Side Dish | Loving Our Guts

Zucchini Noodles

One of the hardest things to give up when you go on a grain free diet is pasta. It is such a big part of our American diet and features prominently in our favorite comfort foods. Breaking the Vicious Cycle describes making noodles from zucchini using a vegetable peeler and I have done that many [...]

Cooking Basics: How to cook squash

This is lesson 2 in my cooking basics series. The first lesson was on how to roast a whole chicken.

I was reading Joel Salatin’s latest book Folks, This Ain’t Normal and in one of the chapters he talks about a farmer who has a bumper crop of butternut squash and he can’t find anyone [...]

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 [...]

Cauliflower Rice

I’m not sure how long we had been doing GAPS when this dish was mentioned by someone on the yahoo group. It has become a favorite here. I think W would happily eat it every single day. When I do make it, like tonight, she usually eats several servings of it. My other daughter isn’t [...]

Dark Days Challenge meal #3

Welcome to week 3 of the dark days challenge. With all the Christmas stuff going on with my family it has been hard to focus on this meal but I had one of the veggies planned for a couple of weeks. We had this squash at our friends house for Thanksgiving and it was [...]