Who Should Try GAPS?

Photo credit: teacher_caroline_acsp via Visual Hunt / CC BY If you're the average person living in America, as I am, you probably aren't familiar with the GAPS diet.  Despite being swarmed daily with a multitude of different diets, somehow healing diets like GAPS or even the SCD (Specific-Carbohydrate Diet) do not come up in everyday conversation.  You may have heard …

Homemade Yogurt

It's been a while since I've posted something new, and I apologize for that.  It's been kinda crazy around here lately.  The end of summer is always a busy time in the garden, with pickling, fermenting, canning ... the tomatoes have been coming on crazy lately, and I still have cabbages, carrots, and chard waiting …

Peach Ice Cream

“Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.” ― Alice Walker When people think of being on a "special" diet, they often think that it has to be tasteless, restrictive, and no fun.  Any time that I took my boys to …

Strawberry Ice Cream

Photo via Visual hunt   “Spring is super in the supermarkets And the strawberries prance and glow Never mind that they're all kinda tart and tasteless as strawberries go Meanwhile wild things are not for sale Anymore than they are for show So I'll be outside, in love with the kind of beauty It takes …

Ice Cold Peppermint Tea

Photo via Visualhunt Although I know I just posted something about fall and pumpkin spice lattes and Edwards Apple Orchard, I'm not quite ready to let summer go yet.  The next couple of recipes will be great to use as summer wraps up, including this peppermint tea and a couple of dairy-free ice cream recipes …