Homemade mayonnaise is so much more delicious and a healthier alternative to that store-bought stuff. Even the so-called healthier options at the typical grocery store, like those labeled as “olive oil mayonnaise”, usually contain mostly rancid, genetically modified vegetable oils that aren’t good for you at all. Making your own mayonnaise isn’t hard- we’ve shared
Real Food Diet
Over 45 Real Food Salad Dressing Recipes
Salad dressings are great! They enhance the vegetables, meats and add-ins on our favorite salads and often entice kiddos to eat their greens. I love Ranch dressing on carrot sticks, raw broccoli, snap peas and cauliflower! Salad dressings also add valuable nutrition to our diets, especially when they include healthy fats. We need fats in
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Real Food Recipes
Simple Homemade Caesar Dressing- Gluten Free, Real Food
Caesar has to be one of my favorite salad dressings, tied closely with Ranch dressing. However, commercial varieties are full of additives, preservatives, MSG and pro-inflammatory vegetable oils. Luckily, both of these are easy to make at home and taste SO much better than their industrially processed counterparts. Previously I shared my recipe for homemade
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Real Food Recipes
Beyond Easy Homemade Ranch Dressing
I love Ranch dressing and dip for veggies, but the commercial stuff is full of chemicals, additives, preservatives, MSG, hydrogenated vegetable oils and more…no thanks! Thankfully, it’s beyond easy to make your own… here’s how we whip ours up in less than 5 minutes! (And I almost always use dried herbs because I have them
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Salads & Salad Dressings
Easy Asian Inspired Salad Dressing
This dressing/dip is delightful! We have used this on a variety of salads, as a dip for chicken satay and on our asian lettuce wraps. Feel free to play with the ratios of ingredients to spice to your liking. Easy Asian Inspired Salad Dressing by Amy Love, Real Food Whole Health Ingredients: 2 TBL+ organic
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Basics & Staples
101 Gluten Free Snow Day Recipes
It’s the most wonderful time of year: the first real snow day! Children stay home from school, roads are quiet, families gather around a crackling fire, and everyone flocks to the kitchen for freshly baked (gluten free!) goodies, hot soup and warm drinks. In New England, we anticipate the snow with much excitement. We love
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Main Dishes & Entrees
Gluten Free Asian Lettuce Wraps
This is a quick and easy real food meal! It works as an appetizer or as a main course and it’s delicious. We used to love ordering lettuce wraps at the restaurant P.F. Chang’s. This, of course, was before we switched to a real food lifestyle. I don’t even want to think about what unpronounceable
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Basics & Staples
Video- How to Make Homemade Mayonnaise (and Creamy Salad Dressing)
Enjoy this how-to video that demonstrates making homemade mayo- a great spread and base for creamy salad dressings. The printed recipe for homemade mayonnaise can be found HERE
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Real Food Recipes
Arugula Salad with Lemon Dressing
I just love a nice, fresh, simple salad. And the peppery bite of arugula is so fantastic, especially paired with a light lemon dressing. A perfect addition to almost any dish, this is particularly nice with chicken (like Gluten Free Chicken Paillard or Gluten Free Chicken Piccata, fish, beside a bowl of soup or piled