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.”

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.

Get ready for energized calm! This veggie-loaded smoothie can be customized according to your available ingredients and preferences. Add more berries to achieve a rosier color. Aim for less than 50% fruit content to achieve better sugar handling and increased satiety.

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.

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.