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 …
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 …
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 …
Waffles
When you first start the GAPS diet, you become so consumed with the broth, getting enough sauerkraut juice in you, and doing things "right", that maybe for a time you don't miss some of the old foods you were eating. Eventually, though, when the dust settles, you start to crave a few of your old …
Fermentation – Simple and Delicious
Photo credit: That Bill Fellow via Visualhunt / CC BY-SA Before I started fermenting things in my kitchen, I had a very different mental picture when I thought of "fermentation". I imagined something with a strong sour smell, maybe something putrid, a mad scientist-like character watching something bubbling and brewing and spilling over …