Real Food Recipes

Tomatoes 101: Your Guide to Tomato Varieties and a Cherry Tomato and Fresh Herb Salad Recipe

Tomatoes are the perfect addition to any garden! Fairly simple to grow, you can plant specific types to eat fresh all summer long or plan ahead and grow them for long term storage (canning tomatoes is really easy). Now a staple in my garden, I want to help make it super easy for you to

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Two fail-proof ways to cook a whole chicken in the crockpot. There's even a choice if you forget to defrost the chicken!

Help Handling the Whole Chicken Series: Two Fail-Proof Ways to Cook a Chicken

If you’ve been following along in our series on Help Handling the Whole Chicken, you know that our family has been buying whole chickens from a local farmer for a few years now – partly because it’s just cheaper than buying chicken breast at the grocery store!  However, it wasn’t until this past year that

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Chicken and Rice with White Sauce Recipe (Gluten-Free and High Protein! Check out the Secret Ingredient)

Gluten-Free, Protein-Packed White Sauce with Chicken and Rice Recipe

Your guests will never guess the secret ingredient on this one! I’m a big fan of beans for both frugality and nutrition, and in spite of some eating plans that eschew their phytates, lectins or starches, we still incorporate them into meals often. You can nail many of the anti-nutrients with a long, warm soak

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Meat Marinade with Dark Beer to Reduce Carcinogens from Grilling

I don’t grill. I know you’re feeling really trusting of a grilling recipe from someone who doesn’t grill, but don’t worry – we grill plenty at the Kimball house. It’s just a great way to get some help with dinner as long as I remain completely ignorant about the mysterious workings of the grill. I

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Cancer Fighting Vegetable Soup Recipe with an Asian Twist. Fight cancer naturally with these super foods. Simple, easy and filling, this vegetable soup is perfect during chemo treatment. My dad kicked chemo's butt and I swear it's partly because of this soup!

Cancer Fighting Vegetable Soup Recipe with an Asian Twist

My dad kicked chemo’s butt. There’s no denying it, the man weathered chemotherapy (for bladder cancer) with fewer side effects and more energy than anyone I’ve ever heard of. He had eight sessions of chemo, a six-hour infusion, then a two-hour infusion a week later, then a week off, repeating four times over twelve weeks.

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Simple Berry Cheesecake Pops. Make homemade cream cheese (or use a block) in these super easy, two-ingredient homemade frozen cheesecake pops. Perfect for summertime fruit or anytime!

Two-Ingredient Berry Cheesecake Pops Recipe (+ Homemade Cream Cheese!)

If you’ve read my blog at all you’ll know my little family is obsessed with ice cream. Whether it’s the classic mint chocolate chip with homemade chocolate chips, or vanilla drizzled with honey sweetened caramel and raw hot fudge sauce, we can’t get enough. And even though I’ll admit to succumbing to the occasional store

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Cheesy Spinach Bake Recipe - super easy side dish that actually gets kids (and husbands) to eat their greens!

Cheesy Spinach Bake with Crumb Topping Recipe (Get Those Kids to Eat their Spinach!)

Popeye would be so proud. Not that I’d ever serve canned spinach (have you ever tried it? Central to the only meal I’ve ever thrown out 100% before eating without managing to save a morsel by re-making into something better) but I respect the guy for making greens seem so cool. He should be my

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Dairy-Free Creamy Cauliflower Soup ~~ my kids were drinking this through a straw, it was so good!

Dairy-Free Creamy Cauliflower Soup Recipe {excerpt from The Blender Girl}

“So…what’s in here?” they all asked, not in the usual, “What weird thing are you hiding in our dinner?” but in a tone of awe and wonder and genuine curiosity. I’m still not sure how Tess Masters’ Creamy Cauliflower Soup has such an interesting and non-cauliflower-y flavor with so few ingredients, no dairy, and a

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Immune Boosting Herbal Popsicles ~~ yummy AND good for you!

Build Your Immune System the FUN Way: Simple Herb-Infused Popsicle Recipe

From DIY herbal gifts to DIY facials, Kitchen Stewardship® has you covered with baby steps to improve your health.  Since this is my first contributor post here at Kitchen Stewardship®, I’ll tell you a little about myself! I was raised in a Christian home on white bread, hot dogs, homemade roast beef and homegrown fruits

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