Stephani Jenkins, Author at Kitchen Stewardship

Easy Recipe for Sourdough Bread | Beginner-Friendly Sourdough Focaccia Bread

Stephani Jenkins / 09/11/2023

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 into the surface and baked to perfection. You know the ones I’m talking about. That classic sourdough bread makes you think, “Man, I could totally learn how to bake that. […]

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Dairy-Free Zucchini Muffin Recipe

Stephani Jenkins / 08/14/2023

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, but I specifically wanted a muffin recipe that worked for my family: dairy-free, whole grain, naturally sweetened, and easy to make, with no weird ingredients. Here it is. Easy Dairy-Free

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Instant Pot Carnitas Recipe

Stephani Jenkins / 06/12/2023

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 dinner solution for every season. These Instant Pot carnitas are just one of the endless possibilities, and they are one of my favorite Mexican-inspired dishes. Tacos are the perfect way

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Instant Pot Smashed Potatoes

Stephani Jenkins / 05/08/2023

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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Instant Pot Tomato Soup Recipe

Stephani Jenkins / 04/10/2023

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 your Instant Pot. Whether you’re feeding your kids a quick, healthy lunch or making a family-friendly meal to share with friends, this instant pot tomato soup recipe ticks all the

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Instant Pot Honey-Mustard Salmon with Potatoes Recipe

Stephani Jenkins / 03/13/2023

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 most of our meals at home. While that sounds like I must make a nice dinner every night, it is simply not true. Instead, I make simple, flavorful meals with

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Quick Ground Beef Recipes: Instant Pot Sloppy Joes

Stephani Jenkins / 02/13/2023

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. This is a meal I grew up eating and loving. Of course, we didn’t make it in the Instant Pot (do you even remember pre-Instant Pot days?) and we didn’t

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Quick and Healthy Instant Pot Ground Turkey Recipe

Stephani Jenkins / 01/09/2023

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 few ingredients: broth, onion, celery, carrots, spices, and a few other ingredients you can change out depending on your mood. Soup is an easy way to eat clean vegetables, protein,

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Whole Wheat Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe

Stephani Jenkins / 12/12/2022

Homemade chocolate chip peanut butter cookies – they are so so good, and not too hard to make a little healthier! I love dessert, and I love chocolate and peanut butter anything (like this homemade freezer treat!). I also love real food. So we make this delicious chocolate chip peanut butter cookie with whole grains

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Healthy Instant Pot Chili Recipe

Stephani Jenkins / 11/14/2022

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 of ways to do chili. When I was growing up, one of my mom’s friend’s famous chili recipes even included Coke – you know, like the soda. In chili. Don’t

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Dairy-Free Sugar Cookies Recipe

Stephani Jenkins / 10/10/2022

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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30+ Healthy 20-Minute Dinners for Families

Stephani Jenkins / 09/12/2022

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. Between school, work, carpooling kids around, after-school activities, and sports practices, from-scratch dinners feel more like a weekend affair than a daily practice. But we all know that real food

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30+ Cheap & Healthy Instant Pot Dinner Ideas

Stephani Jenkins / 08/08/2022

Dinner time cooking has two modes: relaxing and fun – usually with music and a glass of something on the weekends, and that weekday rush at the end of the day before it’s time to head to an activity or start the bedtime shuffle. We do our best to eat well and sit at the

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Pinto Beans Tostadas Recipe | Budget Friendly Dinner

Stephani Jenkins / 07/11/2022

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 your kitchen, what foods you love, and how far you’ve gone into your real food journey. It’s my very favorite kind of meal. Real Food Bean Tostadas Tostadas are very

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Quinoa Tabbouleh Recipe | Healthy Quinoa Salad

Stephani Jenkins / 05/09/2022

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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5 Healthy Plant-Based Dinner Recipes

Stephani Jenkins / 04/11/2022

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 care for the world we’ve been given to live in. Plant-based dinners are important for so many reasons, but those are just a few. My family’s been eating largely plant-based

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Instant Pot Vegetable Soup Recipe

Stephani Jenkins / 03/14/2022

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 easy Instant Pot vegetable soup recipe. Not only is it loaded with vegetables, but it’s super flavorful and family-friendly. My kids have been learning about Plant Points from Katie’s teachings

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Real Food Blueberry Spelt Muffin Recipe

Stephani Jenkins / 02/14/2022

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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5 Things to Do with Leftover Potatoes

Stephani Jenkins / 01/10/2022

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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Dairy-Free Thumbprint Cookies Recipe

Stephani Jenkins / 12/13/2021

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 Christmas cookies. I grew up on sugar cookies (that we later tweaked to make with more real food). Nothing beats homemade Christmas cookies over the holidays. Dairy-Free Thumbprint Cookies Today

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