Lunch

Pastured Egg Salad

May 22, 2011 By jenniepaige Leave a Comment
Egg SaladThanks for checking back at Pure Homemaking, I hope you make yourself at home!

Sometimes Egg Salad can be a bit too…well eggy. I love eggs but sometimes having a traditional Egg Salad is a bit much on the egg front. My husband isn’t a huge fan of egg salad but I do like it, so I had to come up with a compromise that we would both enjoy. So, for lunch yesterday I remembered that I had a dozen eggs already hard-boiled in the fridge ready to be used up and decided to give it a go. Even though I HATE peeling hard-boiled eggs! It’s especially tough when you have fresh eggs. The older they are the easier they break away from the shell when hard-boiled. Another tip is to chill them immediately after cooking them from what I’ve read and it does seem to make the process go by well. And as my seven-year old daughter pointed out, having nails helps peel the shell too-something I never have and she does. So, she asked to help me and she did a bang up job even if it was a bit slow.  (Have any egg peeling tips? Dish!) [Read more...]

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Chicken Nuggets

May 15, 2011 By jenniepaige 6 Comments
Chicken Nuggets

Many of you might remember my article that I wrote a couple of weeks ago about the dangers of eating conventional chicken nuggets. I specifically broke down all of the ingredients in McDonald’s nuggets, but sadly they are not alone. The junk that I mentioned that was in them is not just in nuggets, but can be found in many pre-packaged food-like substances.

So in order to avoid all of the junk while still allowing my children to eat the foods that they like, I came up with a healthy version of chicken nuggets. And guess what? It’s easy too! Who knew? What I suggest doing is to make a large batch of this and freeze them so you can have a healthy meal on hand when you feel yourself giving into the drive-though temptation that we have all felt. Serve them with some raw carrots or celery sticks for some added crunch. [Read more...]

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Liberating French Fries

May 10, 2011 By jenniepaige 4 Comments

I had a hankering for french fries this past weekend. Like I HAD to have them. And I’m not even a big french fry person-I am SO picky about french fries. They must be thin, crispy and light feeling. Not burnt and not chewy-gross! I also try to avoid any kind that you can get through a drive-through, and I have never seen any advertised in a restaurant that says they were cooked in a HEALTHY oil.  The affordable frozen pre-made variety are always only so-so and usually have nasty things in them like trans-fat, msg, etc. So, I generally just don’t eat them.

But we were grilling up some fantastic grass-fed cheeseburgers this weekend and I told my husband that I MUST have french fries. I think I was tempted originally by a recipe over at The Cheese Slave and decided that I had to give it a try. We have made french fries that were fried in olive oil before and baked in the oven but they never compared to that boardwalk fries taste I was going for.  So I decided to give french fries fried in grass-fed tallow a go. [Read more...]

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No Mistakin’ Bacon Chedder Burger’s

January 10, 2010 By jenniepaige 2 Comments

(My husband named this one)
So my 6 year old is a pretty picky eater. She doesn’t even generally like burgers so I was surprised when she couldn’t stop talking about these. Between the sweet and almost spicy and the bacon-these are a crowd pleaser for sure. My hubby even had them as left overs (yes he had two) and they were just as good, even though there wasn’t any more bacon. You should make these. Your family will love you for it and you might make a new best friend if you make it for them. [Read more...]

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Baked Pasta in Vodka Lemon Cream Sauce

January 4, 2010 By jenniepaige Leave a Comment

This is an easy yet fantastic pasta dish.  It’s kind of like a good Jewish Kugel that met and fell in love with an Italian pasta dish. It is good enough as a stand alone meal or paired beautifully with chicken breast and a vegetable such as broccoli. This recipe was adapted from Pioneer Woman’s version. [Read more...]

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