Cooking Traditional Foods

Menu Mailer Sale and New Cookbook now available!

KerryAnn Foster — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:43:04 +0000

The CTF Menu Mailer, Recipe Archive and package subscriptions are on sale for the new year! Everything is 10% off regular price. This is one of only two times a year that the individual recipe archive and mailer subscriptions go on sale. Take a look.

Our new book, Cooking Traditional Foods Menu Mailer Volume One Favorites, is now available. This book is a compilation of 16 Menu Mailers, four for each season, all from our first year of mailers.

Contest: How Traditional Foods Improved Your Life

KerryAnn Foster — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:35:55 +0000

From October 1-15, we are running a contest. Tell us in the comments below how traditional foods has improved your life and your health. Please include your country. We’ll choose the best two entries on October 16th, and each winner will receive either an Australian or an American one-year subscription to the Menu Mailer and Recipe Archive, a $75 value.

New Sample Mailer Available

KerryAnn Foster — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:03:24 +0000

We have released a new sample mailer for you to view. There are copies in both American and Australian formats. You can view the new sample mailer here.Beginning with the next issue, we will be including hints and ideas to help stretch your food budget further by allowing you more ability to adjust the ratio of meats to grains to vegetables in the recipes. This way, whether you are on a lower or higher-grain diet, the mailer will still fit your needs. Whether you enjoy meat dominant meals, or need more vegetables or grains, the mailer will continue to work for you.

Traditional Foods for Kids- organ meats

KerryAnn Foster — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 01:20:45 +0000

In July, I wrote an article for Nourished Magazine about ideas to get nutrient dense foods into children. You can view that article here.One of the things I am focusing on right now is sneaking organ meats into ground meat to hide it. In some places, you can find this meat mix labeled as ‘pet food mix’ when you’re buying directly from farmers. It’s normally also cheaper than plain grass-fed ground beef, if you can find it. Don’t let the name put you off, it’s full of goodness and in the vast majority of cases, it’s human-grade meat. Ask your farmer for the details of which organs it contains and in what percentages.If you grind it yourself, I’ve found that pulsing small chunks of partially frozen liver in the food processor works best for grinding the liver. You can also grate it.You can include liver, kidney, spleen, sweetbreads (thymus) and other organs in the ground meat. I prefer a mix of 3-4 parts ground beef to one part in total of the ground organs.Giblet gravy is another popular way of getting organ meats into kids. In fact, growing up it was the only organ meat I ever knowingly had, since I never read the labels on processed meat products. LOL When you roast a whole chicken, finely chop the gizzard and liver, saute it and put it in with the gravy you make from the pan drippings.Pate is a wonderful way to get liver into children. The quick pate in our Recipe Archive is very mild, and children love it.What things do you do to get organ meats into your children? I’d love to hear your feedback and ideas.

Introducing you to Cooking Traditional Foods!

KerryAnn Foster — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:40:34 +0000

Cooking Traditional Foods is a website and forum at cookingtf.com that is dedicated to helping you feed your family nutrient dense foods. Our forum at tfrecipes.com is free to join and participate in, and we have a Recipe Archive and Menu Mailer available for purchase. CTF specializes in nutrient dense meals that appeal to children. Nutrient dense meals are no good if your family will not eat them, so we present foods in a familiar way without compromising the nutrition your children need. Our menus regularly include hidden liver and vegetables and other nutrient dense foods presented in a way that children will eat, and we focus on low-sugar desserts, many with hidden vegetables. See what Menu Mailer subscribers are saying on our testimonial page.All of the recipes on the forum and menu mailer are nutrient dense, and every meal has the option of being gluten and casein free for those who have food allergies. KerryAnn has been doing traditional foods for six years and is a skilled cook and baker in both gluten-containing and gluten-free foods. KerryAnn’s family has been gluten and casein free for two years due to celiac disease.CTF can help you if you are in a slump and need nutrient dense ideas to feed your family, if you’re looking to find other mothers to converse with, or are looking for information and support on the traditional foods lifestyle. Our menu mailer and recipe archive can help you see what a traditional foods lifestyle is about, and help you by providing all of the planning and recipes if you are pressed for time or forget to do the advanced preparation required for traditional foods. Each issue contains your menu, shopping list, preparation reminder schedule, and recipes for six dinners and one dessert. We have many subscribers who are using the mailer as a way to learn how to cook, how to prepare a nutrient dense diet, or are just going gluten and casein free and need help learning the lifestyle and how to cook without familiar ingredients.We have Menu Mailer subscriptions in both American and Australian versions for as little as four weeks, and back issues are available. You can view a sample mailer on the forum. Subscription information for the American Mailer is here and the Australian Mailer is here.The Recipe Archive is available in 6 or 12-month subscriptions. These recipes are in American format only. You can subscribe to the Recipe Archive here.Finally, we have a packages available for American subscribers for both the mailer and archive here.