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Cooking Basics: How to Roast a Chicken

In the past every girl would have learned how to cook from her mother. Those lessons would have included basics like how to roast a chicken and a beef roast, how to bake a cake (from scratch), how to prepare various vegetables, and lots of other important kitchen skills. Now the cooking [...]

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2 Years on GAPS part 3 continued

Yesterday I published the first part of my younger daughters GAPS story. You can read it here. 2 Years on GAPS Part 3 I realized as I was writing it that it was just too long for one blog post so here is the second half of it.

Isn’t she beautiful? Not that I’m a biased [...]

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GAPS Cookbooks

I am often asked what cookbooks I use for making my GAPS foods. I do have a few grain free cookbooks but most of the books I reach for time and again are not specifically GAPS books but instead they just have good recipes that I modify as needed.

I have had The Grassfed [...]

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Crispy Wings with Honey Mustard Sauce

US Wellness Meats had a special on chicken wings recently so when I was placing my order our staple, pemican, I ordered some wings too. I wasn’t sure what to do with them but I knew that they would be popular with my kids. Wings can be fun to eat and since we get whole [...]

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Coconut Butter Pancakes

My youngest turned 4 recently and when I asked her what foods she wanted to eat for her birthday she said “Pancakes” I took this as an opportunity to work on my pancake recipe. I think it turned out pretty good. Let me know what you think.

Coconut Butter Pancakes

2 cups unsweetened shredded [...]

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GAPS Oopsie Buns

Oopsie rolls have been a staple of the low carb community for many years. I first encountered them while following the Schwarzbein Principle program. They faded from my memory for many years but recently the arose in my subconscious and I went looking for the recipe once again. They are quick and easy to make and have [...]

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The Quest for the Holy Cold Frame

Today’s post is a guest post by my husband, Jason, describing the cold frame that he made for our family this winter. Cold frames are a great way to grow your own food when the weather is generally too cold for gardening and can extend your growing season by a couple of months and [...]

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Spaghetti Sauce Soup

This is a soup one night I invented in desperation trying to find something soupy my kids would eat. (W in particular generally hates soup on principle). I have made it twice now and they loved it each time. It has a deceptively large amount of broth in it and every bit is gobbled up. [...]

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Brussel Sprouts with Bacon

Ok this dish is so simple that I feel guilty writing a recipe for it but I know I need some inspiration sometimes so I’ll go ahead and do it. Thanks to the Leptin Reset and the fact that my eldest will only eat a big breakfast if it includes bacon we have a lot [...]

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Yummy Cheeseburger Soup

Our church was having a pot luck meal centered around soups. I quizzed my soup hating daughter as to what kind of soup she would like. ”Cheese!” she said. Ok she wanted a cheese soup. I hadn’t ever made a cheese soup and I wasn’t sure I knew how but I did a little bit [...]

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