Video: Pestos and Fruit & Nut Snack Bars

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In this bonus lesson for How to Cook Real Food, the online cooking class hosted at Nourished Kitchen, you’ll receive a quick, sneak-peak into the cooking class through this brief video covering how to properly prepare nuts and seeds including recipes for a basic pesto sauce and a basic fruit and nut snack bar. Please [...]

Cold Quinoa Salad with Chicken, Pine Nuts & Feta

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Quinoa is a remarkable grain – rich in magnesium, phosphorus and manganese as well as the amino acid lysine which offers antiviral properties.  Quinoa is not truly a cereal grain in the same manner as wheat or rye; rather, it’s a pseudocereal and, as such, is gluten-free and well-tolerated by those who choose to consume [...]

Feed Me Thursday: A Menu for a Spring Picnic

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Here’s the tastiest morsels from my favorite bloggers’   feeds!   This week, I’ve gathered up some treats that would perfect for an spring picnic: To start, I’d make Cheeseslave’s Pâté de Campagne replete with preformed vitamin A and seasoned with onion, garlic and allspice.   I do have a gnarly looking pork liver lurking [...]

Maple Pecan Pie

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Pecan pie is my all-time favorite pie.   There’s something so delightful about the sweet custard-like filling topped generously with nuts.   But, most pecan pies are made using high fructose corn syrup (and you all know how I feel about that crap!) which unnerves me.   So, I’ve made this pie a touch more [...]