Real Food Forever

Real Food Forever

Category: Gluten or Dairy Free

Serving bars in a strawberry bowl.

Cereal Bars

I found the Clean Plates Cookbook[1] that I told you about last Tuesday, and slightly modified their recipe for Kitchen Sink Almond Butter Snack Bars. They’re using that name because

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Serving cauliflower soup with parsley garnish.

Cauliflower

It’s almost spring! At least close enough to start thinking about getting seeds started for the garden. I was reading the back of a pack of cauliflower seeds at the

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Stack of pancakes covered in berry syrup on eskimo towel.

Fruit Syrup

It only takes a few minutes to make a special syrup that will give your pancakes or waffles an attractive appearance and much improved flavor. After I run out of

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Scarlet queen turnip cut in quarters.

Root Bean Bake

There was a basket at the farm market full of what looked like giant radishes. Some of them were the size of softballs. The farmer said they were Scarlet Queen

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Serving roast on platter surrounded with vegetables.

Rump Roast and Onions

My daughter needed green onions for one of her recipes and, while shopping for them and not knowing exactly what they are, my husband bought a bag of pearl onions.

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Striped cabbage cut in thirds and the grater.

Purple Cabbage

One time in college, one of my housemates made the most amazing cabbage soup for us. We were all surprised and raving about it. I guess he was embarrassed because

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Serving Singapore Stir-Fry on clear plate with chopsticks.

Singapore Stir Fry

Daydreaming lately about taking an exotic vacation, a cooking class or, better yet, a cooking class on an exotic vacation, I was intrigued by a recipe that I cut out

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Serving three tacos brimming with lettuce.

Cholesterol and Tacos

I should have kicked off my mayo post (because of the egg yolk) with the news from last week that the Agriculture and Health and Human Services Departments said in

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The best mayo in the world, whisked in jadeite bowl.

Mayo

Today I made mayo for the first time and am totally floored with how easy and quick it was to make. I can’t believe I’ve been buying mayo all these

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Sliced roasted turkey breast on platter.

Lunch Meat

I briefly touched on the carcinogenic sodium nitrite treated cold cuts from the deli counter. If you’re still buying deli meats then you can stop when you run out of

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