My friend Kendahl writes at Our Nourishing Roots. She has been cooking with traditional foods just about as long as I have, and just published the e-book Real Food 101 (purchase here). I love visiting her house, I’ll admit she is more of a ‘foodie’ than I am and always knows how to perfectly combine spices and flavors to make fantastic dishes. Me, I’ll admit I’m in this whole real food thing primarily for the health benefits- I appreciate good tasting food, but health is my main passion.
View our video interview about how she got started with real food here.
She saw the need for picture tutorials for the basic real food recipes, and she put together a nice e-book for you! See the topics below. And check out a sample here. Isn’t it pretty?
What is in the e-book?
- Grains, Nuts, Beans, & Seeds: Sprouted Flour, Soaking and Dehydrating Nuts, Beans, and Seeds.
- Working with Raw Dairy: Butter, Buttermilk, Yogurt three ways, Whey, and Cream Cheese.
- Salad Dressings: Basic Vinaigrette, Garlic & Herb Vinaigrette, Ranch Dressing
- Traditional Bone Broths & Stocks: Beef Stock, Chicken Stock, and Shellfish Stock.
- Lacto-fermented Condiments: Ketchup, Hand-Beaten Mayonnaise, and Traditional Sauerkraut.
- Probiotic Drinks: Beet Kvass and Water Kefir.
Purchase here! Health, Home, and Happiness readers get a 30% discount with the code HHH30 until May 4th, 2012.
Giveaway opportunity: Comment below telling me why you’d like to win a copy of this e-book, and on Friday April 27th I’ll pick a winner at random.
I’d love to win this book to help me further improve my traditional food-eating in our home! I mostly would like to expand in the area of homemade condiments!
I am just learning about traditional foods and would love to have a reference like this to guide me.
I am deep in the recently started process of healing my health issues with food, so I may be more present and able to nourish my family well with energy and knowlage……..buy feeeling rather overwhelmed, would love some sound guidance…………….. thank you.
Anything that can put feet on Nourishing Traditions has got to be great! We need more ideas for things like fermented veggies and condiments.
I could use all the help I could get. A picture tutorial would put a “face” to those real foods that I’ve never heard of before. Thanks!
I finally did it. I finally broke down and bought raw milk. I was incredibly hesitant even though I knew about all of the health benefits. I make my own yogurt now, but have never ever worked with raw milk. Would love to learn how to make my own butter and yogurt. Oh, and cream cheese!
I would like to win this ebook to help me actually use my Nourishing Traditions book more. Also, $14 is hefty (even $9) for a 50 pg ebook so I’d love to win it.
I’m always open to learning new things. This could help me implement some new things.
I am still new to the traditional food scene, but trying to implement GAPS for healing, so this e-book would be great! Thanks!
We are trying to continue with GAPS for our family and would love any and all help we can get!
Thank you.
The recipes I’ve seen on her site always seem more “doable” to me than Nourishing Traditions, although I love that too. I’m trying to get adept at healthy food prep while our family is young!
I have a hard time overcoming the hump of trying new things! Picture tutorials help so much because I know what it looks like as I go, thus boosting my confidence!
Sounds like a great book, we just started buying raw milk, I would also like to learn more about sprouted wheat.
As a special needs family, we spend a lot of time making a safe internal and external environment for our son. The time saved on a straight forward approach is priceless to us. It would be such a help.
I would love to win this..I’m just starting this journey of healthy preparations.
A visual tutorial sounds like an excellent approach. I’m sure I would learn a lot and it would also help me spread the word about traditional foods.
I just began eating mostly raw and vegetarian after watching a couple of informative documentaries – Fork over Knives and What’s On Your Plate. I am incorporating more fresh fruits and veggies and have gone completely off dairy. This would be a great resource is staying on this new path to health!
We have been doing traditional whole foods for almost 3 years, but it’s been a work in progress, and are still new to blending the flavors to make them more flavorful. Would love to have this book as a resource as we continue our real food journey and as a companion for GAPS and beyond, which we plan to start in June.
I am just starting GAPS and gathering information frantically because I am so sick with Inflammatory Bowel Disease and cannot afford my meds, not that they work anyway! I have always believed that food is the best medicine but as an exvegan I am finding out that everything I learned might have been wrong!
I would love to have this book, both for my and my husbands own knowledge and betterment of health, but also for that of our children. I want then to have a better start at nourishing their families than I did.
I’d love to win this book! I’ve been learning about Real Foods in baby steps…this books looks very easy to understand and helpful!
This looks like a wonderful book filled with clear, and understandable explanations of how to prepare real food. I’d love to win a copy.