A favorite side dish around these parts is my newest and best Spanish rice recipe. You many be thinking…it’s just rice, right? But cooked up with bone broth, smothered in butter or coconut oil, seasoned with savory flavors, and finished with fermented fish sauce – my picky kids devour this stuff while I sit by, thrilled they
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Radish Salad with Asian Sesame Dressing
I’m a big advocate of eating with the season, and this lovely radish salad from Naomi is a perfect way to enjoy a crisp fresh taste of spring. ~Emily Where I live, in Slovakia, many of the smaller stores carry only seasonal vegetables. As spring comes, the windows of little fruit and vegetable stores pile
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Grilled Peaches And Halloumi
Summertime is my favorite time of year by far, and nothing beats fresh, ripe summer fruit that tastes of the hot sunshine and earth that grew it. This recipe for grilled peaches with halloumi cheese combines some of the best things in life – summer bounty and grillable cheese. YUM. Growing up we grilled the standard
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Roasted Red Cabbage with Lemon and Garlic
Lately I’ve been trying to eat lighter. (Check out my slim down for summer challenge to learn why.) But for me this doesn’t mean chowing down of low-cal fake foods, artificial sweeteners, or other junk. It mostly means cutting back on the extra starchy stuff (bread, pasta, croissants) and filling up on well-prepared seasonal veggies (to
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Classic And Perfect Mashed Potatoes
Confession: While potatoes are easily one of my favorite foods. I secretly love powdered instant mashed potatoes. I know, I know. Gross. I’m simply going to blame this on growing up in Pennsyltucky in the 80’s. Come holiday time, my poor grandma had to covertly peel and boil the real potatoes while hiding behind a
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Gluten Free Tuscan Kale Salad
Food trends come and go, and whether it’s a fad or here to stay, these days folks love kale. Kale salads, kale chips, kale stir fries, kale smoothies. You name it, and kale is in it. It’s a full-blown kale-bonanza. Naturally a bit fickle, I wasn’t fast to jump on the kale-loving band wagon until
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The Best Ceviche Recipe for Summertime
Tanned skin in sun dresses, sandy feet in flip flops, and days that seem to stretch on forever. Oh summer, I love you. Of course, to pair with any season there are foods that can evoke nostalgia with a single bite. Summertime ceviche is one of those foods. This best ceviche recipe yields a dish that’s cold,
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How to Make Zoodles – Your Summer Solution to Grain-free Noodles
I’d like to introduce you to my new favorite food: zoodles. Perhaps you’re already hip to this grain-free pasta substitute, but I have only recently discovered my true love for this noodle-y dish. All winter long we love to drench our rich meaty and/or creamy sauces all over spaghetti squash, but let’s face it –
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Healthy Sweet Potato Casserole with Marshmallow Sauce
As a REAL food foodie, I get super excited by the challenge of taking classic comforting junkie foods and transforming them into nutrient-dense dishes that aren’t lacking in deliciousness. Sweet potato casserole makes a perfect candidate. You remember this holiday side dish, right? Sweet potatoes so sweet from marshmallows that you can only eat a
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Veggie Quinoa Cakes
One of the biggest challenges of eating real food is the inconvenience factor. You know – those moments where you’re so starving and the easiest thing to do is rip something out of a package and chow down. Or stop at a drive through to scarf down a burger, fries, and milk shake. Or (historically
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Nachos Get a Real Food Makeover
One of the things I love the most about our real food lifestyle is that I can magically transform nearly every junk food favorite into a version that not only tastes just as good (or much, much better), but is also surprisingly healthy. Take nachos for example. There’s really no arguing that there are NO health
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The Great American Potato Salad Revival
Maybe I’m alone here but I’ve always been terrified of picnic food. In particular, I’m talking about the bland American potato salad and frightening macaroni salad (sometimes combined into one dish) that often adorned the summertime tables of my youth. Yuck. You see, my real aversion was to mayonnaise. I never really understood why anyone
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