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.”

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

Kvass is traditionally a fermented drink made with beets. This refreshing drink is made from fruit and started with kombucha rather than whey. Please note that fermented drinks may contain a negligible amount of residual alcohol that occurs naturally during fermentation. Generally, the longer the drink is fermented, the greater the alcohol content.

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.

Steel cut oats are filling and a good source of fiber. Here are two ways to prepare this delicious food, either for breakfast or any time of the day.

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.

This delicious oatmeal cookie contains less sugar than your typical treat because it’s mostly sweetened with banana.

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.

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

An early holiday memory involves the aroma of milk heating as I stand on a chair to stir pudding for the Chocolate Eclair filling.  After my son was diagnosed with multiple food allergies, I modified our traditional family dessert.