This grain-free, paleo lemon poppyseed cake is light, fragrant, and bursting with bright citrus flavor—perfect for spring celebrations, brunch gatherings, or an elegant afternoon treat. It pairs beautifully with fresh organic strawberries and a dollop of whipped coconut cream (or whipped organic heavy cream, if you tolerate dairy). For special occasions, you can bake the batter in two 9-inch round pans and layer it with your favorite frosting or cream. Planning to serve it for brunch?

Serve this easy-to-make dinner with baked sweet potatoes or gluten-free tortillas and your favorite fillings! The shredded, slow-cooked beef is even better on the second day so feel free to make a double batch so you can have enough for the week. It also freezes well. I like to serve the stuffed sweet potatoes with my spicy lacto-fermented carrots and jalapeños. This not only adds a lot of flavor, but beneficial bacteria, enzymes, and fibers for healthy digestion!

I like a to make a few batches of this gluten-free and xanthan gum-free bagel recipe at a time so that some can go into the freezer. My children love to make sandwiches out of them....such as turkey-lettuce-mustard-raw cheese for their school lunches, or a fried egg and avocado sandwich for breakfast! Once the bagels are baked and completely cool you can slice them in half and freeze for later use. To reheat, simply toast your frozen bagel halves in the oven or a toaster.

This healing golden broth is like medicine in a bowl—warming, soothing, and deeply restorative. It makes a delicious chicken noodle soup, like the one pictured above, but can be endlessly adapted with your favorite nourishing ingredients. Think of foods that naturally complement turmeric. Chicken, fish, lentils, chickpeas, brown rice, sweet potatoes, potatoes, kale, spinach, carrots, zucchini, lemon, green onions, cilantro, and parsley are all wonderful additions to this broth.

Use this easy method of making soup using just about any ingredients! Just simmer some broth, add some vegetables and herbs, cook until tender, then puree. The key is a very flavorful homemade bone broth. I love having soups like this for breakfast, especially on a cold winter morning. 

These gluten-free thumbprint cookies are slightly sweetened with pure maple sugar and they're full of lemony flavors! Any variety of fruit-sweetened jam can be used to fill the thumbprints. Try blueberry, strawberry, raspberry, cherry, or apricot jam!

This roasted salmon with goat cheese and dill is simple enough for a nourishing weeknight dinner and elegant enough for your spring or winter holiday table. The creamy goat cheese paired with fresh dill creates a vibrant, herbaceous flavor that perfectly complements the richness of the salmon. Serve it alongside steamed green beans, roasted vegetables, and a peppery arugula salad for a balanced meal. Wild-caught Sockeye or Coho salmon work best in this recipe!

This recipe is designed for your slow cooker and takes just minutes to prepare! You can put it together in the morning then set your slow cooker to low and you will have a meal ready when you get home from work. Use Plantain Tortillas, Homemade Brown Rice Tortillas, or fresh collard greens for your taco shells. I initially created this recipe using pure, unsweetened pomegranate juice, but now prefer to use unsweetened 100% tart cherry juice.

You can make this cranberry sauce a few days ahead of time and store it in a covered glass container in your refrigerator. Add more dates for a sweeter flavor, and less for a tarter cranberry sauce. If you don't own a high-powered blender you can soak the dates in the orange juice for an hour or so before blending everything together. Cranberries are one of the most concentrated sources of ellagic acid—a potent antioxidant and anti-cancer compound!

Serve this salad as a whole meal! If you can't tolerate legumes then replace them with some cooked chicken or turkey, or just leave them out. I like to keep grated veggies in separate containers in the fridge to make putting together nutrient-dense salads really simple and quick. You can also use your food processor fitted with the grating disk to quickly grate a lot of veggies! Set all of the ingredients out onto your counter and let everyone make their own salads.

The dough for these cookies can be made ahead of time and stored in your refrigerator for up to a week (stored in an airtight container)! You can take a little out at a time and bake what you need if you would like. I use sprouted garbanzo bean flour from To Your Health Sprouted Flour Co. but you can use regular garbanzo bean flour that can usually be found at any health food store and many grocery stores. I find the flavor and digestibility much better in the sprouted version.

This recipe makes enough to frost one dozen cupcakes or a 9-inch cake (double the recipe for a layer cake). Use white-fleshed sweet potatoes for a white frosting (that can also be colored with natural food dye). 

Make this easy-to-prepare meal on a busy weeknight. Then, while it is baking, prepare a quick green salad or prep some green vegetables for steaming or braising. If you don't have fresh herbs on hand then replace them with dried. I like to use my Homemade Herbed Sea Salt or Herbamare to season the chicken. This Herb Zipper quickly pulls fresh herb leaves from their stems...a very handy little kitchen gadget!

This recipe can either be made into one loaf or a dozen rolls. Serve rolls with honey and butter (or coconut butter for a dairy-free option). Be sure to use freshly ground raw buckwheat flour in this recipe (see the tip below)!

A creamy, harissa-spiced dressing made from soaked raw walnuts is tossed with shaved raw brussels sprouts, pomegranate, dates, and apples to create a flavor-packed anti-inflammatory winter salad perfect for the holidays! Use a food processor fitted with the slicing disc to quickly shave the brussels sprouts in minutes!

Raw pistachios, cardamom, vanilla, and olive oil create a luscious nut filling for these dark chocolate cups. Top them with crushed dried rose petals and a high-quality flaked sea salt for a nutrient-dense, anti-inflammatory dessert or treat!

This anti-inflammatory ginger-turmeric lentil soup is so easy to make and full of flavor! Use a high-quality homemade vegetable stock or chicken stock for best results. Serve soup with a scoop of brown rice for a nourishing, balanced meal. 

Though the ingredient list may look long, this salad is very easy to make and comes together fairly quickly once you have all of the vegetables chopped! Fresh basil and mint can be added to the salad for even more Thai flavors! Serve salad for a potluck gathering with friends or meal prep a batch on the weekend to use for lunches throughout the week.

Serve this low-histamine, gluten-free cake as part of your next holiday celebration! Since it is not very sweet, it can be served as part of a holiday breakfast or brunch as well as an after-dinner treat with a cup of herbal tea. If you would prefer a sweeter cake, simply add several tablespoons of maple sugar to the wet ingredients!

When you don't have much time to prepare dinner, make fried rice! Any type of leftover cooked rice can be used in this recipe such as black rice, long grain brown rice, or white jasmine rice! Ground chicken or pork can replace the ground turkey as well! Several whisked eggs can be added to the fried rice for added protein if desired.

One of the best ways to balance your blood sugar as well as reduce cravings for sugar and high-carb foods throughout the day is to consume a breakfast full of protein, healthy fats, and fiber. This quick and easy breakfast will leave you feeling satisfied and energized for hours! Each serving contains approximately 25 grams of protein and 13 grams of fiber! For added protein, simply add an extra egg to each plate. Each egg contains about 6 grams of protein.

If you could make one dietary change to set yourself onto a new trajectory of health, it would be to consume a nutrient dense breakfast consisting of high-quality protein, fiber, and healthy fats. A nutrient-dense, high-protein and fiber-rich breakfast will help you curb cravings for foods you are working to stay away from, boost your metabolism, balance your blood sugar, help regulate your circadian rhythms, keep your mind sharp during the day, and increase satiety. Setting achievable goals that you can build upon sets you up for the most success as it gives your body and brain time to rewire. Dietary change quite literally creates new biochemistry in your body that takes time to get used to. Creating this nutritional memory starts with removing processed foods from your diet. Too many changes at once can overwhelm the brain and nervous system, making the new diet or lifestyle modifications unrealistic to maintain.

Elimination diet cookies made from plantains! You'll love these chewy spice cookies if you are following our Elimination Diet or another special diet such as an autoimmune diet, gluten-free diet, paleo diet, or vegan diet! They are also a perfect treat to introduce to older babies and toddlers. Once your baby is okay chewing soft foods then try making these cookies.

In between nursing the babies, changing diapers, reading stories to the girls, and building block towers with the babies I still need to make a meal, right? Or shall I say three meals a day, every day.

People often ask me how many hours a day I spend in the kitchen. Well it is not as many as you may imagine. I find ways to cut corners, use what we have, and stretch the ingredients I have on hand. I have four children now and life is not as simple as it was with one or two in tow.

I don't know about you all but we sure have been doing a lot of Christmas baking these days. The girls just love to roll out the dough and cut out Christmas cookie shapes! The cookies are fun to give away to Christmas carolers and friends. Today I wanted to share one of my newest creations for you to enjoy this holiday season.

Spring is here, hurray! Spring is a time of change, a time to detox, and a time for greens. How fitting that after a long season of warming dense foods one of the only fresh things available at this time (if we just reverted back to the pre-industrial era) are bitter greens.

Your body is composed of over 30 trillion cells, each of which is continually listening and responding to environmental signals. Embedded in your cellular membranes are tiny antennas—structures that receive information from your inner and outer environment and relay it to your DNA. These biochemical messages shape how your cells behave. The food you eat is one of the most powerful carriers of this information. With every bite, you’re either turning on anti-aging, disease-preventing, and anti-inflammatory pathways—or activating the pathways that accelerate aging and inflammation. Let that sink in: every meal is a message. A conversation between your body and your environment. A chance to shape your future, one choice at a time.

I created this soup today for lunch basically out of a craving for something healing and nourishing, while being warming and spicy all at the same time.

Well, we have been very busy lately. Hence the two-week gap in posting to the blog. Tom has been working for months now round the clock on a research paper entitled "Nutritional Deficiencies in Celiac Disease, is Supplementation Necessary?" He is just about done with it, and I am looking forward to reading it! I will let you know when it is published and provide a link to it.

I have had numerous requests for more breakfast ideas that don't involve eggs or soy, and of course without gluten or dairy. Here is a tremendously simple idea for you to take into your kitchen.
Beans and rice. With a Spicy Avocado Sauce recipe.
The idea isn't a new one. Cultures all over the world consume these two staple foods for most meals of the day.

Here I present to you a gluten-free yeast bread, sweetened with honey, reminiscent of whole wheat bread. Dark and hearty, full of whole grain goodness that is usually deplete in gluten-free breads. Because of teff's amazing nutrition profile this bread is higher in protein and iron than most of its gluten-free counterparts.

I tested this recipe a number of times, each time changing one aspect of the ingredient list. I finally settled on this version, knowing it was a winner because of how fast it disappeared in our house.

I am about to divulge another secret recipe. A sweet, nutritious little breakfast treat. Naturally gluten-free of course! Even those of you not following a gluten-free diet will enjoy these pancakes. They are also egg-free making them perfect for older babies and toddlers. Our 14-month old twins began eating these a few months ago and love them. In fact, if we have leftovers, I will pack them in a to-go container and take them for them to snack on during our outings.

Today was our daughter, Gracie's, 4th Birthday. I can't believe she is four already. Where did 3 go? It just disappeared into sleepless nights and endless days with twin babies.

When I was younger my parents made a well-rounded breakfast nearly every morning. Back then this consisted of scrambled eggs, toast, and fruit, or pancakes, sausages, and fresh fruit. French toast with maple syrup was a regular favorite too. Maybe even waffles made in a Mickey Mouse waffle iron. Remember those? Of course some mornings we were all running late and had cold breakfast cereal with milk but I don't remember those mornings so much.

Nori rolls have long been a favorite in our household, offering a nourishing and satisfying option for meals and snacks alike. They were a staple throughout my pregnancies—even during the 17 weeks of intense nausea I experienced while carrying twins, I could still enjoy them! Their simplicity, nutrient density, and versatility make them an excellent choice for any time of day. Whether we’re heading out for a hike, spending a day at the beach, enjoying the mountains, or traveling by plane, these rolls always come along. They are the ultimate portable, healthy snack—convenient, flavorful, and packed with essential nutrients.

Who needs gluten or dairy when you can have this? Here is a real life testimonial from the mouth of my almost 4-year old daughter (with bread in hand): "This bread is so good you ever made, I love chocolate chips!"

Living in the Pacific Northwest we are blessed with a bounty of fresh, wild salmon, some of which comes from the pacific coast and some from Alaska. My cooking creativity is sparked just by looking at the plump and glossy, pink-hued fillets.