Recently, the internet has been in a tizzy over whether or not mason jar ferments are truly safe. Perhaps you’ve read other bloggers struggling with the issue. Or, maybe this post is the first you’ve heard about it. Or maybe you’re one of the few who’s wondering why I’m even talking about fermentation at all, let alone something called mason jar ferments.
Win A Scholarship For Online Cooking Lessons
Making the transition to cooking and eating REAL food can be daunting. Many of us thrive on the challenge. Others of us despair. How are we supposed to tackle cooking all these nourishing foods from scratch when we either don’t know how to cook or have always, like the recipes in so many cooking magazines, been dependent on boxed or pre-packaged ingredients? It’s like saying we baked a “homemade” cake when really it was just a cake mix that we added eggs and oil to. Or saying we cooked a casserole when really we just emptied canned veggies into bakeware and mixed in canned cream of mushroom soup and jar of Cheese Whiz. People may compliment us on the food, but we know better.
Our standards have changed, but we’re out of our depths. What do you do when recipes make things sound so easy, but when you follow the directions (exactly!) you get a semi-regular stream of costly kitchen disasters? You are learning from your mistakes, but you would LOVE to just skip right over them and be a better cook already. That way you can get these fabulously healthy foods into your families without them putting up such a huge fight.
How To Create Your Own Recipes
Last year, I took an online cooking class taught by Jenny at Nourished Kitchen that revolutionized my cooking skills. Jenny is a home chef, a fellow Real Food Media blogger, and a farmer’s market manager. She’s also a top-notch teacher who can help you learn all the basics of how to cook nourishing, real foods easily in your own kitchen. What did Jenny do that no other online teacher has ever done for me?
She inspired me. One of the greatest benefits for me of taking her How To Cook Real Food class was actually learning how to not be dependent on recipes. Yes, the course included more than a hundred tried and true recipes that were easy to follow. But it also taught me how to develop my own recipes.
Real Food Link Love
I hate this part of the Link Love post — the part where I try to summarize the post in a few handy sentences. Sometimes, it’s just downright impossible. I’ve tried different strategies over the years. Sometimes I’ve simply talked about my own week. Sometimes I’ve teased readers with a few of the post’s highlights. I’ll probably do all of those again. Today, I’m opting for full disclosure.
Summarizing this week’s Link Love post was hard, so hard I opted not to do it!
Zapping Sugar Cravings With Fermented Food
My eldest child LOVES sugar. He has literally said to me: “I love sugar so much I wish I could eat it all day long every day.”
I can lead by example. I can say that sugar makes your teeth grow in crooked or rot and fall out. I can say that sugar makes you sick, irritable, and angry. This kid isn’t fazed. That’s why I was jazzed when I saw one of the articles in the most recent Wise Traditions journal was called “Growing Wise Kids: Zapping Sugar Cravings” by Jen Allbritton.
I was also very impressed by the second step she suggests we take to help our kids nix the sugar habit: eating more fermented foods!
FREE Thanksgiving Cooking Mini-Lesson
This holiday season, Jenny’s serving up a series of cooking lessons featuring Real Food for the Holidays. AND she’s releasing a FREE mini-lesson to prepare you for Thanksgiving!
Spread The Real Food Love
I haven’t shared a Link Love post in quite a while, so I figured you guys were due! Once again, I hope you find these tantalizing tid bits of research, recipes, and articles as interesting as I do.
Check Out This Bonus Lesson! & Scholarship Winner
Wow. So many of you applied for the scholarship to Jenny’s online cooking class! I can’t describe how moving it was for me to read all your entries and hear such diverse and inspired reasons for why your loved ones could use a class on How To Cook Real Food. It was unbelievably hard to narrow down the selection to a round of finalists, and then even harder to wait to hear back from the other judges about the finalists I chose.
Now, I’m prepared to reveal the scholarship winner! As if that isn’t fun enough, Jenny also surprised us all today by revealing a Bonus Lesson — a small sample of what her class will be like, complete with a short video and materials to download. The Bonus Lesson isn’t covered in her actual class, and it’s also shorter than a normal class. BUT, it’ll give you a taste of the professional, informative, and high-quality content of her lessons.
Win A FREE E-Course For You & A Friend!
Oh boy, am I excited about this! Jenny from Nourished Kitchen just announced that she’s giving away TWO slots in her upcoming How To Cook Real Food e-course to my readers.
Technically, it’s not a giveaway. It’s a scholarship. And like any scholarship, you’ve got to apply. Intrigued? Keep reading.
How To Cook Real Food Online Cooking Class
I have loved Jenny’s recipes and passion for Real Food ever since I discovered her blog, Nourished Kitchen almost a year and a half ago. Between her mouth watering food photography, her zeal for seasonal and local foods, and the unique spins she puts on classic dishes, I immediately became a fan. And now Jenny is offering an online cooking class!
I know, I know. You want details. I’m here to give them.