The Heal Your Gut Cookbook – A Quick Review

I just got my copy of "The Heal Your Gut Cookbook" by Hilary Boynton and Mary G. Brackett in the mail today, and as I was flipping through it, I got all excited in a GAPSy kind-of way 🙂 When we first started GAPS, I got most of my recipes from surfing the Internet.  There …

Pickled Garlic

Eating garlic whole by the clove-ful may not seem like something that your child (or you too, for that matter!) would ever do. Garlic has been studied for years and promoted as a natural immune booster, an antifungal, and so much more; it also adds delicious flavor to dishes.  It is definitely worth giving it …

Gearing Up for GAPS Intro

GAPS Intro: Round 3. The first time you go through the GAPS Introduction Diet, you spend a lot of time preparing; preparing meat stock in advance and freezing it up, preparing sauerkraut and other fermented veggies, preparing meal ideas, preparing lists and lists and lists, preparing to write down daily everything that went in and …

Grain Free Pasta and Meatballs

  My family and I are BIG pasta fans.  When my husband lived in Germany, he worked in an Italian restaurant.  What was for dinner every night? Pasta.  When my oldest son first learned to eat, what did he inhale by the bowl full?  Pasta with spaghetti sauce.  We used to joke that he'd better …

Pumpkin Fudge

Photo via Visualhunt.com “At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth" ― Rainer Maria Rilke   Of all the seasons, I don't think there is one that smells better than fall.  I love to go for a drive in the country or for a …