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  • Homemade Potato Chips with House Seasoning| www.realfoodgirl.com
    Side Dishes,  Snacks

    Homemade Potato Chips with House Seasoning

    The humble potato is hands down probably the most favorite vegetable of every person I know. They are so versatile.  There isn’t much you can’t do with a potato. You can make it into flour, into a pancake, you can mash, fry, slice, dice, grill, roast, puree and make them into soup. You can even make pasta with them. A potato is a pretty amazing little veggie! The Stud Muffin love potatoes. He’s the stereotypical meat and potatoes kind of guy. You’ll never catch him complaining if I don’t feel like making a green veggie to go with our meal as long as their is meat and some type of potato.  Potato chips…

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    Kristine Cocchiarella

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

    Brown Sugar Maple Baked Beans with Bacon

      Several weeks ago my grandkids came over for the weekend. I spent most of my time in the kitchen and my granddaughter, Little Miss B. helped me out. One thing she was particularly interested in helping me with was a baked bean recipe that I had found in one of my many cooking magazines.  We were going to grill hamburgers one night and I thought baked beans would be a nice addition.  Turns out I should have just opened a can.  Kidding! Sorta. Let me explain… We followed the recipe to a ‘T’.  Those beans soaked for at least 12 hours, and they baked in my oven for 7 hours, were  lovingly tended…

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    Easy BBQ Chicken on the Grill. Saucy, Juicy, Tangy, Perfect! realfoodgirl.com

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    June 25, 2014
    Creamed corn with bacon and poblano pepper by Real Food Girl: Unmodified

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    May 31, 2014
  • Grilled Parmesan-Herbed Potatoes by Real Food Girl: Unmodified
    Grilling,  Side Dishes,  Vegetables

    Grilled Parmesan Herbed Potatoes

    It’s grilling season. A time of year that I used to love because that meant TSM was going to be cooking most nights. Now, somehow, since graduating from culinary school I seem to be cooking 99.5% of the time and TSM has turned the grilling over to me.  I think it’s time to save up and buy him a smoker.  He can be in charge of smoking and then maybe I can take part of each summer off while he experiments with smoking various meats.  Sounds like a plan to me!  Just for the summer I’m going to be taking a break from 30-Minute Monday Recipes. Don’t worry, I’ll still have plenty of…

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    June 25, 2014
    Real Food Girl BBQ St. Louise Style Ribs on the grill. Juicy, tender, and saucy! www.realfoodgirl.com

    St. Louis Style BBQ Ribs on the Grill

    August 26, 2014
  • Creamed corn with bacon and poblano pepper by Real Food Girl: Unmodified
    Barbeque,  Side Dishes,  Vegetables

    Creamed Corn with Bacon and Poblano Pepper

      I’m pretty excited about today’s recipe. I really like corn. I especially like sweet corn. When we moved to South Carolina I noticed that they had all sorts of farm stands along the sides of the roads. I was in fresh produce heaven. That is, until I found out that the one I was frequenting got their produce from WalMart and I was buying GMO sweet corn. Yep, you guessed it. I was no longer in heaven. It’s getting harder and harder to find organic sweet corn. This makes me sad because I can do wonders with an ear of corn. When I was out and about running errands last week, I found…

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    Real Food Girl BBQ St. Louise Style Ribs on the grill. Juicy, tender, and saucy! www.realfoodgirl.com

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    August 26, 2014
    Caramelized Onion Burgers by Real Food Girl: Unmodified

    Caramelized Onion Burgers with Gruyere

    July 16, 2013
    Real Food Girl: Unmodified| Not Yo Mama's Potato Salad

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    May 30, 2013
  • Perfect Mashed Potatoes by Real Food Girl Unmodified
    Side Dishes

    The Perfect Rustic Style Mashed Potatoes

    Mashed potatoes. The quintessential comfort food. There isn’t anything that a bowl of smashed up taters drenched in melted butter and bursting forth with gravy can’t make better.  Chopped off your thumb in a woodworking accident?  Here, have some mashed potatoes.  Boyfriend dumped you for your best friend?  Psh- not to worry.  Have some mashed potatoes–and you get extra gravy.  Didn’t get the winning lottery ticket?  Aww, stop buying lottery tickets and buy potatoes instead. Why? Because you can make mashed potatoes with potatoes and you can only make a book mark or a redneck toothpick with a lottery ticket.  It’s a no brainer, really.    I go in phases where I want…

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    Grilled Parmesan-Herbed Potatoes by Real Food Girl: Unmodified

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    June 23, 2014
  • Asian Chicken Pasta Salad with Crispy Wontons by Real Food Girl: Unmodified
    Lunches,  Salads,  Side Dishes

    Asian Chicken Pasta Salad with Crispy Wontons

    I grew up right in the heart of the Twin Cities. That’s in Minnesota, don’t-chya-know?  Back in the day, before it was bought out by Macy’s, Dayton’s department store was a happening place to be.  There was a restaurant located inside this Dayton’s (which eventually became Marshall Field’s), and on occasion when my sister and I would spend the weekend with my grandparents, we’d take the city bus to downtown St. Paul, and have lunch at Dayton’s restaurant.  If we were really good, we got to go to the candy counter and pick out 1 or 2 suckers.  They had the best suckers.  They were rectangle shaped, and took forever to finish. Ahh, those…

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    July 29, 2013
    Amazing Italian Salame with Brie, Pesto and Arugula Panini's from Real Food Girl: Unmodified

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    August 5, 2013
  • Cheesy Orzo with Broccoli- Best Side Dish Ever! Real Food Girl: Unmodified
    Grains, Rice, Pasta,  Side Dishes

    Cheesy Orzo with Broccoli

    Earlier on in my blogging career I stumbled upon this side dish while wasting time trying to solve the toughest world problems by doing research online.  Before the idea to start my blog was ever hatched in my special little mind, I used to follow quite a bit of non Real Food bloggers.  No shame in that. A good recipe is a good recipe. Sometimes you just have to Real Foodify it, as I like to say. This recipe came from Iowa Girl Eats. She’s got a great little blog filled with some tasty recipes that are easy for me to adapt to our real food lifestyle. Many of her more current recipes…

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    February 19, 2013

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  • Simply Perfect Rice Pilaf by Real Food Girl: Unmodified
    Grains, Rice, Pasta,  Side Dishes

    Simply Perfect Rice Pilaf

    Are you intimidated by rice pilaf so you rely on that “San Fransisco Treat”?  I used to be.  Then I went to culinary school and learned a really easy way to make perfect rice pilaf.  Each grain comes out nice and fluffy, not sticky or clumped together.  I love rice. I could eat rice every day.  The Stud Muffin isn’t a huge fan, but he’s coming around. He does like this pilaf, so whenever I make fish, chances are this rice will be on my plate.   Rice can be flavorless and boring, but this rice is made with homemade chicken stock so it’s definitely not lacking in flavor department.  I have found…

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    Italian Sausage & Spinach Lasagna Roll-ups (Organic/GMO-Free)

    January 20, 2013
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    Lentil Salad with Bacon| Real Food Girl: Unmodified

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