Creating delicious salad dressings on the Elimination Diet can feel limiting—especially when you're avoiding vinegar, citrus, and fruit. But healing foods always find a way to surprise us with their abundance. This Asian-inspired dressing is both vinegar-free and citrus-free, yet full of vibrant flavor and digestive support. The inspiration came from a reader’s heartfelt email, asking for Elimination Diet recipes without any fruit. That small spark of inquiry led me into the kitchen...and then, a lightbulb moment: radishes!

The frost peaches are in and we have surely picked our share. 130 pounds that is! I have spent the weekend pitting, cutting, freezing, and dehydrating these sweet, juicy little morsels of summer nutrition. A way to remember summer, eat local, reduce our carbon footprint? Or just enjoy fresh!

Romano beans are similar to the standard green bean, but they are flat and grow in Mediterranean-type climates. I bought a bag from a local organic farmer at the Saturday Market. I was thrilled to see that this particular stand was using Bio Bags to sell their produce!

Phase 1 is the most restricted and difficult phase of the diet so it is helpful to have more ideas. The green apple salad dressing recipe below is a creation of mine but some of the other ideas and recipes here come from a good friend who recently did the diet.