Recipes
Strawberry Cream Pie with Date-Pecan Crust – GF/Paleo
Strawberries are one of the first fruits of spring and are great to facilitate spring cleansing. This recipe is very simple and is also gluten and refined sugar free. You can’t get much better than fresh strawberries and whip cream. Strawberries are one of the first fruits of spring and are great to facilitate spring…
Read MoreCleansing Spring Soup Salad
This is one of my favorite things to make when I feel the need to eat lighter and cleanse. It is not only delicious, but also easy to digest. You will basically be putting your salad in the blender and blending it up till smooth and then drinking as if you were drinking a soup.…
Read MoreBeet Kvass – Ancient Eastern European Lacto-Fermented Beverage
This drink is valuable for its medicinal qualities and as a digestive aid. Beets are loaded with nutrients. One 4-ounce glass, morning and night, is an excellent blood tonic, promotes regularity, aids digestion, alkalizes the blood, cleanses the liver, and is a good treatment for kidney stones and other ailments. Beet kvass may also be…
Read MoreMaking Whey and Kefir Cheese
Whey is useful in many fermentation recipes – as a starter culture for lacto-fermented vegetables and fruits, for soaking grains for proper preparation, and as a starter for many beverages. The yogurt or Kefir cheese is a delicious by-product with beneficial lactic-acid-producing bacteria. You may use homemade yogurt or Kefir or good quality commercial plain…
Read MoreDairy Kefir and Kefir Cream
Kefir is one of the most powerful foods you can eat. It contains anywhere from 30-50 beneficial microorganisms that inhabit your gut and create colonies of helpful microflora. These little “good” bugs (not all bugs are created equal) literally become your immune system as they fight to protect you by killing invading pathogens (bad bacteria…
Read MoreSuper Simple Seasonal Greens
Hardy cold season greens are one of the most nutritious of vegetables. They are full of fiber and rich in vitamins and minerals. Try this recipe or make up your own. Eating them regularly will help prevent SAD (Seasonal Affected Disorder) in the low light winter months. Eat greens regularly to enhance your health, cleanse…
Read MoreBone Broth
“Indeed, stock is everything in cooking…without it nothing can be done.” Auguste Escoffier
Bbroth or stock as some call it is one of the most nutritious of foods. In many cultures it is consumed almost daily. Ancient cultures would not think of throwing out the bones, the place that holds the essence of the animal. They knew to slowly cook them with water and maybe other herbs and ingredients to extract the precious life giving nutrients from them.
Osso Bucco – Slow Braised Grassfed Veal or Beef Shanks
This is a warming winter dish and perfect to serve for a romantic Valentine’s meal. Osso Buco is traditionally made with veal shanks. You can, however, use this recipe with great success with regular beef shanks, or any beef or veal stew meat as well. Use 2-2 ½ pounds of stew meat. Make sure to…
Read MoreShrimp Ceviche Recipe (served famously at Weston Price 2010!)
This is one of my favorite dishes to eat all year long. Though some may consider it a warm weather dish, I love to eat it in the winter too as it makes me feel so good. This is a safe way to eat animal products raw and still get the nutrients you normally lose…
Read MoreWild Salmon Fish Cakes with Dill & Lemon Caper Creme Fraiche
Though I normally feature foods in these recipes that I can source in my local area, I have decided to make an exception this month as it is salmon season and salmon is a food worth making an exception for. This fish is especially nutrient dense as it contains high energy protein and rich fats…
Read MoreAlaskan Halibut with Lemon & Artichoke Hearts
Since you can not get fresh halibut all year long in your local markets, you can order this fish frozen over the internet and have it delivered. It’s not ideal (not local) but I’m thankful for the option to choose. I endorse Vital Choice because they have a superior standard for quality. Their fish are tender and amazingly yummy.
Read MoreRoasted Sweet Potato Ginger Soup
Man must have been very excited the first time a sweet potato rolled over into the fire. A once hard tubor became soft and sweet. What a discovery! Sweet potatoes or yams are grown all over the world, but mostly are grown in the tropics, Africa and in the Deep South of the USA. There…
Read MoreEggplant Summer Squash Parmigiana
This is a great recipe for the late summer when you still have all these garden vegetables on hand. What on earth are you going to do with them all? Eggplant and tomatoes and squashes, oh my! Well, don’t despair; this recipe will put them to good use. And it is a different twist on…
Read MoreSweet Corn Fritters with Mango Avocado Salsa
Fresh, sweet corn is one of the delights of summertime – the only time when you can get it truly fresh. This amazing food is technically a grass and at one time expressed itself in hundreds or thousands of different varieties. Today, thanks to corporate agri-business companies like Monsanta and their GMO seeds, we have…
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