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  • Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Buttercream Frosting. GMO-Free--By Real Food Girl: Unmodified
    Desserts

    Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Buttercream Frosting

    Do you know what you’ll love about this post?  It features cake.  And, chocolate. And, chocolate cake.  That is actually three things.  Oh wait, it also features chocolate buttercream frosting.  So that would be four things you’ll love about this post.  I wanted to share this recipe back when I was doing my week of chocolate recipes in June, but for whatever reason I never got around to baking the cake.  I’m not sure why.  The important thing is that I decided to make one last cake before I pack all my baking dishes and supplies. I chose this cake because I promised it, and also because this cake is so rich and…

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      A few months ago I was introduced to Beth, one of the owners of Outta the Park BBQ Sauce.  I’d been commenting on my Facebook Page about how difficult it had been for TSM (The Stud Muffin) and I to find good tasting, organic condiments.  We’d wasted close to a hundred dollars trying to find salad dressings we liked.  I know, I know…I should make my own, but TSM and I don’t like the same types of dressings and I’ve never found a dressing that is comparable to that HFCS laden Western brand French dressing.  But I digress. As I lamented about all the money we’d wasted trying to find decent tasting…

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      Yesterday I shared my “Mmmm Better” Cream of Chicken Soup recipe.  I explained that I had zero motivation to make dinner and that chicken and rice baked together sounded quick and yummy.  I just wanted to throw a few ingredients into a casserole dish, place it in the oven, and within 45 minutes have a hot, tasty, filling meal emerge.  Regrettably my dreams of that meal were dashed when I realized I didn’t have any “Mmm” substitutes on hand on account of the fact I don’t use  cream of rubbish soups from a can.  Nope. I don’t.  And I am pretty sure I explained that ad nauseam in yesterday’s post and in…

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     There is something to be said for making your own cream soups for cooking.  Anyone can open a can of condensed cream of ‘something’ soup.  The canned version is quick and easy, but no one, and I mean no one needs that much sodium, MSG, or HFCS- I’m sorry, but what the heck is high fructose corn syrup doing in soup?  I mean c’mon!  I’ve probably made close to 2 dozen different kinds of soups in my lifetime and not one ever called for sugar, corn syrup or high fructose corn syrup. Not one. Ever. So what the heck is it doing in canned soups?  The other ingredients found in these “Mmm Mmm”…

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    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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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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