Archives for 2009

How to Save Time with Batch Cooking

When talking with others about my eating habits, one of the first questions they ask me is: “How do you have time to do it all?” Granted, it sounds like a lot. Everyone would love to prepare nutritious, wholesome, nutrient-dense, traditional foods for themselves and their families, but who has the time?

How to Make Sauerkraut & Other Fermented Vegetables

Ever wondered how to make sauerkraut? It sounds so intimidating, doesn’t it? So scary. So hard. At least until you’ve made it once. Then you realize how ridiculously easy it is and wonder why you never did it before! It doesn’t take that much time, particularly if you let a food processor do your chopping….

Weekly Meal Plan

I enjoy a good challenge. Planning this week of nourishing recipes and meals provided one. Why? Because I wanted to experiment. I wanted to try to go completely without grains.

I’m also only cooking for my boys and I while my husband is out of town. That means smaller meals or lots of leftovers.

La Cense Grass-fed Beef Giveaway

It happened last week. The FedEx man rang the door bell and handed me a biodegradable styrofoam ice chest packed with two flank steaks and two pounds of ground beef — all from a 100% grass-fed and finished cow that used to call Montana home. The box came courtesy of La Cense Beef, an exemplary…

Feeling At Home

In case you missed it, two wonderful blogs welcomed Food Renegade posts into their homes this week. Andrew at Go Healthy Go Fit invited me to share a couple of healthy real food recipes, and Kelly at Kelly The Kitchen Kop invited me to write a post about cooking grass-fed beef. So, if you haven’t…

Cooking Grass-fed Beef — 5 Ways to Nirvana

I remember when I decided to “go grass-fed,” I enthusiastically brought home packages of grass-fed beef from the farmer’s market, only to be disappointed. Why? Because I was still cooking that marvelous meat as if it were the same as conventional meat.

Real Food Link Love

It’s time. Time for some Real Food L-O-V-E. I’m amazed at just how much fascinating information is out there for us Real Foodies, and I want to pass along some true gems to you. These tasty morsels are fun to read, easy to digest, and serve as great food for thought. In other words, they’re worth looking at.

A Journey To Real Food

Everyone has a story. Every story has a beginning. My journey to Real Food began a little less than 5 years ago. I sat in my living room, glued to the TV. (This, by the way, was highly unusual for me.) I was watching a documentary produced by the widow of Jerry Garcia called The…

Health Benefits of Raw & Fermented Foods

She sat across the table from me enviously eying my salad. “I’d really love some vegetables right now,” she said. We started talking about her diet — the typical diet of the typical American. I told her that 60-80% of the diet of traditional people groups isn’t cooked. “Oh,” she interrupted, “I bet I don’t cook 60% of the food I eat.” She missed my point. She was talking about sandwiches and cold breakfast cereals, snack bars and cheese sticks. Let’s not beat around the bush, people. The Standard American Diet (SAD) is cooked. Aside from the occasional salad or piece of fruit, we just don’t eat raw foods. In fact, we fear them.

Weekly Meal Plan

It’s time for a little honesty. (When am I ever not honest with you guys?) Last week’s menu fell apart. It died a violent and tragic death. It lasted a day. I simply had too many other pressing things to do. Too many work deadlines converged at once. Too many outside pressures required my time. I put my husband in charge of pulling together most of the meals, and he gave it a heroic effort. But he’s no cook.