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First published 2016
Copyright Michael Smith, 2016
Food and Cover photography by Ryan Szulc
Food styling by Melanie Stuparyk
Prop styling by Catherine Doherty
Food production by Tiffany Tong
Cover design by Lisa Jager
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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Smith, Michael, author
Real food, real good : eat well with over 100 of my simple, wholesome recipes / Michael Smith.
ISBN 978-0-14-319219-0 (paperback)
ISBN 978-0-7352-3270-9 (eBook)
1. Cooking (Natural foods). 2. Cookbooks. I. Title.
TX714.S5993 2016 641.563 C2015-908746-5
Ebook ISBN9780735232709
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This book is dedicated to my family. To my delicious wife, Chazz,
my oyster-shucking teenager, Gabe, and firecracker daughters, Ariella and Camille.
Thank you. You guys are everything to me. I love loving the lot of ya!
Also By Michael Smith
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The Inn Chef
Chef at Home
The Best of Chef at Home
Chef Michael Smiths Kitchen
Fast Flavours
Back to Basics
Family Meals
Make Ahead Meals
Contents
The Real Food Pledge
Making healthy choices in the kitchen is essential for your best life. How you gather, prepare and share food profoundly affects who you are each and every day. The stakes are high. Society is struggling against a relentless hurricane of less and less home cooking, more and more nutritionally vacant processed food and the resulting health crisis. Dont fall prey. Protect your family. You can help choose your best life by choosing to cook real food. It may be unfamiliar turf but its friendly territory. Just do your best, and I promise youll enjoy the results!
I pledge to stand firm, to make informed choices and embrace simple home cooking as the best way to eliminate artificiality from my food and add the vibrancy of true health. I promise to share my table and serve as an example to my family and other cooks. I know a healthy food lifestyle is essential, accessible, easy, inexpensive and most of all delicious.
Chef Michael Smith
What Is Real Food?
Real Food nourishes mind, body and soul.
Real Food is ethically gathered from trusted sustainable producers.
Real Food often gives the cook a personal connection to their raw ingredients through face-to-face local food connections.
Real Food is prepared with time-honoured simplicity from natural, wholesome ingredients.
Real Food does not need elaborate equipment, intricate methods or hours of labour. Its thoughtful and simple.
Real Food is fun to cook. The path is pleasing and the journey delightful for all your senses.
Real Food is made to be shared with family and friends, even hungry strangers and new friends.
Real Food is deliberately and powerfully nutritious. It delivers the promise of a healthy life and vitality.
Real Food is delicious and healthy because it connects peak flavour to peak nutrition.
Real Food is light. It doesnt weigh you down with unbalanced calories and empty promises.
Real Food respects the cook as much as it does the guests.
Real Food is the antidote for highly processed food. With it you can rid your life of harmful additives and profit-driven processing.
Real Food means eating anything you like. Just make it yourself and dont eat too much.
Real Food always includes a homemade treat!
Real Food Strategies
You can fill your life with real food without embarking on a complicated mission. Just stick to the basics and forget all the fuss. So much of the battle is won with simple effort. In no time at all, youll be a pro in the kitchen!
BE DELIBERATE Do you feel you need to change your nutritional routine? Does it feel daunting? Does that become an excuse for not changing? It may well be intimidating, but you can do it. The unknown always seems like a struggle at first, but, like so many things in life, once you get started, your new routines will soon become second nature. It will be hard work at first, but real effort just makes the results that much more satisfying.
GET INSPIRED Im inspired by my kids to be the best I can be in the kitchen. They deserve to grow up healthy and full of energy, and my wife and I believe as parents its our responsibility to ensure they do. Even if youre not a parent, theres inspiration all around us. Youre preceded by and surrounded by legions of cooks that have successfully navigated their way through the very same changes. If they can do it, so can you!