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  • Ridiculously easy lemon curd by real food girl: unmodified|| tart, creamy, amazing!
    Dairy Free,  Desserts,  Gluten Free

    Ridiculously Easy Lemon Curd

    Ridiculously Easy Lemon Curd is just that, ridiculously easy to make.  If you can measure ingredients and stand over a sauce pan and stir, you can make this lemon curd. Cross my heart people. Easy, tart, zesty, bright, fresh, lemon curdy goodness can be yours and you don’t need to be a professional baker to make it.  This recipe is my easy version of a citrus based curd. There are versions where you stand over a double boiler and whisk in tiny specs of chilled butter one piece at a time, wishing you’d remembered to run to the bathroom before you started whisking, and eventually having to go to the hospital because you…

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    Key Lime Sorbet by Real Food Girl: Unmodified. Tart, refreshing, Real, GMO-Free, GF, Dairy Free and oh, so tasty!

    Key Lime Sorbet

    September 28, 2014
  • Sweet & Zesty BBQ Sauce from Real Food Girl. It's sauce for a fingers only meat buffet folks!
    Barbeque,  Condiments

    Sweet & Zesty BBQ Sauce

    Let’s get, let’s get, let’s get, let’s get sauced!  Let’s get, let’s get, let’s get, let’s get sauced!  Does anyone else think Def Leppard may have chosen the wrong word for that song?  I do.  They could have had a #1 Summertime BBQ song had they chosen to sing about sauces vs. rocks.  But I digress.   I believe I’ve shared with you guys that finding condiments that taste good, have a decent mouth feel or texture, and don’t have a funky aftertaste has been somewhat of a struggle since starting our Real Food journey.  I did find a great sauce from Outta The Park BBQ and I was able to make some really yummy BBQ Pulled…

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    Stove-Top Brown Sugar & Maple Baked Beans (with bacon) by Real Food Girl: Unmodified.

    Brown Sugar Maple Baked Beans with Bacon

    June 26, 2014
    Real Food Girl: Unmodified| Not Yo Mama's Potato Salad

    Not Yo Mama’s Potato Salad

    May 30, 2013
    BBQ Spice rub for ribs Real Food Girl

    Real Food Girl BBQ Spice Rub

    August 24, 2014
  • GMO-Free/Organic Onion-Bacon "Jam". You'll eat most of it from the pan before it's done! |Real Food Girl: Unmodified
    Condiments

    Onion Bacon ‘Jam’ (Organic/GMO-Free)

    I have a serious foodie crush on bacon.  It’s worse than the combined crushes I had on Shawn Cassidy, Scott Baio and Andy Gibb as a teen! We’re talking about an incurable, deep, intense crush for all things bacon.  If bacon was a person, I’d be arrested for stalking it and creating a bacon photo collage on the wall of my seedy, low rent apartment complete with an alter, paying homage to all things bacon- just like those psycho ax murderers do on all those criminal cop shows.   Yup. I’ve got it baad! I love bacon so much that any bacon related clip art, or comic or poem or interesting food invention using…

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    Sweet & Zesty BBQ Sauce from Real Food Girl. It's sauce for a fingers only meat buffet folks!

    Sweet & Zesty BBQ Sauce

    May 28, 2013
    Real Food Pico de Gallo by Real Food Girl: Unmodified. A fresh, bright, basic salsa recipe.

    Salsa Fresca

    April 16, 2014
    Strawberry Balsamic Black Pepper Jam by Real Food Girl: Unmodified

    Balsamic-Strawberry Black Pepper Jam

    March 19, 2014
  • Gruyere, Fotina and aged raw-milk Cheddar top this panini with a nice layer of onion bacon jam! You must try this! #Real Food Gril: Unmodified
    Lunches,  Sandwiches

    3-Cheese Onion Bacon Jam Panini’s GMO-Free

    Since revealing my bacon addiction to you guys was so cathartic,  I thought I should also confess my love of all things melted cheese.  So here goes- “Hi, my name is Kristine, and I’m a melted cheese-aholic!”  After you try this panini, you will also become a melted cheese-aholic.  Be happy about this.  There’s nothing better than finger-lickin’, knee-slappin’ so darn tasty GMO-free panini, loaded with three kinds of cheese and busting at the seams with a drool inducing caramelized onion bacon jam.  No really.  There isn’t anything better.  Alright, so maybe if Johnny Depp were holding this panini it would be better…

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    30-Minute Mondays-- Onion Bacon Jam Grilled Cheese by Real Food Girl

    30-Minute Mondays–Onion Bacon Jam Grilled Cheese

    April 14, 2014
    Amazing Italian Salame with Brie, Pesto and Arugula Panini's from Real Food Girl: Unmodified

    Prosciutto, Calabrese Salame & Capocollo Panini’s with Melted Brie, Pesto and Arugula

    August 5, 2013
    Asian Chicken Pasta Salad with Crispy Wontons by Real Food Girl: Unmodified

    Asian Chicken Pasta Salad with Crispy Wontons

    May 9, 2014

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I'm a classically trained chef, who thinks that every aspect of health and wellness starts with food, but I also believe that you need to make room for a slice of cake every once in a while! Join me as I show you how to navigate a realistic and achievable 80/20 Real Food lifestyle, without breaking the bank, losing your sanity, or feeling shame because you can't live up to the "perfection" preached on other Real Food Blogs. Yeah, I went there.

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