When you first ditch junk food—refined and manufactured foods designed to be hyperpalatable, overiding your satiety signals to stimulate overeating, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Nana’s Rhubarb Coffee Cake
This family recipe dates back to my great-great-Grandmother, who was "Nana" to her grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-great-grandchildren …
Bacon-Wrapped Spiced Pumpkin
I was honored to be invited to participate in this year's Healthy Virtual Friendsgiving hosted by Sprout's Farmer's Market and running November 9th to …
AIP Dinner Rolls
This is yet another new recipe originating with my newfound love for Otto’s Cassava Flour. The chemistry of this flour is unlike any grain-free flour …
Chocolate Banana Bread (Egg-Free)
Ugh, I can't eat eggs. I thought I had successfully reintroduced them after years on the autoimmune protocol, but they showed up on a food …
Monster Mouths-A fun edible craft!
I'm the room parent for my oldest daughter's class this year. Next week will be the first class party of the year and I was faced with the challenge …
Plantain and Apple Fritters
The Paleo Approach Cookbook has been on bookshelves for not quite three weeks and it's already a National Bestseller!!!!! Woot The Paleo …
Chocolate-Glazed Chocolate Doughnuts (nut-free!)
If you follow me on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter or read my Newsletter, then you know that I recently started CrossFit. I didn't jump in from …
Chocolate Chip Cookies
This recipe started out with the idea of creating a master cookie recipe that you could substitute whatever you have in your house (X amount of any …
Pumpkin Pie Coffee Cake
I have a new favorite Paleo flour: chestnut flour. I bought some just to play with it and it's amazing! It's very fine (like all purpose flour fine) …
Maple-Walnut Dark Chocolate Chunk Cookies
I've been wanting to create a treat with a maple and walnut flavor for a while (inspired by childhood memories of maple-walnut ice cream) and it's …
Cinnamon-Apple 2-Minute Mug Cake
Tomorrow is the first day of Fall, which has us planning our annual apple orchard trip. This will be our third year to take a day to drive up to the …
Chocolate Hazelnut (Zucchini) Cupcakes
Several years ago, I was at a birthday party and the cupcakes were frosted chocolate zucchini muffins. I remember being impressed that you couldn't …
Clafoutis
Clafoutis is a traditional French dessert made with cherries. The texture is somewhere between that of a custard and that of a pancake and as typical …
Banana Cupcakes (nut-free) with Whipped White Chocolate Sesame Frosting
My kids and husband eat a lot of bananas. I'm quite in the habit of picking up a bunch or two of bananas every time I'm anywhere that sells them. In …
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Nut-free, Coconut-free Paleo Blueberry Muffins (Basic Muffin Recipe)
Happy Fourth of July! I'm actually headed up to Virginia today to spend my evening with Matt and Stacy from www.PaleoParents.com and attend their …
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Paleo Monkey Bars
If you aren't familiar with monkey bars, they are a brownie-like or coffee cake-like treat with the magical combination of peanut butter, banana and …
Carrot Cake Bites
These are the carrot cake version of brownie bites, with a similar cakey and slightly chewy texture. I don't honestly know where the inspiration came …
Paleo Cinnamon Buns
When I was a teenager, my Uncle Bill taught me how to make real cinnamon buns. You know, the kind with yeast-based bread? It was a revelation and …
Yeast-Based Paleo Bread — Revisited
A good Paleo bread recipe is worth its weight in gold. I pride myself on my Paleo bread recipes, especially those that utilize yeast (check out my …
Spinach Brownies Revisited (Now It’s Nut-Free!)
I haven't made these brownies in a very long time; but over the weekend, I found myself promising my kids that I would make them a treat. For them, …
Grug’s Barbecued Stuffed Bananas—A Recipe Inspired by The Croods
Who is Grug? He is the overprotective yet loving dad (voiced by Nicolas Cage) in the new DreamWorks Animation film, The Croods. The Croods is about …
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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 …
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 …
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Paleo Chocolate Éclairs
Yes, you read that right. Paleo Chocolate Éclairs. Éclairs were one of my childhood favorite treats. If you aren’t familiar with the éclairs, they …
Orange-Cranberry Muffins
The inspiration for these muffins came from a coffee cake that my mom used to make every year during the holidays. Slices of orange-y yellow cake …
Dark Chocolate Shortbread Cookies (Sandies or Meltaways)
These dark chocolate shortbread cookies were actually an accident. They were one of the variations that I came up with (#3 to be exact) while I was …
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Paleo Gingerbread Cut-Outs
My husband and kids are in love with these gingerbread cut-out cookies. Out of the oven, they have a crisp outside with a soft chewy middle …
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 …
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Beet and Kohlrabi Greens Chips
When you buy beets and kohlrabi, don’t throw out the greens! And if you thought green smoothies and braised mixed greens were the only thing you …
Decadent Double Chocolate Cookies (Nut-free, Coconut-free, Egg-free)
The inspiration for this cookie came from a double chocolate brownie cookie that I used to make for special treats in the “olden days”. It used to be …
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Paleo Apple Crisp
I started playing with apple crisp recipes before I ever started the blog. It was actually the first dessert recipe I ever tried to adapt (and one of …
Apple “Oat” Muffins
When our family went to pick apples at a local apple orchard this year, we made the same miscalculation we always make. Three pecks of apples doesn’t …
Plantain Crackers (Nut-free, Egg-free)
One of the things that many people miss when they adopt a Paleo diet is crunch, especially the slightly salty crunch of crackers. There are a number …
Nut-Free Yeast-Based Paleo Bread
My original yeast-based Paleo bread recipe has received so many enthusiastic comments. I know that having a delicious Paleo bread recipe has been …
Chocolate Haystacks
These no-bake cookies are based on one my mom used to make when we were kids that was nuts and oats held together with chocolate. This Paleo version …
Paleo Spice Cake with Maple-Cashew Frosting
My 2.5-year old announced “let’s make cake!” and started pulling random seasonings out of the spice drawer. She pulled out cinnamon, nutmeg, …
Lemon Cupcakes with Lemon Frosting (2 Variations)(Nut-Free)
(Created as a guest post for Fresh4Five) If you are a lemon lover, then you will love these nut-free Paleo lemon cupcakes. This recipe makes 12 …
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Paleo Biscuits (Nut-Free)
This biscuit recipe is based on Irish Fadge, which is typically made by incorporating last night’s leftover mashed potatoes into a biscuit dough for …
Pumpkin Gingerbread Muffins (Nut-Free)
I love the flavor of gingerbread and don’t see the need to restrict it to the winter holiday season. This is actually my first nut-free muffin …
Chocolate Cupcakes with Ganache Frosting (nut-free)
This cupcake is light, spongy, not-too-sweet, and richly chocolaty. You could serve these at a birthday party and no one would suspect that they were …
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Raisin Seed Cookies (Nut-Free and Egg-Free)
I have greatly enjoyed the challenge of creating more nut-free Paleo baking recipes for those of you with nut allergies in your home (and for when my …
The Paleo Mom Pemmican (a.k.a. Caveman Protein Bars)
Pemmican is a traditional food of the native peoples of North America. It is a concentrated mixture of fat and protein, and was adopted as a …
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Pumpkin Spice Dehydrator Cookies (AIP-friendly)
One of the hardest aspects of eating Paleo is the feeling of being deprived of treats. Fortunately, there are hundreds of recipes out there for …