RECIPE INDEX

All the recipes on this site are gluten- and dairy-free, and Paleo-friendly. Many of them are Vegan, Raw Vegan or GAPS-legal as well.

In keeping with seasonal cooking and the harvest cycles of the garden, many of these articles feature more than one recipe for a particular ingredient.

For example, "Perfect Pamplemousse" has four recipes for grapefruit, and "Kohlrabi: The Best Vegetable You Never Had" has two recipes using kohlrabi.

TREATS

raw energy bars on a white plate

Raw Power Energy Bars

Sometimes called the "chocolate pudding" fruit, sapotes are related to persimmons. Here are two sapote recipes to help you enjoy this unusual fruit.

Dulce de Sapote Negro

This delicious recipe for coconut flour pumpkin muffins contain a modicum of nutrition, owing to the many eggs, nuts and veggies you can include in them. Click here to get the recipe!

Coconut Flour Pumpkin Muffins
(Gluten-Free, Paleo)

This homemade almond milk yogurt recipe is a delicious, affordable option if you and your family love yogurt but are vegan or can't tolerate dairy products.

Homemade Almond Milk Yogurt

Coconut milk yogurt

Easy Homemade Coconut Milk Yogurt

These coconut flour chocolate hazelnut muffins can be sweetened mostly with stevia, so they help you get your chocolate fix with a bare minimum of added sugar.

Coconut Flour Chocolate Hazelnut Muffins

These 24 delicious, dairy free, grain free holiday cookie recipes that are so darned yummy, no one will know they're allergy friendly, too!

24 Grain Free Holiday Cookie Recipes

Pomegranate and persimmon salad brings a brightness to the autumn table and holiday season. This salad highlights the best of both of these seasonal fruits. Click to get the recipe!

Pomegranate & Persimmon Salad

slice of gluten-free vanilla layer cake with vegan chocolate frosting on a white plate

Coconut Flour Vanilla Layer Cake

homemade gummy candies in a glass dish on a light blue table

Healthy Probiotic Gummy Candies

This recipe for grain free banana bread is light, sweet and rich. It's also fruit-sweetened, GAPS adaptable and Paleo friendly!

Grain Free Banana Bread

One of the easiest ways to preserve fresh fruit is to make it into fruit leather. This cultured version has a nice tang and a healthy dose of probiotic bacteria.

Apricot Probiotic Fruit Leather

raw sweet potato pie on a plate with a fork and whipped cream

Raw Sweet Potato Pie

fresh figs on a wooden table

Brazilian Fig Torte
(Gluten Free, Vegan, Paleo)

Fresh, ripe dates are juicy and sweet, with a crisp skin. Here are three easy, delicious fresh date recipes to help you enjoy the special qualities of this unique fruit.

3 Scrumptious Fresh Date Recipes

Coconut water kefir is a bubbly, delicious drink made from probiotic bacteria and healthy yeast that ferment the sugar in the coconut water. Here's how to make it!

Coconut Water Kefir & Cultured Coconut Pudding

This unholy marriage of pork fat and cocoa beans makes a distinctive and surprisingly delicious combination. Here's how to make chocolate covered bacon.

Chocolate Covered… Bacon?

homemade marshmallows in a mug of hot chocolate

Homemade Honey Vanilla Marshmallows (Corn Syrup & Egg Free)

These twenty one dairy free, gluten free Thanksgiving recipes will make your entire holiday dinner safe, healthy and satisfying.

21 Dairy Free, Gluten Free Thanksgiving Recipes

Here's a delicious, gluten-free, GAPS and Paleo-friendly way to enjoy the zucchini bounty. This coconut flour zucchini bread recipe also freezes well!

Coconut Flour Zucchini Bread (Paleo, Gluten Free, Dairy Free)

butternut squash cookies on a counter

Raw Butternut Squash Cookies

carrot halwa dessert on a plate

Carrot Halwa (Spiced Carrot Pudding)

This nutrient dense, low-sugar recipe for Pecan Sandies will be a delicious, valuable addition to your grain free cookie recipe collection.

Grain Free Pecan Sandies (and a Book Review)

raw vegan pumpkin cheesecake on a white plate on a table

Raw Vegan Pumpkin Cheesecake

This souped up, grain free, dairy free brownie recipe is made with black beans, so it is low allergen, GAPS legal, nutritious and oh, so yummy! Click to get the recipe!

Grain Free Blender Brownies (with a Secret Ingredient)

This raw vegan chocolate mousse is both delicious and nutritious. Works as a decadent Paleo cake frosting, too. You'll like it better than the dairy version!

Vegan Avocado Chocolate Mousse (and Cake Frosting)

Old fashioned cookies and milk is a treat that many food-allergic families have to give up. But this grain free, coconut flour cookie recipe always satisfies!

Coconut Flour Hodgepodge Cookies

This grain free chocolate cake is flourless, and hits your gluten-free sweet tooth just right. It's decadent, luscious and perfect for special occasions!

Indulge! – Grain Free Chocolate Truffle Cake

MAIN DISHES

pork spare ribs seasoned with Chinese 5-spice on a plate with cilantro garnish

“Stank-a-Dank” Slow Cooker Pork Spare Ribs

Well-prepared raw beef can be a cultural delight worth trying at least once. Here are four traditional raw beef recipes from different parts of the world.

Four Raw Beef Recipes from Around the World

After marinating it using traditional preparation techniques, this slow cooker pork shoulder recipe will be the best pork roast you've ever tasted!

Traditionally Prepared Slow Cooker Pork Shoulder

ahi poke recipe in a blue bowl

How to Avoid Mercury in Tuna (with Tuna Poke Recipe)

Eggplants are beautiful, delicious, nutritious vegetables to eat, especially in this light and easy, grain-free, vegan eggplant ravioli. Click to get the recipe!

Raw Vegan Eggplant Ravioli with Red Pepper Sauce

This gluten free meatball recipe fits a variety of special diets such as GAPS, Paleo, Nutritional Balancing or Keto. They are quick, easy, nutritious, and so delicious!

Easy Gluten-Free Meatballs with Vegetables and Herbs

Eating black-eyed peas on New Year's Day is a Southern tradition. This Hoppin John recipe is a delicious way to enjoy their tasty, lucky goodness this year.

New Year’s Hoppin’ John Recipe with Kale

ingredients for coconut chicken curry on a wooden cutting board

Uncommonly Good Coconut Chicken Curry

This 30 minute chili recipe is a super delicious way to get some nutrient-dense liver and seaweed into your diet without tasting it!

30 Minute Chili Recipe

In the spirit of not wasting food during this season of gratitude, here are two easy and delicious recipes for Thanksgiving leftovers.

Turkey Soup with Root Vegetables

SIDE DISHES

Pickled beets are a great tasting way to get more probiotics into your diet. Now that they are in season, it's time to make some.

Simple Pickled Beets

figs on a branch

Fig Avocado Salsa
(Gluten Free, Vegan, Paleo)

homemade dill pickles in a canning jar on a table with whole garlic and peppercorns.

Small Footprint Dill Pickles

Watermelon is very nutritious, but what do you do with the rind? Summer is a great time to make an old Southern treat: Watermelon rind pickles.

Watermelon Rind Pickles

stack of root vegetable pancakes on a plate

Easy (Grain Free) Root Vegetable Pancakes

snap peas in a bowl on the table

Dilly Snap Peas

mustard greens with garlic mayonnaise in a white bowl

Mustard Greens with Garlic Mayonnaise

Orgasmically Good Deviled Eggs with Bacon and Dill

Orgasmically Good Deviled Eggs with Bacon and Dill

When you cure your own bacon, you get to control the quality of the meat and the ingredients it is cured with! Here's how to cure bacon at home.

How to Cure Bacon at Home

These twenty one dairy free, gluten free Thanksgiving recipes will make your entire holiday dinner safe, healthy and satisfying.

21 Dairy Free, Gluten Free Thanksgiving Recipes

canning jars full of pickles on a wooden table outdoors.

Heirloom Tomato Pickles

Kohlrabi is probably the best vegetable you've never had. Here are two simple kohlrabi recipes to help you get the most out of this odd little vegetable.

Kohlrabi: The Best Vegetable You Never Had (With 2 Recipes)

snap peas in a bowl on the table

Lemony Snap Peas with Avocado

homemade sauerkraut on a fork

Simple Homemade Sauerkraut

This gluten free meatball recipe fits a variety of special diets such as GAPS, Paleo, Nutritional Balancing or Keto. They are quick, easy, nutritious, and so delicious!

Easy Gluten-Free Meatballs with Vegetables and Herbs

Here's a delicious, traditionally Korean way to use shiso leaves and nourish your digestive system with fermented foods at the same time.

How to Use Shiso Leaves (with a Recipe)

SOUPS

After perusing a bunch of Americanized recipes, I realized I just wouldn't be happy without the authentic Tom Kha ingredients to make it taste right. Click here to get the "real deal" recipe!

Authentic Tom Kha Gai (Thai Coconut Chicken Soup)

The health benefits of homemade chicken broth are long renowned and well-deserved. Here's why and how to make perfect chicken broth easily.

How to Make Perfect Chicken Broth

jar of crockpot chicken stock on a table by a window

The Easiest Crockpot Chicken Stock Ever

Cherimoyas are a true local delicacy if you live in the Southwest. Here are some simple cherimoya recipes to enjoy while they're in season.

For the Love of Cherimoya
(with 3 Recipes)

butternut squash soup in a bowl with parsley

Easy Roasted Butternut Squash Soup

creamy ham and potato soup in a bowl with a spoon on a table

Creamy Ham & Potato Soup (Dairy-Free with Paleo Option)

In the spirit of not wasting food during this season of gratitude, here are two easy and delicious recipes for Thanksgiving leftovers.

Turkey Soup with Root Vegetables

SALADS

Here are two raw turnip recipes—one for the root and one for the leaves—so you can get the most nutrition out of this delicious root vegetable.

Turnip Rutabaga Salad with Watercress & Marinated Turnip Greens

Pomegranate and persimmon salad brings a brightness to the autumn table and holiday season. This salad highlights the best of both of these seasonal fruits. Click to get the recipe!

Pomegranate & Persimmon Salad

Dark green leafy vegetables are perhaps the most concentrated source of nutrition of any food. This delicious recipe with kale and bok choy will help you enjoy them.

Kale & Bok Choy Slaw with Spicy Sesame-Ginger Dressing

snap peas in a bowl on the table

Lemony Snap Peas with Avocado

pink grapefruit halves on a countertop

Roasted Beet and Grapefruit Salad

Kohlrabi is probably the best vegetable you've never had. Here are two simple kohlrabi recipes to help you get the most out of this odd little vegetable.

Kohlrabi: The Best Vegetable You Never Had (With 2 Recipes)

basket full of dandelion flowers

Eat Your Weeds: Dandelion Salad with Pecan Vinaigrette & Dandelion Wine

RAW & FERMENTED DISHES

homemade sauerkraut on a fork

Simple Homemade Sauerkraut

jar of pesto next to basil leaves

Vegan Pesto with Zucchini

white bowl full of arugula

Pistachio Arugula Pesto

raw sweet potato pie on a plate with a fork and whipped cream

Raw Sweet Potato Pie

class of tepache on a cutting board next to a bottles of fermenting pineapple

Tepache – Fermented Pineapple Brew

Cherimoyas are a true local delicacy if you live in the Southwest. Here are some simple cherimoya recipes to enjoy while they're in season.

For the Love of Cherimoya
(with 3 Recipes)

This raw vegan chocolate mousse is both delicious and nutritious. Works as a decadent Paleo cake frosting, too. You'll like it better than the dairy version!

Vegan Avocado Chocolate Mousse (and Cake Frosting)

raw vegan pumpkin cheesecake on a white plate on a table

Raw Vegan Pumpkin Cheesecake

Pickled beets are a great tasting way to get more probiotics into your diet. Now that they are in season, it's time to make some.

Simple Pickled Beets

This sun dried tomato pesto recipe is vegan, Paleo and GAPS friendly, and a great way to preserve the tomato harvest.

Sun Dried Tomato Pesto

Well-prepared raw beef can be a cultural delight worth trying at least once. Here are four traditional raw beef recipes from different parts of the world.

Four Raw Beef Recipes from Around the World

Coconut milk yogurt

Easy Homemade Coconut Milk Yogurt

Pomegranate and persimmon salad brings a brightness to the autumn table and holiday season. This salad highlights the best of both of these seasonal fruits. Click to get the recipe!

Pomegranate & Persimmon Salad

fresh figs on a wooden table

Brazilian Fig Torte
(Gluten Free, Vegan, Paleo)

Many people discover stinging nettles the hard way, but if you can avoid their sting, nettles are a nutritious and delicious food and natural medicine. Here's how to use stinging nettles. (And a yummy pesto recipe.)

How to Use Stinging Nettles {With Nettle Pesto Recipe}

raw sprouted chickpea hummus with olive oil and paprika in a dish

Raw Sprouted Chickpea Hummus

One of the easiest ways to preserve fresh fruit is to make it into fruit leather. This cultured version has a nice tang and a healthy dose of probiotic bacteria.

Apricot Probiotic Fruit Leather

Dark green leafy vegetables are perhaps the most concentrated source of nutrition of any food. This delicious recipe with kale and bok choy will help you enjoy them.

Kale & Bok Choy Slaw with Spicy Sesame-Ginger Dressing

Boxed cereals are processed foods that contain almost no nutrition at all (unless they are sprayed with synthetic vitamins—yuck!). This sprouted buckwheat granola recipe is a truly healthy whole food breakfast cereal alternative.

Crunchy Sprouted Buckwheat Granola

Here's a delicious, traditionally Korean way to use shiso leaves and nourish your digestive system with fermented foods at the same time.

How to Use Shiso Leaves (with a Recipe)

Kohlrabi is probably the best vegetable you've never had. Here are two simple kohlrabi recipes to help you get the most out of this odd little vegetable.

Kohlrabi: The Best Vegetable You Never Had (With 2 Recipes)

This homemade almond milk yogurt recipe is a delicious, affordable option if you and your family love yogurt but are vegan or can't tolerate dairy products.

Homemade Almond Milk Yogurt

ahi poke recipe in a blue bowl

How to Avoid Mercury in Tuna (with Tuna Poke Recipe)

homemade dill pickles in a canning jar on a table with whole garlic and peppercorns.

Small Footprint Dill Pickles

Coconut water kefir is a bubbly, delicious drink made from probiotic bacteria and healthy yeast that ferment the sugar in the coconut water. Here's how to make it!

Coconut Water Kefir & Cultured Coconut Pudding

mustard greens with garlic mayonnaise in a white bowl

Mustard Greens with Garlic Mayonnaise

basket full of dandelion flowers

Eat Your Weeds: Dandelion Salad with Pecan Vinaigrette & Dandelion Wine

Fresh, ripe dates are juicy and sweet, with a crisp skin. Here are three easy, delicious fresh date recipes to help you enjoy the special qualities of this unique fruit.

3 Scrumptious Fresh Date Recipes

butternut squash cookies on a counter

Raw Butternut Squash Cookies

There can be only one reason to make butter at home when it can so easily be bought: TASTE. Homemade is just better! Here's how to make cultured butter.

How to Make Cultured Butter

Sometimes called the "chocolate pudding" fruit, sapotes are related to persimmons. Here are two sapote recipes to help you enjoy this unusual fruit.

Dulce de Sapote Negro

figs on a branch

Fig Avocado Salsa
(Gluten Free, Vegan, Paleo)

sun-dried tomatoes on a wood countertop

How to Make Sun Dried Tomatoes

sunflower seed butter in a class bowl with a spoon on a bed of sunflower seeds

How to Make Raw Sunflower Seed Butter

raw energy bars on a white plate

Raw Power Energy Bars

snap peas in a bowl on the table

Lemony Snap Peas with Avocado

This raw breakfast cereal is very nutritious and filling. It is especially good if you do a lot of physical work in the morning that requires extra energy.

High-Energy Raw Breakfast Bowl

Eggplants are beautiful, delicious, nutritious vegetables to eat, especially in this light and easy, grain-free, vegan eggplant ravioli. Click to get the recipe!

Raw Vegan Eggplant Ravioli with Red Pepper Sauce

canning jars full of pickles on a wooden table outdoors.

Heirloom Tomato Pickles

Here are two raw turnip recipes—one for the root and one for the leaves—so you can get the most nutrition out of this delicious root vegetable.

Turnip Rutabaga Salad with Watercress & Marinated Turnip Greens

SNACKS

raw energy bars on a white plate

Raw Power Energy Bars

canning jars full of pickles on a wooden table outdoors.

Heirloom Tomato Pickles

This homemade almond milk yogurt recipe is a delicious, affordable option if you and your family love yogurt but are vegan or can't tolerate dairy products.

Homemade Almond Milk Yogurt

snap peas in a bowl on the table

Dilly Snap Peas

One of the easiest ways to preserve fresh fruit is to make it into fruit leather. This cultured version has a nice tang and a healthy dose of probiotic bacteria.

Apricot Probiotic Fruit Leather

homemade dill pickles in a canning jar on a table with whole garlic and peppercorns.

Small Footprint Dill Pickles

Coconut milk yogurt

Easy Homemade Coconut Milk Yogurt

stack of root vegetable pancakes on a plate

Easy (Grain Free) Root Vegetable Pancakes

This recipe for grain free banana bread is light, sweet and rich. It's also fruit-sweetened, GAPS adaptable and Paleo friendly!

Grain Free Banana Bread

homemade gummy candies in a glass dish on a light blue table

Healthy Probiotic Gummy Candies

Orgasmically Good Deviled Eggs with Bacon and Dill

Orgasmically Good Deviled Eggs with Bacon and Dill

Here's a delicious, gluten-free, GAPS and Paleo-friendly way to enjoy the zucchini bounty. This coconut flour zucchini bread recipe also freezes well!

Coconut Flour Zucchini Bread (Paleo, Gluten Free, Dairy Free)

Watermelon is very nutritious, but what do you do with the rind? Summer is a great time to make an old Southern treat: Watermelon rind pickles.

Watermelon Rind Pickles

CONDIMENTS

jar of pesto next to basil leaves

Vegan Pesto with Zucchini

sunflower seed butter in a class bowl with a spoon on a bed of sunflower seeds

How to Make Raw Sunflower Seed Butter

bowl of oat milk on table with spoons full of oats

How to Make Oat Milk

This sun dried tomato pesto recipe is vegan, Paleo and GAPS friendly, and a great way to preserve the tomato harvest.

Sun Dried Tomato Pesto

white bowl full of arugula

Pistachio Arugula Pesto

Cherimoyas are a true local delicacy if you live in the Southwest. Here are some simple cherimoya recipes to enjoy while they're in season.

For the Love of Cherimoya
(with 3 Recipes)

There can be only one reason to make butter at home when it can so easily be bought: TASTE. Homemade is just better! Here's how to make cultured butter.

How to Make Cultured Butter

raw sprouted chickpea hummus with olive oil and paprika in a dish

Raw Sprouted Chickpea Hummus

Fresh, ripe dates are juicy and sweet, with a crisp skin. Here are three easy, delicious fresh date recipes to help you enjoy the special qualities of this unique fruit.

3 Scrumptious Fresh Date Recipes

tomato bacon jam in a white dish next to crackers and cherry tomatoes on a countertop.

Smoky Tomato Bacon Jam (Paleo, Gluten-Free)

Dark green leafy vegetables are perhaps the most concentrated source of nutrition of any food. This delicious recipe with kale and bok choy will help you enjoy them.

Kale & Bok Choy Slaw with Spicy Sesame-Ginger Dressing

vanilla beans on a table

How to Make Vanilla Extract (With or Without Alcohol)

mustard greens with garlic mayonnaise in a white bowl

Mustard Greens with Garlic Mayonnaise

figs on a branch

Fig Avocado Salsa
(Gluten Free, Vegan, Paleo)

BREAKFAST

stack of root vegetable pancakes on a plate

Easy (Grain Free) Root Vegetable Pancakes

Coconut milk yogurt

Easy Homemade Coconut Milk Yogurt

Boxed cereals are processed foods that contain almost no nutrition at all (unless they are sprayed with synthetic vitamins—yuck!). This sprouted buckwheat granola recipe is a truly healthy whole food breakfast cereal alternative.

Crunchy Sprouted Buckwheat Granola

When you cure your own bacon, you get to control the quality of the meat and the ingredients it is cured with! Here's how to cure bacon at home.

How to Cure Bacon at Home

This recipe for grain free banana bread is light, sweet and rich. It's also fruit-sweetened, GAPS adaptable and Paleo friendly!

Grain Free Banana Bread

Here's a delicious, gluten-free, GAPS and Paleo-friendly way to enjoy the zucchini bounty. This coconut flour zucchini bread recipe also freezes well!

Coconut Flour Zucchini Bread (Paleo, Gluten Free, Dairy Free)

Coconut water kefir is a bubbly, delicious drink made from probiotic bacteria and healthy yeast that ferment the sugar in the coconut water. Here's how to make it!

Coconut Water Kefir & Cultured Coconut Pudding

This homemade almond milk yogurt recipe is a delicious, affordable option if you and your family love yogurt but are vegan or can't tolerate dairy products.

Homemade Almond Milk Yogurt

bowl of oat milk on table with spoons full of oats

How to Make Oat Milk

This raw breakfast cereal is very nutritious and filling. It is especially good if you do a lot of physical work in the morning that requires extra energy.

High-Energy Raw Breakfast Bowl

BEVERAGES

basket full of dandelion flowers

Eat Your Weeds: Dandelion Salad with Pecan Vinaigrette & Dandelion Wine

bowl of oat milk on table with spoons full of oats

How to Make Oat Milk

This authentic chai tea recipe uses traditional Indian masala spices to create a spicy, creamy treat that blows any store-bought version out of the water.

Authentic Masala Chai Tea Concentrate Recipe

lavender flowers with bees on them

Lavender Lemonade with Honey

This refreshing honey limeade recipe is the perfect, crisp and delicious beverage to beat the end of summer heat. You can also sweeten it with stevia!

Honey Limeade Recipe (with Sugar-Free Option)

Sometimes called the "chocolate pudding" fruit, sapotes are related to persimmons. Here are two sapote recipes to help you enjoy this unusual fruit.

Dulce de Sapote Negro

cracked coconut next to a glass of coconut milk

Easy Homemade Coconut Milk

Cherimoyas are a true local delicacy if you live in the Southwest. Here are some simple cherimoya recipes to enjoy while they're in season.

For the Love of Cherimoya
(with 3 Recipes)

class of tepache on a cutting board next to a bottles of fermenting pineapple

Tepache – Fermented Pineapple Brew