Have you made your ginger bug? Today, when you crack the lid, does it whisper an excited sigh that says you can now magically create sodas that are not just delightfully delicious but great health promoters for you and your family? Sodas that do not taste like health food but like….well, soda! Let’s try an
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How To Make A Ginger Bug
I love introducing skeptics to the wonderful world of fermented food with naturally fermented sodas. They are probiotically rich, effervescent, delicious and beautiful to behold. I recently taught a class of skeptical teens how to make fun foods like traditional sodas. We made Real Root Beer Floats and they were blown away by the taste
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Nutrient Dense ‘Nonton’ Soup – Homemade Chinese Food
Do you love Chinese food? Do you miss the days when you and your lovey ordered-in and ate Chinese food in bed while you watched your favorite old movies? I do! I am in deep love with wonton soup. So, now that I don’t defile myself with gross take-out, I make wonton soup (without the wontons…thus the “Nonton”)
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Merlot Reduction Sauce
Did you know the gelatin in bone broth is hydrophylic? This means, when you eat something cooked, like a lovely roast whose live enzymes have been heated away, you can serve bone broth with your roast and the gelatin will pull your digestive juices to your meal. Less work for your digestive system and more
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Spiced Persimmon Ice Cream
So nice to have a gourmet treat tucked away in your freezer. This one is nourishing, a delightful change from the usual and very simple to create. Impress your dinner guests or reconnect with yourself for a few slow moments with this delicious Spiced Persimmon Ice Cream. Spiced persimmon ice cream ingredients 2 cups pureed,
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Making Kombucha: A Visual Guide
Kombucha is a delicious probiotic-rich drink that’s thrifty, fun and easy to make. Rumored to have originated in China around 200BC, societies throughout the world have been brewing kombucha for centuries. It is made by placing a strange gummy mushroom-like life form, called a scoby, into a gallon of sweetened tea. SCOBY is actually an acronym for Symbiotic
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Fennel Au Gratin Recipe
I LOVE Fennel. I use it in many dishes. In soups, krauts, tonics, on salads, roasted and more! This Fennel Au Gratin is a perfect pairing with chicken or fish. I know “au gratin” by definition includes bread crumbs but my jeans look better sans bread crumbs. So let’s switch it up, baby! It’s perfectly
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Nutrient Dense Meatloaf Recipe
I love to share a dinner of classic comforting favorites. It’s fun to alter these classics just slightly so that they maintain the traditional taste we all love while boosting the nutrient profile through the roof. You see, I adore feeling like a super human. Nutrient dense meatloaf ingredients 1 lb grass fed ground beef
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10 Grain Free Dinners On A Budget
Perhaps you are on the GAPS diet, eat low carb, or do paleo. Personally, I just feel better when I don’t eat a lot of grains, beans, and white potatoes – even when the grains and beans are properly prepared through soaking, sprouting, or fermenting. I feel less bloated, less cranky, and even have clearer
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Pear and Apple Soup Recipe
The savory sweetness of this soup is delicious served warm or cool. It’s a great way to add more bone broth to your diet without feeling like you’re having another cup of bone broth. Feels gourmet. Simple to make. Lovely to taste. Pear and apple soup ingredients 1/2 lb diced bacon for garnishing 1 onion,
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Pork and Sauerkraut Over Mash – GAPS Friendly
It is a tradition on my mom’s side of the family to eat pork and sauerkraut with mashed potatoes every new year’s day. Growing up, I never appreciated the deliciousness of this Pennsylvania Dutch comfort food – though I really loved instant mashed potatoes out of a box! Now a real food-lovin’ grown-up, there’s not
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Green Soup for Cleansing
You know what’s worse than breaking down and binging on too much sugar? The few days or weeks afterwards when you’re stuck in a cycle of dependence and disgust with sweets. Perhaps you have no idea what I’m talking about. Or perhaps you feel like I can read your mind. But either way, this recipe
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