Desert | Loving Our Guts

French Vanilla Coconut Milk Ice Cream

Both of my children are getting their tongue ties fixed soon. Part of how I am motivating them to want to get this done is with a promise of lots of ice cream once it is over. Since we are following GAPS this means that I am making lots of ice cream.

I have often [...]

Coconutty Pudding

This is my families favorite desert. Shhhhh… don’t tell them it is good for them! It has lots of nourishing eggs, coconut milk and dates. What more could you want? It is equally good hot or cold so I like to make a double recipe and have some warm and some cold later on.

White Chocolate Coconut Pie

I love Pintrest but those deserts people post seem impossible on GAPS or are filled with fake ingredients (and I want to eat them all!) I spotted one the other day that I ignored at first but the lure of chocolate with coconut and the promise of “gluten free” and “Just 4 ingredients” sucked me [...]

Coconut Butter Cake with Coconut Frosting

My little girl is growing up! She turns 8 tomorrow and to celebrate the occassion I have updated a cake I used to make with nut butter back when we did SCD to make it LOD (low oxalate diet) compliant. (Go here to read about oxalates). We each tried a small piece tonight and we [...]

Cranberry Cake with Hot Butter Sauce

My mother-in-law’s cooking is legendary among all who knew her. Sadly, I am not one of those people. She died a couple of years before I met my husband. Some of her recipes have achieved mythic fame in her memory and I hear about them from my husband, father-in-law and others. Many of the dishes [...]