Real Food Recipes

Celebrate love and self-care by cooking an easy, gourmet meal with our Valentine’s Day dinner ideas at home. Our date-night dinner menu starts with a simple, classic Caesar salad, followed by a keto-friendly cauliflower risotto with pink sauce and sliced steak. It finishes with chocolate cookie dough ice cream.

Homemade potato chips fried in avocado oil make a superior savory snack. These easy homemade potato chips are fried until crisp in a skillet, then paired with our vegan homemade potato chip dip and Original Buffalo Sauce for a spicy, creamy kick.

Looking to find fresh lunch or dinner salad ideas to spruce up your lunch routine? This roundup is full of variety and flavor, made with upgraded ingredients for restaurant-quality salads right at home. From plant-based salad recipes to instructions on how to make chicken salad, this round up is full of inspiration.

One of the best ways to coax flavor out of broccoli: Roast it. To level up oven roasted broccoli: Make our no dairy roasted broccoli with cheese sauce. All it takes is a baking sheet, avocado or olive oil, seasonings, and broccoli. We use a no dairy cheese sauce made with nutritional yeast, lemon juice, and garlic.

Simple sautéed green beans with garlic, avocado oil, salt and pepper provide an easy 15-minute side dish to any meat, fish, or plant-based protein. Add extra flavor and interest by sprinkling on sliced almonds and spritzing with fresh lemon juice once cooked.

The classic appetizer gets a glow-up by pairing the expected veggies and parmesan with creamy, classic Primal Kitchen Mayo made with avocado oil. Ready in a half hour or less, this easy 5-ingredient dip makes a creamy, dreamy accompaniment to veggie sticks, tortilla chips, gluten-free bread, and more.

Tender on the inside and toasty brown on the outside, with a bit of coarse texture from the light dusting of almond flour, our teriyaki cauliflower bites provide the perfect pop-in-your-mouth snack or vegan side dish. 

A staple on many holiday tables, the typical sweet potato casserole is a sugary mix of mashed sweet potatoes dressed with fall spices, butter, and marshmallows. Our tasty recipe is made without cane sugar for a side dish that's less sweet but every bit as rich, spiced, and decadent as the traditional one.

Thanksgiving recipes can seem stressful because it's a lot of scratch cooking. In our minds, taking a little help from ready-made dressings, condiments, and sauces made with high-quality ingredients can make the difference between you feeling frenzied or collected. These Thanksgiving recipes strike that balance of homemade with a little help.

We use gluten-free sourdough bread and added an Italian Thanksgiving spin to our holiday stuffing recipe. Choose sweet or spicy Italian sausage, a simple blend of celery, onion, and Italian herbs, and our savory, herbaceous Pesto Mayo for a surprising addition of rich Italian flavor.

Always comforting, reliable, and fail-safe, balsamic roasted vegetables pair well with any protein for a quick and simple supper, can stand alone as a flavorful entree, or serve as a sweet-and-savory side dish.