Craving a frozen treat on a warm day, I created my new favorite summertime dessert - Mango Sorbet! This delicious sweet treat is smooth, creamy, and satisfying. It contains no added sweeteners, so it’s a healthy dessert option.

Are you looking for an easy and healthy sweet treat? You can throw this strawberry and apricot tarte together in no time. Modified from one of my favorite cookbooks, French Provincial Cuisine by Christian Delu (1981), this quick, easy, and light tarte will satisfy your craving for sweet summer fruit.

Here’s a delicious white bean hummus with a spicy kick! Increase garlic, basil, and cilantro for more spice, or decrease these ingredients for less “bite.”

Pumpkin spice muffins are gluten and fat free with delicious festive flavor. These muffins make for a satisfying snack or after-meal treat.

This soothing soup can be made with turkey or chicken, or beans for a vegetarian dish. I typically use the carcass of the poultry to make a broth overnight before starting the soup, but not during this busy time. Short-cuts such as using store-bought broth and pre-cut vegetables in a “mirepoix” mix are encouraged to save time and your sanity.

This is probably the easiest main course you’ll ever make. Slow cooker chicken is fantastic for busy schedules and leftovers.

Here’s my favorite, simplified (really!) recipe for homemade kombucha. Start with a small batch, 1 quart, and increase over time.  You can make kombucha as tart or as sweet as you like. The longer the drink ferments, the more probiotics and negligible alcohol are created. Pictured here: A berry kombucha with strained berry puree added after the first ferment.

Cashew cream sauce is a versatile vegan sauce made from cashew nuts.

This recipe creates fermented cucumbers, which offers more gut beneficial properties than pickles.

Sauerkraut is a probiotic-rich food that’s made from cabbage. This recipe is so easy that you’ll wonder why you haven’t been making this all along.

Cultured cashew yogurt is a probiotic-rich food that’s made from cashew nuts.

Cultured coconut yogurt is a probiotic-rich food that’s made from coconut milk.

This quiche is so easy and gluten-free. You can add whatever ingredients you like or have on hand. You can decrease eggs and add a milk, which is typical of a traditional quiche recipe. However, this recipe is all eggs with no milk of any kind.

Here is my easy gluten-free, low-sugar berry crumble pie. In this simplified version, I use a frozen gluten-free pie crust and frozen berries. If you have more time, you can incorporate a homemade crust using gluten-free or nut-based flour. Fresh berries are a welcome substitution when available.

These grain-free crêpes are amazingly delicious and super easy to make.

These yummy and filling gluten-free pancakes are made with pumpkin puree and offer a subtle pumpkin spice flavor.

This is a fun breakfast idea for St. Patrick’s Day, or any day for kids (big or small) who prefer not to see their vegetables.

This delicious chocolate sauce is great for dipping strawberries, drizzling on crepes, or adding to coffee for a mocha drink. Because the sauce isn’t prepared with high temperatures and doesn’t contain any waxy ingredients, the chocolate will remain soft and not harden completely.

These black bean muffins are grain, gluten, dairy, and processed-sugar free! See the variations below to substitute aquafaba for eggs to make them vegan. When leaving these treats for my son’s preschool class several years ago, I was told that all the kids loved them. One boy even asked me for the recipe after class. They’re preschool approved!

Oh, so yummy homemade hot cocoa that everyone will enjoy.