[This Kale Salad with Crispy Chickpeas is the perfect mix of crunchy, crispy, creamy and a little bit spicy. It’s vegan, sugar-free, gluten-free, grain-free, dairy-free, egg free, soy-free, optionally nut-free, optionally yeast-free, and low glycemic. Suitable for all stages on an anti-candida diet.] [My big plate of this super-satisfying salad!]. Although I enjoy salads all year […]
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Magical Peach Arugula Salad
[Bright and enticing Magical Peach Arugula Salad is vegan, sugar-free, gluten-free, grain-free, dairy-free, egg free, soy-free, yeast-free, and low glycemic. Suitable for Stage 2 and beyond on an anti-candida diet.] If you’ve ever been disappointed with answers from medical professionals about your chronic illness–whether candida, Lyme, rheumatoid arthritis or something else–then you likely have delved into more […]
Thai Quinoa Balls (or Bites) with Optional Peanut-Free Dipping Sauce
[These quick and easy Thai Quinoa Balls or Bites make a perfect snack or appetizer! They’re vegan, sugar-free, gluten-free, dairy-free, egg free, soy-free, yeast-free, and low glycemic. Suitable for all stages on an anti-candida diet.] Do you feel as if you’re always pressed for time? Perpetually in a rush? Regularly feel as if the closest you get to […]
25 Nibbles and Dips for your New Year’s Eve, 2015
Can you feel the excitement? It’s almost the New Year!! Despite the complete lack of snow here in the Toronto area this year, I’m more energized and primed for the new year than I have been in years (okay, maybe it has a little something to do with my loathing of snow. Yay for partly-green Decembers!). […]
Savory Breakfast Oat Hash
[Savory Oat Hash is a super quick and easy breakfast option that’s vegan, sugar-free, gluten-free, dairy-free, egg free, soy-free and yeast-free. Suitable for Stage 3 and beyond on an anti-candida diet.] [Savory Oat Hash. Photo credit: Richa Hingle.] Growing up with a dad who owned a neighborhood butcher shop meant that we never really experienced the […]
A Sweet Life Thanksgiving
One of the HH‘s favorite holidays is Thanksgiving (which is this coming Monday here in Canada!). Although his family did celebrate Christmas, too, when he was a kid, for some reason that holiday didn’t make its mark on his psyche in quite the same way as T-Day (I know, he was a strange kid. . […]
Cheesy Cauliflower and Potato Bake
This rich, creamy vegetable bake is reminiscent of scalloped potatoes, with added cauliflower. It’s sugar-free, gluten-free, grain-free, dairy-free, egg free, vegan, low glycemic and suitable for an anti-candida diet. I’m so excited to have another fabulous recipe to share with you today from my friend Somer McCowan’s new book, The Abundance Diet: The 28-Day Plan to […]
Delectable Detox Slaw
They’ll never know this Cauliflower-Broccoli Slaw is actually good for detoxing! This crisp, fresh slaw with a slightly sweet dressing is vegan, sugar-free, gluten-free, grain-free, dairy-free, egg free, soy-free, nut-free, yeast-free, and low glycemic. Suitable for all stages on an anti-candida diet. Ah, my first time. . . You know, I remember it like it was […]
Super Stuffed Sweet Potatoes
A baked sweet potato overflowing with hearty stuffing ingredients that make this a meal on its own! Super Stuffed Sweet Potatoes are vegan, sugar-free, gluten-free, grain-free, dairy-free, egg free, soy-free, yeast-free, and low glycemic. Suitable for all stages on an anti-candida diet. I have to tell you, I almost fainted when I realized I hadn’t yet […]
Butter Lettuce Wedges with Sunflower Seed Dressing, Pears & Tempeh Bacon from Crave, Eat, Heal
What a treat I have for you all today! As regular readers know, I have a lot of cookbooks. These days, in fact, I rarely accept offers for new books to review (not because I don’t want to, but because there just aren’t enough hours in the day!). But when Annie Oliverio’s new volume, Crave, […]