This is the “make-at-home” edition of the Reading Round-Up. There are so many things that it never occurred to me I could make at home in my own kitchen with just a few simple ingredients. Or, I knew I could make them, but why would I bother when we have brands like Heinz, Hidden Valley…
Surprise! Another Mexican-inspired dish! In case you’re tired of delicious Crockpot Pork Carnitas or Roasted Sweet Potato and Black Bean Burritos or Beef Taquitos and Cuban Black Beans, here’s a new dish to add to your repertoire. I was inspired by the contents of my weekly produce basket, and set out to make a dish…
I love eggs just about any way you make them – soft-boiled, poached, scrambled, over easy, sunny-side up, in a benedict or a fritatta – you name it. And of course, I love quiche. Served for breakfast, lunch or dinner, that fluffy, creamy custard in a golden brown crust is Egg Perfection. This recipe is for…
I’ve never made a pie crust before. While we made all of our pie fillings from scratch growing up, we always bought the pie crust dough. I was excited to attempt this recipe and researched many variations on whole wheat crust recipes before settling on this combination of ingredients. This one was deliciously flaky and…
Everywhere I read about real food, I also read about the benefits of including bone broth in a real food lifestyle. I’ve been saving vegetable scraps to make homemade stock, but thought I’d read more about bone broth and its merits before simmering my first batch. It turns out that bone broth can help the…
This was my third week ordering a produce basket from Berkshire Organics, and I must say, I’ve been very impressed with the quality of the organic produce I’ve received over the last few weeks. We’ve eaten more vegetables recently than we would have if I had been shopping at the grocery store, and we’ve even tried…
I don’t often cook with sweet potatoes. While I love them, they don’t rank high on Jeff’s list of favorite foods, so I tend to veer away from them at the grocery store. Yet they appeared in my Berkshire Organics basket this week, so I figured it was high time they made their way into…
This week’s real food reads are all about one of my favorite subjects – shopping! Take a trip to the store with a new real foodie to see what she put in her cart, learn how other people are shopping for real food on a budget, find out about suspended grocery systems, and get some great…
Turnips are pretty foreign to me. I didn’t grow up eating them, and I’ve never cooked them as an adult. So when Gilfeather turnips (native to our Northern neighbor, Vermont) appeared on my Berkshire Organics basket list for the week, I paused and wondered what on earth I would do with them. My first thought was…
I’ve written about it before, but I’ll say it again. I love hummus. I tend to stick to a classic recipe, but with the extra black beans I saved in the freezer from our Beef Taquito recipe, I thought I would try out to make black bean hummus. I highly recommend cooking with organic dried beans;…
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