Category Archives: Real Food

Learn how to make nourishing, delicious stocks and broth!

Houston Real Food Nutrition and the Houston-Galveston Chapter of the Weston A. Price Foundation are hosting a cooking class on May 25, 2013.  Susan Doiron, who gave an excellent demonstration of making fermented foods in January, is offering a class … Continue reading

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Goat Cheese Stuffed Dates with Pecan Topping

Heavenly and decadent, these lightly broiled stuffed dates are delicious and will satisfy your sweet tooth without any additional sweetener!  I love Medjool dates and eat them just plain, but these stuffed dates are way better than even I imagined.  … Continue reading

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Coconut Flour Cornbread

Having been born and always lived in the South, cornbread is one of my favorite foods, especially served hot with lots of butter melted inside.  I’ve posted a recipe for traditional Southern Cornbread before; however, I’ve been wanting to reduce … Continue reading

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Lentils with Cheese

For many years, one of my family’s favorite homestyle foods has been Lentils with Cheese, but I’ve learned that to be healthier the lentils need to be soaked or sprouted, which requires a lot of preplanning and extra time.  I … Continue reading

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REAL Vanilla Ice Cream

It’s the middle of March and we’re already close to breaking high temperature records here in Houston! It was 89 yesterday, which tied a record from 1907. Of course, summers are always hot here, but we don’t usually start quite … Continue reading

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Eggplant Parmigiana

How about this for super easy! I really love a recipe that is delicious and nutritious but also quick and easy to prepare. Eggplant Parmigiana Ingredients 2 medium eggplants (these were from my local farmers market) 2 cups tomato puree … Continue reading

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Strawberry Kefir Smoothie

As you probably have noticed by now, I love my morning smoothies!  Although my usual smoothie is a Banana Cocoa Smoothie, I like to try new flavors.  I don’t often find really ripe, organic strawberries, but I was lucky last … Continue reading

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No food freedom in Texas! Texas raw milk farmer’s license suspended for delivering milk!

[Update February 12, 2013:  Wow! I've already got an update.  I just found a video of the farmer being forced to dump 700 gallons of raw milk ($5,000), just because he was delivering.  There was nothing wrong with the milk.  … Continue reading

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Meat Stock or Bone Broth – which do you make?

I just read an interesting article by Kim Schuette in the latest Price Pottenger Nutrition Foundation Journal about bone broth, or is it stock?  Kim begins by explaining that the French term for stock and broth is fonds de cuisine, … Continue reading

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Pepperoni pizza with soaked whole wheat crust

Pepperoni pizza has always been a favorite food, but we don’t eat it very often since we switched to a healthier diet.  For Super Bowl Sunday, I thought I would make some pizza for a treat and wanted it to … Continue reading

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