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Eating Real Food has made us Accidentally Green

While I don't have 'being green' as my main objective in life, I am starting to notice that we're becoming more green as tim...

After Jenni told me that mayonnaise is easier to make if the eggs are room temperature, I've been making mayonnaise (and not eggy-oi...

Like the sauce we had on our trout the other day, a hollandaise sauce makes breakfast-for-dinner much more special. Here: S oaked wheat bre...

My kids love greens in their scrambled eggs, cod liver oil, sharp cheese, barbecued fish, onions in egg salad, loads of garlic, and plain un...

Refined sugar, corn syrup, and yes, agave 'nectar' are all over refined , low nutrition , and high markup foods. They do more har...

Blueberry Smoothie It's smoothie weather again! I find that if I try to enjoy smoothies in the wintertime my thermostat ends up getting ...

This meal of fresh trout was completely inspired from Edible Aria's Pan Fried Trout . Where I feel like I'm juggling to just get a ...

The most durable grain-free pancake yet! I had heard of chicken 'cupcakes' on the pecanbread site , so I tried using the food proces...

(cut cabbage for sauerkraut) Dinner Menus this week Sunday : Smoked salmon, cheese, and crackers , fruit smoothies. Monday : Pulled chicke...

Yum! Re-doing the homemade clif bars we did a while back to see what we can do without grains, and here's a GAPS/SCD friendly granola-i...

I've had liver in the back of my mind as a food that we should be including in our diet. Kat, who has a SCD (specific carbohydrate diet)...

After going off GAPS I, perhaps, lost self control and started eating entirely too many refined sweeteners (sugar, corn syrup a couple time...

Raw honey and butter on toast Unlike refined sugar which has all the good stuff stripped out in processing, raw honey still has good enzymes...