Category: Real Food

Holiday Party

What a joyous time of year with all the eating and celebrating and eating and decorating, and eating…. After a couple of holiday parties, and plenty of people bringing in

12/17/14 No Comments

Spaghetti squash bake in fall serving setting.

Rate Your Plate

A new food rating and comparison website launched today — Food Scores by the Environmental Working Group. You simply type in a food, for example you could enter “Frozen Sweet

10/27/14 No Comments

produce in plastic zip bags ready for freezer

Three sociologists published a paper in Context[1] this summer about how cooking for families, particularly in low-income households, is unjoyful and stressful, and simply idealistic and unrealistic. The purpose of

09/19/14 No Comments

Pear Streusel Cake

When I was at the nearby farm, England Acres, to cut a bunch of dill to make pickles last weekend, I picked up a flyer for an organization called Fermentation

09/15/14 No Comments

Grill plate with tilapia, beets, and kale

Turmeric, Tilapia, and Inventing Recipes

I only had three pieces of tilapia in the freezer and we were down to three people for dinner due to extenuating circumstances of soccer practice and the first high

09/05/14 No Comments

Frederick Keys

You know you’re in Maryland when you go to a baseball game food counter and they’re serving crab cakes. Today we took in a minor league ball game at Harry

08/17/14 No Comments

Divided plate with salad as the main course, sauerkraut, and kielbasa

Portion Size

You may have noticed my serving sizes in some of my plated foods photographs, and I’ve mentioned portion control a few times. Portion size is a huge factor in health

07/28/14 No Comments

fruits and vegetables frozen in plastic zip bags

Freezing for Winter

When winter sets in, we’re going to miss all of this fresh, beautiful, local produce. Of course you can buy stuff shipped in from around the world, but it doesn’t

07/14/14 3 Comments