I am delighted to publish this guest post from Sally Kuzemchak, the registered dietitian behind Real Mom Nutrition. When she asked if I had anything specific in mind, I pounced with my standard question to nutritionists: ‘What do you think about fat?’ what follows is her reasoned and helpful response. An occupational hazard of being a dietitian is that people love to tell us we’re wrong. Anytime a research finding flies in the face of [...]

Ingredients and Inspirations: Fat Tuesday/Mardi Gras/Shrove Tuesday = great food traditions! We care little for the various religious meanings; we adopt the recipes we love. Dine Originals Restaurant Week = date lunch and maybe dinner out Mashed potato leftovers from my sister’s birthday dinner = potato pancake makings March Charcutepalooza challenge = home made cured brisket ready to cook this week Monday – Lasagna roll ups with homemade tomato sauce, homemade ricotta from Snowville milk [...]

Yesterday we collected the first egg from our backyard chickens!!  Our guess is that one of the Buff Orpingtons laid it, as they were particularly vocal yesterday. Today we collected another egg.  This time we saw an Orpington in the nesting box so it surely came from her. We scrambled the two smaller than average eggs together for breakfast and served it with homemade bread buttered with home shaken raw milk butter. It was the [...]

We receive 1 1/2 gallons of un-homogenized whole milk every week from a local farmer.  Every week we skim the cream.  A few nips are used in coffee, but the rest is dedicated to butter. While at first I thought making butter might be a chore, I remain amazed every week at the transformation of liquid to solid.  I feel like the 15 minutes of shaking is a bit of exercise that burns some of [...]