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Game Day Real Food Appetizer: Spicy Cheesy Chicken Dip

January 31st, 2012 · 10 Comments · Recipes

They told me to bring it again. When my husband’s extended family gets together for holidays, everyone brings food and we eat until we can’t fit through the doorway. The Thanksgiving and Christmas menus are generally different, but this year, I was ordered to do a repeat. You know you’ve got a good recipe when [...]

Eat Well, Spend Less: Cheap and Easy Party Foods

December 15th, 2011 · 9 Comments · Frugality, Recipes

I am working on creating my "go to" list for party foods, those items I can make quickly and without much thought when I have to bring a dish to pass. What I bring to share must follow some if not all of the following qualifications: Real Food (whole ingredients, homemade, not processed) Not Too [...]

Can You Take Your Weird Real Food to a Party with Normal People?

June 15th, 2011 · 54 Comments · Do It Yourself, Frugality, Upgraded Nutrition

Eating with others – the normal people – is always difficult when you’re committed to staying away from the “Standard American Diet” and consuming traditional foods. There’s often a lot of talk about what to allow your kids to eat, how to explain to people that you don’t each such and such, and how much [...]

Whole Foods for the Holidays: Real Food Appetizers

October 25th, 2010 · 13 Comments · Recipes

Welcome to my humble abode! Please take no notice of the dust on the shelves, the hand-me-down furniture and the fact that you can barely walk around the kitchen table without bumping something…it’s all about the food, you know! Even that may not always look so fantastic, but I put a lot of effort into [...]

In-Season Recipe Connection: Cabbage Salad with Goat Cheese

August 19th, 2010 · 18 Comments · Recipes, Super Foods

I’m not usually a fancy cheese girl. It tantalizes me, really, and I’ve always loved raising my status in a group by going bold and ordering a meal with goat cheese in a restaurant. Other than goat cheese and feta, however, my cheese experience pretty much begins with cheddar and ends with mozzarella. When Ile [...]

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Kitchen Tip: My Easy, Cheap Appetizer = Deviled Eggs

December 1st, 2009 · 35 Comments · Frugality, Kids in the Kitchen, Recipes

Did I say “cheap”? Whoops! I meant “frugal”. That’s much more politically correct. I also mean to say, “Appetizer? Don’t make me bring an appetizer? I can never think of a good appetizer?” As much as I do in the kitchen, for some reason grazing foods to feed a crowd aren’t my forte. Simple deviled [...]

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Tags: appetizers·eggs·party food