Category: Nourishing Foods

• Pasta Carbonara Revamped Nourishing Style

  I must say I love pasta. Occasionally, I will make noodles from scratch. But having brown rice pasta noodles from Trader Joe’s is such a great quick fix. Switching up traditional recipes to make them nourishing is usually not too difficult. What makes pasta delicious? Richness. Real cream, real butter, real meat. Love it. Pasta Carbonara…

  Gina

  October 24, 2011

  Recipes

  brown rice pasta, pasta carbonara, real dairy

• Random Beef Stew

  The other night was pizza night, from which I had about a cup of extra sauce. As I was thinking of what I’d make for dinner tonight (where’s that meal plan when I need it?!), I remembered the black beans I had made extra of and were in the freezer. I had just bought some…

  Gina

  October 23, 2011

  Recipes

  beef bones, leftovers, stew

• Almond Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

  We have a slight cookie fetish here. I find they are great snack, travel easily, and with just a couple cups of sucanat and palm sugar, they’re not overly sweet. I guess they’d more qualify for “energy bars” then a cookie treat. I ran out of blanched almonds for almond flour, so I thought I…

  Gina

  October 22, 2011

  Recipes

  almond butter, coconut flour, coconut sugar, cookies, gluten free

• Veggie Pizza Sauce

  It’s pizza night! I had been experimenting with putting all different kinds of vegetables into our pizza sauce. Though, after several months of doing so, I think the children missed the basic pizza sauce. Tonight I tried to make a minimal veggie sauce. I picked some tomatoes, peppers, and basil from the garden and prepared…

  Gina

  October 21, 2011

  Recipes

  pizza sauce