Real Food Cooking
Healthy, traditional cooking: real food recipes, monthly and weekly meal plans, alternative cooking methods, and much more.
Menu Week of February 16
Hello Menu Planners! This week we have another fairly simple menu lined up. My hand is still messed up so I need help in the kitchen with basic...
Menu Week of February 9
Hello fellow Menu Planners! I have to tell you how much better my weeks go when I make an effort to not only plan my menu but also stick with it. I...
Feeling Overwhelmed? 7 Ways to Keep it Simple in the Kitchen
8 Weeks. 8 loooong weeks. That is how long I've had either a cast or some sort of splint on my right hand. Considering that I am right hand dominant...
Menu Week of February 2
February! Our welcome to February here in Wyoming includes a day this week with a forecast high of -3. I'm not going to lie. Negative 3 is...
Menu Week of January 26
Already the last week of January! It's cold and snowy here. Not as cold as it was last month but still chilly. Have you heard about the propane...
Menu Week of January 12
Wednesday morning bright and early I'm leaving town. I'm going to Tampa, FL for Freedom 2014 Conference for my skinny wrap business. Joe will be...
Menu Week of January 5
This is a sad time. My daughter's boyfriend lost his mom Saturday night. She was only 43. Her death comes just a few days after he lost his uncle...
Menu Week of December 29
A few weeks ago I shared my broken hand menu plan. That week Joe helped me do a bunch of cooking on Sunday afternoon and I was able to easily heat...
My Christmas Present to Myself
I've been sharing for the last year plus about my menopause journey. I'll tell you, this is a journey that has not been too terribly fun. It's a lot...
Menu Week of December 15
I thought about subtitling this week's menu "Real Food with a Broken Hand" because that's what's happening here. Last Sunday I slipped on packed...
Creamy Black Bean Soup
This is a family favorite. The recipe is based off of Black Bean Soup in Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon (that's an affiliate link and...
Menu Week of November 17
Last week I mentioned that we've not been as diligent with our budget as we need to be. One of the places that we've let slide is dining out. A few...
Preserving Milk
This post was originally shared on my short-lived homesteading blog. Things have changed for us since I originally wrote this post. Did you...
Menu Plan Week of October 27
Cold and blustery today. We're supposed to get one to two inches of snow. The weekend was so warm that we didn't even need jackets. Interesting...
Menu Plan Week of October 21
Last week I was feeling under the weather and didn't get a menu plan put together. In fact, I was feeling so bad that Joe and the girls took over...
Baked Custard
Hot or cold this baked custard makes a wonderful breakfast, dessert or snack! Add an extra sprinkle of nutmeg right before serving. Delicious! For...
Stewed Duck, Chinese Style
We raise ducks for eggs. About every other year we get a new batch of ducklings either from a friend who incubates or from incubating them ourselves...
Menu Plan Week of September 29 and New Additions
We have had an exciting couple of days. Two of our goats had babies! You might remember that at the end of June we added seven Dwarf Nigerian goats...
Menu Plan Week of September 15
This week is going to be busy! I'll tell you why this week is so busy later in this post-- so keep reading. 🙂 I'm taking a few minutes right now to...
Menu Plan Week of September 8
It's been several weeks since I posted a menu plan. Not only have I not posted a plan, but I haven't really been making menu plans. I did make a...
How We Got Here- Part 1
When I first started blogging, at a simple family style blog, we were living in a 23 foot camp trailer in Northern California. The summer before...