Blog / Erin

Friends, it’s hard for me to believe that my six month GAPS experiment has come to an end. Back in April, I began this GAPS...

With fall weather creeping in a little more every day, I decided it was time to cut the green tomatoes in the garden. I cut...

The weather turned cooler here last week, and the tomato plants are slowing down their production, but there is still a good-size basket of tomatoes...

This was a perfect dish to use up all the tomatoes and green beans from the garden. It was tasty, everyone loved it, and it...

By this point in the summer, getting my family to eat anything with zucchini in it is very, very difficult. There isn’t any wailing or...

Even as I typed the title of this post, I had to shake my head. I can’t believe I’ve been doing this for 5 months....

I wouldn’t exactly say it’s autumn where we live, but the apples are falling off the trees and so I felt like apple cake was...

I miss a lot of foods on my restricted diet, but dairy is one of the ones I miss the most. I’ve had issues with...

I have a little gardening secret to share. This spring, I resurrected an ancient tradition that I’ve often read about, often pondered, and often wanted...

Oh, friends. I am so excited to share with you the newest secret ingredient in my cupboard. It’s delicious, and surprising, and no one at...

In my years of cooking and baking I’ve done some impressive things. But for all of my culinary prowess and experience, there is one skill...

The GAPS Diet requires me to eat some fermented food with every single meal. Fermented foods supply tons and tons of good, probiotic bacteria and...

Living in a land-locked state, we don’t get the freshest fish. But we do have excellent peaches, and they happen to be for sale on...

Friends, do you notice anything exciting about my breakfast plate pictured here? Look closely. Why, yes! That is an egg white on my plate! After...

I have a husband who goes googly-eyed and weak-kneed for potato salad. So when I found myself with a dozen freshly-laid eggs last week and...

Yes, I do know it’s July. And I know that the temperature here has been hovering near 100 the past few days. But GAPS protocol...

Last summer, we had a bountiful crop of carrots in the garden and I struggled to find recipes in which to use them all. I...

I long for the day when I can eat food that isn’t placed in quotation marks. Who wants “ice cream” when you can have Ice...

I come from a family of beet eaters. I remember very well being served canned beets at just about every holiday meal at my grandparent’s...

When I started the GAPS Intro Diet way back in April, I already knew about our family’s travel plans at the end of June. And...

Today’s post from our cookbook tour through The Art of Real Food is actually three recipes in one. Because to make a great pizza, you...

I know that by now it is really and truly summer. We are well into July, the heat index is high. You do not feel...

Happy 4th of July! I hope you have room on your barbecue table for one more cake, because you’re going to want to make this...

Friends, it’s getting hard for me to come back here every month to “update” you on my GAPS progress, and to only say that things...