About Savorra  Jamie DeCaria, Founder of Savorra, is on a quest to eat more real food Join me on my quest to eat more "real food"! I passionately believe in the health benefits of eating food made from fresh, "real" ingredients and I want to share this with others. I am not a gourmet chef, but I have learned a lot about cooking along the way. And the big secret is ... it's not that hard!
On this site you will find SIMPLE recipes for turning fresh ingredients into tasty meals, in less time than you might think.
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I found a new tasty soup recipe on BBC’s GoodFood site and I am in love. In no time we went from, “We have nothing in the fridge but carrots,” to “Wow, this soup is amazing!” My husband ran the kids to the grocery store to pick up naan bread, while I made the soup in peace and was done before they returned. With a little advance planning next time, I would have enough carrots and lentils on hand to make a triple batch and throw half in [Continue reading ...]
Feeling veggie-venturous? This hearty soup is a great way to sample some winter root vegetables that may be new to you. Go ahead and get crazy… mix in a few rutabagas, turnips, parsnips, or celeriac with your common carrots and potatoes. Even my avowed vegetable-hating father-in-law agreed that the results are delicious.
The first step in this recipe is to make a pot of nutritious homemade chicken stock. Wait, wait, wait, before you stop reading: if you’re new to stock, it’s really not difficult or time consuming. Plus, it tastes great [Continue reading ...]
One of my favorite freezer friendly recipes is an Italian classic that comes to me from the Polish side of my husband’s half Italian family. Yup. My mother-in-law makes a delicious marinara sauce which was passed down via a family cookbook with very vague measurements. I have interpreted these “measurements” and my husband says the results are authentically Politalian.
This marinara is a bright, flavorful sauce with fresh basil and some tomato chunks to add a nice texture. Great with any pasta, perfect with meatballs, or if you’re feeling crazy: pour [Continue reading ...]
Welcome to the second installment of “Why I Heart my Freezer.” After discovering the time savings benefits of freezing, more recently I started using the freezer to save money; storing fresh herbs, other raw ingredients, and stock-making materials.
My favorite way to save money with the freezer is by freezing fresh herbs. I like to cook with fresh herbs because they’re so much tastier, but I found that I would use a tablespoon or two and then the rest would slowly turn into green mush in my refrigerator; making it an [Continue reading ...]
For much of my adult life, my freezer has sat mostly barren, containing just a lonely frozen pizza and some ice cream. As I have become a bigger cooking enthusiast, however, I have discovered that this frozen tundra can be quite helpful–saving me both time and money.
Today, let’s talk about saving time. I really enjoy cooking, however, when we started to prefer eating at home seven days a week, I quickly learned that I still only wanted to actually cook three of those nights. So I have experimented with making [Continue reading ...]
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