Real Food Forever

Real Food Forever

Category: Vegetarian

Stuffed French Toast dusted with powdered sugar and served with pear slices.

Stuffed French Toast

Today we had visitors from New York that were in town for their granddaughter’s baptism. Luckily the mass wasn’t until 11:00 so they were able to have a nice, leisurely

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Perfectly fried green tomatoes

Last of the Tomatoes

  The kids didn’t have school again for yet another non-reason, so my daughter pulled out my tomato plants for me in exchange for me taking her to get her

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Serving dish full of roasted acorn squash

Roasted Acorn Squash

Usually I cut acorn squash in half and use the halves as cooking bowls, which I’ll do some other time. I got this recipe idea in my email from Real

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Spaghetti squash maple-honey bread on serving plate

Spaghetti Squash

It’s really fun to make spaghetti squash because it’s so amazing how spaghetti-ish it is inside the squash! It’s really a fun ingredient to cook with and the easiest thing

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Caramelized Brussels sprouts in serving bowl.

Caramelized Brussels Sprouts

One time I had some great Brussels sprouts at a restaurant, I don’t remember the name of it but it was a tapas place — where you order over-priced, appetizer-size

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Serving plate of quinoia and broccoli raab with garden bouquet

Broccoli Raab

Walking through the backyard the other day I suddenly realized the broccoli raab (rob) my daughter planted a few weeks ago is starting to go to seed/flower. I looked back

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Blueberry pancakes browning on the griddle.

Blueberries

Blueberries get their color from the flavonoid class called anthocyanins. They contain 15 different types of these anthocyanins which are powerful antioxidants that are as strong in your frozen blueberries

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Jar of homemade applesauce on ice-fishing dish towel

Applesauce

Applesauce at the grocery store, particularly those single-serving brands that go into kids’ lunchboxes, usually contain either sugar or fake sugar, such as Sucralose (like Splenda). Unfortunately Mott’s Original and

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Mashed cauliflower with gravy on grill plate

Mashed Cauliflower

At first, it didn’t seem possible to me that cauliflower could substitute well in mashed potatoes but, except for a slightly different texture, it’s excellent. I’m not big on using

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A platter full of frosted carrot cake cookies

Carrot Cake Mix

On my top ten never-buy processed food list is carrot cake mix. Besides partially hydrogenated oils (trans fats) and other chemicals, there are absolutely no carrots in it whatsoever. The

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