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  • Scalloped Potatoes with Ham. Seriously good comfort food dish. A rich creamy sauce, tender potatoes and sliced ham. Gmo-Free from Real Food Girl: Unmodified
    Side Dishes

    Scalloped Potatoes with Ham

    Comfort food people!  This is comfort food!!  It’s like being in your jammies, in front of the roaring fire, with your bunny slippers on, wrapped in a Snuggie, and reading a good book and sipping hot chocolate, but for your tummy!  This dish came about when I opened up one of my cupboards and realized that my potatoes were growing eyes and I knew I had to use them before I would lose them to the trash.  Because I only buy organic produce, that wasn’t an option.  These potatoes were a little spendier than conventional taters, so I had to come up with something fast. I had a hunk of antibiotic-free, hormone-free, preservative-free,…

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    Kristine Cocchiarella

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  • Holy Guacamole. Organic, Fresh, and a secret ingredient makes it extra creamy! Real Food Girl: Unmodified
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    Holy Guacamole!

    My guacamole isn’t really holy, not in the spiritual sense of the word anyway…  It’s just that there are zero catchy recipe titles for guacamole and I felt like spicing things up. The Stud Muffin has really developed a taste for avocados.  I wasn’t sure he’d ever eat them after being told countless times that he hated them, he hated guacamole and nothing would change his mind.  Until I made guacamole one night and he had it on a taco.  BOOM!  Yeah, that’s the sound of TSMs mind being blown.

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  • Rich, dense, intense fudge-like brownies GF! Real Food Girl: Unmodified
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    GF Fudgy Brownies

    Have you ever taken a bite of something and your brain and your mouth explode from the flavor nirvana that is occurring and you’re rendered speechless and consequently need “A moment alone” to compose yourself?  If not, I’m genuinely sad for you.  But fret no more because these brownies are slap-yo’-momma, shut the front door, awesomesauce, ohmehgersh, mind-blowing, “where have you been all my life?”, SPECTACULAR! Make these and you will have that moment that I just mentioned above once you take a bite of one of these brownies!! I made the glutenized version a couple of weeks back when I had my good friend Towanda the Bee Charmer over for a movie…

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  • Organic Homemade Chicken Stock. Easy, healthy, affordable! From Real Food Girl: Unmodified
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    Homemade Organic Chicken Stock

    It’s getting harder and harder to find a decent boxed, organic stock that doesn’t contain MSG or other MSG alias, such as yeast, yeast extract, natural flavoring/flavors.  Within a couple of weeks of cutting out MSG and GMOs from my diet my almost daily headaches stopped.  I’m not about to tempt fate and buy stock that contains MSG.  Even the stocks/broths that say “No MSG” contain yeast and natural flavorings, which means MSG!!  Homemade stock is easy to make!  I normally save all the bones and extras when I’m hacking up a whole chicken to use in cooking, and I’ll also saved bones from cooked chicken and toss them in a zipper top…

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  • One pot wondererful! Chicken Salsa Verde with Cornbread Dumplings. This is GMO-Free/Organic comfort food done right. Real Food Girl: Unmodified.
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    Chicken Salsa Verde with Cornbread Dumplings

    Pretty much everyone loves chicken and dumplings.   And almost everyone loves Mexican food.  So why not combine the two and come up with a welcomed departure from the norm?  I couldn’t come up with a good answer as to why I shouldn’t either, so I went ahead and made this for dinner last week.   A seriously easy recipe to prep for and it’s even faster to put together.  Comfort food, Southwestern flare, fast/easy prep and it comes together quickly?  Um, SCORE!!

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    Today I wanted to bring back one of my earlier recipes where I felt if it just got a little more face time that you guys would fall in love with it and want to make it.  Unfortunately, I only have not-so-decent pictures of the dish.  Although the picture doesn’t do this recipe justice,  trust me when I tell you that this dish is SO yummy.  I even have a friend from back in high school that has made this for her young children a couple of times and they love it!  So if they can eat it and love it and not let the pictures scare them, than so can you!

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  • Sea Salted Caramel Corn with Dark Chocolate Drizzle?! Yes Please!! From Real Food Girl: Unmodified
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    Sea Salted Caramel Corn with Chocolate Drizzle

    After being teased with some warmer weather earlier last week, it’s back to being darn right cold again.  TSM and I wanted to go see the latest Die Hard movie, but it was too chilly to bundle up and drive to the movie theater, so I decided a movie night at home, snuggling with TSM, in my flannel jammies with some homemade caramel corn was a better idea.  Did you know that this popcorn makes 007 Skyfall an even BETTER movie than it already is?  Yup.  Truth.   I’ve had this caramel corn recipe since I was about 14 years old.  I got it from a friend I went to school with.  We were…

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    When I sat down two weeks ago to make my menu for this week I must have been in a hurry because almost every dish I’ve made has had cheese in it.  I still have two recipes to go and they both call for cheese.  I’m laughing at myself.  I have to make sure to spread those meals out over several weeks versus one week because my cheese bill was insane!!  Twice-baked potatoes are one of my favorite side dishes.  I especially like them with a good rib-eye steak. 

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