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

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Healthy Probiotic Gummy Candies

butternut squash cookies on a counter

Raw Butternut Squash Cookies

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?

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

carrot halwa dessert on a plate

Carrot Halwa (Spiced Carrot Pudding)

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

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)

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

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

homemade marshmallows in a mug of hot chocolate

Homemade Honey Vanilla Marshmallows (Corn Syrup & Egg Free)

fresh figs on a wooden table

Brazilian Fig Torte
(Gluten Free, Vegan, Paleo)

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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

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

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Raw Vegan Pumpkin Cheesecake

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

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

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

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)

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

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)

Coconut milk yogurt

Easy Homemade Coconut Milk Yogurt

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Coconut Flour Vanilla Layer Cake

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Raw Sweet Potato Pie

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)

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)

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

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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

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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

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

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

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)

pink grapefruit halves on a countertop

Roasted Beet and Grapefruit Salad

snap peas in a bowl on the table

Lemony Snap Peas with Avocado

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Dandelion Salad with Warm Pecan Vinaigrette

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

RAW & FERMENTED DISHES

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)

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)

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

Raw Sprouted Chickpea Hummus

raw energy bars on a white plate

Raw Power Energy Bars

pesto in a white dish on a table.

Basil Walnut Pesto (Vegan, Paleo, Dairy-Free, Gluten-Free)

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

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How to Make Raw Sunflower Seed Butter

fresh figs on a wooden table

Brazilian Fig Torte
(Gluten Free, Vegan, Paleo)

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

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Dandelion Wine

Coconut milk yogurt

Easy Homemade Coconut Milk Yogurt

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

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)

canning jars full of pickles on a wooden table outdoors.

Heirloom Tomato Pickles

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 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

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

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

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

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

sun-dried tomatoes on a wood countertop

How to Make Sun Dried Tomatoes

figs on a branch

Fig Avocado Salsa
(Gluten Free, Vegan, Paleo)

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)

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

Tepache – Fermented Pineapple Brew

snap peas in a bowl on the table

Lemony Snap Peas with Avocado

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

jar of pesto next to basil leaves

Vegan Pesto with Zucchini

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

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Pistachio Arugula Pesto

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

Raw Sweet Potato Pie

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Simple Homemade Sauerkraut

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

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

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Small Footprint Dill Pickles

butternut squash cookies on a counter

Raw Butternut Squash Cookies

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Mustard Greens with Garlic Mayonnaise

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 vegan pumpkin cheesecake on a white plate on a table

Raw Vegan Pumpkin Cheesecake

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)

BEVERAGES

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

Tepache – Fermented Pineapple Brew

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

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)

bottle of dandelion wine, fresh dandelion flowers and two glasses of wine

Dandelion Wine

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

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Easy Homemade Coconut Milk

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How to Make Oat Milk

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)

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Lavender Lemonade with Honey