Cooking can make food taste great, but can it also make it less nutritious? To get the most out of your food, there are some things you should do and others you should avoid. [x_video type="16:9, 5:3, 5:4, 4:3, 3:2" m4v="" ogv="" poster="" hide_controls="" autoplay="" embed='' no_container="true"]USDA Nutrient Retention Factors
Coke has announced a new product in it's lineup: milk. This new milk, called Fairlife, is filtered to have more protein, more calcium, and less sugar. But is it really necessary? [x_video type="16:9, 5:3, 5:4, 4:3, 3:2" m4v="" ogv="" poster="" hide_controls="" autoplay="" embed='' no_container="true"]
November has come to an end, which means it's time for my monthly favorites! I'm sharing all of my favorite healthy foods, nail polish, and movie from the month of November. [x_video type="16:9, 5:3, 5:4, 4:3, 3:2" m4v="" ogv="" poster="" hide_controls="" autoplay="" embed='' no_container="true"]
Getting enough iron is something that a lot of people worry about. Luckily, there are many food that naturally contain iron. In this video, I'll tell you which foods are good iron sources and how to plan your meals to get the maximum amount of iron out of your food. [x_video type="16:9, 5:3, 5:4, 4:3, 3:2" m4v="" ogv="" poster="" hide_controls="" autoplay="" embed='' no_container="true"]
Here's everything I got in my box! Items are listed below, starting at the top and moving left to right.
The jalapenos went into homemade hot sauce and the sunshine winter squash went into storage for another day.
The cabbage went into some homemade sauerkraut. I made a whole video on that, if you're interested.
I roasted some of the sweet potatoes and served the arugula as salad with some scrambled eggs. Simple and delicious.
For pizza night I used a sweet pepper as the pizza topping and had the mixed field greens as salad with a tahini dressing.
This one can be added to the evidence that I'm seriously bad at taking pictures of soup. This is a peanut sweet potato soup I made that was quite tasty. The only CSA item in this one was (you guessed it) the sweet potatoes.
Eggs on the menu again! This time fried, with roasted sweet potatoes and sauteed spring raab.
I promise we didn't actually have pizza twice in one week (although I wouldn't mind it if we did). This was a straggler meal that I used to eat up the rest of those peppers about a week later. I lightly cooked them so they didn't loose all of their crunch.
If you're buying gifts for a real food beginner or are one yourself, here are some ideas to add to your list! [x_video type="16:9, 5:3, 5:4, 4:3, 3:2" m4v="" ogv="" poster="" hide_controls="" autoplay="" embed='' no_container="true"]
Here's everything I got in my box! Items are listed below, starting at the top and moving left to right.
I reserved the peppers for homemade hot sauce and shelled the black eyed peas to save for later.
I used the kale to make a salad with tahini dressing and roasted some of the sweet potatoes. With a fried egg, it was perfect.
Ok, this picture didn't turn out the best. I guess I need to work on my soup photography skills. The roc d'or beans, homemade chicken stock, and some leftover chicken all went into the pot, along with some onion and garlic. Yum!
Pizza night should look familiar if you've been checking back each week for these posts. This week, the salad was arugula with a homemade vinaigrette.
Lots of the veggies went into this meal. I roasted the eggplant, turnips, and broccoli and sauteed the turnip greens. We had fried eggs again, which some people might not like, but I love eggs so I'm fine with it. :D
A recent study from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health looked at whether people who cook meals at home are healthier than those who eat out or buy ready-to-eat food products. Here's the breakdown of what they found. [x_video type="16:9, 5:3, 5:4, 4:3, 3:2" m4v="" ogv="" poster="" hide_controls="" autoplay="" embed='' no_container="true"]
I recently took a fermentation class at a near-by local and organic grocery store and it was so much fun! We learned about making sauerkraut and kombucha and went home with our first jar of soon-to-be homemade kraut and a SCOBY for kombucha brewing. [x_video type="16:9, 5:3, 5:4, 4:3, 3:2" m4v="" ogv="" poster="" hide_controls="" autoplay="" embed='' no_container="true"]
Learn more about Farmstead Ferments and where their products are sold.
If you live in the Fredericksburg area, make sure you go visit Kickshaws!
I have to say, this week, we had some seriously delicious meals. Here's everything I got in my box! All items are listed below, starting at the the top and moving left to right.
The radishes were eaten on their own for a snacky snack.
I roasted the fingerling potatoes and tossed them with the garlic chives. Along with that we had grass-fed burgers and the salad mix.
All of the bell peppers went into a frittata and then I sauteed the bagged greens as our side. This was a great quick meal.
I roasted the beans because that's delicious and made a honey-mustard roasted chicken with some sweet potato fries. This was so so yummy, even if it does look a little boring color-wise.
The remaining sweet potatoes and baby sweet potatoes all went into storage for the future. We've got quite the sweet potato pile accumulating.
The people over at Got Milk are running some radio ads that I just can't get behind. Also in this Real Food Roundup, I'm sharing a couple recipes that would be perfect for your Thanksgiving meal. [x_video type="16:9, 5:3, 5:4, 4:3, 3:2" m4v="" ogv="" poster="" hide_controls="" autoplay="" embed='' no_container="true"]
Shaved Brussels Sprout Salad with Bacon, Meyer Lemon, and Tart Dried Cherries
The USDA recently approved a new GMO potato, called the Innate potato, made by Simplot. Here's what you need to know. [x_video type="16:9, 5:3, 5:4, 4:3, 3:2" m4v="" ogv="" poster="" hide_controls="" autoplay="" embed='' no_container="true"]
Here's everything I got in my box! All items are listen below, starting at the top and moving left to right.
The radishes and green pepper were eaten as snacks.
I roasted the roc d'or beans one day for lunch which, I have to say, is quickly becoming my favorite way to cook them. So good!
I roasted a lot of the sweet potatoes and we had them with fried eggs and a kale salad. I made a garlic-lemon tahini dressing for the salad and it was delish!
This dinner was actually plan C. The end result tasted good, but it looked mediocre at best. I roasted the eggplant and we had some leftover sweet potatoes from the night before. All of that went as as planned, but I was originally going to serve the eggplant and sweet potatoes with eggs. Then, I realized we were out of eggs, so I went with plan B: sausage. The only problem was, when I went to pull the sausage out to thaw it, I realized we didn't have any of that either. So, that brought me to plan C: ground pork. I added some Chinese five spice powder to the pork and made patties out of it. They actually ended up tasting really good, but the overall presentation wasn't my best work.
Pizza night was the same thing it's been for a few weeks now (red pepper pizza) and I'm ok with that because it's delicious! These particular peppers tasted awesome! I'm not sure of the variety, but I'm a fan. The head of lettuce got chopped up for salad.
We had egg biscuits this week, which is one of our favorite dinners. I sauteed the mustard greens as a topping and side dish. They were good, but I tried an experiment that didn't turn out so great. I was feeling a little lazy and decided to try cooking the mustard green leaves whole instead of stripping each one off it's stem and then chopping all the stems up. That was a mistake. It was just hard to chew the whole leaves, so I won't be taking that shortcut again.
And we finish things off with my favorite meal from the week! Some grated sweet potato, chickpeas, spices, and a few other things all got mixed together to make patties. We ate those with the bagged Swiss chard and topped it with a spicy peanut dressing.
It seems like everyone is raving over bulletproof coffee, but is it really that good for you? [x_video type="16:9, 5:3, 5:4, 4:3, 3:2" m4v="" ogv="" poster="" hide_controls="" autoplay="" embed='' no_container="true"]
Have you tried bulletproof coffee? Share your experience in the comments below!
Goat cheese is goat cheese, right? Maybe not. There's a goat cheese labeling controversy in the UK and it raises some important questions about food labels in general. Also in this Real Food Round Up: Food lessons from cooking on a farm and a real food story from Ethiopia about what's really important in life.
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UK Goat Cheese Labeling Controversy
6 Things I Learned About Food, After Cooking on a Farm
The Craftsman | Perennial Plate Real Food World Tour
What do you think about the UK goat cheese labeling issue and the implications it has for labeling in general? Let me know in the comments below!
Here's the Week 4 box! Everything is listed below, starting at the top and moving from left to right.
I'm sad to say, we did have some CSA casualties with this box. The okra and the parsley both ended up in the compost heap. It was just bad planning on my part. I hate when perfectly good food goes to waste, but it still happens sometimes.
The magenta lettuce, black eyed peas, and banana peppers all came together to make some yummy burrito bowls.
I roasted the eggplant and fingerling potatoes and served them with fried eggs. This meal wasn't great color-wise, but it tasted good. :D
We had eggs another night, this time scrambled, and enjoyed them with the salad mix (topped with a tahini dressing) and roasted sweet potatoes. This was my favorite meal of the week!
With October almost over, it's time for me to share all of my favorite things from the past month! Healthy food, healthy recipes, and a lifestyle item make this month's list. [x_video type="16:9, 5:3, 5:4, 4:3, 3:2" m4v="" ogv="" poster="" hide_controls="" autoplay="" embed='' no_container="true"]
It seems like kids are getting rewarded for smallest things and, often, that reward comes in the form of junk food. But, should you really be rewarding your child with junk food? And, beyond that, should food EVER be used as a reward with children? [x_video type="16:9, 5:3, 5:4, 4:3, 3:2" m4v="" ogv="" poster="" hide_controls="" autoplay="" embed='' no_container="true"]
Why Kids Should Not Be Rewarded with Junk Food
Roasted Garlic, Parsnip, and White Bean Soup from Yummy Beet
Here's everything from Week 3! Items are listed below, starting at the top and moving left to right.
I snacked on the tomatoes and radishes and added the sweet potatoes to our pile.
The head lettuce made a great salad with our weekly pizza and the salad mix stood in it's place with the leftovers. The red pepper went on our pizza.
I tried something different with the beans this week! I roasted them, along with some potatoes and served them with scrambled eggs. Roasting the beans made them a little crispier, which was nice.
Everything else ended up in this meal: honey mustard chicken and roasted vegetables. Basically, I roasted the chicken like I usually do, but brushed on a mixture of honey and Dijon mustard near the end. The broccoli, eggplant, and peppers all went in, along with some potatoes and Brussels sprouts I had picked up at the farmers' market.
Do you have a favorite roasted chicken recipe? Share in the comments below!
Hope you like the new look! If you'd like to submit a food or nutrition question for me to answer, simply leave it in the comments below. :) [x_video type="16:9, 5:3, 5:4, 4:3, 3:2" m4v="" ogv="" poster="" hide_controls="" autoplay="" embed='' no_container="true"]
