Turkish Style Sandwich Bun Recipe - Scratch Mommy

Turkish Style Sandwich Bun Recipe

Nothing beats fresh bread. Nothing. No store bought, mass produced package can compare to a fresh, warm loaf, especially when that loaf is pulled fresh from your oven at home! I could live on that blissful combination of yeast and flour. While I love a slice of bread slathered with butter, my favourite way to enjoy a sandwich is by …

Healthy Bento Box School Lunch Packing Ideas

Packing a Healthy Bento Box School Lunch

We’re only a few weeks into the new school and year I’m already tired of packing the same old things for my daughter’s lunch every day. She’d buy lunch from her school’s cafeteria every day if I let her, but for now we save that as a special treat because, despite their efforts to offer fruits and veggies with every …

Savoury Cheesy Jalapeno Bun Recipe

Savoury Jalapeno Cheese Bun Recipe

Smell. Scent. Aroma. No matter which word you use, the sense of smell can cause the most amazing and immediate reactions (good or bad). Chocolate chip cookies baking on a cold and rainy day. The slightly salty, fishy smell of a riverside market. Freshly baked bread filling up a house with a warm and comforting aroma.   My favourite has …

30 Real Food Strawberry Recipes

30 Real Food Strawberry Recipes

Are you overloaded with delicious, in-season strawberries? It’s not a terrible problem to have! If you’re in need of some inspiration for enjoying strawberries (any time of day) check out all these ahhhh-mazing recipes from around the real food blog community, including many of our wonderful contributors. You’re bound to find something you’ll love. Strawberry and vanilla team up sweetly …

Lemony One-Pot Chicken & Roasted Potato Recipe

Lemony One-Pot Chicken and Roasted Potatoes Recipe

Weekends are made for relaxation. Rejuvenation. Late nights and lazy mornings. Big, hot mugs of coffee and long, drawn out breakfasts. This isn’t just about leisure. This is about what is essential to making the upcoming, possible. Monday. Ugh. Just the word leaves you with a chill, doesn’t it? Lucky for us, we’re given the amazing gift of Saturdays. But …

Grilled Eggplant and Hummus Wrap Recipe

Hot summer days call for easy, portable, make ahead meals, perfect for picnics, road trips, or casual get-togethers. What is the one type of meal that is perfect for those kind of days? Wraps! Wraps are one of my favourite quick and easy meals to make. Not only are wraps more exciting than a boring old sandwich, there are a …

Keeping A Simple Real Food Kitchen

For me, April showers don’t just bring May flowers, they also bring weddings. I am twenty seven and just in that part of life when all my friends are getting married. In the last few years, I have spent a good amount of time studying registries and wandering aisles of department stores in search of kitchen appliances I have never …

Learning how to brew kombucha is actually easier than it sounds and once you start, you'll be hooked. Goodbye $4 kombucha bottles!

How To Brew Kombucha and Add Flavors

Anyone who has ever been to the store Whole Foods has seen their iconic display of brightly colored kombucha gracing the checkout lanes. You can get flavors like ginger pomegranate, blueberry chia seed, or grapefruit. The price tag always gives me a bit of pause though — at almost $4 a bottle, it’s an expensive habit to have. But what …

Love coconut flour but don't love the price? Use coconut flakes to make homemade coconut milk and then use the leftover pulp to make homemade coconut flour. Simple and easy!

How to Make Homemade Coconut Flour

Coconut oil, coconut butter, coconut flakes, coconut milk, coconut flour, oh my! It’s all coconut all the time, folks. It feels like the world has just discovered this brand new amazing thing in the last few years. It’s called the coconut! At one time, coconut was demonized for its high saturated fat content. Remember back in August of 1987 (no? …

Looking for natural menstruation solutions besides using organic tampons? Here's a comprehensive review on SckoonCup from one of our contributors.

A VERY Open Talk About Natural Menstruation Solutions

This post was created as part of the SckoonCup Review Campaign in which I am a financially compensated blogger. The opinions are my own and based on my own experience. In my 20’s I liked to ponder the question, What is man’s greatest invention? The answer was not sliced bread or the wheel. It was not the spaceship that first took …