Shane's Blog

This is a great, delicious and health-supportive version of a pesto recipe!  Watch the video and see if you don't agree and give it a try.  Be sure to download the recipe and let me know what you think!         

I know most folks don't really care for okra unless it's fried.  Well, I'm asking you to give it another try because my  "Stewed Okra and Tomatoes" recipe has a little trick to cut the slime so you can enjoy all the goodness of okra which is so in season right now!  Take a look at my video or just click on the PDF to download the recipe -- try it and let me know how it goes!    

Chef Shane Kelly tells you why commercial sports drinks aren't the answer to hydrating your body in a real food way.  Listen to this week's Real Food Pep Talk to discover the best ways to replenish your body's electrolytes while we are still in the dog days of summer.   MP3 Click here for the podcast audio  

Here's a great way to use up some of all those tomatoes you're either growing or buying at the farmer's market plus some tender summer eggplant.  Take a look a this video and see how easy it is to put together this fancy sounding dish... click here for the recipe on "Eggplant, Tomato and Onion Gratin"   And, as always, please write me and let me know how it turned out for you!      

This Blueberry Crisp Recipe is loaded with the goodness of oats, pecans, almonds and coconut and not to mention, loads of fresh blueberries. And for those of you who are watching your gluten intake this recipe is wheat-free and would be dairy-free if you just wanted to change the butter to coconut oil in the recipe. But, most importantly it’s just yummy and comforting on a hot summer day…with some real whipped cream, of course. Click here to get the Blueberry Crisp recipe!

Here's something new I want to try with y'all...Recipe Testing Tuesdays!  This is where my sweet husband, Alex is just shooting some "raw" footage of me doing what I do most days of the week...playing with food and trying to make something yummy out of what's good for you and in-season.  Please give it a look see and let me know your thoughts and I'm always open to your suggestions on how to provide you with more tools so YOU can "Just keep it real, honey!"

Here is your Chef Shane Real Food Pep-Talk for July 26th, 2010.  It is HOT!  MP3 Click here for the Podcast audio

Write me about what you buy at your local farmer's market...especially if you have questions about how to prepare what's in season!  Let me hear from you!  Here's what I got from my market today and boy, was it HOT!!!      

Congratulations to Deana and her sweet family for buying most all they eat from the Franklin Farmer’s Market every week!  That is my home market too and there just couldn’t be a better time of eating local, delicious fresh food…it’s coming out of our ears, ears of corn that is!  So corny.  O.K., I’ll stop.  Deana has started a wonderful blog called  www.pinksugarbowl.blogspot.com   to take us all along on their journey of eating all this great food from local farmers..  So, for those of you...

Corn at its peak in the summer is a real treat.  It’s sweet, crisp and can almost be eaten raw.  I just remember, as most of you do, that we would always have it on the cob.  Well that always made for some fun messy eating and a serious session with the dental floss when you were finished.  We lived in Trinidad for about a year when I was in third grade and one of my favorite snacks was “burnt corn.”  Really, there would be folks on the side of the road roasting the corn over an...