Mama Says

Continuing my real food reading list, I recently finished

Just in time for Lent!
I thought I’d post my recipe for Charro Beans.  These are so good, and versatile.  If you are not making them vegetarian, add some bacon, sausage, ham, or pork with the onions as a base flavor.  It’s a great way to use up the odds and ends of ham or even [...]

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I need your help.  Last year I got a paragraph one of my mommy friends makes her children write when they are naughty.  It was kind of long, an essay on “I will respect my parents” “I will love others as Jesus loves them”, that sort of thing.  But I lost the link and I [...]

We are moving to a more natural, real food diet.  We are also on WIC and food stamps (in Texas, if you qualify for SNAP aka food stamps, you are automatically qualified for WIC if you are pregnant or have children under the age of 5).  I’ll be blogging how we make the change on [...]

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I’ve been reading a lot of foodie books (Michael Pollan, Barbara Kingsolver) and they both emphasize eating locally and eating in season.  I’ve virtuosly passed up on cherries from Chile and thought twice about buying corn on the cob in January (really, what’s the point of that?)  But I really experienced what they are talking [...]

Two quotes worth chewing.  With your bacon.
America’s early attraction to various forms of scientific eating may also have reflected discomfort about the way other people eat; the weird, messy, smelly, and mixed-up eating habits of immigrants.  How a people eats is one of the most powerful ways they have to express, and preserve, their cultural [...]

I have no idea what we are eating this week.  I am still getting used to buying nice meat from the butcher case.  And oh, this meat is nice.  It’s firm, not too fatty. It smells so good, and is smooth to the touch, not too rough and bumpy.  I’d take this meat home to [...]

Last year, I tried an experiment I called the Food Stamp Challenge.  Feeding my family on $2 per person, per day.  Could it be done?  Would we be forced to eat ramen noodles every meal?
If you remember, I came in under budget and there were plenty of fresh fruits and veggies on the menu.
This year, [...]