This grain-free peach cobbler recipe is baked in a cast iron skillet. The heat that is held in the cast iron pan helps the cobbler to cook to perfection, preventing undercooked batter in the center. Pictured here is a mixture of white peaches and yellow peaches. Nectarines, blueberries, and blackberries also work!
This beautiful gluten-free blackberry cake is sweetened with pure maple syrup and has a frosting made out of whipped cream. It is the perfect treat to serve with a summer meal after a day of picking blackberries! Other berries can be substituted; try blueberries, raspberries, or huckleberries!
Spatchcocking (or butterflying) a chicken is a method of removing the backbone and flattening the breastbone. This helps it to cook evenly and much faster! It may feel a little intimidating at first, but it is really quite easy; you just need to make sure you own a very sharp pair of kitchen sheers! Serve chicken with a garden salad and grilled zucchini.
Serve this super flavorful anti-inflammatory basil sauce over roasted chicken, turkey hash, zucchini noodles, or thin it out with a little extra water and use it to dress your favorite green salad!
This nutrient-dense, low-carb hash recipe makes the perfect breakfast, lunch, or dinner! Serve with my Basil-Avocado Sauce (pictured here) for a flavorful, anti-inflammatory meal.
This incredibly refreshing green smoothie is delicious served over ice on a hot summer afternoon. Parsley, which is rich in flavonoids, reduces inflammation in our bodies by turning down inflammatory pathways. These flavonoids also act as antioxidants and stimulate our own cells to ramp up the production of intracellular glutathione—the body's most powerful antioxidant!
This gluten-free and low-oxalate bread is also egg-free! It can be baked into a loaf or a boule. You'll need an enamel-lined cast iron pot for a boule. The bread can be cut into slices and frozen after it is completely cooled. Then just remove a slice and place into a toaster oven when you would like a piece of toast!
I grow two varieties of blackberries in my garden. During the month of July, I always have so many of them! Baking them into cakes and muffins is a great way to incorporate these antioxidant-rich berries into your diet. You can also add fresh blackberries to salads and smoothies! These blackberry muffins are made with nutrient-dense oat flour—a source of prebiotics to feed beneficial gut microbes!
Serve this chicken salad as a light lunch or dinner. It is a great way to use up leftover roasted or grilled chicken! The yogurt dressing can be made with any type of yogurt—dairy or non-dairy!
These prebiotic-rich snacks are perfect for hiking trips or your child's lunchbox. After you have formed them, toss the energy balls in raw cacao powder, ground raw oats, or shredded coconut. You'll need a food processor to make this recipe!
This low-carb dinner is so easy to prepare! Though the cook time may be longer, there is little prep time involved. Serve stuffed spaghetti squash with a green salad for a low-glycemic, nutrient-dense meal! The spaghetti squash boats can also be meal prepped on the weekend. Once they are prepared, store them in your fridge and take 1 to 2 out at a time to bake as needed.
Cucumber salads are incredibly easy to make and so refreshing on a hot summer evening. They pair well with just about any type of main dish or can be served as an afternoon snack! I'm using kyuri cucumbers here, which are seedless and very crisp. They are smaller than English cucumbers so you'll need at least twice as many if you use this variety. Persian cucumbers also work well in this recipe. Look for kyuri cucumbers at your local farmer's market in the summertime.
This superfood salad brings together highly nourishing foods with an exquisite balance of flavors and textures. Beets are high in a phytonutrient called betaine. This highly important compound can be made in the body from choline, and can also be obtained from foods like beets, shrimp, and crab. Betaine (trimethylglycine) is part of the methylation cycle in the body and can be used to convert homocysteine to methionine. While reducing homocysteine, it also increases levels of SAMe in the body. SAMe is used in hundreds of metabolic reactions!
This quick and easy shrimp recipe is deeply flavored with garlic, butter, and spices. Serve shrimp as an appetizer or main dish along with other Cajun-inspired recipes such as Cajun Red Beans and Quinoa, or for a low-carb meal, serve with Cauliflower Grits and Braised Collard Greens.
Whole sockeye or cocho salmon fillets work best for foil-packet grilling. This method creates incredibly moist and perfectly cooked salmon, without needing to heat up your oven! Add any type of fresh herbs you have on hand—whole thyme sprigs or rosemary springs create a lot of flavor as well. Serve salmon with a green bean salad and your favorite grilled summer vegetables for a balanced meal.
Pecans, Italian plums, coconut sugar, and spices come together beautifully in this grain-free plum crisp! Use any variety of plums you have on hand. Blueberries and blackberries also work! Serve plum crisp warm out of the oven with your favorite vanilla ice cream (dairy or non-dairy).
This detox salad can be meal prepped and stored in your fridge with the dressing on the side. This is a great way to consume more raw vegetables! Onions and garlic are rich sources of thiols, which are organosulfur compounds that support the detoxification of many harmful chemicals, including heavy metals.
Black beluga lentils make up the base for this richly flavored Indian-spiced dal. The black mustard seeds, cumin seeds, and chili peppers add an additional depth of flavor to each bowl. Serve dal with white basmati rice or brown rice.
This easy to make gluten-free bread is so moist, and not too sweet! It is sweetened with a small amount of maple syrup and is bursting with blueberry flavor. My children and all of their friends love this quick bread recipe; in fact, it disappears off my counter as soon as it is cool enough to slice!
Traditional Cuban ropa vieja is made with flank steak; however, to make this recipe suitable for the slow cooker (or pressure cooker), I am using rump roast instead, though any type of beef roast will work. The long cooking time, and acids from the other ingredients, creates very tender meat. Serve ropa vieja with fried plantains and a cabbage slaw for a balanced, nourishing meal.
This layered dairy-free and refined sugar-free peach panna cotta recipe uses cooked puréed peaches for the first layer, and a coconut-vanilla panna cotta for the second layer. It is incredibly quick and easy to make; it just needs time to chill before serving! If you are working to remove dairy and sugar from your diet, try this recipe. It will naturally satisfy any sweet cravings.
This cream of zucchini soup is so flavorful that even those who dislike zucchini will love it! This soup freezes well, so make a double or triple batch and store quart jars of soup in your freezer to preserve your summer zucchini harvest!
These grilled chicken skewers are so incredibly flavorful and tender. The secret marinade ingredient? Mayonnaise! I like to use a clean avocado oil mayo in my recipes. Look for this type of mayo at your local health food store. Serve grilled chicken with this detox salad for a nourishing meal.
In our home, homemade hummus is the quintessential nourishing summer snack! My children love to dip a variety of fresh garden vegetables in homemade hummus for lunch. You can use soaked and cooked chickpeas or organic canned chickpeas in this recipe. Red bell peppers can easily be roasted in your oven or purchased in jars from your local health food store. Hummus can be frozen in small containers for future use or kept in your fridge for up to 5 days.
Serve this tangy dressing over your favorite salad, or use it as the centerpiece of a fresh crudité platter full of seasonal vegetables.
Functional Nutrition Counseling
When you are feeling out of balance, this is the time to push past your barriers and utilize anti-inflammatory, nourishing meals to bring yourself back into equilibrium! This anti-inflammatory chicken-vegetable soup is easy to make; double the recipe to freeze portion-sized containers so you have nourishing meals to reheat when life gets too busy to cook! Replace the organic ground chicken with ground turkey if desired. Serve soup for breakfast, lunch, or dinner!
This creamy corn chowder is the perfect recipe to make as summer turns into fall. Sweet corn is still plentiful, but the evenings start cooling off and cravings for cozy comfort foods tend to increase. Serve it with your favorite side salad, roasted vegetables, or a slice of crusty buttered bread.
Here is a great salad dressing that is citrus-free and vinegar-free, perfect for those on an elimination diet or low-histamine diet. The tart apple adds the needed zing to balance the oil. I like to drizzle it over baby lettuce, sliced cucumber, avocado, and toasted pumpkin seeds. You can add as much, or as little, fresh ginger as you would like. If you add too much though, the dressing can become a little bitter.
This anti-inflammatory chicken and rice Instant Pot soup is perfect to make when you don't have much time to cook a nourishing meal! Add extra ginger during cold and flu season! A homemade chicken stock or turmeric broth works best in this recipe, however, water or an organic store-bought chicken stock can also be used.
This protein-packed dish is a perfect way to use up abundant beet greens from the garden. The greens become lightly crisp around the edges and compliment the custardy egg mixture. Serve this dish for your next breakfast or brunch along with your favorite breakfast sausage.
These gluten-free, egg-free, and yeast-free dinner rolls are made from soaked chickpeas and contain no starches or flour. They are higher in protein and lower in carbohydrates compared to other types of bread. Sprinkle each roll with a few pinches of flaked salt or your favorite types of seeds before baking for added flavors! The rolls can be sliced into halves and then frozen for later use.
This easy-to-make lentil and turkey soup is perfect served on a chilly fall evening! Serve it with your favorite whole grain bread and steamed green beans or a simple salad for a balanced family meal.
Serve these cheesy roasted potatoes with any type of Italian-themed main dish such as this Italian Turkey Lentil Soup or these Garlic-Herb Turkey Burgers. They are also delicious served with this Balsamic Salmon and a green salad.
These gluten-free and dairy-free apple-flax muffins are a fabulous way to enjoy the fall apple harvest! Serve with a cup of hot tea on a chilly fall morning. Pack one in your child's lunchbox as part of a balanced meal or serve as a healthy dessert with dinner!
The process of dietary change is often a winding road full of forward movement intermixed with drawbacks to old ways of eating and living. This process of change creates contrast, eventually leading you to crave feeling good over the foods that once made you sick. Food is powerful medicine! Everything you eat shifts the biochemistry in your body. Plant foods, for example, feed beneficial bacteria in your gut. The growth of beneficial species leads to less inflammation, stronger gut lining integrity, better digestion, less anxiety, less brain fog, and better moods.

How to change your diet to create lasting change (video)
The process of dietary change is often a winding road full of forward movement intermixed with drawbacks to old ways of eating and living. This process of change creates contrast, eventually leading you to crave feeling good over the foods that once made you sick. Food is powerful medicine!
These gluten-free and dairy-free pumpkin spice waffles are perfect for a lazy weekend morning! They can also be frozen and reheated when needed. Serve with a drizzle of pure maple syrup for a sweet pumpkin treat!
Serve this anti-inflammatory, detoxification-supporting salad with any Mediterranean diet main dish. It pairs well with roasted chicken or fish, and baked winter squash for a balanced meal.
This easy, anti-inflammatory sheet pan dinner is perfect to make when you don't want to spend a lot of time in the kitchen. It can even be marinated for several hours in your refrigerator! Serve with a steamed or raw green vegetable for a nourishing, balanced meal.
Serve this flavorful, creamy herbed dressing over steamed kale, or a simple chopped romaine and radish salad! Add it to a meal prep day on the weekend so you have a healthy salad dressing ready to go for the week.