From the monthly archives: July 2011
Anyone who has been doing GAPS, or paleo/primal, for a while and still is having gas/burping/bloating or other digestive issues should seriously take a look at FODMAPs. I just discovered this protocol for treating IBS recently and over the past couple weeks have been eliminating the newly-found “avoid” foods from my diet, [...]
So whenever I’m cooking a whole chicken … and I don’t have a specific plan for the organ meats … I’ll throw them in a glass jar, top them off with some whey (or you could use a little lemon juice dissolved in water if dairy isn’t an option), and throw them to [...]
Way back when, some 20-odd years ago, around the time when my two beautiful twin brothers entered this world, my parents embarked upon a monumental remodeling project to our house, in order to make more room for bedrooms, amongst other things, as our family grew by 50%.
Part of this project involved digging [...]
Just like when we actually did the intro diet for GAPS, I am slowly progressing through the stages of Intro in this blog. Part of me is kind of glad that I wasn’t blogging at the time we were going through this, because we were just so miserable and tired at [...]
Our next-door neighbors are Jamaican, and have bought oxtails thru our farm co-op before; I asked, when the mom picked them up, how they cook them. And her answer greatly intrigued me. So here, I present an alternative to the classic (European? American?) oxtail soup. And highly GAPS-friendly to boot! (Because oxtails are [...]
I’m talking bright yellow here — not neon or anything radioactive or painful to look at — but nothing that could possibly be confused with off-white, cream, beige, or, heaven forbid, WHITE. Refer to Exhibit B:
Mayo should be yellow because the ingredients that go into mayo, if they’re high-quality ingredients, should [...]
I’ve been wanting to make some GAPS-friendly, chocolate-free (since I’m still limiting chocolate severely — who am I kidding — I haven’t had any for months…) ice cream for a while now, so I was perusing the Ben & Jerry’s website for some inspiration, and came across their Cinnamon Buns flavor … hmm… [...]
I’ve decided I’m going to make an effort to post every week about the ways I incorporate non-standard meats into our diets – from hearts and livers to tails and feet (maybe even a snout if I can get my hands on a soy-feed-free one) to everything in between that is icky and [...]
These worked almost as well as the onion crisps in our stockpile of road food, and as an added bonus, don’t need to be kept cool, because they don’t have any fat in them. (Tho I highly recommend adding fat to them when eating!) They were also less time-intensive to make, and [...]
Well it was a long while back that I started this series, but I’m finally going to pick back up with it, now that I’m finally getting through posting most of the backlog of road-trip-related posts.
Getting to Stage 2 of the GAPS intro diet, especially if you’ve [...]
These things are almost better than candy, or cookies. If you like caramelized onions, that is, and if they like you back! They’re basically little crispy sweet onion “crackers”, of the all-vegetable (and fat), grain-free variety. They took quite a bit of work to make, and when we figured out the cost comparison with, [...]
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