Real Food Cooking
Healthy, traditional cooking: real food recipes, monthly and weekly meal plans, alternative cooking methods, and much more.
Menu Week of November 23
Thanksgiving Week! This year has gone by so fast. We will be staying home and having just the seven of us for Thanksgiving. Our plan is to eat...
Easy Soaked Oatmeal
One of the early changes that we made to our food was to soak our oatmeal. Why? In a nutshell, oatmeal is high in phytic acid. Phytic acid blocks...
Cheeseball Salad Parfait
As a little girl I always looked forward to Thanksgiving and Christmas partly because my mom made all different kinds of amazing foods. It...
My Version of Broth
I thought I would share with you how I make broth. If you are a broth/stock purist, you will not want to read this post. If you are a busy, slightly...
Menu Week of November 16
We try to eat Real Food. What does this mean to me? Our foods should be whole, unprocessed and nutrient dense. A few examples; when you see toast on...
The Mission
I work hard to feed my family whole, unprocessed, nutrient dense foods. We eat things like grass fed beef, pastured chicken and eggs, offal,...
Eat Raw
In the past when I thought of eating raw food I figured the occasional salad would be enough. I have to admit to not particularly enjoying salads so...
Congee (Sort of)
I was looking for a way to use fish broth and ingredients I had on hand. Internet searching found a fun site which talked about a rice porridge/soup...
Design a Casserole
A few weeks ago I mentioned how I like to use a formula for making muffins. Having a formula as opposed to a recipe allows me a little freedom to...
My Busy Kitchen
A short while ago, Wardeh at gnowfglins.com talked about her kitchen and and how well used it is. I can relate to this. My kitchen is what I think...
Planned Overs
I love the concept of a Rubber Chicken. Cooking one chicken and turning it into 2, 3 or more meals is not a new idea. Here is a post that...
Big Shopping
Month two of my Once A Month Shopping. I went to two different stores this month. Baby Christopher was with me but so was my married daughter Angel....
Food Thoughts and Budget Results
I have been tracking what we spend on food during the month of October. I was inspired partly to do this by Jenny at the Nourished Kitchen and her...
Almost Take Out
"Egg Flower" Soup and Fried Rice The basis of the soup is my homemade chicken stock and the flavoring was inspired by this lentil soup recipe which...
Menu Week of October 26 and Budget Recap
I have been tracking what we spend on food during the month of October. As of last Sunday we had spent $439 on food for October. This week we added...
Antelope Stew
We have quite a bit of antelope stew meat. I love the taste of the antelope it is a little like venison and a little like elk but quite definitely...
Menu Week of October 19 and Budget Recap
I'm taking a hard look at what we spend on food during the month of October. As of last Sunday we had spent $356 on food. I added $83. $61 of that...
Tuesday Twister October 13
> We had a pretty good food week last week. I tried a few new things that we really enjoyed. Wednesday night we had breakfast for dinner. My...
I Had No Idea
Lulu came home from school today talking about her cooking class and that she had learned about pasteurized eggs. I thought that she meant...
Chicken Livers in Mushroom Sauce
Remember me mentioning that I got a ton of chicken livers? I've been steadily using them up. I have been trying to serve either chicken or beef...