Real Food Recipes

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One of our favorite things is to gather recipes from our travels.

RFT editor Bobbie Hasselbring spent a year searching out recipes for The Chocolate Lover's Guide. cookbook. We offer some of those wonderful recipes here as well as recipes from our other travels and from some of our dear foodie friends.

If you have a recipe from your real food travels you'd like to share, please email us.

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CHICKEN BREAST IN PLUM & COFFEE SAUCE

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Contributor Yvette Cardozo recently traveled to Israel and brings us this recipe for what she calls “Coffee Chicken.”

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Delicious California Spiced Walnut Recipes

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Delicious spiced walnut snacks and appetizers are easy to make — and healthful too!

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Skamania Lodge Salmon Chowder: A Hearty Winter Dish

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This recipe for Skamania Lodge’s Salmon Chowder features all the flavors of a classic chowder, but with lots of healthful vegetables and smoked salmon.

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Sauteed Pork Tenderloin Medallions with Lemon-Garlic Sauce

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Everyone knows pork is delicious, but who knew a dish like pork tenderloin with lemon-garlic sauce could be good for you?

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Vietnamese Eggplant in Clay Pot

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Vietnamese Eggplant in Clay Pot is a dish typical of the Hoi An region of Vietnam, the country’s culinary capital.

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Moroccan Braised Lamb Shoulder with Pancetta and Bean Cassolute

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Fork tender braised lamb shoulder served over a rich, earthy, and comforting sausage and white bean cassoulet makes the perfect dish for cooler weather.

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Oven Roasted Tomatoes

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Oven roasting Italian plum tomatoes in this slow fashion creates intensely-flavored bits of deliciousness.

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Best Cinnamon Rolls on the Planet

It's the thin layers of dough with plenty of butter, cinnamon, and brown sugar between the layers that earn RFT's high praise.

Mosquito Fleet Chili makes their cinnamon rolls with very thin layers of dough, each liberally slathered with butter, cinnamon, and brown sugar. They are, without a doubt, the best cinnamon rolls we’ve ever tasted.

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Chef Mike Graziano’s Scallop Ceviche

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There’s nothing like fresh scallop ceviche from Hawaii.

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Paulan-style Broiled Fish

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In Palau, an island nation 500 miles from the Philippines, recipes like this broiled fish recipe are prized.

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Taro Rosti: Fried Taro Cakes

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In the island nation of Palau, they make fried cakes out of taro, a starchy root.

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Portland Peppermint Patty Cocktail: Creamy and Refreshing

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Looking for a decadent and refreshing holiday drink? Try the Portland Peppermint Patty cocktail.

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