As you know if you’ve seen some of my other recipes, I usually make soups and chili in my crockpot with the occasional roast with vegetables. I’ve never really tried just cooking the main dish so I wasn’t sure how this would turn out. The verdict: my family loved these Teriyaki Pork Chops. This is…
Mr. Real Food has been asking me to make him a salad with tomatoes and mozzarella. So when I saw mozzarella balls at the store today, I knew it was time. This little salad was both beautiful and deliciously sweet. It could easily be a satisfying vegetarian main dish or complement any meal as a…
I have pretty much eliminated all meat from my diet at this point but I do love seafood. The rest of my family though has no desire to give up meat so seafood is a good compromise for us. This simple dish was not only delicious and easy to make, it looked like a fancy…
This was my first attempt with a freezer meal. I’ll talk more about the entire freezer meal preparation process when I finish all the recipes but the short version is that it seemed like a lot of effort to bag up 11 meals at once over a couple of hours but I haven’t had to…
We eat a lot of green beans around here. Everyone in the family loves them. Before I really started experimenting with different ways to cook foods, we would just steam them in the microwave and season them with garlic salt, lemon pepper or some other random spice. But since I started roasting them in the…
I didn’t actually have a plan for this dish. I hadn’t been to the store yet for our weekly groceries so I just dug through the refrigerator to see what I could throw together and this is the result. It was actually surprisingly good too! Mr. Real Food and I both agreed this was a…
I don’t make lasagna very often since it’s not really a quick and easy meal but I have always loved to eat it. But, since I’ve eliminated almost all meat from my diet, I haven’t had it in quite a while. I’ve been really curious about vegetarian lasagna but haven’t gotten around to trying it….
I had never actually cooked an acorn squash before today but we got one in our co-op basket so I figured I’d give it a shot. Now I’m left wondering what took me so long to discover the amazingness that is the acorn squash. And I always think it’s especially cool when you can use…
Mr. Real Food and I don’t agree about many things (it’s not a bad thing – just different tastes). One thing we do agree on is our love for quinoa. Yes, I would say we love quinoa. Of course, we disagree of which kind we like best. He prefers red and I like plain quinoa. …