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Favorite Sweet Corn Recipes

July 27, 2018

I’m headed back to Indiana soon to visit family and that always brings one vegetable to mind…corn.

Fresh sweet corn is my second favorite summer vegetable after heirloom tomatoes. I’ll admit I have pretty high standards for it, too. We grew up eating it straight from the garden so I know a good ear of corn. The kernels burst in your mouth with each bite. If there is even the slightest hint of chewiness, it’s past its prime.

Since one can only eat so many ears of corn on the cob this time of year, I’ve come up with many recipes that use fresh corn cut off the cob. These are a few of my favorites to enjoy every summer from soups to salads to relishes!

Nectarine Recipes

June 25, 2018

Believe it or not, I don’t remember being introduced to nectarines until we moved to California about six years ago.

I knew they existed, but they weren’t around in Kentucky and Indiana like, say, peaches. Peaches were everywhere there. And delicious.

But nectarines were a new-to-me fruit. I actually started liking them a lot more than peaches. I think it has to do with their firmness. They have a peek moment of ripeness for me where they are super sweet, but still firm, not mushy.

Over the past few years, in addition to eating many fresh, I’ve also used them in some recipes. Given that their season is rolling back around, I wanted to bring some of those back to the spotlight.

The Top Recipes After 10 Years of Fake Food Free

June 9, 2018

Nine hundred and eighty-one published posts.

That is what it tells me when I log into WordPress.

I wasn’t always on WordPress. Actually, I stayed true to Blogger as my platform until just a few years ago. But all those posts are there, from 2008 to the present.

It’s probably not a lot compared to other blogs that have been around this long. Some years have more posts than others.

The first few had a lot of soapbox opinion posts about my views on nutrition. The blog has always had a smattering of internationally inspired content. For a while, you’d find nothing but mascavo sugar and white whole wheat flour. Then I relaxed the rules a bit on that. Mainly because the sugar got much harder and more expensive to find when we moved back to the States, and to be honest, I got sick of the flavor of that flour.

Then I went and wrote a cookbook about making foods with beer. And I started a business, now called Fake Food Free Productions, LLC where my main services are photographing food and writing related content.

It’s been an interesting path. The pictures above are of me with my first sticky rice in Chiang Mai, Thailand in 2009. Then a picture I took at my first food photography workshop. Jumping to current days, the next is one of the headshots I had taken when my cookbook published last year.

Lately, it has been fun to look back at all my content and see how some of my favorite recipes compare to the internet’s favorite recipes.

15 Picnic Recipes to Celebrate the End of Summer

August 24, 2016

The end of August is rolling around. Even though schools have started and I’ve been thinking a lot about pumpkins, there is still that one big celebration that closes us out of summer and sends us into the next season.

For all of those Labor Day cookouts and picnics coming up, I decided to go through some of the recipes here on Fake Food Free and pull out a few that are perfect to take or make for your next cookout. Some are from way back when and others debuted just this summer.

St. Patrick’s Day Recipes and Travel

March 16, 2015

I’m sharing some green, along with my favorite St. Patrick’s Day recipes, and travel inspired by one my favorite places — Ireland!

I’ve had green on my mind lately. Isn’t it such a beautiful color? I grabbed some green things from around the kitchen last week and took a few fun photos. It got me in the mood for spring and for St. Patrick’s Day!

We’ve been to Ireland a few times now and each visit I get more inspired by the people, the food and the landscape. So when we have a holiday where I can celebrate those things back home, I’m all in.

5 Favorite Lemon Recipes

September 25, 2014

Since moving to California with amazing access to citrus, I love cooking with lemon. These are a few of my favorite lemon recipes.

Our backyard is currently filled with the intoxicating aroma of citrus blossoms. It’s the part of the citrus growing process that is second only to the lemons and oranges that come several weeks later. That scent has the power to take you from a bad to a good mood in one swift sniff.

While I wait patiently for new fruit, occasionally sticking my head out the door to breath it in, the lemon tree has been kind enough to produce some stragglers throughout the entire summer. I pulled a few off the tree to photograph last week and it got me in the mood for some of my favorite lemon recipes. These five recipes are from the Fake Food Free archives and worthy of being made again year after year. (Click on the name and it will take you to the recipe.)

Blue Potato Salad with Lemon Vinaigrette
Lemon Tuna and Chickpea Salad
Lemon Rosemary Thumbprints with Peach Jam
Blood Orange Bulgar Wheat Salad with Honey, Meyer Lemon and Cilantro Dressing
Kale and Pistachio Soup

Javanese Carrot and Cucumber Pickle Recipe (Acar Timun)

August 5, 2014

This recipe for carrot and cucumber pickles remains one of my very favorites. If you like pickled veggies as much as I do, this cookbook needs some space on your shelf!

Javanese Carrot and Cucumber Pickle | fakefoodfree.com

The first time we traveled to Southeast Asia, I completely missed a very important thing about the cuisine.

It’s all about the condiments.

I saw the little bowls of peppers, relishes, chutneys and sauces on our table and I tried one here and there, but it wasn’t until we returned and I researched recipes further that I realized I should have been much more adventurous! Now, I can make a complete meal out of the condiments alone. Sweet, spicy, tangy, pickled, fermented – you name it and I want it.

I’ve become that annoying person at the dinner table who asks a million question of the server. What is that? How is it made? What’s in it? I’ll take any little piece of information I can grab to help me find a recipe so I can make it at home later, or at least attempt to. I always feel a little intimidated because it never seems to turn out just right. But that’s probably because I haven’t really had a reliable resource for recipes. Until now.

recipes

Favorite Sweet Corn Recipes

Nectarine Recipes

The Top Recipes After 10 Years of Fake Food Free

15 Picnic Recipes to Celebrate the End of Summer

St. Patrick’s Day Recipes and Travel

5 Favorite Lemon Recipes

Javanese Carrot and Cucumber Pickle Recipe (Acar Timun)

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