Hey friends! Enjoy my yearly FREE menu plan and guide filled with recipes, a shopping list, and a make-ahead plan and hourly preparation guide for the special day. Everything will get on the table fresh and hot! Real Food Family does all the thinking for you! You just get to enjoy cooking and eating delicious...
Category: <span>Food</span>
How To Eat Real Food At Disneyland (or An Amusement Park)
As you may know, we love our Disneyland passports. The one problem is that a lot of the food sucks. You have to be prepared to find the right choices or bring your home made versions of things that can compete with the attractive options your kids (or you) are begging for. With the enticing...
Roasted Chicken- Cut, Sear, Roast to Perfection
Total Time: 60-80 minutes Ingredients: 1 whole chicken, cut into pieces (reserve giblets and backbone for homemade stock) frying fat, such as olive oil, coconut oil, beef tallow or organic lard salt and pepper dried herbs, such as Herbs de Provence or tarragon Preheat oven to 375°F. Heat fat or oil over medium heat...
October Stuff I Love
I’ve never done this before, but I thought you might like to know what kind of things I’ve been learning on the wonderful world wide web! My fellow bloggers of Village Green Network are some pretty amazing people, and here are some of my favorite October links… Even though I don’t yet have Halloween costumes...
Roasted Tomato Clam Chowder
Total Time: 45 minutes Ingredients: 2 cup cherry tomatoes extra virgin olive oil salt and pepper ¾ cup butter, divided into tablespoons 1 onion, chopped 1 cup carrots, chopped 1 cup celery, chopped 2-3 garlic cloves, finely chopped ¼ cup flat-leaf parsley, finely chopped ½ cup flour and/or arrowroot powder 3 cans or jars of...
Perfectly Roasted Chicken With Creamy Salsa Verde
Total Time: 1 hour, 15 minutes *Tomatillos are widely available in most grocery stores or Latin markets. If you can’t find tomatillos, use green tomatoes or very firm tomatoes. Ingredients: 1 roasting chicken extra virgin olive oil Homemade Seasoned Salt (sea salt, pepper, sweet paprika, garlic powder) or store-bought 1 onion, roughly chopped 4...
Dutch Baby Pancakes
When you have chickens coming out your ears like we do, you often have extra eggs. Cool, yes, but I have to scramble (get it?) to find recipes to use all of the eggs. Dutch Baby Pancakes is one of my favorite recipes that uses up a lot of eggs and they are ohhhh so good!...
BEWARE of Starbucks “Refreshers”
Have you visited Starbucks lately? I’m there a lot, mainly because I have super slow satellite internet on the farm, so the high speed when I’m in town is nice. My weakness for a plain-whole milk-latte-with-whip is also a reason, but that’s another blog post. And…another post should be on the fact that I get...
Horchata Smoothies
Oh my goodness, I LOVE these smoothies. If you make them with real raw milk, it can be a highly nutritious treat for you and your family. Enjoy! Horchata Smoothies #ratingval# from #reviews# reviews Print Author: RealFoodFamily.com This is not really a Horchata drink, traditionally made with starchy rice, but it is a delicious slushy...
4th of July Dessert Kebabs
I saw something like this on Pinterest and decided to try my own twist on it. We usually never allow marshmallows in our house because they always have high fructose corn syrup as the main ingredient. But NOW I can make any recipe with marshmallows because I’ve mastered my homemade marshmallow recipe! The recipe is...