Real Food Recipes

Cherimoya Love (With 3 Recipes)

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Here in Southern California, land of amazing food, grown year-round, there is a fruit in season now called the cherimoya. Being an East Coast native, I had never seen one before, because cherimoyas have a very short shelf-life and therefore aren’t successful in commercial production. The yummiest, healthiest foods usually aren’t.

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Healthy Probiotic Fruit Candies

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Babyzilla is approaching school age (OMG, already!), and consequently she is more frequently encountering kids who don’t have food sensitivities and who don’t eat the way that we do. 

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Snap Pea Bounty (with Two Recipes)

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The first snow and sugar snap peas are ready for harvest from the garden, so Babyzilla and I went out and picked enough for dinner tonight. Babyzilla has never had either sugar snap or snow peas before, but after her first taste, she reached into the basket again and again for more.

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How to Make Raw Sunflower Seed Butter

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High in vitamins, minerals, and protein, sunflower seeds are little powerhouses of nutrition. They are also a great stand-in for nuts for those who are allergic to them. However, like all nuts and seeds, sunflower seeds also contain phytic acid and enzyme inhibitors which protect them from sprouting until they have the rain and sun they [...]

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“Stank-a-Dank” Crock Pot Pork Spare Ribs

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Every time I make them, my Chinese 5-Spice Pork Ribs fill the whole house for hours with their intensely sweet, pungent aroma. For this reason, my husband recently started calling them “Stank-a-Dank Ribs.”  So, after elaborate polling and random double-blind sampling a Facebook vote, “Stank-a-Dank Ribs” became their official new name. These stinky-but-delicious, Asian-style crock pot pork spare [...]

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Grain Free Banana Bread

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I’ve made my fair share of banana bread recipes since going grain and dairy free, and, honestly, none of them have been anywhere close to as good as my grandmother’s old recipe using wheat flour. In fact most of them have been either soggy and dense or dry and bland. Since winter has me indoors [...]

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Indulge! – Grain Free Chocolate Truffle Cake

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I have always had an incorrigible sweet tooth. Baking was my favorite hobby as a teen, and was even briefly my vocation during college, when I worked for a fancy French chocolatier and pastry shop in Washington, D.C. But when I had Babyzilla five years ago, I had to give up dairy, grains, cane sugar [...]

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Authentic Tom Kha Gai (Thai Coconut Chicken Soup)

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One of my favorite soups in the world is called Tom Kha Gai, a spicy, coconut-milk based soup usually served with chicken or shrimp. But because it is a traditional dish from Thailand, and my cooking skills are pretty basic, I’ve always been afraid to make it myself. Silly me… 

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Simple Pickled Beets (And How to Grow Them)

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There is something about the New Year that has me in the mood for pickled beets. Now that they are in season, here is an easy, delicious recipe for them.

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Thieves Oil: A Safe, Natural Disinfectant & Health Aid

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With cold and flu season in full swing, everyone should have a bottle of Thieves oil in their natural first aid kit to help kill germs in your body and around your home. Powerful and versatile, Thieves oil will stimulate the immune system, circulation and respiratory system, and help protect against the flu, colds, bronchitis, pneumonia, [...]

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Grain Free Chocolate Hazelnut Muffins

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We love a grain free treat around here, but due to health problems, are also trying to reduce all added sugars from our diet—even the wholesome ones, like raw honey. These grain free chocolate muffins can be sweetened mostly with stevia, so they help you get your chocolate fix with a bare minimum of added [...]

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