using easy Korean sauce on fish
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Multi-purposing an easy Korean sauce

Don’t you love it when a recipe can be used for multiple dishes? I stumbled on using this sauce for other things by accident…I just had it left over, and I don’t like to waste food. So, I experimented and found you can do a lot with just this one easy Korean sauce (thanks nomnompaleo.com!).

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Homemade Italian Sausage
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3 winning sausage flavors you can make fast!

Once you start really reading food labels, you find all kinds of things you can’t pronounce and don’t have a clue what they really are (do you really wanna eat that?) AND sugar or sweeteners in EVERYTHING. I mean seriously why would I want sugar in my breakfast sausage?

Several years ago, my son contracted the alpha gal 3 allergy from a tick bite. The doctor instructed me to not feed him any red meat for a calendar year. Oh boy…

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Butter on top, milk solids on the bottom
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Wanna save on ghee? You can clarify butter yourself!

Ghee (or its close sibling clarified butter (see Whole30 book for the difference) is simply a way to get the rich taste of butter without the milk solids. If you have trouble with dairy in general or you’re doing the Whole30 to test for sensitivity, using this allows you to still have “butter” as an option for your healthy fat for cooking and eating.

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Homemade mayo
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Homemade Mayo…learn from my mistakes!

Eating better corresponds with knowing WHAT you’re eating…and that leads to making as many things as you can from scratch. ‘Cause if I can’t read the ingredients list, I don’t want to eat it! For our first Whole30, I decided to go all in. I was gonna do this thing and do it big. I wanted to make compliant salad dressing. And since my husband LOVES ranch, that meant making homemade mayo.

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