Shrimp Pad Thai
Recipes for quick weeknight meals are so essential when following the Paleo diet. Knowing what you can quickly whip up when you get home late from work starving, or when the …
Vanilla Layer Cake with Dark Chocolate Frosting (Nut-Free and Makes Great Cupcakes Too!)
Of all of my cake recipes, this is my favorite so far. The cake flavor and texture is fabulous and what better (or more classic) way to top a vanilla cake than with a light …
Bacon-Basil Zucchini “Pasta”
My inexpensive mandoline slicer is one of my favorite kitchen tools! It makes so many jobs in the kitchen so much faster. There are some jobs that would take so …
Perfect Paleo Pancakes
These hotcake-style pancakes were a serendipitous accident. I was working on a crepe recipe (which I later posted here!) and my first attempt was not crepe-like at all. …
The Best Creamy Coleslaw
When I was 15 years old, I worked over the summer in a British-style Fish & Chips “Shop”. This particular “shop” (a restaurant that specializes in take-out) was …
Mustard and Rosemary Roasted Chicken
What do I love most about roasting whole chicken? It’s easy, takes very little time to prepare, makes several meal’s worth (I always cook two at a time), the cooked meat …
Lemon-Lime Bars
I have been working on this recipe on and off for years, going through dozens of iterations to get the perfect shortbread texture using combinations of grain-free flours and …
Strawberry Arugula Salad
When you get bored of garden salads, this salad has it all: peppery arugula, sweet strawberries, spiced pecans, the tang of goat cheese (if you tolerate goat dairy and chose …
Herb-Crusted Pork Loin
I love to roast large hunks of meat. It’s easy and quick to prepare, the meat lasts several nights (yay for leftovers!), the meat is usually much cheaper per pound than more …
Plantain Fritter Pancakes with Maple Coconut Cream and Toasted Walnuts
This just may be the most decadent breakfast ever. It’s perfect beside some eggs and sausage for a luxurious Sunday Brunch. In fact, we treat this more as dessert in …
Gingerbread Cut-Outs (Revisited)
We’re having a quiet Christmas this year: no company, no travel, no big events, just the four of us enjoying some much needed downtime. [insert sigh of relief] …
Lettuce Soup (aka The Most Amazing Soup Ever!)
Lettuce soup sounds like such a boring, bland, flavorless concoction. I mean Lettuce, turned to Soup, how good can that actually be? The answer is: holy crazy …
Shaved Brussels Slaw with Hazelnuts, Apple, and Mint
I got carried away buying mint at the Farmer’s Market and was looking for some new inventive ways to use it (besides homemade mind tea and strawberry-mint margaritas!). …
Paleo Pumpkin Chili
When I cut into our big pumpkin to make a jack-o-lantern this year, the pumpkin smelled so good! It’s a funny thing about eating very strictly Paleo: foods that used to …
Perfect Paleo Pumpkin Pancakes
These Perfect Paleo Pumpkin Pancakes truly are perfect. They are easy enough to handle that you can make them a decent size, they have a great spongy and not too soft texture, and …
The Best Paleo Pumpkin Pie
Pumpkin pie has always been my all-time favorite dessert (and breakfast, for that matter). And I have to admit that I am a bit of a pumpkin pie snob. In my pre-Paleo …
Eggplant and Wild Mushroom Stuffing
When I think of big turkey dinners, I think of stuffing. It has always been my favorite part, the dish that I look forward to. And, while I have tried many different …
Veggie Frittata
Breakfast for dinner is a wonderful way to save money on your grocery bill from time to time. My favorite way to do this is with veggie frittatas! Frittatas are a quick …
Nut-Free Paleo Chewy Granola Bars
Ask and ye shall receive. Well, if you’re my sister-in-law–who e-mailed me a couple of weeks ago with a plea for help. She needed a granola bar …
Zucchini Bread
At the Farmer’s Market over the weekend, I got very excited about this one enormous zucchini grown by one of my favorite local farmers, Fry Farm. It was a nostalgic …
Lemon-Dill Poached Salmon
Can you tell that I love salmon? I do. I love the flavor and how healthy it is! And wild caught pink salmon is especially easy to find inexpensively (check the …
Fig and Pistachio Salad
Are you seeing fresh figs in the stores and at Farmer’s markets? They are in season and we are getting some amazing local organic figs right now. I also love figs …
Orange-Strawberry (Nut-Free) Cut-Out Cookies
I seem to be on a nut-free cut-out cookie kick these days. Maybe it’s Valentine’s Day. Or maybe it’s knowing that my mother-in-law, who is allergic to nuts, will be …
Carob Ganache Mini Tortes
Need a decadent chocolate fix or a beautiful but simple dessert to serve company? This recipe definitely fits the bill. The combination of carob powder, vanilla, coconut, and …
Strawberry Mini-Spongecakes
There are two different styles of cake that are typically used to make Strawberry Shortcakes. The more traditional is a not-too-sweet biscuit. However, in recent years, the …
Paleo Nut-Free Chocolate Sandwich Cookie Valentines
The thought process behind these cookies: let’s take two delicious, sweet Paleo cut-out cookies and make it ridiculously decadent by making a cinnamon white chocolate ganache …
Classic Bread Stuffing and a Thanksgiving Recipe Roundup
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. I love everything about it: taking some time to reflect on what we can be grateful for, turkey dinner with all the trimmings, pumpkin pie, and …
Clementine Pumpkins and Halloween Recipe Roundup
When you first ditch junk food—refined and manufactured foods designed to be hyperpalatable, overiding your satiety signals to stimulate overeating, and full of unhealthy …
Almond Coconut Bars
This is the recipe that got me through Halloween in my early Paleo days without eating a single fun sized candy (for the first time since I had enough teeth to chew them!). These …
Halloween AIP Marshmallow Ghosts
Making your own marshmallows with clean nutrient-dense ingredients is surprisingly easy and quite fun! In fact, the two primary ingredients are honey (see Honey: The Sweet …
Halloween AIP Monster Mouths
This quintessential Paleo snack turned edible craft has become a Halloween tradition in my home. And, while the Paleo version of these Monster Mouths is incredibly …
Halloween AIP Monster Finger Cookies
Halloween, and indeed any food-centered holiday, can feel like a challenge for anyone with dietary restrictions. And speaking for Paleo moms like myself (and Paleo dads too!), I …
Caramel Apples (Dairy-Free, AIP-friendly)
Four ingredients (including the apples). Autoimmune protocol-friendly. No dairy. No refined sugar. Amazingly delicious. There are a few tricks to making candy (caramel is a …
Dark Chocolate Bark with Mushroom Extract
This recipe features gut health superfoods, and it’s my favorite way to sneak in medicinal mushroom extracts, whose earthy bitterness pairs so well with chocolate and nuts. …
Roasted Brussels Sprouts
I detested Brussels sprouts when I was a kid. We grew them in our garden and I have vivid memories of cutting a stalk down and brushing off the snow before bringing it into the …
Holiday Hermit Cookies
(created as a guest post for Kate’s Healthy Cupboard) Hermit cookies (also called fruitcake cookies) are a traditional cookie for any holiday cookie plate, mainly because …
Perfect Pie Crust (AIP)
After seven years of cooking Paleo and AIP, I have finally perfected this pie crust recipe. I don’t know how many dozens of iterations I went through (three? …
Island Chicken with Melon Salad
Lately, I’ve been on a creative kick in the kitchen. This probably has something to do with all of the recipe development I’m doing for my new microbiome book …
Egg-Fried Broccoli Rice
Scientific studies demonstrate that the more vegetables we eat, the more protected we are. For example, for every serving of vegetables or fruit we consume, we reduce the risk of …
Salmon Tourtiere (meat pie)
Tourtiere is a French Canadian meat pie dish, and one that was a staple of my childhood. There are regional recipes (and much debate over which versions are the most …
Dairy-free Chocolate Ice Cream
There’s something so satisfying about a frozen treat when the weather heats up. This dairy-free chocolate ice cream is just a nice basic chocolate ice cream, and it’s …
Easy-Peel Hard-Boiled Eggs – Two Ways
One of the frustrating things about farm-fresh eggs is that, once hard-boiled, they’re so darned tough to peel! In fact, the fresher your eggs in general, the more the shell …
Avocado Mango Seaweed Salad
Seaweeds may be the most nutrient-dense vegetables out there. They are rich sources of a variety of essential minerals, including iodine, calcium, iron, copper, magnesium, …
Lemon Rosemary Olive Oil Cake
My husband is a sucker for lemon desserts, so when his birthday rolled around this year, I challenged myself to create a new cake recipe just for him. I decided to try my hand at …
Pork Chops with Asian Pear and Caramelized Onion
The flavor combination of Asian pears, caramelized onions and pork chops is magical. Asian pears have an apple-meets-pear flavor with an apple-like crispness; they stay firm and …
Chocolate Chip Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches
Summertime always seems to be so rife with tempting treats, and in our family, one of the ways we stay on track is by occasionally making our own lower-sugar, grain-free, …
Cashew Freezer Fudge (with AIP variation!)
Mmm, fudge. Better yet, fudge that is indulgent but not cloyingly sweet, made with clean and nutrient-dense ingredients, that’s easy and quick to make, and that’s …
Mashed Sweet Potato
Mashed sweet potatoes are the ultimate alternative to traditional mashed potatoes, and definitely the most popular root vegetable in the Paleo template. Apart from being a great …
