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26 Books to Help Celebrate the Return of Light
Whether you are Christian, Pagan, or Jewish, or whether you celebrate Kwanzaa or a very secular Santa Clause-and-tinsel sort of holiday season, no one in the Northern Hemisphere can fail to notice...
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7 Gift Ideas for the Real Food Person in Your Life
What exactly is Real Food? Doesn’t everyone eat real food? When someone says they eat Real Food, they are talking about a way of selecting and preparing food that is quite different from the Standard...
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Irish Eggnog for Christmas
I like rum. Who doesn’t like rum? But I like whiskey better. And this eggnog recipe is full of real food and Irish whiskey goodness. Yum. What you need: 4 pastured eggs 4 cups of the best milk you...
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Real Food Mexican Wedding Cakes
Mexican Wedding Cakes have always been my husband’s favorite Christmas cookie. In fact, I remember my mother-in-law telling me, as she wrote out her recipe for me, that he always said it wouldn’t be...
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My Week on Wednesday and Heartfelt Holiday Gifts
Hello, and welcome to another My Week on Wednesday! I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving (we did!) and is ready to enjoy the rest of the Holiday Season! Our Elf on the Shelf (affiliate link)...
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Last Minute Gifts: How to Make an Infinity Scarf in an Evening
You’re not a procrastinator, are you? All your Christmas presents were selected, ordered, wrapped, and waiting to be delivered by the first week of December, right? Ha. Yeah. I am right there with you...
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Jan Hagel: A Dutch Christmas Cookie
Normally you will find me taking traditional recipes and making them more real food-friendly. I’m prone to removing white flour and replacing it with sprouted flour, and switching out the sugar for...
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My Week on Wednesday and Ancestral Cookie Recipes
Hello, and welcome to another My Week on Wednesday! The holiday season is in full swing… and I want to talk about cookies. Most families have special cookie recipes… the sort of cookie that simply has...
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Gingerbread Cookie Latte
You may have already noticed this… but I really have a thing for those expensive coffee-house drinks. But I can’t do them anymore. I don’t want the horrific amount of refined sugar… or any refined...
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Sweet & Savory Sweet Potato Stew
Not too sweet, not too spicy, and full of late-fall vegetables, apples, and dried fruit… this stew is a favorite dish for when the days darken and Yule approaches. It fills the house with the inviting...
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White Hot Chocolate with Gingerbread Spice
The other day, when I was working on my Gingerbread Cookie Latte post, two of the most adorable little kids were following me around with these sad puppy eyes. (Yes, they were my kids, and no, they...
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My Week on Wednesday and Last Minute Holiday Gifts
Hello, and welcome to another My Week on Wednesday! I hope you are all enjoying your holidays, and holiday preparation! It’s been a little bit crazy around here with plays and concerts and dance...
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Winter Vegetable Medley
The family joke is that my husband used to ask for Brussels sprouts on his birthday… because, while my husband disliked Brussels sprouts, his older brother loathed them, and being the much-younger...
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Bûche de Noël
A couple of years ago the Boy had to do a project for school: Research the Christmas traditions of another country or region. The place he drew out of the hat? France. We learned a lot, but one of the...
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My Week on Wednesday and Yuletide Blessings
Welcome to My Week on Wednesday! It’s Christmas Eve and Christmas carols are playing in my kitchen while the kids rattle around in there, cleaning up the mess we all made earlier baking cookies....
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Roast Chicken Stuffed with Cranberries, Apples, and Sweet Potatoes
A couple of years ago, I created one of my favorite dishes ever: Sweet & Savory Sweet Potato Stew. As it turns out, the combination of sweet potatoes, apples, cranberries balances...
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How to Make a Classic Doctor Who Scarf
If you’re a Doctor Who fan — or knows someone who is — and you like to crochet, then you’re going to love this post! Why? Because I’m about to tell you how super easy it is to come up with an...
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Homemade Peppermint Mocha
Peppermint Mocha. It’s hot chocolate, coffee, and a candy cane… all in one steaming mug of holiday cheer. Or it’s a crazy-expensive disposable cup full of questionable chemicals and three day’s worth...
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