Years ago, when I started making sourdough bread, I envisioned beautiful round loaves, dusted in white rice flour and decorated with intricate floral patterns slashed…
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I looked for a dairy-free, healthy zucchini bread muffin for years. The internet is full of baked goods that you can stuff with grated zucchini,…
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Tacos are my family’s favorite dinner. After 15 years of living on a budget and eating real food, I learned that they are the perfect…
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Smashed potatoes are my family’s new favorite potato side dish. We’ve tried all the classics: mashed potatoes, baked potatoes, roasted potatoes, homemade fries. Honestly, it’s…
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This tomato soup is a real food crowd-pleaser at my house. It is budget-friendly simple food at its best, and you can make it in…
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Let’s talk about how hard it is to make dinner every night. We are the kind of family that rarely eats out, so we eat…
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If we’re talking about pure comfort food and classic family-friendly meals that you can make in the Instant Pot, I’m gonna talk about sloppy joes.…
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Soup season is my very favorite time of the year for frugal, real food cooking. All you need to make really delicious soup is a…
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Homemade chocolate chip peanut butter cookies – they are so so good, and not too hard to make a little healthier! I love dessert, and…
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Chili season is here! If you don’t have a favorite go-to chili recipe, let me fix for you that right now. There are all kinds…
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I love a good sugar cookie. They are a part of my childhood in a deep way because my mother and my grandmother used to
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We love real food, and we love feeding our families well. But sometimes our schedule makes eating healthy dinners around the dinner table almost impossible.…
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Dinner time cooking has two modes: relaxing and fun – usually with music and a glass of something on the weekends, and that weekday rush…
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I love an easy, fresh, fun, real food meal. Pinto bean tostadas are simple, delicious, comforting, and oh-so-very flexible, depending on what you have in…
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Quinoa is one of my favorite hearty cold salad ingredients, and using it in my Americanized version of tabbouleh makes an easy, healthy quinoa recipe.…
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Okay, we’re trying to eat better and take baby steps towards more healthy living. We’re also trying to be better stewards of the planet and…
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One thing we’ve tried really hard to do as a family is making plant-based, plant-forward recipes that we all love. A recent discovery is this…
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I love a good blueberry muffin. Actually, what I really like are the blueberry muffin mixes that don’t even use actual blueberries – just those…
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Potatoes are such a versatile side dish. They go with all kinds of cuisines, and flavors, they’re budget-friendly and gluten-free. It’s no wonder we love…
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It’s Christmas! Let the Christmas cookie baking begin! Listen, even before I was trying to make our food a little healthier, I loved baking homemade…
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