Real Food Forever

Real Food Forever

Category: Recipes

Serving tilapia with kale and macaroni.

Food Incognito

One thing our culture really loves is junk food rewards. When a group is doing well at work, someone brings in donuts or cupcakes. The worst is when you send

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Serving city chicken and gravy.

City Chicken

Here is another Hungarian recipe. City chicken does not have chicken in it, but it’s shaped like a chicken leg. My theory is that since country people have chickens, city

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Serving plate with pieces of banana cake.

CSAs

One way to get a steady supply of seasonal produce is to join a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture). You partner with a local farm and purchase “shares” which entitle you

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Serving two quenelles with sauce and salad.

Quenelles

A quenelle is a French soft fish dumpling usually in a cream sauce yellowed with egg yolks. You can substitute other meats and make variations of the sauce with vegetables,

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Serving stuffed acorn squash.

Forever Food

Late last night I changed the name of this blog from Real Food Year to Real Food Forever. I’ll still post every day for the first year (not necessarily forever).

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Serving the matzo ball soup.

Matzo

Time to pull Sunday’s broth out of the refrigerator and make the matzo balls for the soup. Matzo is an unleavened (no yeast) bread that’s flat, like a cracker, made

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Smelt garnished with parsley served with roasted vegetables.

Smelt

We have a lot of excellent seafood in Maryland but it is different from the seafood in other parts of the country, like the Great Lakes region. The fish I

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Everything going in the pot.

Prep Day

Sunday (or whatever day you have off of work) is prep day for the rest of the week, if you have anything on the upcoming week’s menu that makes dinner

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Serving chili in a mug with sour cream and parsley.

Meatless Menu Day

It’s wonderful when you have a variety of meatless recipes that you can add to your food calendar that will satisfy your family if you want to get out of

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Serving two lobster tails around a pile of vegetables.

Lobster Tails

Happy New Year! Welcome to 2015 – make it the best year ever! I promised a detox to kick off the new year and I haven’t forgotten. We are going

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