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Food Love Sundays: Easy 100% Whole Wheat Biscuits that Actually Taste Good!

February 26, 2012 By Leave a Comment

I have to give huge props to Lisa Leake over at 100 Days of Real Food for this fantastic recipe.  Go check her out!  She has loads of valuable and easy to understand information about how to get away from eating  janky processed foods.  You all know I am an advocate for eating real food and I ran across her site and love it.  I whipped up these biscuits in 20 minutes flat, and they taste delicious.  Great with honey, jam, sausage or anything.

Whole Wheat Biscuits

  • 2 cups whole wheat flour (She uses King Arthur’s white whole wheat organic flour; I used Bob’s Red Mill organic stone ground white whole wheat pastry flour)
  • 4 teaspoons baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ¼ cup cold unsalted butter
  • 1 cup milk (any kind)

In a medium sized bowl combine flour, baking powder, and salt. Mix well with whisk or fork. Cut the ½ stick butter into little pea sized pieces and then mix the pieces into the flour mixture. Using a fork, try to mash the butter pieces as you mix it together with the flour until it resembles coarse crumbs. It is okay if the outcome just looks like the same pea sized pieces of [Read more...]

Food Love Sundays: Real Spinach Dip

February 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Spinach dip should more be green than white.

  • 4 oz cream cheese, room temperature
  • 1/2 c plain Greek yogurt
  • 1 10 oz pkg frozen spinach, thawed and squeezed dry
  • 2 Tbs radishes, finely chopped
  • 2 Tbs red onion, finely chopped
  • 2 Tbs red bell pepper, finely chopped
  • 1 clove garlic, minced
  • 1/4 tsp dried tarragon
  • 1/4  tsp sea salt
  • 1/4 tsp ground mustard
  • 1/8 tsp freshly ground black pepper
  • 1/8 tsp crushed red pepper flakes

Combine cream cheese and yogurt in a medium bowl.  With a hand held electric mixer, mix on low speed until smooth. Add remaining ingredients and enjoy!

Food Love Sundays: Broccoli Salad

January 16, 2011 By 2 Comments

I can’t take credit for this recipe.  A friend shared it with me, and she’d made this up one time in a pinch by just pulling things out of her fridge and cabinets.  Today I made some for my buddies for brunch.

Broccoli florets, raw, cut into bite size

Red bell pepper, cut into short strips

Sweet yellow onion, coarsely chopped

Shredded carrots

Almonds

Cashews

Dried Cranberries

Use whatever proportions you like.  Now, I usually don’t add dressing to salads until on the plate.  In this case however, the [Read more...]

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