Butternut squash soup with apple and sage

This delicious and comforting soup is the marriage of seasonal fall produce, savory herbs and meat and gut healing bone broth. The unusual combination of sweet apple, butternut squash, bacon and sage satisfies cravings for sweet and salty. The ingredients are so flavorful it doesn’t need any spices other than salt. The apple does not […]

Persimmon cranberry sauce/jelly

When you are in the midst of making many dishes for Thanksgiving it’s tempting to buy cranberry sauce or jelly from a can. It’s not the healthiest option. Canned cranberry sauce is made with refined sugar and thickened with commercial thickeners. The big secret is that cranberry sauce can be made in about 15 minutes. […]

Crab cakes from Paleo Mediterrenean cooking

The cover of Mediterrenean Paleo Cooking is as blue as the Mediterranean waters and shows a succulent chicken tajine dish in a clay pot, like something you’d eat at an exotic Algerian restaurant while traveling. Some of these dishes come directly from the upbringing of Algerian chef Nabil Boumrar, who includes family recipes in these […]

Plantain & bacon waffles (only 2 ingredients)

I’ve been admiring the creativity of the bloggers who follow the Paleo Autoimmune protocol diet (commonly called AIP). This diet has all the restriction of Paleo but also removes eggs, dairy, nuts and seeds, tomatoes, white potatoes, eggplant, peppers and cocoa. When you have this many restrictions you have to get really creative to stave […]

2 minute Banana “oatmeal”

Oatmeal is one of those comforting and easy comfort breakfasts that people tend to miss on the Paleo diet. The best way to give up something you really like is to substitute it for something you like just as much. This sweet, creamy, grain-free version of oatmeal can be prepped in a couple of minutes […]