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GAPS Garam Masala Carrot Soup
GAPS Garam Masala Carrot Soup In Vermont, we can get local carrots, and other root vegetables, throughout the entire winter. Local farmers like Elmer's Farm in East Middlebury, VT harvest them in the fall and keep them in cold storage on behalf of their customers....
Creamy GAPS Squash Sausage Soup
GAPS Squash Sausage Soup My mom has a way of making ordinary...extraordinary. Her idea of taking her granddaughters on an outing over Christmas break was to take them out to lunch and to the craft store, buying them each a bundle of fun, creative stuff. This simple...
A GAPS Christmas Party Menu
A GAPS Christmas Party Menu If you are doing GAPS, you may be wondering how to do something extra special food-wise, like a GAPS Christmas Party. Perhaps you want to plan a special family dinner, or maybe something bigger like a holiday party with friends. When I was...
Fermented Vegetable Medley
Fermented Veggie Medley By Deanna Wilson, Honest Body Assistant The consumption of probiotic foods is essential to the GAPS protocol and this fermented veggie medley is an easy way to meet this requirement. Since dairy is an issue for many (at least at the beginning),...
Hungarian Beef Stew
Hungarian Beef Stew The first snowflakes are showing up on my little-not-so-little handheld device weather app. Old Man Frost showed himself on windshields and windows on my morning run yesterday. My 17-year old son is starting to move through the house making Nordic...
3 Cheese GAPS Diet Pizza
3 Cheese GAPS Diet Pizza I've had some good pizza in my life. Pepe's pizza in New Haven, CT... The best deep-dish pizza in Chicago...So, if one were to compare homemade 3 Cheese GAPS Diet pizza 'apples to apples' with those legends it might set you up for...
Roast Chicken with Plums
There is roast chicken, and then there is Roast Chicken with Plums. Two beautiful whole, organic chickens are marinated with a special rub that includes ground sumac and plenty of garlic with healthy fats and then set to roast over a sheet pan full of plums, shallots,...
Grain-free Crab Chowder
Grain-free Crab Chowder We still have warm days here in Vermont, but there is a different hue and feel to them. Winds kick up more frequently, gray skies dump rain, it makes sense to close the windows at night more often... With cooler weather comes the desire for...
GAPS Diet Baked Apples
GAPS Diet Baked Apples Here in Middlebury (and a lot of Vermont), we have a community forum called Front Porch Forum. Their motto is "helping neighbors connect." People post anything they want to share...anything...from opinions about local politics to a lost cat, to...
Grain Free Chocolate Brownie Cake
Grain-free Chocolate Brownie Cake My 12-year-old daughter is the quintessential entertainer. When we have guests over she is typically the one gathering flowers, laying out the dishes and silverware, decorating the dining room, and even making place cards for each...
Instant Pot Citrus Pulled Pork
Instant Pot Citrus Pulled Pork Tender pork roast combined with pineapple, citrus, spices, and cilantro...Yum! This recipe for Instant Pot Citrus Pulled Pork is a comforting crowd-pleaser recipe in my book. And the Instant Pot makes it so...
Grain free Chicken Tenders w/ Honey Mustard Mayo
Last night was that half-excited, half-dreaded "night before school". Though many dinners are six around the table...one college-bound son was seeing friends for the last time before heading off to Boston and one ambitious junior-in-high-school son was eating dinner...
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