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. …
The Benefits of Liver
Photo credit: wEnDaLicious via VisualHunt.com / CC BY-ND We eat differently in America. Our diet may not seem so very strange to us (because we all eat this way, and very few of us travel abroad and discover that people generally eat somewhat differently than we do). I know that I never thought that I …
Egg Drop Soup
I was never a big fan of egg drop soup when I used to go to Chinese restaurants, so I honestly have no idea why I even tried to make this recipe; I found it online (I'm not sure where), made it once, and couldn't believe how wonderful it tasted. Since then, I've made it …
Pecan-Glazed Butternut Squash Pudding
One of my favorite garden vegetables is squash. It's easy to grow, easy to store, easy to cook, and delicious in the fall and can easily last through the winter (if you don't eat them all up too quickly, as we've done 🙂 ). Squash can be substituted in recipes that call for pumpkin; it …