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

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?

This vanilla layer cake and its frosting are grain-free, nut-free, dairy-free, Paleo diet-friendly, and—believe it or not—oh, so delicious! Click to get the recipe!

Coconut Flour Vanilla Layer Cake

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

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 yummy energy bar recipe is full of protein, healthy fats, low-glycemic carbs, vitamins, minerals and omega-3s—and will keep you going for a long time.

Raw Power Energy Bars

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

Pamplemousse is French for grapefruit. Click to get four special grapefruit recipes to enjoy the brightness of this delicious fruit this winter.

Perfect Pamplemousse (Grapefruit Four Ways)

This whole food homemade marshmallow recipe has no artificial colors or flavors, nor any corn syrup or refined sugars. Perfect for hot cocoa by a toasty fire!

Homemade Honey Vanilla Marshmallows (Corn Syrup & Egg Free)

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 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

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

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

Coconut milk yogurt

Easy Homemade Coconut Milk Yogurt

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

After a heavy traditional meal, enjoy this lighter, healthier version of the Thanksgiving classic: raw sweet potato pie. Click to get the recipe!

Raw Sweet Potato Pie

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

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

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

This recipe for raw pumpkin cheesecake is vegan, gluten and dairy free to help you get the most out of your pumpkins this season.

Raw Vegan Pumpkin Cheesecake

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

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

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)

Carrot Halwa is also called Gajar Halwa or gajrala. It's made with carrots and full-fat milk or coconut milk. With cardamom and pistachios, it tastes like a sweet, spicy carrot pudding. Here's how to make it!

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)

This gummy candy recipe is low in sugar with the nutrition of real fruit and full-fat coconut milk, plus the gut healing benefits of gelatin and probiotics.

Healthy Probiotic Gummy Candies

If you’re sensitive to gluten, eggs or nuts, these tasty treats will appeal to your neglected inner Cookie Monster, and meet your dietary needs too!

Raw Butternut Squash 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

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

Figs are in season during mid to late summer. Here are two scrumptious fresh fig recipes to help you enjoy the bounty of these special fruits.

The Beauty of Fresh Figs: Brazilian Fig Torte & Fig Avocado Salsa

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

This easy crockpot chicken stock recipe is a frugal and nutritious way to reduce waste in the kitchen, improve digestive health and add flavor to your meals.

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)

This easy to make roasted butternut squash soup recipe will nourish you well on cold winter days, and make the best of this healthy, long-storing vegetable.

Easy Roasted Butternut Squash Soup

This soup is so creamy you'll be amazed it's dairy free. And if you want to make this recipe Paleo, you can substitute sweet potato and/or cauliflower.

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.

Thanksgiving Leftovers: Black Friday Pie and Turkey Soup with Root Vegetables

SALADS

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

Pamplemousse is French for grapefruit. Click to get four special grapefruit recipes to enjoy the brightness of this delicious fruit this winter.

Perfect Pamplemousse (Grapefruit Four Ways)

Far from being a food for the elite, arugula can be found growing wild all over North America. Here are two delicious arugula recipes to help you enjoy it.

Arugula Fennel Apple Salad & Pistachio Arugula Pesto

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)

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

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

These two recipes for Dilly Snap Peas and Lemony Snap Peas with Avocado are sure to delight your taste buds this spring!

Lemony Snap Peas with Avocado & Dilly Snap Peas

basket full of dandelion flowers

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

RAW & FERMENTED DISHES

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

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

How to Make Sun Dried Tomatoes

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

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)

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

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

This yummy energy bar recipe is full of protein, healthy fats, low-glycemic carbs, vitamins, minerals and omega-3s—and will keep you going for a long time.

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 two recipes for Dilly Snap Peas and Lemony Snap Peas with Avocado are sure to delight your taste buds this spring!

Lemony Snap Peas with Avocado & Dilly Snap Peas

This raw sprouted chickpea hummus is prepared so that all of the enzyme inhibitors have been eliminated. This makes the hummus much more nutritious.

Raw Sprouted Chickpea Hummus

Here are four easy pickle recipes that will deliciously preserve some of your summer produce. If made with vinegar, they can be ready to eat right after making them. And if you lacto-ferment them traditionally with brine, they will be ready in a week!

Four Easy Summer Pickle Recipes

Coconut milk yogurt

Easy Homemade Coconut Milk Yogurt

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

If you’ve only eaten store-bought or canned sauerkraut, you owe it to yourself to try the fermented homemade variety. Here is how to make sauerkraut.

Simple Homemade Sauerkraut

This recipe for mustard greens with garlic mayonnaise will help you get the most out of this piquant, easy-to-grow, nutritional powerhouse.

Mustard Greens with Garlic Mayonnaise

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)

After a heavy traditional meal, enjoy this lighter, healthier version of the Thanksgiving classic: raw sweet potato pie. Click to get the recipe!

Raw Sweet Potato Pie

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}

basket full of dandelion flowers

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

This recipe for raw pumpkin cheesecake is vegan, gluten and dairy free to help you get the most out of your pumpkins this season.

Raw Vegan Pumpkin Cheesecake

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

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

If you’re sensitive to gluten, eggs or nuts, these tasty treats will appeal to your neglected inner Cookie Monster, and meet your dietary needs too!

Raw Butternut Squash Cookies

Far from being a food for the elite, arugula can be found growing wild all over North America. Here are two delicious arugula recipes to help you enjoy it.

Arugula Fennel Apple Salad & Pistachio Arugula Pesto

Italian pesto is traditionally made with lots of parmesan cheese. This new pesto recipe tastes like the Italian version everyone loves, but it's vegan and Paleo-friendly!

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

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

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

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)

Most of the world's fisheries are contaminated with Mercury, PCBs and other human-made pollutants, and they are significantly over-fished. But farmed fish are pumped full of antibiotics and have their own grave environmental issues. So, unless you choose to abstain from eating fish altogether, what is a conscious consumer to do?

How to Avoid Mercury in Tuna (with Maguro Butsu 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

Figs are in season during mid to late summer. Here are two scrumptious fresh fig recipes to help you enjoy the bounty of these special fruits.

The Beauty of Fresh Figs: Brazilian Fig Torte & Fig Avocado Salsa

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

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

This recipe will show you how to make raw sunflower seed butter that has maximum taste, nutrition and digestibility.

How to Make Raw Sunflower Seed Butter

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

BREAKFAST

This super easy, nutritious root vegetable pancake recipe will fill you up and bring you comfort—without grains, gluten, dairy or nuts. Click to get the recipe!

Easy (Grain Free) Root Vegetable Pancakes

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

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, 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

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

Coconut milk yogurt

Easy Homemade Coconut Milk Yogurt

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 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

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

BEVERAGES

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)

basket full of dandelion flowers

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

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

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

How to Make Coconut Milk

Easy Homemade Coconut Milk