What Real Food Bloggers Really Eat: Jenny of Nourished Kitchen

Today’s real food journal comes to us from Jenny of the wildly popular Nourished Kitchen. Jenny shares with us a weekend of nourished eating.

Friday

Breakfast: 1 pastured egg, fried in butter over 1 cup wilted spinach. 1/2 avocado. 3 ounces chorizo. 1 cup mixed berries (blueberries, blackberries, raspberries).  1 chai latte with 1 teaspoon honey.

Lunch: Vindaloo Shrimp Salad (2 cups mesclun lettuce, carrot, cucumber, prawns seasoned in Indian spices, mango-olive oil salad dressing), Tom Yum Gung Soup (Prawns, Mushrooms, Lemongrass, Chilies, Broth, Tomatoes.

Snack: Cajun-spiced Cashew Nuts

Dinner: Seared Grass-fed Beef Tenderloin, 1 cup Braised Spinach with 1/2 Moroccan Preserved Lemon. Fingerling Potatoes pan-fried in Ghee and Seasoned with Garlic and Smoked Paprika, 1 cup mesclun lettuce with olive oil and cider vinegar.

Dessert: Blackberry sorbet.

Saturday

Brunch: 1 serving baked oatmeal, 1/2 cup fresh yogurt, 1 pastured egg, fried in lard over 1 cup Swiss chard sauteed in garlic, 3 slices pastured bacon, rooibos tea

Snack: 6 strawberries, hunk of raw cheddar cheese

Dinner: Grass-fed roast leg of lamb with spring vegetables (parsnips, carrots, turnips, snap peas) and herbs (parsley, mint). chicken liver pate on whole grain sourdough bread, 2 cups mesclun lettuce with olive oil and cider vinegar.

Sunday

Brunch: Omelet with pasture-raised eggs, tomatoes, spinach, bacon, cream cheese. Fruit salad (pineapple, oranges, strawberries, apples), Earl Grey tea with cream

Snack: Steamed Beets with Kombucha Vinaigrette, Raw Milk

Dinner: 4 ounces wild-caught Salmon wrapped in pastured bacon and fresh herbs, 1 cup asparagus roasted in ghee, 1 cup strawberries, 2 cups mesclun lettuce with olive oil and moroccan preserved lemon.

Dessert: Olive Oil Ice Cream with Blood Oranges made from fresh milk and cream, honey, pastured eggs and blood oranges.

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Thank you, Jenny, for sharing your food journal. Anyone else getting hungry?

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