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  • 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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    Kristine Cocchiarella

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    30-Minute Mondays– Fettuccine Alfredo with Chicken and Broccoli

    Wow! It’s already the first full week of May.  This year is more than a third of the way over.  Can you believe it?  We had a small cold front move in last week which meant I was in the mood for comfort food. One of my all-time favorite dishes is Fettuccine Alfredo. I love a tasty white sauce. And if it has cheese in it, even better. This is a simple recipe that is full of flavor, tender chicken and beautiful green broccoli. This is one of only two or three ways that The Stud Muffin (TSM) will even eat broccoli.  It’s the Will Wheaton to his Sheldon Cooper.   This dish…

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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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