Real Food Forever

Real Food Forever

Category: Recipes

Serving carrot-intense beef marsala over potatoes.

Beef Marsala

I’m calling this slow cooker stew “beef Marsala” because there’s red wine in it, but I’m really not bothering to use Marsala wine. Feel free to use whatever red you

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Ingredients for quiche with bok choy in center

Bok Choy Quiche

I saw a picture of a quiche in Vegetarian Times (Sept. 2014, pg. 64) that used phyllo dough for the crust and it looked quite pretty. I often find that

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Serving creamy tuna noodle casserole.

Tuna Casserole

Next on the menu for using up red pepper and celery was Tony’s American classic – tuna noodle casserole. Yes, we had two almost identical (in terms of the béchamel

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Ingredients ready for white bean chili

Slow Cooker

I never know whether to call the crock pot a slow cooker, so I try to use both names in each post; but a crock pot is really the thing

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Putting nuts on the side of the frosted cake.

Birthday Cake

Determined to make a somewhat healthy but still irresistible carrot cake for my son’s birthday, it took me a couple tries to figure out a recipe. I’ve learned that it’s

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Serving pork chop with polenta and cactus fruit

Overcooking Meat

My favorite way of having pork chops is breaded and baked because that’s how my Grandma made them, although I rarely cook pork. Today I was trying to use up

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Bowl of cream of crab with parsley on leaf placemat

Old Bay

Maybe this is a Maryland thing, or at least the mid-Atlantic region, but everywhere you go they serve cream of crab soup. Some of the soups have sherry or white

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Toasts on plate.

Toasts

It’s Tony’s night on the meal schedule and he signed up for toasts for dinner – not toast, thank goodness! Toast would not cut it for me in the Breakfast-for-Dinner

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Lodge front with timber archways covered in white lights.

Clyde’s

I got sidetracked with the pretzel trout recipe yesterday and forgot to tell you about the second Lodge restaurant. I get to treat my team at work to a holiday

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Lodge and lots of trees lit up at night.

Food Views

In food news last month, a Dallas restaurant critic who previously only presented herself as an avatar, outed herself and may regret it since now restaurants know who to Not

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