Maybe you have a favorite cookbook. Or a favorite cooking show. Or a favorite food blogger. And over and over again, they come up with winning recipes that taste great and fit with your style of eating (you can see my top 6 real food cookbooks here). But how do they do that? How do they come up with all those good recipe ideas? I can't speak for everyone, but here's how I come up with new recipes. 1. Based off of ingredients I have. If it's a few days until the grocery budget resets, … [Read more...]
Real Food How To: Make A Roux and White Sauce
We all have them: that list of kitchen skills or recipes that just intimidate us. And for the longest time, this was one of mine. Making a roux. Except that at the time I didn't even know that word for it. I just knew it as "the white sauce that makes Alfredo". (Even that was technically wrong.) And I avoided it because it seemed hard. And I will admit that this is definitely a "learn by doing" skill, but once you jump in, you too can make a roux! (I'm a poet.) First off, what is a … [Read more...]
Real Food How To: Cook Quinoa
When we started eating mostly gluten free, I wanted to look for other options for getting grains in our diet. Something to help round out the meal, and provide a filling option without breaking the budget. But most of these were things I had never heard of, and there was one in particular that was growing in popularity, but I couldn't even pronounce it. Luckily, I learned how to both cook and pronounce quinoa (KEEN-wah). Quinoa is actually a seed, not a grain, but it fits in a lot of … [Read more...]
Real Food How To: Flip A Pancake (Plus Oat Flour Pancake Recipe!)
On Tuesday I mentioned that Jesse taught me how to cook eggs, and I have to give him credit today too: he taught me how to flip a pancake without messing it up constantly. He always jokes that he married me because I can play the piano, and I joke that I married him so that he could teach me how to make yummy food. Without him there's no way my cooking skills would be impressive enough to share here or anywhere else. Here's the secret to flipping pancakes: wait until your pancake has … [Read more...]
Real Food How To: Cook Eggs (6 Ways!)
When Jesse and I first got married, I barely knew how to scramble eggs. And if you had asked me to cook them any other way, I would have looked at you like you had a third eyeball. Luckily, Jesse had worked in a few restaurants, and he could teach me all the different ways to make them! I can even get my omelets to turn out looking nice...sometimes. Today, we're going to talk about several ways to cook eggs. Poached Eggs My Grandpa Welke would make two poached eggs every day … [Read more...]
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