Category: Gluten Free

You should totally make these for Superbowl. Or, any party, actually. Easy, healthy, and perfectly bite sized. A little sneak peak of one of my favorite recipes from The Simply Real Health Cookbook: Easy Real Food Recipes for a Healthy Life, Made Simple, out March 6th. If you haven’t ordered your copy yet, you should! […]

I’m not really a takeout kind of girl. The food is overly salty, never has enough veggies and fresh stuff and takes just as long (if not longer) to place the order, drive, pick it up, drive home, get ready to eat, etc. And then, after all of that, it’s cold. And you kind of […]

In going gluten free 4 years ago, the one thing I was worried about missing out on was pizza. That thin, crispy crust. The melty cheese. Pesto. Tomato sauce. Meat. Veggies. Spices. Ah, I die. Divine. Back then, it was so hard to find a crust recipe to make at home, which I used to […]

A cookie you can feel great about eating for breakfast is my kind of cookie. Also in that category of things that are my jam– any cookie that actually comes out well enough that other people like it too. I’m not exaggerating. I have no shame about it. Baking is not my forte. All those rules […]

  If a sweet caramelized onion + a perfectly crunchy, roasted brussel sprout had a baby, this is what it would taste like. If that sounds like the best thing ever, you need to make this recipe ASAP. If it sounds like punishment, today is not your kind of post. But then again, this wouldn’t be your […]

  Ok, for real. Whether you’ve committed to eating healthier this year or not, you have to make this soup. A creamy, dairy-free cauliflower soup that really means this: veggies on veggies on veggies. Pureed ones mixed into cooked ones for the best stew-like texture. So you’ll feel full and awesome and energized. And yes, I know what […]

  True confession: in all the years past, Mondays were always my day to start my post weekend cleanse. Usually something extreme, like not eating dairy and grains and sugar and alcohol and meat or juicing straight until I felt a little like gumby. Something- if I’m being totally honest with you- that would make […]

It’s been about 3 years since I’ve been gluten-free [the root-cause cure for my out-of-nowhere, un-curable-by-medication, hypothyroidism]. People always ask me if I miss it, with a very concerned look on their face. No. Never, actually, I say. Because to be honest, nothing will ever taste as good as being medication free. And like I’m […]

  When I first found this recipe [here], I kind of laughed. By myself. At my computer. A nerdy little chuckle. Pureed cashews? Yeah right. That’s going to be chunky and taste weird. Those vegans. My god. Their tastebuds are so clean, they think anything tastes good. Lucky ducks. But then, it started. The smarty pants […]

You know when you’d sit at the dinner table as a little kid and hear… Eat your vegetables. You have to eat your vegetables. Eat your vegetables… or else! No dessert. Like it’s some kind of punishment. It’s no wonder most of us have a terrible relationship to eating veggies. And that’s if you were […]

A few years ago, my family started this ridiculous tradition. And by “family”, I mean me. Dueling dishes. The old school vs the new school. Old school: processed food classics like green bean casserole, yams with marshmallows, pies with corn syrup, and stuffing with orowheat soft sandwich bread. Tradition. The definition of Thanksgiving food. Which […]

I’ll admit it, I used to be a canned cranberry sauce-a-holic. That poor turkey on my plate was just a vehicle.  The potatoes, a mini bumper lane for the goey globs of that sweet purple sauce, all over the place. You know, back in my teenage days before I knew about real food. And, no wonder. […]