CHEESESLAVE

It’s that time again — Real Food Wednesday! This week our theme is bone broth recipes.
What is bone broth? It’s any kind of broth made from the bones of animals. There’s chicken stock, duck stock, beef or veal stock, fish stock, and even shellfish stock.
Bone broth is chock full of minerals and extremely good for [...]

I’m hosting Real Food Wednesday this week on Cheeseslave (Kelly the Kitchen Kop hosts on alternate weeks). I was planning for the theme to be Healthy Desserts (for Valentine’s Day) but I have changed my mind.
Kimi at The Nourishing Gourmet is hosting a carnival, Nourishing Chocolate Recipes, on Tuesday February 10th. Since the topics [...]

I made Thai food last night!
Tom Kha Gai soup — made with fish or chicken stock, lemongrass, coconut milk, galangal, kaffir lime leaves, lime, and shrimp.
It was delicious — and very easy to make.
Instead of sugar, I used honey. And I didn’t have any red chili sauce so I used cayenne pepper. I used my [...]

Tonight I’m making fish stock for the first time. I used two carcasses from wild-caught Thai snapper.
Fish heads should be added — they include the thyroids which are full of iodine. And I need iodine since I am deficient.
I actually think most people — even our children — are deficient. I’m looking into giving Kate [...]

I was lazy tonight and didn’t feel like cooking. Seth is still in France — so I made a super easy supper just for me: oysters on the half shell with leftover asparagus and pancetta risotto.
I went to Whole Foods today to pick up some things. My dentist told me he thinks I have heavy [...]