladle it all over baked potatoes.  I use it indiscriminately on anything and everything.

(Shh.  I have even been known to dip pretzels in it.)

But anyway, I saw this recipe and had to try it.  Homemade Bearnaise sauces are not easy to make – there is much tempering of yolks and hot melted butter and whisking and such.  But this was a blender recipe, so I figured I’d give it a go.

I happened to think this sauce turned out very good.  It was pretty vinegar-y, but I modified it a little bit.  I kept some of the shallots in the sauce, while the recipe asks you to discard them.  Also, I like a tangier, more vinegar-y Bearnaise.  My husband wasn’t a huge fan, but I loved it.

(For the record, we both thought the homemade //blender Bearnaise// by Ina Garten he’d made for Valentine’s Day was much better and more traditional-tasting – but that was not Paleo.  ?)

Anyway, I hope you make this and enjoy it!  This one is staying in my recipe rotation fo’ sho’!