Food Tips

Leftover Sausage and Eggs

Quick Tip Tuesday! Breakfast can be a challenge at times to make sure you’re getting enough protein and fat to start your day right.  When I have leftover sausage in any form, links or patties I chop it up, fire up my cast iron skillet and add a good tablespoon of unrefined coconut oil.  Over medium-high heat I brown up the sausage a bit and …

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Take A Vacation To Anywhere!

I love to read people’s “top” anything lists because it tells me something about them and I always like to see if I’m in synch with others especially if they’re talking about “real food” and “real living.”  At first I thought I would write to y’all just about food and then I thought “no, food is just part of the way …

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The Best “Poached” Chicken Ever!

Quick Tip Tuesday! I use the term “poached” loosely because I am not poaching chicken in the classic way here where the liquid you’re poaching in shows just a bit of a ripple from the heat.  But, what I get from this “new way” is the most delicous, moist and tender chicken, ever…as if it were poached to perfection without a lot of …

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My Fairytale Pumpkin...and then some!

  I promised myself I would not still be looking at my beautiful Fairytale Pumpkin come Christmas.  There’s just something a little unsettling to have a pumpkin hanging out with the three wise men.  So I began the process one afternoon of cooking my 14.5 pound Fairytale pumpkin.  I totally underestimated the amount of time it would take to bake and puree and …

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I feel pretty...oh, so pretty!  Fields of Athenry Turkey in Purcellville, VA

Three weeks and counting from today and most of America will be roasting a big ol’ turkey.  With each passing year we learn more and more about how our food is raised and what are the healthiest choices.  So, I just wanted to write a quick post to give you a few resources for buying the freshest and safest turkey for …

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