Roasted Cauliflower Soup

Prior to going gluten and dairy free, I did a lot of things with canned cream soups.  An easy dinner after work?  Add some chicken and a can of creamy mushroom soup to the crock pot before I left in the morning!  Quick dinner with toddlers running around?  Canned tomato soup or canned chicken noodle …

GAPS™ Introduction Diet – Stage Four

After eating bowls and bowls of soups and cooked veggies, stage four brings a welcome addition to your diet: fresh juice! By this stage of the Introduction Diet, significant gut healing has taken place, and you are now ready to begin detoxifying your body in earnest.  Juicing is one way to help you to this.  …

Easy Chicken Soup

Seeing as how we've had one day of sunshine in the last several weeks (it feels like years), soup has been appealing to us lately.  A great way to drive away the gloom and the cold and to support a healthy immune system, chicken soup has been used for generations.  Gentle, healing and nourishing, it …

Honey – What are the Benefits?

Photo via Visual hunt "My son, eat honey, because it is good; Honey from the comb is sweet to the taste." ~ Proverbs 24:13   For centuries, people have enjoyed honey.  The first use of honey by man is unknown, as its use predates the earliest known written records.  Fossils of honeycomb have been found going …

Beef and Golden Beet Stew

On nasty, cold rainy days like today there is nothing better than a bowl of warm, chunky stew.  The stews that I used to make would invariably contain some form of potato, whether I made them on my stovetop or in a slow cooker.  Since beginning the GAPS Diet nearly two years ago, potatoes have …