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  • Real Food Girl: Unmodified--Citrus Kale Couscous Salad
    Lunches,  Salads

    Citrus Kale Couscous Salad

    Today’s recipe is one of my all-time favorite deli-type salads. I typically enjoy this salad for lunch, or as part of a light dinner on those days where it’s too dang hot to turn on the oven.  It’s not heavy, doesn’t contain mayo, it’s fresh, bright, clean and delightful.  There are different textures going on in this salad so it’s not just soft, mushy, bland ingredients.  I believe you’re going to enjoy this.               I first tried this salad when I worked for a high-end gourmet grocery store.  During our training they gave us several deli salads to taste test.  Being the INFJ that I am, I…

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  • No-Knead Rustic Bread by Real Food Girl: Unmodified
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    Food Hippies, I have the easiest, no-knead bread recipe and I’m super excited to share it with you!  Ya know what else? It’s SO good. I love to cut a couple of thick slices, and wrap it in some foil and toss it in a 350 degree oven for a few minutes and then slather on some nummy, organic, grass-fed butter from a local dairy.  The smells wafting through my house and the warm, buttery bread making happiness in my mouth are almost too much to handle, but I do manage.  I manage for the greater good, y’all.  I know that wheat has been getting a really bad rap lately, but like I’ve…

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    The Stud Muffin (TSM) is Italian. It’s not pronounced Eyetalian. It’s ITalian.  I felt I needed to clear that up.  I love when people say Eyetalian.  Um, it’s not Eye-taly, it’s ITaly, but I digress.  Being married to an Italian has its perks.  One of them is that we eat a fair amount of pasta with cheese–melted cheese.  I prefer to make it myself, but I don’t own any fancy pasta shape cutters so when we want penne, I buy a good organic brand.  I admit I was a little apprehensive about posting this recipe because I’m using a jarred sauce.  That’s a no-no in our household, but I’ve gotten requests for a…

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    It’s been very warm here in MN this summer.  We had a miserably long winter–as in measurable snowstorms in May.  Once summer hit, it’s been hot and humid ever since.  I’m not complaining.  When you have 6 months of winter, you welcome the heat, humidity, and the sun.  But not the mosquitoes. I don’t welcome those at all. I’ve been working for the past 4 days in this 90-degree weather, organizing my garage for the moving sale I’m having later this week.  I spend about 6-10 hours in the garage each day and by the time I’m finished, I’m spent. The last thing I want to do is spend eternity in the kitchen…

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    In keeping with my theme of easy recipes–if you can even call them recipes, I realized I have never taught you guys how to make ghee, also known as clarified butter.  Ghee whiz! What kind of Real Food Blogger/Chef do I think I am?  Talk about dropping the ball.  Hopefully you’ll forgive me this teensy transgression because I feel terrible that it’s taken me so long to share this little gem of a kitchen staple with you. I’ve been using clarified butter since my favorite French chef-instructor taught us how to make it in culinary school.  I think I made it once, years before I ever went to school, back when I was…

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  • Homemade Organic Brown Sugar by Real Food GIrl: Unmodified
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