Real Food Forever

Real Food Forever

Category: Vegetarian

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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Egg, spinach, and flax seed.

Brainy Breakfast

Breakfast is our fuel to get through the first part of the day. It’s important that it’s not sugar-centric or carb- (quickly turn into sugars) centric, particularly for children who

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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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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 hash brown casserole on pine cone tablecloth.

Hash Brown Casserole

Since I need another day to assemble my photos for a longer report on a visit to a local farm accused of animal abuse, today I’m going to share a

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Using a funnel for the transfer.

Ginger Ale

When I was a kid, if one of us were sick, we would get to sip on glasses of Vernor’s. Vernor’s was a Detroit company that produced a ginger ale

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Serving dinner on Christmas tablecloth.

Breaded Lamb

Happy Christmas Eve! I hope you are not scurrying about trying to finish shopping, wrapping, or cooking, or at least are doing so in good cheer and not desperation. I

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Bowl of dip surrounded by chips, grapes, and crackers.

Leftover Dip

Today I made dip as planned, with leftover ingredients from other things we’ve had lately; you can combine any similar ingredients as substitutes. A lot of cheeses can replace the

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