Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to use the whole thing this week. Whether you are eating turkey, ham, or ground beef, you’re likely going to consume something from an animal that is a part of a whole. Where are the other parts? Are they being utilized or wasted? It’s a shame that […]
This is the best recipe for holiday dips, Christmas dips, and parties in general. And it’s a great kids dip. Kids love to dip those veggies! Do you have a healthy eating strategy for big holiday parties? I have a specific game plan that targets the most volatile UNhealthy areas, roots them out, and front
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“Less cellulite at 30 than 20?” My friend was ready to eat the next words out of my mouth when I told her I blamed one dietary change for my incredible loss of cellulite. Quite often others counter my claim with a strange question: “How do you know?” I’m sure their intentions are simply curious,
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No longer will I bake meatballs for 20-30 minutes and then wash nasty cookie sheets for 15 minutes. Nope, thanks to my favorite soup book, Ladled by Kimberly Harris (of The Nourishing Gourmet), I learned that I can cook meatballs IN MY SOUP in 5 minutes with no drippy, baked-on meaty pan messes. Woo hoo!
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Trans fat has been proven to cause heart disease and all sorts of other health evils, to the tune of 30,000 to 100,000 deaths from heart disease pinned on trans fat every year. The FDA recently removed the GRAS (Generally Recognized as Safe) status from trans fat, 7 years after requiring companies to disclose trans fat
When you spend as much time in the kitchen as I do, there are certain items that practically never get put away: That last item is a bit more new to me, one of those things I had on my “maybe I want to try one of these things” list for quite some time before
“That dip is good enough to eat with a SPOON!” Ever said that about something into which you’re only supposed to dip carrots or chips? This salsa soup recipe is a way to cut out the middleman and have an easy starter for Mexican night. While you’re finishing up the homemade tortillas, or better yet,
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Parenting is hard stuff. Balancing baby’s needs and new mommy’s needs is hard, figuring out when to start feeding solid food and what kind is hard, watching a child get sick is hard. Deciding on boundaries is hard, using consistent discipline is hard, facing down a stubborn 4-year-old who is screaming at the top of
This is part two of a three-part story about our family’s experience with whooping cough. The first part includes a video of what whooping cough sounds like. The third discusses the difficult vaccination decision and the problem of statistics. When I told my husband that I was writing next about the social aspects of having
Summer colds are no fun. But usually, they’re no big deal. This one was different: All three of our kids, ages 8, 5 and 23 months, had a terrible cough. None of them had a characteristic “whoop,” that the symptoms of whooping cough describe, but something about it was itching at the corners of my mind
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Do you have to use chicken feet to have traditional homemade stock, or at least to have healthy food? Of course not. If you can’t source chicken feet or can’t stomach the idea, don’t worry about it. You can make awesome, nutritious stock from any old chicken bones you can find, even a family pack
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I hate canning. I really do, but please don’t pick on me for saying it! I don’t like trying to coordinate the timing on getting everything hot at the right time, having sterile jars and the right amount ready to go, all the water that seems like is wasted in the process, and how long
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Other than over-salted egg drop soup in a Chinese restaurant, I don’t know that I ever had egg in a soup recipe until recently. It turns out the creamy egg yolk and the nourishing fats swimming in all that immunity-boosting broth is becoming one of my favorite comfort foods, and I’m excited to share this
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One of our favorite sitcoms poked fun at old folks’ homes last season and showed a main character sipping “lasagna in a glass.” He was very impressed that it tasted “just like the real thing!” I can’t imagine whizzing lasagna into an Italian smoothie, pasta and all, and stuffing it in a glass, but last
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Homemade tortillas are frugal and delicious. But do you know the quickest and best way to make them? I’m taking on both a tortilla press and machine with my trusty rolling pin. Can you guess which will win? No matter the winner you’ll want to also make my salsa recipe for canning to top the
Ever feel like blogs (and maybe the whole Internet) are fueled by sponsorships, advertisements, and paid reviews? (Just kidding on that. You won’t see suspicious angles on a can of Coke here at KS like you might in a blockbuster movie.) Anyway. I am going to start this post by saying that I get a
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Fall is the perfect time to take a normal meal and stir it up in a big pot of soup, capturing the familiar flavors in comforting, immune-boosting broth. This Steak Fajita Soup is a great twist on a familiar dish. This is part of my Nourishing Soup Series. Check it out for more delicious soup ideas.
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Whether you’re in the canned or home-pureed pumpkin camp, sometimes you have just a little bit of pumpkin puree left over after a recipe. It’s…
Everybody’s got some brand loyalty in their lives, whether it’s driven by slick marketing or pure good taste. For example: When it comes to real food, you still might get a little bit of “brand loyalty” behavior, just in a different fashion. For example: And how about processed real food? There’s even more room for
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I’ve had these grain-free coconut flour muffins in my freezer for the past two years straight. Not the same dried-out 2-year-old muffins, but consecutively. As in, as soon as we run out, I make more and restock the freezer. They’re so moist and easy to make, and they thaw in less than 30 minutes no
