Real Food Forever

Real Food Forever

Category: Vegetarian

place setting with prepared mushroom burger, cucumber salad, and glass of wine

Grilled Portobello Burgers

When I first heard of portobello burgers, I thought it sounded like mushroom overload, but they actually taste remarkably like regular burgers. In fact, most places call them mushroom steaks

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sliced calzone on platter

Giant Calzone

Finally got around to making the calzone that I promised last month. My mother-in-law made these with Italian sausage instead of the spinach. I got a late start so I

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baked date bars on plate

Common Market and Date Bars

There’s a natural food store and café in Frederick, MD, called Common Market that has been there since 1974. It’s similar to Whole Foods except more focused on small local

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foil wrapped around sliced vegies

Grilled Onion Mushroom Topping

Today my son’s summer overnight camp in Gambrill State Park had parents’ visiting day. Parents were supposed to bring a dish to share for lunch. Everyone in his unit (besides

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homemade pickles in nice canning jar

Refrigerator Pickles

Luckily I picked up a nice, little, backyard harvest yesterday since Hurricane Arthur is in town today. Once the cucumbers (or pickles, doesn’t really matter which) come in full force,

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eggplant parmesan

Eggplant Parmesan

I usually wait to make eggplant parmesan for the weekend since it takes a while to brown the eggplant slices. Although, now I have shown the kids how to do

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Picking snap peas

Deer Resistant Garden

Back at my mother-in-law’s today and picked a bucket of sugar snap peas. She has found that there’s no such thing as deer-resistant anything, so you can see the extent

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Baker Jack with Pies

Eggs in Kale Potato Nests

Today at the farm market (England Acres) there were a lot of peach and apple pies and Baker Jack was there to point out the ingredients, how heavy they were

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