Kristine Cocchiarella
Classically trained Cordon Bleu chef turned anti-GMO, pro-organic, food hippie blogger with a passion for REAL food.
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Real Food Girl Presents: Bacon and Whipped Cream
Hello Real Foodies! I’m excited to be able to guest post here on Real Food Girl Unmodified. I love following Kristine’s blog and Facebook posts – and of course her delicious recipes! I’m Stephani and I blog over at Bacon & Whipped Cream. I’m mom of 2 beautiful girls and the wife of an amazing guy for almost 16 years now. I love to cook and bake – and I love to transform recipes to make them healthy, real food. I also love to talk all things health, fitness and family. Today I want to share a recipe for one of my favorite foods – corn bread! I have always loved corn bread…especially…
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Ground Sirloin Steaks with Brown Gravy
One of my favorite blogs is South Your Mouth. South Your Mouth is run by Mandy. She’s spunky, sarcastic and is fast becoming a good friend. I get the opportunity to meet her later this year, which has me seriously stoked! Not only do I get to experience her yummy food, and her bold, nothing is sacred, irreverent sense of humor but I’ll get to tear things up in the kitchen with her. I have to say I’m super excited to finally be meeting a favorite blogger in the flesh. I’ve been stalking following Mandy’s blog for a little over two years. I know you’ll enjoy her humorous stories and her recipes as…
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Real Food Girl Presents: Old City Salts
Hello Food Hippies! I have a surprise for you today. Say hello to Karyl from Old City Salts. “Hi, Karyl!” I have a huge passion for salts because of my culinary background, but there is more to all those varieties of salts than just jazzing up a meal. I met Karyl & Stephanie via my Facebook page and we quickly bonded over salts, health issues and the Real Food movement and all it has done to help heal from long standing health issues. I am very excited that Stephanie and Karyl have agreed to do a guest post for me while I’m under the weather. I think you guys are going to learn…
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Easy Herb Roasted Chicken
Do you eat a lot of chicken? We do. Sometimes I wish I could just buy a 12 pound prim rib roast and feast on medium rare prime rib and Au jus for a week! However, since the pastured, grass-fed cow that could provide me that large hunk of red meat would cost me a car payment to purchase, I’m gonna have to stick with chicken. I roast chicken almost weekly. I either roast an entire chicken, or I’ll roast some thighs and a breast. I make this curry-cayenne chicken salad for TSM often, so I need roasted chicken on hand in order to do that. I also like having it on hand…
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Soft & Chewy Peanut Butter Cookies
Several months ago I posted my “Not Half Bad Peanut Butter Cookies” recipe. Being that I’m not a peanut butter cookie fan, yet I am a huge fan or peanut butter, I felt those cookies really weren’t half bad. After experimenting with some new recipes, I have to tell you, that these cookies are spectacular, seriously good, kinda-almost-rolled-my-eyes-when-I-took-a-bite scrumptious. Amen, Holy Mary, The End, Good Night! <—– I have no idea where all that came from, but we’re gonna just move right on past it. Stop the rubber necking folks, it’s just an accident. Ya see ’em every day. It happens to the best of us. I have been using my original PB…
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Real Food Roasted Vegetables
TSM (The Stud Muffin) doesn’t care much for veggies. In fact, it would be easier to get a 3 year old to eat their veggies than it is to get TSM to eat them. So I roast them. If they’re roasted he’ll eat them and the skies part and the angels sing and the birdies tweet and the sun shines and every little girl that wished for a pony gets one and my man gets some healthy veggies in his body. I’d roast veggies more often, but sometimes a girl just wants some steamed green beans, ya know? These veggies could NOT be easier to prepare. They are so easy, TSM made a…
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Onion Bacon ‘Jam’ (Organic/GMO-Free)
I have a serious foodie crush on bacon. It’s worse than the combined crushes I had on Shawn Cassidy, Scott Baio and Andy Gibb as a teen! We’re talking about an incurable, deep, intense crush for all things bacon. If bacon was a person, I’d be arrested for stalking it and creating a bacon photo collage on the wall of my seedy, low rent apartment complete with an alter, paying homage to all things bacon- just like those psycho ax murderers do on all those criminal cop shows. Yup. I’ve got it baad! I love bacon so much that any bacon related clip art, or comic or poem or interesting food invention using…
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Meatballs with Beef, Pork and Veal
Welcome to the new blog site everyone! Are you as excited to be here as I am to have you here? I hope so! Are you ‘CRAZY excited’, as my 8-year-old niece would say? Imagine my surprise when after importing all the posts from my Blogger site I realized that I’ve shared my “Gravy”/Marinara sauce recipe, and a quick tomato meat sauce/ragu recipe and a basic white sauce recipe but I never shared my meatball recipe? What is wrong with me? Um, don’t answer that please… Please accept my most genuine apology for taking so long to post my meatball recipe. I should probably remember to take my memory supplements more often. I…
