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, but I made them vegetarian...

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). But the point is that once you make...

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 with flour and water. The flour can...

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 ate growing up were freshwater fish like...

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 creation somewhat time-consuming. Now is the time...

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 a meat rut. I’ve talked to a lot of moms that...

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 to celebrate New Year’s first. I asked quite a few...

One thing Grandma showed me but I never exactly mastered, was cutting up a whole chicken into parts. I’m always relieved when I find a farmer that is selling the chicken cut into its parts; then I buy...

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 potato and mushroom recipe. This recipe is based on a...

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 with a bit more bite and fizz than other ginger ales...

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 had many desperate Christmases...

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 goat cheese – even...