8 grain-free recipes (dairy and sugar-free with substitutions)
The apple-nut crisp dessert is completely SCD/GAPS legal and is so simple to make. And if you haven’t roasted a pumpkin to get pumpkin puree for making desserts with, then the video will definitely motivate you to try it. On SCD, pumpkin puree in a can is not to be used, so making your own is a must. I have been enjoying pumpkin pudding and pie filling the past couple months that pumpkins have been in season.
If you’re interested in signing up for the full cooking course, or for other individual classes, I have a coupon code NK20 that will get you 20% off the cost of the course. Just make sure to enter NK20 on the checkout page.
There is a wonderful new online cooking class available dedicated to holiday foods, and almost all of the recipes are suited to SCD, GAPS and Primal diets. I’m really enjoying taking online cooking courses. The fact that this course offers SCD/GAPS/Primal cooking lessons is great! I have done cooking classes in my hometown before, but none are suited to my diet. I know my first Thanksgiving I only ate about 3 dishes because I couldn’t have the rest of the stuff I prepared. Having a bit more guidance on how to prepare a whole holiday feast would have been helpful.
The course material is available for lifetime, so for holiday dinners to come you’ll always have some refresher videos to watch and your favorite recipes stored or printed out. There’s also access to an online forum with all the course participants. This is invaluable as everyone can exchange ideas, help each other out with learning and get questions answered from the course teacher, Jenny from Nourished Kitchen. I had the chance to meet her at the Wise Traditions Conference and she is so amazing!
Check out this video introduction for the course:
I will be signing up for the course too and I’m excited to get some new ideas. My family celebrates Christmas with a nice turkey dinner and we usually have a New Years feast with extended family featuring a roast ham. This on top of Thanksgiving makes for 3 feasts, so I can always use more recipes and techniques to help expand my culinary skills. If you’re on SCD or GAPS and worried about any of the recipes, I’ll be doing them too so we can compare notes in the forums.
This course is a bargain at $89, less than $10 per class.
Also note, you can sign up for individual classes so if there’s any classes particular that look most interesting to you, you can sign up for them on their own.
Some things you’ll learn how to do in the course:
Brine and slow-roast a turkey
Make a fantastic pie crust – without refined flour
Roast and puree a pumpkin
Make your own mayonnaise, ketchup and mustard
Make healthy gifts for friends and family
Ditch white flour and white sugar in your cookies & sweets
Make gluten-/grain-/dairy-free versions of your best holiday treats
Convert your favorite recipes to healthier versions
Entertain friends and family with over 30 menus and 175 included recipes
You’ll have access to multimedia online lessons, video tutorials, over 30 holiday menus, over 175 holiday recipes, downloadable print materials, and sample shopping lists.
Hope to see some SCD, GAPS and Primal eaters take these courses with me!
I don’t drink raw milk. I used to think all those raw milk people were crazy. This past spring I started getting raw milk locally, just to try it out. Now I use raw milk for making my yogurt and I can’t go back! If someone took away my raw milk, I would be the one going crazy!
Maybe it’s the fact that I’m so used to cooking everything from scratch, I want the raw ingredients to make my food with. Yogurt from store-bought pasteurized milk is just not the same. It’s amazing how much more cream you get separated in fresh raw milk as opposed to store-bought pasteurized “whole milk”. Even if you can find unhomogenized, organic, pastured milk at the store, I guarantee you it will not give the same results as raw milk. Read more…
Don’t cook or heat honey – Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride
Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride mentioned this during one of her sessions. Her logic was that bees will do everything they can to keep the hive from overheating to protect the honey. Thing is, they mostly do this because warm honey will be more liquid and might drip out of the hive. So that alone is not a reason to not cook honey for eating purposes. Raw honey does have beneficial enzymes and antimicrobial properties, so it’s best to eat it raw, but I see no evidence of eating heated honey to be harmful. I have had more success removing cooked nuts from my diet than cooked honey.
Keep sugar out of your diet, for the rest of your life. Now you’re thinking, what can I bake with? Well, dates, figs, apricots, bananas are all sweet fruits that can be used to sweeten dishes. Or you can just not bake sweet things, which is what I do. Most food going into my oven these days are squashes or meat. Read more…
This past weekend I attended the annual Weston A. Price Foundation’s conference Wise Traditions. Wow did I ever have a fun time!
I learned so much at the conference but the best part was all the great people I had the chance to meet. Ann Marie of Cheeseslave, was one of the first bloggers I found doing the GAPS diet a couple years ago. She started the Real Food Media, a network of bloggers spreading the word about real food. I had the opportunity to meet quite a few of the RFM bloggers including Kelly the Kitchen Kop, Lisa from Real Food Digest, Raine from Agriculture Society, Jenny from Nourished Kitchen, Kim from the Nourishing Cook, Kimberly Hartke from Hartke Is Online, Alex from Feed Me Like You Mean It, Elizabeth from Nourishing Creations, Sarah Pope from The Healthy Home Economist. What a great group of people and I’m quite excited to say that I’m joining the Real Food Media as a featured blogger! I can’t wait to get to work with such inspiring, dedicated people.
One of the first foods I’ve added in “after SCD” is sweet potatoes. This Thanksgiving I made a dish with sweet potato and apples which after searching online I see is actually a popular dish. I have since made it with butternut squash and it is a wonderful SCD Thanksgiving dish.
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