Last week I gave away one of my favorite kitchen tools – a Cuisinart immersion blender valued at $90.  This is the immersion blender I use for preparing pureed soups and other favorite foods.  I’m pleased to announce that April K. won the blender!  So she’ll be blending up some serious soups in no time.  If you didn’t win, and still want the blender it’s on sale for $38.77 at Amazon right now (you’ll save $51.23 over suggested retail price) so check it out.

immersion blender on sale

Like I said, I love my immersion blender and we use it several times a week.  If you need one (and you’re not April K. who just won one – it’s on sale right now.

• Cuisinart Immersion Blender ($90 value), on sale for $38.77.

newest giveaway

• While you’re at it, don’t forget to check out our newest giveaway.  I’m giving away an enrollment in Healthy Whole Grains (valued at $199).

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]]> http://nourishedkitchen.com/who-won-the-immersion-blender/feed/ 2 http://nourishedkitchen.com/berkey-sport-water-bottle-lpc-survival/ http://nourishedkitchen.com/berkey-sport-water-bottle-lpc-survival/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:43:46 +0000 Jenny http://nourishedkitchen.com/?p=7760

Last week LPC survival gave away a beautiful Big Berkey water filtration system to one lucky Nourished Kitchen reader (I’m sure Steve K. is thrilled! I know I would be.)  But if you’re not Steve, LPC survival has been gracious enough to offer a special discount exclusively for Nourished Kitchen readers.  They’re offering a special discount on the Sport Berkey Water Bottles.  These bottles are about 22 oz, are lightweight and great for when you’re on the go – whether you’re filtering municipal water or stream water on a long hike or backpacking trip.

get a berkey sport bottle for $19.99 ($10 off retail price)

So if you love the Berkey and want to get started with some lightweight and super convenient water filtration, definitely check out the discount on the Sport Berkey Water Bottle.  This bottle/filter usually retails for $29.99, but LPC survival is offering it at just $19.99 – a $10 discount.  Just click the link below to head to the exclusive discount page for Nourished Kitchen readers.

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]]> http://nourishedkitchen.com/berkey-sport-water-bottle-lpc-survival/feed/ 1 http://nourishedkitchen.com/pantry-paratus-discount/ http://nourishedkitchen.com/pantry-paratus-discount/#comments Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:33:17 +0000 Jenny http://nourishedkitchen.com/?p=7733

Last week, Pantry Paratus offered to giveaway a tortilla press and bag of white wheat to a lucky Nourished Kitchen reader.  The winner’s been announced and Victoria (entry #3700) has won the giveaway!  But, if you’re not Victoria, I’ve still got a bonus for you.  Pantry Paratus has generously offered all Nourished Kitchen readers a special discount.  I know many of you loved the site – her grain grinders, dehydrators, pressure cookers and all the goodies for the modern homestead.

get the discount

Pantry Paratus is offering Nourished Kitchen readers $10 off an order of $60 or more through January 31st. Check it out below.

goodies from pantry paratus

What I love about Pantry Paratus is that they offer a huge variety of products – from bulk dry goods like lentils and chickpeas, spices and salt to kitchen equipment that can be difficult to find in most shops like pressure canners, grain grinders and the blog is just a really good source of information.

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]]> http://nourishedkitchen.com/pantry-paratus-discount/feed/ 8 http://nourishedkitchen.com/top-posts-of-2011/ http://nourishedkitchen.com/top-posts-of-2011/#comments Sat, 31 Dec 2011 16:29:38 +0000 Jenny http://nourishedkitchen.com/?p=7186  

2011 came and went so fast. And for Nourished Kitchen, we reached more people this year than we’ve ever reached before and – chances are – you found the site this year (though I’ll always have a deep-seated love for those who’ve followed the site since its inception in 2007.  You know who you are, and so do I.)  Nourished Kitchen was named the top healthy food blog according to Babble, we launched our new searchable real food recipe database (lots more recipes to come on that), and – most importantly – several readers were empowered to take control of their cooking, their health and start getting real about their food.  So here’s a few of the most popular posts from Nourished Kitchen in 2011.

Feeding you (and yours) with real food.

Ever know anyone who loves the idea of real food but has no clue how to make it happen.  (Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?) And even long-time real food enthusiasts can fall into a rut, which is why so much of my time is spent developing recipes, testing recipes and retesting recipes (oh and then photographing recipes) to make sure they really really work (which is also why, incidentally, so many folks LOVE our meal plans as they provide loads of easy, well-tested real food recipes that don’t make it to the blog.)  Meal plans, just so you know, are on 30% off through January 2nd if you enter coupon code SUPERSALE at checkout.  We also unveiled the searchable real food recipe database this year.

most popular recipes from 2011

• Homemade Ketchup: People really dig the basics, it seems, and our lactofermented, homemade ketchup was the single most popular recipe posted in 2011.  It’s good.  Not too sweet, faintly spicy and loaded with beneficial bacteria.  I also dispelled the myth that you can’t use vinegar in lactofermentation (A bit of raw vinegar doesn’t hurt, and sometimes helps.  It’s all about quantity and proportion, folks).
• Old-fashioned Homemade Root Beer: This is one of my most loved and most cherished recipes and I was pleased to dig into my analytics to find that it is one of yours too. We ditch the synthetic root beer extracts and opt for herbs, roots, berries and flowers to make a very, very traditional root beer with a stunning flavor.
• Four Thieves Vinegar: My version is adapted from a very, very old recipe – one that is rumored to have kept graverobbers and thieves from falling victim to the bubonic plague.  This post covers history, herbal wisdom and easy techniques.
• Other Popular Recipes from 2011: Dutch Baby Pancakes, Slowcooker Chicken Soup, Curried Lentil Soup, Creamed Collard Greens, Fermented Beets with Ginger and Flaugnarde with Roasted Berries

Teaching you the basics.

We also cover a lot of the basics, and while in past years taught you how to render lard and how to make water kefir and how to make raw milk yogurt, this year we taught you more real food basics and if you have an idea for a tutorial you’d like to see covered here, just leave it in the comments.  And, if you look in the sidebar, you’ll see super simple guides for getting started on things like raw milk, bone broth and fermented foods (and I’ve got more to come).

most popular tutorials from 2011

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]]> http://nourishedkitchen.com/top-posts-of-2011/feed/ 9 http://nourishedkitchen.com/year-end-sale-take-30-off-classes-e-books-and-meal-plans/ http://nourishedkitchen.com/year-end-sale-take-30-off-classes-e-books-and-meal-plans/#comments Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:05:49 +0000 Jenny http://nourishedkitchen.com/?p=7320

It’s the end of the year, or, rather nearly the end and I’ve paired up with other Real Food Media Bloggers to offer a significant discount on meal plans, online cooking classes, e-books and guides.  So if yo missed out on the Black Friday Sale, you don’t want to miss this.  These classes, e-books and guides provide you with significant information and one-on-one support that can help you as you begin to integrate wholesome, traditional foods into your lifestyle.  You don’t want to miss it.

To get the deal, click through and enter the coupon code SUPERSALE at check out which will take 30% off your purchase through the entire weekend. The sale ends on Monday at midnight, so enjoy the discount while you can.

 From Nourished Kitchen

Get Cultured! How to Ferment Anything Online Class: Get Cultured! How to Ferment Anything Ever wondered why yogurt is so good for you? Want to build immunity and enhance digestion through real, whole foods? Learn how to prepare enzyme-rich fermented foods, yogurts, condiments, salsas and chutneys in your kitchen with over 50 video tutorials, 100 recipes and 60 tutorials, plus the free 36-pg e-book Get Cultured: Probiotic Recipe from the Nourished Kitchen. 6% of proceeds go to the Weston A Price Foundation and Farm-to-consumer Legal Defense Fund. Regular Price: $199 Year-end Price: $139.30 with coupon code SUPERSALE

How to Cook Real Food Online Class: How to Cook Real Food Want to cook healthy foods for your family but don’t know how? Want to save time and money while feeding your family better? Learn to prepare wholesome, traditional foods easily with this online course that covers everything from preparing grass-fed and pasture-raised meats to fermented foods, sourdough baking and naturally sweetened desserts. . 6% of proceeds go to the Weston A Price Foundation and Farm-to-consumer Legal Defense Fund. Regular Price: $149 Year-end Price: $104.30 with coupon code SUPERSALE

Simple Dinners Meal Plans: Simple Dinners: Healthy, Real Food Meal Plans Each week you’ll receive a simple, healthy and nutrient-dense menu featuring Meals come together in about 40 minutes, feature seasonal ingredients and you’ll enjoy cooking tips, make ahead lists and a shopping list that makes cooking traditional foods easy. Meal plans are suitable for dairy-free, grain-free, gluten-free, and GAPS/SCD diets but don’t compromise on taste. 6% of proceeds go to the Weston A Price Foundation and Farm-to-consumer Legal Defense Fund. Regular Price: $85/year or $10/month Year-end Price: $59.50/year to $7/month with coupon code SUPERSALE

From Health, Home & Happiness

Grain-free Meal Plans Meal Plans: Grain-free Meal Plans Meal Plan featuring six GAPS-legal dinner menus, shopping list, make-ahead list, recipe notes. Suitable for gluten-free, grain-free, GAPS and SCD diets. Regular Price: $130/year or $16/month Year-end Price: $11.20/month or $91/yearly with coupon code SUPERSALE

30 days on the GAPS Intro E-book: What can I eat now? 30 Days on the GAPS Intro This comprehensive e-book that provides a clear, step-by-step guide to surviving the individual stages of the GAPS introduction. From information on what to pick up before starting the introduction (like good quality knives and grass-fed beef) to recipes organized by stage, the e-book offers 57 pages of the most comprehensive and practical look at GAPS I’ve seen. Regular Price: $20 Year-end Price: $14 with coupon code SUPERSALE

From Kelly the Kitchen Kop

Real Food for Rookies Online Class: Real Food for Rookies Are you overwhelmed with all you’ve heard from the “experts” about what you should be eating? Learn the basics in this 12-week online class, including how to fit Real Food into your busy schedule and into your budget. Go with Kelly into the kitchen, to the farm, and to the store where she’ll teach you what it took her years to learn! Regular Price: $190 Year-end Price: $133 with coupon code SUPERSALE

Real Food Ingredient Guide Meal Plans: Real Food Ingredient Guide Not sure how to navigate the grocery store? This real food ingredient guide provides the information you need about which foods to choose, and which to skip including recommended brands, deciphering labels and more. Regular Price: $10.00 Year-end Price: $7.00 with coupon code SUPERSALE

From Food Renegade

Real Food Nutrition & Health E-book E-book: Real Food Nutrition & Health Finally there’s a nutrition text that gets it right! Real Food Nutrition & Health has two versions – one for teenagers and preteens and another that teaches real food nutrition basic to kids aged 6 to 11. Both are must-reads for any family who truly wants their children to understand the value of good, real food. Regular Price: $19.95 Year-end Price: $13.97 with coupon code SUPERSALE

Real Food Nutrition & Health Online Class + E-book Class + e-Book: Real Food Nutrition & Health This twelve-week online class guides teens and adults through a back-to-basics approach to real food and nutrition. The multimedia course features video excerpts of Michael Pollan, Sally Fallon and others. Regular Price: $100 – $115 Year-end Price: $70-$80.50 with coupon code SUPERSALE

From Cheeseslave

Reversing Food Allergies Online Class: Reversing Food Allergies Interested in the GAPS diet but not sure where to start? In Reversing Food Allergies, you’ll learn how to detox, heal and seal your gut and nourish your body using the dietary principles behind the GAPS and SCD diets. Regular Price: $199 Year-end Price: $139.30 with coupon code SUPERSALE

Menus by Mail Meal Plans: Menus by Mail Each week you get menu plans for 3 full dinners plus one breakfast, dessert or snack. Kid-friendly, nutrient-dense traditional foods (including superfoods like organ meats & shellfish and lacto-fermented foods EVERY WEEK) from around the world including French, Italian, Japanese & Tex-Mex. All recipes are gluten-free. Regular Price: $10/month, $85/year Year-end Price: $59.50/year to $7/month with coupon code SUPERSALE

Mommypotamus

Nourished Baby E-book: Nourished Baby A simple and solid look at nourishing your baby from birth, to first foods and onto meals.  Recipes feature many nutrient-dense options that kids love. Regular Price: $18.99 Year-end Price: $13.29 with coupon code SUPERSALE

Nourished MD

Get Real with Food Starter Kit CDs + e-Book: Get Real with Food Starter Kit Overwhelmed by the idea of feeding your family REAL food every day? Don’t know where to start? Our get REAL with Food Starter Kit will give you everything you need to feed your family REAL food at least 80% of the time…starting Today! 6 CD Set, 19 eCookbooks and the Adventurous Eater Guide! Regular Price: $197 Year-end Price: $137.90 with coupon code SUPERSALE

Well-fed Homestead

Garden-planner Guide: Garden Planner Planning, planting, growing, weeding, tending and harvesting a garden is a lot of work! It’s best to make sure you know what you’ll use and you’re planting only those things! This guide will help you think through what you use and what you really need to grow, where to grow it, how to grow it, and how to preserve it Regular Price: $12.95 Year-end Price: $9.07 with coupon code SUPERSALE

GAPS-legal Meal Plans Meal Plans: GAPS-legal Meal Plans Meal Plan featuring six GAPS-legal dinner menus, shopping list, make-ahead list, recipe notes. Suitable for gluten-free, grain-free, GAPS and SCD diets. Regular Price: $21 to $71.40 Year-end Price: $14.70 – $49.98 with coupon code BLACK40

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The Scholarship winner has been chosen among over 75 applicants, and we wish to congratulate Kim W. and her ex-husband who will be participating in Real Food for Rookies. If you’re interested in participating: register for the class and enter the code NourishedDeal at checkout for 15% OFF.

There’s a lot of talk about real food – about growing your own, about ditching the boxes and packages and about shopping farmers markets.  Real food has swept the nation; better yet, more and more people are beginning to better understand the values behind traditional foods and native nutrition – those foods that nourished your ancestors and helped them to

For many people, giving up decades of eating processed foods and microwavable meals in effort to provide healthier and better alternatives for their family is a challenging prospect.  Worse yet, after jumping through that first hurdle and finally making the transition to organic meats and milks and other foods, families learn that industrial organic alternatives may not be all that much better for them than conventional foods – what they really need is grass-fed, local foods.  For those that truly want to make that transition from the Standard American Diet to real and traditional foods, that epiphany seems to open up an entirely new conundrum: Just how do you make that transition happen?  Just how do you find fresh raw milk from good quality farms when you live in the city?  How do learn to read labels and what do you look for?  And if liver is oh-so-good-for-you, how on earth do you get your kids and husband to eat it?

A good friend of mine, and a fellow real food blogger,  Kelly of Kelly the Kitchen Kop, is launching a 12-week online class designed to help guide families into making that transition from the standard American diet into a more traditional, nourishing diet featuring real foods.  I love Kelly for her down-to-earth attitude and that lovely midwestern charm only a mother of four rambunctious kids can cultivate.  Where I wax poetic about the flavor of melted butter on fresh sole, or the humble luxury of rendering lard on the stove top, Kelly tells real families like yours just how to actually get it done with her down-to-earth and matter-of-fact grace.

Her class, Real Food for Rookies, features twelve weeks of stunning content all designed to teach you how to get your kids and family off the packaged foods and back onto food the way nature intended.  From videos outlining how to read labels to avoid excitotoxins and all those ingredients that contribute to hyperactivity, learning disabilities and depression to practical tips on avoiding refined sugars and cooking healthy foods in big batches.  She even features audio interviews with some of the most influential experts in the traditional foods movement such as Sally Fallon Morrell and Dr. Kaayla Daniel.

I’ve been talking with Kelly a lot about her class, and the critical value it can offer many families who are just learning to ditch those prepackaged pseudofoods and center their lives around healthier, natural real foods. Graciously, Kelly has offered a scholarship to Real Food for Rookies for a Nourished Kitchen reader and his or her friend. You just have to contact me explaining who you think deserves to win the scholarship, and why.

So if you know of someone who really wants to steer away from the junk and learn to cook more healthy foods, nominate them.  If you know a mom who’s desperate to get her kids and husband to eat real food, nominate her.  If you know of a young couple who is just now starting out their lives together, nominate them.  Everyone can learn from this class.

Win Real Food for Rookies for You and a Friend

• Contact me no later than Thursday at NOON Mountain Time and, in 300 to 500 words, explain who in your life would most benefit from Kelly’s Real Food for Rookies.
• Kelly and I and a few other folks will examine the entries and select one as the winner.
• I will announce the winner here, including his or her essay (by permission) on this post Friday.
• So take a look at Kelly’s course and let me know who you feel would most benefit from her class.

Notice of disclosure.

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]]> http://nourishedkitchen.com/real-food-for-rookies/feed/ 4 http://nourishedkitchen.com/how-to-cook-real-food-an-online-cooking-class/ http://nourishedkitchen.com/how-to-cook-real-food-an-online-cooking-class/#comments Mon, 17 May 2010 04:13:16 +0000 Jenny http://nourishedkitchen.com/?p=3829

Over the last few weeks, you may have noticed a distinct decline in the number of posts here at Nourished Kitchen.  Don’t worry, it’s because I’ve been busy – super busy – with an exciting new project: an online cooking class.  After hearing over and over again from readers who needed a simple, but thorough way to better incorporate local foods and back-to-basics, traditional cooking into their kitchens, I began work on How to Cook Real Food, which is scheduled to launch on June 1st.  If you’ve read Nourished Kitchen for any length of time, or participated in our recent 28-day challenge, you know what a great value I place on whole, traditional natural foods, but this knowledge has taken me several years to master, and it’s always a constant process of learning, evaluating and re-evaluating.

The blog here at Nourished Kitchen offers a glimpse into my passion for real food and natural cooking – and a peek into the work my husband and I accomplish as farmers market managers, but as yet – aside from weekly recipes – there really hasn’t been an opportunity for me to truly reach out to readers and teach them the basic approaches that I take in cooking from scratch using the bounty of my local foodshed.  That’s why I’m so very excited about this new project – with an online, multimedia approach we will take a comprehensive and thorough look at learning how to cook traditional, real foods from scratch in ways that meet your family’s needs and preferences as well as the seasonal bounty and availability of foods in your area.(...)
Click here to read the rest of How to Cook Real Food: An Online Cooking Class (596 words)

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]]> http://nourishedkitchen.com/how-to-cook-real-food-an-online-cooking-class/feed/ 12 http://nourishedkitchen.com/announcing-best-of-nourished-kitchen/ http://nourishedkitchen.com/announcing-best-of-nourished-kitchen/#comments Wed, 07 Apr 2010 19:00:44 +0000 Jenny http://nourishedkitchen.com/?p=3647 I’m excited to announce a new project: quarterly books featuring the very best from Nourished Kitchen’s posts, recipes and tutorials covering traditional, wholesome foods.  Published at the end of each season, the full-color paperback books cover not only the very best from the preceding season, but also many recipes and tutorials that have not been published at Nourished Kitchen.  This presents an excellent opportunity for you to pick up an easy-to-read guide to traditional foods, the current edition features twenty-five recipes (many unpublished), three articles covering food philosophy, choosing ingredients and feeding kids as well as several tutorials that, in simple step-by-step instructions, teach you how to render lard, soak beans and nuts, make yogurt cheese, make yogurt and brew water kefir.  You can even preview a few sample pages here.(...)
Click here to read the rest of Announcing: Best of Nourished Kitchen (340 words)

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I’m still recovering from the Wise Traditions Conference – which was wonderful – but wanted to announce the winner of the recent giveaway: Kristi Fogle! Kristi has until Monday at midnight mountain time to touch base with me, or we may elect to select an alternate.

Even if you didn’t win, you should visit the Homestead Company one more time because they’re having a fantastic sale right now and, as a follow up to the giveaway here at Nourished Kitchen, they’re offering a 20% discount!

The homestead company offers natural skincare and personal care products – and their sale, coupled with the coupon code presents an excellent opportunity to pick up some beautifully crafted, natural skin care products at a good price either for yourself or for the upcoming holidays.

Remember: By shopping at the Homestead Company through the above link, you help to support Nourished Kitchen. If you click on the link above or any of the links on my resources page, Nourished Kitchen will earn a little bit of money which helps to off-set the costs of running this site. Moreover, please take care and disable your adblocker or you will not be able to see the coupon code and you’ll miss a good amount of other content here at Nourished Kitchen.

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]]> http://nourishedkitchen.com/20-off-at-the-homestead-company/feed/ 0 http://nourishedkitchen.com/get-cultured/ http://nourishedkitchen.com/get-cultured/#comments Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:09:05 +0000 Jenny http://nourishedkitchen.com/?p=2473 A little later than I’d hope, but it’s finally here.   Get Cultured: Probiotic Foods from a Nourished Kitchen is finally available, and I hope it’s worth it.   Hopefully the first of many e-books detailing my tried-and-true nourishing recipes, Get Cultured details thirteen recipes from classics on this site like pickled jalapeños and real sauerkraut to the exotic like Vietnamese preserved limes, green salsa and cortido.

Each recipe in Get Cultured focuses on nourishing probiotic, naturally fermented vegetables and all the recipes are dairy-free.   I strongly recommend that you purchase a vegetable fermenter (see sources) for these recipes, though mason jars will due in a pinch.   Fermentation is an inexact art and variances in the temperature of your home, the weather or the season may yield a quicker or slower fermentation period than outlined in the book, so use your judgment in preparing these wholesome probiotic foods.

A Note on Availability

• Get Cultured is available for free. You can flip through the magazine online, download it and print it out.     See Get Cultured on right now.
• A full-color print version of Get Cultured is available for sale at $9.95.   If you love the Nourished Kitchen and would like to help support this site, please consider purchasing the print version.   It is printed on FSC-certified paper and you can purchase Get Cultured by clicking here or consider buying me a virtual kombucha through paypal.

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You are free, nay encouraged, to   share the probiotic love by giving away a copy of Get Cultured on your own site.   If you do so, please do me the courtesy of linking to the NourishedKitchen.com home page and to this page.   It’s simple, just copy the text in the box below and paste it into your post, page or sidebar.

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