Category Archives: Real Food Recipes

Chocolate Coconut Butter Bites: Eat Your Coconut Butter on the Go!

When I’m home, I normally turn to my cinnamon butter bites or homemade mint chocolates when I need an extra shot of fat. Since both butter and coconut oil melt at room temperature, however, neither of these options works well when I’m out and about. Recently I came upon the perfect solution: chocolate coconut butter prepared in chocolate molds!

Jesse and I have been making chocolate coconut butter since last winter, so I already knew that it’s pretty temperature stable. Normally we just eat it out of a large container with a spoon, though, which isn’t all that travel-friendly.  Freezing the coconut butter in chocolate molds instead of a single container, however, produces bite-sized coconut butter treats that are perfect for bringing on the road.…

Chocolate Peanut Butter Coconut Ice Cream (Dairy-free)

Chocolate Peanut Butter Ice Cream. Dairy-free, honey-sweetened, and full of delicious coconut milk!

I think peanut butter and chocolate is a fantastic flavor combination. Since I no longer eat Reese’s peanut butter cups, one of my favorite ways to enjoy the peanut butter and chocolate combo is in this chocolate peanut butter coconut ice cream recipe. It uses coconut cream (or milk) rather than cow’s cream, so it’s dairy-free and suitable for the GAPS and Paleo diets. Even if you don’t have any dairy restrictions, making coconut ice cream is a delicious and easy way to get more coconut oil into your diet.

I don’t think the coconut flavor is very noticeable in this recipe.…

Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream (Dairy-free)

This mint chocolate chip ice cream is dairy-free, honey-sweetened, and suitable for the GAPS and Paleo diets. Make this easy coconut ice cream today!

I’ve been making coconut milk ice cream for a long time now, but I didn’t know that you could make a coconut version of mint chocolate chip ice cream until I came across this recipe at the Nourishing Gourmet sometime last year. I’d assumed that coconut and mint wouldn’t be a good pairing, but I don’t know what I was thinking—they go together fantastically. I made the original recipe creamier, mintier, and more chocolaty. I make this recipe all the time—it’s one of our favorite ice creams. (Which is really saying something, because we love ice cream. :))

I think that the mint does a good job of toning down the coconut flavor in this ice cream.…

How to Make a Fantastic Omelet

Although I went egg-free last spring, Jesse has continued to eat eggs for breakfasts most mornings. All of those solo egg breakfasts have given him a lot of time to experiment with how to eat a lot of eggs without experiencing food boredom. One of his great discoveries is this simple omelet recipe. He likes it because it requires very little hands-on time and tastes totally different depending on what fillings he adds. I like it because most of the time it leaves no egg stuck to the pan so my dishwashing job is just that much easier. 🙂

When it comes to filling your omelet, the options are almost endless.…

How to Make Lactose-Free Yogurt in Your Dehydrator

There are many different ways to make yogurt. As long as you fulfill a few conditions, how you want to actually implement the process is largely up to you.  Today I want to share my favorite method: making yogurt in my dehydrator. Although making yogurt is one of those things that can seem really intimidating (it was for me, at least!), once you get the hang of it it’s really a simple process.

This recipe is specifically for “GAPS yogurt.” All that means is that the yogurt is fermented for twenty-four hours in order to give the bacteria enough time to consume all of the lactose in the milk.…