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  • Roasted Cherry Pistachio Chocolate Chunk Ice Cream. Real Food Girl:Unmodified
    Desserts

    Roasted Cherry & Pistachio Chocolate Chunk Ice Cream

    Wanna know a secret? I could live without ice cream.  I know, right?  That’s like blasphemy or something.  It’s just wrong to not love ice cream.  But here I am, and I don’t love it.  I do however seriously enjoy homemade ice cream.  I’ve had fun coming up with flavors that both The Stud Muffin and I like.  TSM loves ice cream.  The man has never met a bowl of ice cream that he didn’t like.   When I told him he couldn’t have any of this ice cream until I had a chance to take photos I thought the poor man was going to pass out.  It’s not nice to deny The Stud…

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    Kristine Cocchiarella

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    Faux-reo Cheesecake Bars. Because even REAL food foodies need a treat once in a while! Happy Valentine's Day from Real Food Girl: Unmodified!

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    February 14, 2013
    Real Food Girl: Unmodified| Cranberry-Coconut Oatmeal Cookies. Chewy cookies with dried cranberries, sweet coconut, tasty organic oats, cinnamon and nutmeg! Yes Please!

    Cranberry-Coconut Oatmeal Cookies

    March 28, 2014
  • Breakfast,  Grains, Rice, Pasta

    Food Hippie Granola

      I love granola.  My mom used to buy the Heartland brand of granola (cereal) when we were kids.  I remember it had very plump raisins and the trick was to hurry up and eat it as quickly as you could before it sucked up all your milk.  It’s been a long time since I’ve had a bowl of that granola.  I actually thought the company went out of business years ago because boxes of Quaker, Sunbelt and Kellogg’s granola monopolized every cereal shelf in every grocery store where I shopped.   Then one day, whilst perusing the ‘take out a second mortgage to shop here’ aisles, I noticed that Heartland was still making granola…

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    Cheesy and packed with flavor, this baked omelet makes a perfect breakfast for supper dish! Add some hashbrowns and you're ready to go! #Real Food Girl: Unmodified

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    December 14, 2012
    Lemon Blueberry Loaf Cakes by Real Food Girl: Unmodified

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    June 2, 2014
    One of my favorite quickbread recipes. I love carrot cake, and this comes close but doesn't contain raisins! You must try my Carrot Pineapple Bread! #Real Food Girl: Unmodified

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    December 11, 2012
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    Desserts,  Snacks

    Macadamia & White Chocolate Cookies

    There are only 3 reasons that I can think of why White Chocolate exists.  The first reason is to be baked into a cookie.  Any cookie. It doesn’t really matter; white chocolate tastes good in cookies.  The second reason is as a coating for pretzels.  I love white chocolate covered pretzels and prior to going all Food Hippie and striving to eliminate processed foods from my diet, I used to eat pretzels covered in white chocolate.  Great. Now I want pretzels.

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    June 12, 2013
    Tastes just like the Hostess snack cake- it's Ho-Ho cake. My version is organic and GMO-Free! Chocolate cake with a creamy white filling and a yummy chcolate icing tops off the best midnight snack you'll ever have! #Real Food Girl: Unmodified

    Chocolate Ho-Ho Cake- (Organic/GMO-Free)

    January 22, 2013
    Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Buttercream Frosting. GMO-Free--By Real Food Girl: Unmodified

    Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Buttercream Frosting

    August 3, 2013
  • Yet another favorite dessert bar of mine. 7-Layer bars! Easy to make and easy to love! #Real Food Girl: Unmodified
    Desserts,  Snacks

    My First (recipe) Mistake (aka 7-Layer Bars)

    Well Food Posse Peeps, I finally did it- I made my first mistake this evening while putting together a pan of 7-Layer Bars to share with y’all.  The good news, they taste perfectly fine.  The bad news- they’re not very stable, don’t hold their shape, are very gooey AND  (whispers) they’re ugly.

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    January 9, 2013
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    June 4, 2013
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Hi! I'm Kristine!

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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