My famous dairy-free, vegan, Paleo, and AIP cheese recipe is now available in a convenient mix through a collaboration with Legit Bread Company! Pre-order now to enjoy truly legit cheese that melts and stretches like the real deal.
My husband Andy and I have been self-employed and working from home for many years and wanted to share our 9 top tips for working remotely. If you’re new to this lifestyle due to COVID-19, or if you just want to make a change in your career, then we hope these tips help you!
Black and White Cookies are a quintessential NYC food. This Paleo, vegan recipe features an authentic cake-like cookie with fluffy chocolate and vanilla frosting with an AIP option that actually tastes good!
Tapioca cheese is by far the best dairy-free Paleo, AIP cheese! Nut-free, vegan option, stretches, melts without dissolving. In short, AMAZING!
This is a simple, quick recipe for making a DIY pumpkin pie spice mix that you can use in all sorts of recipes. Plus, some interesting tidbits from the scientific literature regarding the health benefits of consuming all of the spices in the mix. Check it out!
If you've been on the Internet in the past week, chances are you've seen something about new research showing that Oreo cookies are just as addictive as cocaine. Is it true?
This is a lovely recipe for beef heart that comes from Peru: anticuchos, or marinated beef heart kebabs. This is one of those recipes that, unless somebody told you, you'd never know was made from organ meats. Why should you be eating organ meats? I'll show you some of the science behind why.
In my post about my own experience with going gluten-free, I describe how removing wheat from my diet felt like breaking an addiction. Less than a year after my experience, Dr. William Davis published his book Wheat Belly. One of the arguments he uses for why cutting out wheat is a good idea is that it is addictive in the same way as opioid drugs like heroin. According to him, wheat breaks down into heroin-like molecules during digestion, which are able to enter your brain and cause cravings for even more wheat, leading to overeating and weight gain. Are these things really true? Sounds pretty wild, right? Well, let's examine his argument in detail, and check out his references.
If you have read my What I Eat post, then you know I think it's a good idea for just about everyone to try a gluten elimination/re-introduction trial over about 2-6 weeks. I hint at my own experience with doing such a trial as having been pretty horrible. Let me tell you just how horrible.
Plus, I'll take a brief look at non-celiac gluten/wheat sensitivity.
Most people's first reaction to hearing a recommendation to eat more saturated fat, more animal fat, more dietary cholesterol, and more meat (including red meat) is usually something like "Whoa. What about my arteries? Won't that give me heart disease?" Despite all of the propaganda since the middle of the last century from the government in support of the diet-heart hypothesis and against dietary fat, cholesterol, and red meat, the scientific evidence doesn't back it up.
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