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  • The dirty dozen and clean fifteen list featured on Real Food Girl Unmodified
    Miscellaneous

    The Dirty Dozen and Clean 15

    Hey there Food Hippies. When asked about the best place to start your Real Food journey, I almost always say with the Dirty Dozen list.  This post is a duplicate of the Dirty Dozen Clean Fifteen page featured on my nav bar, but my theme won’t let you Pin images on a page, only in a post. So I’m going to sneak this into the mix so that if you happen upon it, you can pin the image below that I worked hard pretty on. In my opinion, this is quite possibly one of the most important lists that you could memorize when it comes to eliminating harmful toxins from your diet.  An…

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    Kristine Cocchiarella

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    Ghee Whiz--by Real Food Girl: Unmodified

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    July 11, 2013
    Real Food Girl: Unmodified features MY REAL FOOD RULES

    Real Food Rules

    March 5, 2013
  • 30-Minute Mondays by Real Food Girl: Unmodified- Shepherd's Pie. Savory ground lamb, fresh veggies, rich gravy-like sauce and fluffy mashed potatoes. Yum!
    One Pot Meals

    30-Minute Monday Skillet Shepherd’s Pie

    I honestly can’t believe it’s Monday already! Man, where does the time go?  This week we’re going comfort food, and what says comfort more than a saucy, meaty filling with veggies and mashed potatoes piled high on top?  Pretty much nuthin’ if you ask me. When mashed potatoes hug a saucy, meaty, veggie-filled filling, it’s magic my friends. Comfort food magic! If you have anti-veggites (people who don’t like veggies that much) in your house, like I do, you can sneak in some extra veggies and they probably won’t notice.  If I work veggies into something with meat and gravy, The Stud Muffin will happily eat the veggies. If they sit on his…

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    Skillet Chicken with Mushroom and Onion Cream Sauce by Real Food Girl: Unmodified. You gotta see this!

    Skillet Chicken with Mushroom and Onion Cream Sauce

    January 6, 2014
    Real Food Girl Unmodified Guest Posts for Mommypotamus- Risotto alla Milanese with Herbs

    Risotto alla Milanese with Herbs

    April 20, 2015
    Real Food Girl Unmodified 30-Minute Meals- Skillet Tamale Pie. This looks SO good!

    30 Minute Monday- Real Food Skillet Tamale Pie

    February 10, 2014
  • Real Food Girl: Unmodified| Cranberry-Coconut Oatmeal Cookies. Chewy cookies with dried cranberries, sweet coconut, tasty organic oats, cinnamon and nutmeg! Yes Please!
    Desserts,  Snacks

    Cranberry-Coconut Oatmeal Cookies

    Cookies!!  There aren’t too many people that don’t love a good cookie. I love home baked goods over store bought any day. Even thought I don’t make them all the time- mainly because since switching over to eating more whole, fresh, clean, real foods, I simply don’t crave these nearly as often as I once did, these really are scrumptious. Since ‘healthifying’ the way we eat, I’ve adopted the “Good, Better, Best” mindset.  An example would be, good is an organic, non-gmo packaged cookie with minimal ingredients, and ones that you can pronounce. In other words, no chemicals or nasties.  Better would be making the cookies from scratch, using as many organic ingredients…

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    Organic Brown Sugar Blondies by Real Food Girl: Unmodified

    Brown Sugar Blondies (Organic/GMO-Free)

    July 31, 2013
    A little crispy around the edges and soft and chewy in the middle. It's not fancy, but this little peanut butter cookie will hit the spot when you're craving some PB! #Real Food Girl: Unmodified

    (Not Half Bad) Peanut Butter Cookies (Organic-GMO-Free)

    February 5, 2013
    Soft & Chewy Peanut Butter Cookies. Organic and featured on Real Food Girl: Unmodified

    Soft & Chewy Peanut Butter Cookies

    April 11, 2013
  • Chicken Pasta Primavera by Real Food Girl: Unmodified. Yes please!!
    60 Minutes or Less,  Grains, Rice, Pasta

    Chicken Pasta Primavera

    We love pasta in our home. I’m sure being married to an Italian has absolutely nothing to do with it at all. Because of our love for fresh pasta, I someday hope to own some special die casts for making my own shapes, like penne, and rigatoni.  Until then, I buy imported organic dry pasta for dishes that call for something other than a long skinny noodle.  Those I’ve got down pat. I really want to share my homemade pasta recipe with you guys, but I don’t have anywhere to attach my pasta maker in my kitchen. Which I affectionately call Lord Voldemort’s 8th Horcrux.  As soon as I can figure out how…

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    Fresh, light, bright and super flavorful. This Chicken Pomodoro is my favorite chicken dish. Simple to make, organic/gmo-free. #Real Food Girl: Unmodified

    Chicken Pomodoro Non-GMO

    January 4, 2013
    Pan Seared Pork Chops with Mustard Cream Sauce- Thing of beauty from Real Food Girl: Unmodified

    Pan Seared Pork Chops with Mustard Cream Sauce- (Organic/GMO-Free)

    January 20, 2013
    Not yo' Momma's meatloaf! Cheddar-bacon BBQ meatloaves! Organic and GMO-Free. #Real Food Girl: Unmodified

    Cheddar Bacon BBQ Meatloaves

    February 15, 2013
  • 30-Minute Mondays by Real Food Girl Unmodified|Italian Sausage Onion & Pepper Hoagies. Fresh Italian sausage, fresh veggies and melted cheese on a soft hoagie roll. YES please!
    Sandwiches

    30-Minute Monday– Italian Sausage, Pepper & Onion Hoagies

    Happy Monday everyone!  It’s time for another 30-Minute Monday dish.  Are you excited? I know I am. This weeks dish was a tasty one. I loved the pepper and onion mixture SO much; that I served it over some linguine the next night for dinner and it was UH MAY ZING! Whoa! Yeah, if you would rather just skip the hoagie roll, boil up some pasta and top with a couple slices of the sausage, and a few spoonfuls of the peppers and onions.  Yee-Haw it was tasty.  Actually, now that I think about it, you should probably try this as a hoagie first simply because this was a very flavorful and filling…

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    Who doesn't love a tuna melt? You know you do! Try my tuna- it's anything but boring! #Real Food Girl: Unmodified

    Tuna Salad and a Tuna Melt

    December 13, 2012
    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

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

    December 28, 2012
    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
  • Real Food Girl Unmodified visits We Know Stuff for an ongoing series on Real Food Education
    Miscellaneous

    Real Food Girl Takes a Field Trip to We Know Stuff

    Hi Everyone! Today I’ll be doing a guest post over at We Know Stuff.  There are two fabulous sisters behind this fun blog and a couple months ago Denine, Daniele and I started chatting about how overwhelming all the information available online was regarding Real Food. All this information with resources to show them the way and instead of empowering them to make the changes they desired to make, that information made them feel inferior, ashamed, and anxious.  Understandably, that made me sad.  It made me sad because I personally know many Real Food food bloggers and if we’re making people feel ashamed because they aren’t at the same point on their path…

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    December 17, 2012
    Real Food Girl defends a fellow bloggers decision to not use shampoo

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    January 16, 2014

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    December 6, 2013
  • Strawberry Balsamic Black Pepper Jam by Real Food Girl: Unmodified
    Condiments

    Balsamic-Strawberry Black Pepper Jam

    I made jam!! This is the first time that I’ve ever made jam and I’m quite thrilled with how it turned out.  Last year I went to one of those craft fair thingy’s where people sell jams, and homemade crafts, candles, jewelry, scarves, things for your pets, and your home.  Anyway, I bought a small jar of Strawberry Balsamic jam with Black Pepper.  For $12.00.  That’s right, I paid $12.00 for an 8-ounce jar of this stuff.  Man, was it good.  I savored every $1.50-ounce of that jam. I did not however want to keep spending $12.00 for a small jar of homemade jam, no matter how good. I knew I was going…

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    Savory Balsamic Onion-Bacon Jam

    April 9, 2014
    GMO-Free/Organic Onion-Bacon "Jam". You'll eat most of it from the pan before it's done! |Real Food Girl: Unmodified

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

    April 8, 2013
    Mayo The Force Be With You| Real Food Mayo by Real Food Girl: Unmodified

    Mayo The Force Be With You

    May 25, 2013
  • 30-Minute Mondays--Red Lentil Coconut Soup with Garam Masala by Real Food Girl
    Soups, Stews, Chowders

    30-Minute Monday–Red Lentil Coconut Soup with Garam Masala

    Spicy, exotic, hearty, filling, luscious, vibrant, unique- these are words that I would use to describe this soup.  It’s a celebration in your mouth.  You may even violate the spoon because you’ll wanna get every.last.drop off it when you take your first bite.  Yeah, it’s *that* good.  You may be surprised to learn that I don’t care for Indian food. Back when I used to do home mortgages and worked in a bank, we would have a big potluck once a month.  We had the sweetest banker who was from India, but every single time I ate the dishes he brought, I’d get super sick.  For some strange reason I tend to avoid…

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    One Pot Jalapeno Chicken Corn Chowder

    November 24, 2012
    Real Food Wild Rice Corn Chowder from Real Food Girl:Unmodified (with chicken and bacon)

    Wild Rice Corn Chowder

    December 12, 2013

    Hearty Potato Soup with Bacon

    March 14, 2013
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