A Little Bit of Spain in Iowa

http://spaininiowa.blogspot.com

Spanish Food Recipes and Nourishing Foods, homemade, organic, and grown at home. My blog has a lot of do it yourself, such as homemade yogurt, pectin, bread, cultures and ferments.

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Recent Posts Tagged With 'real food'

Aug 05

All About Pectin and Naturally Sweetening your Jam or Jelly

The beauty of summers fruit can be preserved and enjoyed throughout the entire year by putting up jam, jelly and preserves.  I feel that most people's gateway to canning starts with homemade jam or jelly.  Who can resist the luscious colors of stra (read full article)

real food, Recipes

Aug 03

Naturally Pickled Green Beans with Radishes, Red Onions and Thyme

My favorite part of growing my own food and visiting my local farmers market this year has been coming up with new recipes for preserving the harvest naturally.  Here is a great recipe to preserve the ever growing bounty of green beans. A couple (read full article)

Lacto-Fermentation, Preserving, real food

Jul 22

Sourdough Blueberry Pancakes

I am so proud of these pancakes.  As crazy as it may seem, these pancakes were the result of a weeks worth of care and attention.  WHAT?!  I know, right?!  Sounds crazy, but yes... it's true.  I finally dived into sourdough!  If you haven't had (read full article)

real food, Recipes

Jun 24

Homemade Ghee

Ghee has a rich history in the Indian culture.  It has been used nutritionally and religiously for over 2,000 years.  A rich, aromatic, clarified butter with a depth of nuttiness. Like any clarified butter, ghee is composed almost entirely of fat (read full article)

real food, Recipes

May 27

Naturally Pickled Asapargus and Spring Garlic

Before leaving to Spain I made a trip to opening day of the Downtown Des Moines farmers market.  Although I knew my trip was only a few days away, I couldn't resist!  Seeing so many of my market vendor friends again was a blessing!  They are alrea (read full article)

fermented foods, real food, Recipes

May 25

How to Cook Real Food: An Online Cooking Class by Nourished Kitchen

I'm sure many of you have already heard the great news that Jenny from Nourished Kitchen is currently offering an online cooking class.  A class that will teach you how to eat nutrient dense foods locally and in season.  Jenny is one of my blogging (read full article)

real food, Real Food Media

Apr 26

Ebersole Cattle Co. and Grass Fed Beef Giveaway!

This is Beau, Shanen and family from Ebersole Cattle Co.  I have been so blessed to have met Shanen about a year ago.  We met through local Iowa mama groups and have since become good friends.  She is a ranching mama, a true cowgirl and one that w (read full article)

Giveaways, real food

Apr 09

Is real saturated fat good for you? YES! ...and a Giveaway!

I'm so glad to finally come back to sharing what I have learned about using real fats!  I wrote my first post on this series in February of this year called Real Fat.  It was winter time and I found myself quite comfortably wearing stretchy pants, (read full article)

Giveaways, real food

Apr 02

Lacto-Fermentation - A traditional and natural way to preserve natures bounty

With all of the gardening and preserving of food that I enjoy to store up for the winter, I wanted to share with you a traditional form of canning that has increased in popularity over the years. Lacto-fermentation.  Just the word fermentation can (read full article)

Nourishing Traditions, Preserving, real food, Recipes

Mar 02

Resting in the Lord

I have so many posts backed up ready to share, however, I wanted to take some time to share with you a little bit of what's been going on in my life. I love this picture!  Yummy fresh sardines!  So nourishing, so tasty!  Well, that post will be (read full article)

Faith, real food

Feb 19

Sprouting Whole Grains

When I first started on my road to making homemade bread, the word wheat berry was being tossed around.  Wheat huh?  You mean flour comes from a wheat berry?  Yes, the 5lb bags that we buy at our local grocer filled with powdered flour is actually (read full article)

real food

Feb 01

Real Fat

"When someone shares something of value with you and you benefit from it, you have a moral obligation to share it with others." --Chinese Proverb What I'm about to share about fat and all that I feel is good and healthy about it is simply what I've l (read full article)

real food

Jan 06

Poison Alert: High Fructose Corn Syrup

The first step my family took to a nourishing lifestyle was eliminating all high fructose corn syrup from our diet.  This was a task!  I could not believe how many products in my pantry and refrigerator contained this poison. Jelly Yogurt Bread Cra (read full article)

real food

Dec 02

Week of Christmas Giveaway's - Green Pasture's Fermented Cod Liver Oil

What a privilege to host such amazing giveaway's!  I stand by each product that I have reviewed so far and this next review and giveaway is no exception! Before I proceed, I was given this product to review for free.  Green Pastures is not compens (read full article)

Giveaways, real food

Oct 28

The Miracles of Broth

One of my favorite nourishing practices is making my own bone broth. I've been making my own chicken broth for quite some time as it's something that's been passed down through my mother.  Usually by making puchero or paella.  However, (read full article)

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Oct 02

Real Milk

Real Milk?  Isn't all milk real milk?  For the past 3 years, my family has made the concious decision to buy locally produced milk.  For most of these 3 years our milk came from Picket Fence Creamery.  The milk is non-homogenized/vat pasteurized (read full article)

Family Farms, real food

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