Flavorful Paleo and AIP recipes
Happy Holi! The festival of colors is tomorrow but this year once again the Holi spirit is low because of COVID-19. It’s hard to imagine that a full year has passed since everyone has been under various stages of lockdown! Hence to feel the Holi spirit, the only way left was for me to cook […]
December doesn’t feel like December this year. Normally, December would be jam packed with holiday events and parties…and this year there is not one social event so far on our calendars! And It’s been like that this entire past year ….both crazy and lazy at the same time. Crazy because work has been busy and […]
It’s amazing how the sight of foods that you grow up with bring you so much joy, right? Just like old TV commercials, the foods that you grew up with also make you feel nostalgic. Well, ‘Marie Biscuits’ are one such cookie that most of us from India are very familiar with. The marketing department […]
And the lockdown continues. The first few weeks I did not feel any different and I was enjoying having the full family at home. Since I worked from home, I did not miss going outside. In fact, I felt I was becoming more productive because I didn’t have to step out for bringing my daughter […]
The very mention of ‘Halwa’ is likely to cause increased salivation in most Indians! And if you have been on a gluten free diet, then halwa just gets tossed out of your life 🙁 Halwa had always been my favorite, favorite dessert! Actually growing up my mom used to occasionally make ‘Broken Wheat […]
February being the month of our wedding anniversary (and Valentine’s Day of course), it always makes me want to bake something special and I try to create a new dessert every year. Since the last three years, these desserts have been Paleo and / AIP. This year I wanted to bake cookies for some reason. […]
Holiday season means you are entitled to some treats! However you can make ‘healthier’ versions of traditional treats with just a little bit of imagination. It will be worth all your efforts since you can indulge in these guilt free! During the Diwali holidays , I had made ‘coconut ladoos (balls)‘ which were absolutely a […]
There is something incredibly delicious about this combination of bananas and coconut! If you have not tried them together, then you need to rectify that! Of course both of these are tropical fruits and banana plants and coconut palms are found together in most homes in Kerala, which is in southern India. And therefore not […]
When I sent the above pic to my husband, his first reaction was ‘ What? Where did the worms come from?’ He He, I felt good – my worms looked real! Thanks to these gummy worm molds that I ordered from amazon. Making these was a breeze! Getting that dirty brownish green color for the worms […]
Yes it is that time of the year again! The festival season! Being a transplant from India settled in the US, the holiday season for us starts from September itself! Our celebrations first begin with Onam which is a harvest festival celebrated by southern Indians (yes that would be us 🙂 ) followed by Diwali […]
I honestly don’t know why it took me so long to try making a Paleo snack bar! In my pre-paleo days, I used to make these ‘no bake’ breakfast bars and also a baked version of breakfast bars which I still make for my children. I have been meaning to try making a Paleo version for the longest […]
‘Mom, I don’t know about this…is it going to be good? I mean Nutella is so good! Why can’t we have just that?’ ‘Have you checked the ingredients list for Nutella? Refined Sugar is the first ingredient! And then there is skim milk too. Two ingredients that mess up your metabolism and digestion’! “Anyways, let […]