I’ve been making homemade salad dressings for as long as I can remember. Growing up my grandmother and mother always made their own dressings, so logically I followed suit. I feel very strongly that the key to eating more healthy salads is having a delicious dressing on hand at all times. My Everyday Creamy Italian Dressing…
“Why would you ever go off a diet that tastes better than the diet you were eating before you started looking great, losing weight, and kicking ass?” That’s the question my good friend Dave Asprey asks in his just-released new book, “The Bulletproof Diet”…which I’m totally in LOVE with and even Hercules couldn’t wait to sink…
This Easy Chicken Liver Pate is a great way to gently incorporate healthy organ meats into your diet.
I’ve been making my 3 ingredient, Blender Alfredo Sauce since I was in college and first started cooking. Initially I tried to make a classic alfredo sauce on the stove top which required constant supervision and lots of [expensive] ingredients. None of those aspects of alfredo sauce were appealing, even though it tasted great. Around that…
When it comes to salad dressings, American have a clear favorite: Ranch. Ranch is by far the most popular salad dressing in the U.S., according to a new report from the NPD Group, a consumer market research firm. It’s the “Swiss Army knife of salad dressings,” NPD says. “It dresses salads, gets kids to eat their…
I’ve day dreamed of owning a Le Creuset Dutch Oven for as long as I’ve known how to cook. It’s one of those iconic pieces that every good cook must have in their kitchen. Needless to say, finally being a proud owner of a Le Creuset Dutch Oven makes me feel like I’ve officially arrived on the foodie-scene….
It’s summertime and we have such an amazing assortment of fresh veggies in our garden and available at our farmers market – perfect time to enjoy a BIG salad for dinner! The secret to a good salad, like you get at a restaurant, is in the small details… making sure to have an assortment of…
Twice a year we purchase 1/2 a Heritage Breed, Pasture Raised Hog from a local farmer. It saves us so much money! And I can’t even explain how much better it tastes that any other pork we’ve ever had. While we do have the option to get the ground portion of our hog made into sausage…
Nothing goes better with Cheesecake than fresh picked Berries… However, in the heat of the summer (when local berries are in season) there’s no way that I’m going to turn on the oven and bake a cheesecake! Did you know that you can make the most amazing cheesecake and you don’t have to turn on the oven? And…
I’m not going to lie, I wasn’t really a fan of egg salad for the first 30ish years of my life… and to be completely honest I wasn’t even a big egg eater before we got our own chickens. An appreciation of eggs is something that came to me later in life and only after…
Sometimes the yummiest meals are the ones that just come together using up stuff in your fridge, that’s what happened with my Spinach & Feta Pizza Squares!! I totally intended for them to be flop. Never thought that they might actually be a recipe we would love immediately. The bottom layer is packed with spinach,…
I LOVE soup! And being on the GAPS diet to heal my leaky gut (click HERE to learn more) has inspired me to become more creative with my soups! My Meatball Noodle Soup is amazingly healthy – no grains, no gluten, GAPS, 21DSD and Whole 30 Friendly. Before you get started making the soup itself,…