Carrot and Cabbage Coleslaw
This Carrot and Cabbage Coleslaw is perfect as a side for summer BBQs or picnics. If you like your coleslaw a bit sweeter, opt for the dried cranberries addition. This slaw is delicious as well as nutritious. Let me give you the nutritional highlights. Cabbage...
Probiotic Potato Salad (with Instant Pot Option)
This nutrient dense, delicious recipe for probiotic potato salad gets its probiotics from the lacto-fermented mayonnaise, the raw apple cider vinegar, and the lacto-fermented pickles. Also, the cooked and cooled potatoes are full of resistant starch to feed your...
Tiger Nut Milk (AKA Horchata de Chufa)
Horchata de Chufa (Tiger Nut Milk) If you are looking to add more resistant starch to your diet, here is a refreshing beverage. Horchata de chufa is made from Tiger Nuts instead of rice. This Spanish version is simple to make, nutritious, and loaded with resistant...
Tiger Nut “Corn” bread (Gluten-free, Grain-free, Corn-free)
Although there is no corn or gluten in this cornbread-like tiger nut bread, you won't notice. It is so tasty, plus it is loaded with resistant starch from the tiger nut flour and buckwheat! If you haven't yet heard of the importance of resistant starch, go here....
Resistant Starch: What is it, Why You Need it, and How to Get it
Resistant starch (RS) is yet another area where the Standard American Diet (SAD) is lacking. Americans average just 3-9 grams of resistant starch a day. Whole foods, plant based diets in developing countries get around 30-40 grams per day. Some experts believe our...
Three Easy Ways to Add Fermented Foods to Your Daily Diet
You have probably heard that fermented foods like kraut (sauerkraut) are full of probiotics and that probiotics feed the good bacteria in your gut or microbiome. Now the question is how to get them into your daily routine so that they become a habit. You are much...
“Kiddie” Kimchi
What is "Kiddie" Kimchi, you ask? It is a yummy kimchi-like ferment full of super-foods and probiotics to feed my family's microbiomes. I love Kimchi, but my kids do not do spicy. Not at all. This ferment uses some of the great flavors and powerful nutrition of...
Fermented Beets: A Nutritional Powerhouse
Fermented beets (or "pickled") are one of my favorite ferments. I like to eat them in my salads. They also go great with goat cheese!! They are so simple to make and beets are absolutely a nutritional powerhouse. Allow me to break down their nutritional benefits for...
Sesame Oil: Bring Back Healthy, Youthful, Glowing Skin With This Deeply Nourishing Face and Body Moisturizer
I long ago ditched my mainstream fragrant moisturizer that was loaded with hormone disruptors and cancer causing chemicals (but smelled amazing, of course). If you haven't, read this post which discusses fragrances in general or this post which discusses...
Buckwheat Sourdough Pancakes and Waffles (gluten-free, grain-free)
This buckwheat sourdough pancakes and waffles recipe is the closest to the "real deal" gluten-free, grain-free pancake/waffle recipe that I have ever tasted! I love to use Acadian Buckwheat by Bouchard Family Farms. It has a much lighter texture than other...
