This soup has a bright color and smooth texture. I hope you enjoy making this soup. I like this soup because it is very budget friendly and is a good way to use up a lot of vegetables. Making a big pot of soup means that you don’t have to cook as much during the … Read more
Many brands of ricotta cheese are not an ultra-processed food. However ricotta is one of the easiest cheeses to make and this makes a large quantity that can be eaten as a snack or used to make dishes like lasagne. I like to eat fresh ricotta with sliced pears. It also works with vegetables like … Read more
Unlike a traditional vanilla ice cream, this recipe uses Mexican vanilla beans. Mexican vanilla beans have a unique flavor that is more perfumed than a regular vanilla bean. If you are unable to find Mexican vanilla, you can still use this recipe to make a rich vanilla ice cream. I bought both the Mexican vanilla … Read more
Most ice cream is an ultra-processed food. This is a recipe for chocolate ice cream that is very thick and rich. If you are careful when selecting the cream and chocolate that you use there are no ultra-processed foods in this ice cream. This recipe uses five egg yolks. The egg yolks make the ice … Read more
This recipe makes a caramel sauce out of apple cider. The total recipe takes a little over half an hour to make, but it is not as difficult as many caramel recipes are. If you do not like pecans or have a nut allergy, just leave them out. This caramel is great for putting over … Read more
Don’t throw away the carcass from a rotisserie chicken without using it to make broth first. It is a very easy way to get every last bit of flavor out of your chicken. If you use a rotisserie chicken that is not ultra-processed your resulting chicken broth will also not be ultra-processed. You can use … Read more
This is an easy option for a weeknight dinner. It does not take a lot of time to make and can use up some leftovers. If you don’t have the exact amount of something, just use what you have. I had some left over rotisserie chicken from Costco that I wanted to use up. Their … Read more
This recipe makes a thick fudgy chocolate sauce that does not contain any ultra-processed ingredients. It is good for putting over ice cream, eating with fruit, or stirring into a coffee drink. It has a rich chocolate flavor and the recipe does not use any ultra-processed ingredients. I think it tastes much better than Hershey’s … Read more
Are biscuits and ultra-processed food? For a lot of people, making biscuits means popping open a tube of biscuit dough and putting the rounds on a baking sheet. This method is fast and easy way to get biscuits in the oven. These ready-to-bake tubes of biscuit dough are an ultra-processed food. For example, Pillsbury Grands! … Read more
To me the best type of dressing for Thanksgiving dinner has cornbread in it. Making cornbread from scratch is one of the easiest things you can bake. Since making homemade cornbread is so easy, it doesn’t even save you much time or effort if you use a box mix. The biggest difference is the price. … Read more