A Guide to Choosing Healthy Herbs & Spices Fresh herbs are easy to grow, even in a sunny windowsill, and add not only fantastic flavor and color to dishes, but also add minerals, enzymes and other healing properties to the diet. If you don’t grow your own, look for local, organic herbs at the store
Real Food Recipes
Caldo de Pollo (Mexican Chicken Soup) Gluten Free
Just like American chicken soup, Caldo de Pollo is a traditional family recipe (and thus has many variations), is a treasured comfort food and is definitely a nutrient-dense meal with healing properties. Unlike American chicken soup, however, this soup is a little spicy and packed with delicious vegetables. This is not tortilla soup, but a true chicken
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Basics & Staples
Amy’s Perfect Roast Chicken with Lemon Thyme Reduction
This is how we prepare our roasted chicken every Friday night. It’s so delicious and we eat the leg/thigh for dinner that night and then over the weekend have breast meat for soups (like Chicken with Wild Rice, Caldo de Pollo or Avgolemono), homemade pecan chicken salad (made with lemony mayo), soft tacos, or whatever we want
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Real Food Recipes
Greek Lemon-Chicken-Egg Soup (Avgolemono) Gluten Free
This soup is a delicious and very nutrient-dense food. Healthy, savory homemade chicken stock is brightened with fresh lemon zest and juice, made silky smooth by the addition of pastured eggs and enriched with fragrant basmati rice and roasted chicken. Perfect for any day and very nourishing and uplifting when you are under the weather. Greek Chicken, Lemon
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Basics & Staples
Homemade Mayonnaise
When I first thought about making mayo from scratch, I was really intimidated. But I shouldn’t have been- it’s so ridiculously super easy and tastes amazing. The first few recipes I found either used vegetable oils (like soy, cottonseed, canola, etc and they are a big no-no) or all olive oil, which I find to be a
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Breakfasts
Breakfast Tacos- Mexican style (gluten-free)
Breakfast Tacos- Mexican Style by Amy Love, Real Food Whole Health Serves 2 Ingredients: 1 TBL organic butter (raw from grassfed cows preferred) 1 TBL high-quality coconut oil or lard (non-hydrogenated from sustainably raised pigs) 1 TBL organic red onion, diced 3 very small red potatoes, diced small 3 pastured eggs 1 TBL organic milk
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Desserts, Sweets & Treats
Easy Chocolate Pudding (gluten-free, dairy-free option)
Easy Chocolate Pudding by Amy Love, Real Food Whole Health Ingredients 1/2 cup sucanat or other natural sugar 3 heaping tablespoons unsweetened high cocoa content cocoa powder 1/4 cup arrowroot powder (or non-GMO cornstarch or tapioca starch) 1/8 teaspoon unrefined sea salt 2 3/4 cups organic milk or cream (raw from grass fed cows preferred)
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Desserts, Sweets & Treats
Over 50 Varieties of Chocolate Truffles
We decided yesterday, rather unexpectedly, and rather innocently I might add, to try out a truffle recipe. At first, I was planning on using the traditional roll-ins- some coconut, some cocoa powder, and maybe a few different types of nuts. Somewhere along the way, however, my creative nature took over and somewhere between mixing Indian
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Real Food Recipes
Tom Kha Kai (Thai coconut milk soup)
This traditional Thai soup (pronounced tom- kuh- kie) is a favorite of ours, but it’s hard to trust the ingredients in restaurant versions. Sadly, many of the traditional ethnic restaurants have stopped using nutrient-dense foods and have jumped on the processed food bandwagon. This version uses homemade chicken stock made from pastured chicken, nutrient-dense coconut