There are many ways to create recipes that are beneficial to the gut, without losing the joy of your favourite foods. If you love cheesecake, then you’ll love this recipe, made with yogurt cream cheese. I use to love cheesecake, but I lost my taste for it many years ago. It was my “go [...]

  If you like a simple, plain cracker with just a hint of sweet, then this is the cracker for you. I like using different whole flours and mixing them. Feel free to do the same. Spelt is one of my favourites but I like mixing it with kamut to make a crisp cracker. I’ve [...]

  What's a person to do? It’s autumn and both apples and pumpkin are in season. Which do you choose to make a treat?  I know... use both. If you can picture the taste of this combo and it rings your chimes, then this is the recipe for you. If not, give it a try [...]

  There are many ways to take old favourites and make them better for your needs today. Growing up, potato salad was something we only had in the summer. And I’m not talking about the one from KFC or any other store-bought version. The potato salad of my childhood memories was made from scratch, usually [...]

  As a child, homemade pasta was a weekly occurrence in my house. I loved to help my mother put the pasta through what we called “the spaghetti machine”. We made the pasta with eggs and all-purpose flour. A certain amount of strength is required to make the dough right. Neither my mother or I [...]

  I’m always surprised how well sauerkraut fits in a recipe. For something that has such a strong taste and smell, it always seems to easily mix with the ingredients and enhance the flavour. Adding it to the orange mint salsa makes it good for the gut by providing probiotics to go with the prebiotics [...]

  Sometimes a cookie just needs to be a cookie. Simple, not too sweet with a nice little crunch. Here are two versions of the same cookie, one using hazelnuts for one and black sesame seeds for the other. I could tell you that hazelnuts and black sesame seeds are good for you. But I [...]