Your kitchen is not only the heart of your home, but the most expensive part of a house! Whether you’re tackling a whole kitchen remodel or just buying a new range, avoiding mistakes feels so important – because the mistakes are too costly. We’ve been incredibly disappointed in the Thermador range we bought two years ago. As with all failure, […]
This post was written by Maike Corbett from Cheerful Cook and edited by Amanda Kay. For pasta lovers, nothing tops a great bowl of delicious…
Making homemade bone broth is so easy! You’ll save money – LOTS of it – and nourish your family well at the same time. What could be more frugal than getting multiple batches of stock out of the same bones over and over again? Follow these instructions for never-ending chicken broth to get delicious and
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Don’t be a Chicken… …in the kitchen. Just USE the chicken. Yes, every part of it. Let’s face it. Picking up a box of chicken broth at the store is easy. A no-brainer. Until you start to think about added salt, lack of flavor, and especially the fact that it might not even be made
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Instant Pot applesauce is so quick and easy to make – you’ll wonder why you ever bothered with store-bought applesauce! You can enjoy this yummy taste of fall any time of the year in less than 30 minutes from start to finish. People who visit my house in the fall tend to enter through the
I was talking with a friend recently about how to cook rice in the Instant Pot. She had heard that cooking rice in the Instant Pot was foolproof, but the method was giving her terrible trouble, and she wasn’t sure what she was doing wrong. Making the switch to cooking real foods is a big
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Steaming veggies is a great way to get important nutrients on the dinner (or lunch or breakfast) table without spending hours in the kitchen. My absolute favorite method?? Steamed vegetables in the Instant Pot! You might be thinking, “Okay, Katie, I can see using the Instant Pot for cooking a whole chicken, but steaming veggies
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Making bone broth in the Instant Pot is an excellent hack for saving time and money in a real food kitchen. There are two different Instant Pot methods that work with chicken, beef, or pork bones. The result is a healthy, nutrient-dense stock that you can drink on its own or add to recipes to
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If you’re a beginner in the world of canning, this post is for you. Tomatoes are a wonderful long-term storage food. Learning how to can tomatoes is a great way to store the abundance you may be getting from your garden! Whether you’ve spent the time and effort of growing tomatoes in your backyard or you
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Even for people who are squeamish about raw chicken, cooking chicken in the Instant Pot is so simple and must become part of your routine. Over at Kids Cook Real Food, we even have a video showing kids how to make shredded barbecue chicken in the Instant Pot as part of our Instant Pot Thematic
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Easy-peel hard-boiled eggs have been something I sought after for many years. I tried so many methods, but once I tried hard-boiled eggs in the Instant Pot, I knew there was no going back. Perfect easy-peel eggs every time – no tricks necessary! The Quest for Easy Peel Eggs Easy-peel eggs – at one point
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Every June it sneaks up on me – strawberry season. I’ve spent the last few months working through our freezer stash and home-canned goods. The weather is getting warmer, and we all want to live outside and forget about complicated meals. Then it hits me – it’s time to start preserving again! The first item
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When you buy a half a pig, your dreams are filled with bacon. Lots and lots of bacon. My kids are head over heels in love with bacon and would eat two pounds a day if I’d let them. So buying half a pig seemed like a great way to have a family supply of
It’s no secret that we love the Instant Pot around here. If you are cooking from scratch and trying to eat more real food, the Instant Pot is a game-changer. It makes perfect rice, homemade yogurt, and rich bone broth in under an hour. During soup season, we love Instant Pot soup recipes. Did you
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Sometimes I feel sorry for vegetables. It seems like they’re always the “lowest on the totem pole” when it comes to food groups. People crave sugar, salty snacks, and even a good steak in the protein category…Ice cream and a glass of milk get the milk mustache seal of approval in the dairy category…and anyone
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Changing vocabulary you’ve used your entire adult life isn’t easy. Suddenly an “insurance claim” becomes a “sharing need” and a “deductible” becomes the “initial unshareable amount”—and instead of hassling with insurance codes and red tape, I get to follow some simple steps and deal with real people on the phone (who are helpful – oh
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This post is a continuation of a series on “Those Weird Veggies.” You can also read about parsnips and kohlrabi. Are you an avid gardener? Or someone that loves the idea of gardening…but just hasn’t found the time for it? Or maybe you are quite content to leave the gardening to your local farmer? I’m
Introducing my good friend and fellow real food proponent, Stephani Jenkins! Steph writes at The Cheapskate Cook about eating healthy on a budget, and I’m so pleased to have her on the team as a regular KS contributor. You are going to fall right in love with her (and her cute boys), let me tell
Often one of the first suggestions when you’re trying to get healthy is to read labels. It’s something I suggest myself, especially when it comes to finding sugar and understanding just how much you are eating. But sometimes, it feels like you need a degree in nutrition fact label reading just to understand it all!
Why grinding grains for flour and baking is WORTH it, the best way to jump right in, and much wisdom from a grain milling expert. Today’s interview is one I’m excited to share with you, and it’s the last in this Grinding Challenge Series, as we’ve explored how to bake with einkorn, incredible gluten-free baking
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