Reviving Traditional Foods
Onion gratin with fresh herbs is one of those special indulgences: fragrant, rich with cream and herbs. It’s an old-fashioned dish with no pretense. It’s comfort food at its best: sweet and savory and salty all at once. Warm for the growing chill of mid-September, onion gratin, humble as it is, deserves a place on [...]
Cream of chicken soup, real cream of chicken soup, doesn’t come from a red and white can, folks. Real cream of chicken soup is homemade, from scratch and lovingly tended as it simmers. Buttery, rich with the flavor of chicken, and irrepressibly smooth, it’s a nourishing dish with an old-fashioned, and almost timeless charm (skip [...]
Creamsicles. Don’t you love them? I mean, really now, how can you not adore them in all their icy, creamy glory. And when you taste homemade creamsicle, you’ll never miss the prepackaged, boxed versions. The other day, my son and I were resting on the soft grass in our front lawn, gazing at the clouds [...]
Swimming a pool of fresh cream and seasoned with fragrant herbs, baked salmon makes for a satisfying and deeply nourishing supper. Simple food is often the best food. Indeed, good food needn’t be complicated. When you rely on wholesome ingredients of the best quality you can reasonably afford, the simplest of preparations will illuminate their [...]
Chocolate mint mousse- bittersweet and addictive – makes for a tasty summer treat. The kind of treat that’ll make you forget your manners and start licking every last touch of the chocolate minty goodness from your fingertips. Desserts don’t find their way to our supper table too often – aside from fresh [...]
Our premarket CSA began just this week – perfect timing for One Local Summer. It seems now, more and more, all of our meals are local. If not entirely local, they’re substantially local. What a blessing it is to celebrate real food this way! This week we enjoyed local milk, eggs, [...]
Fresh cream is in season (don’t think of cream as a seasonal food? check out this post For the Love of Fresh Cream), and we’re making a lot of ice cream in our home. It’s so simple to make, plus it helps me to get all those good fat soluble vitamins into my toddler’s [...]
Fresh cream. Fresh raw cream. I love it in all its thick, silky glory. I love the taste, and the texture it lends to dishes – both savory and sweet. There’s nothing quite like it, and when cream’s truly fresh – it borders on the divine. We’re fortunate, after a year [...]
In the spring and summer months, when cows are grazing on fresh, green grass raw ice cream is a staple in our home. Unlike conventional, cloyingly sweet ice creams, this ice cream is milder in is sweetness which allows you to more fully appreciate the flavor of fresh, raw cream and milk. To make [...]
This is one of our favorite breakfast dishes. Use wholesome ingredients: pastured eggs, wild salmon, organic vegetables and herbs. The best ingredients yield not only the the best-tasting results, but also the most nutrient-dense. Pastured eggs are naturally rich in vitamin A while wild salmon is rich in omega-3 fatty acids which [...]
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Jenny McGruther is a wife, mother and cooking instructor specializing in real and traditional foods. Her work has been featured on CNN, the Globe & Mail, the Atlantic, the Christian Science Monitor, Denver Post and WebMD. Click here to learn more.
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