Barberry helps leaky gut
Dried barberries According to the University of Maryland Medical Center website barberry has been used for over 2500 years to
Coconut crème brûlée
Coconut crème brûlé, one of my favourite holiday recipes of the last few years is now live at Beauty and Wellbeing, my new favourite natural beauty and living online magazine. You’ll find it here. This recipe can be found in the 100 ebook pages of anti-inflammatory and antihistamine ingredient rich holiday main courses, sides and
Christmas Menu 2015
There’s no end of upsides to traveling for most of the year. There are however a number of downsides to working while traveling. Sometimes it yields amazing success: my discovery of morninga and baobab oil, my buckling down to meditate finally, and others a busted oven, parcels of kitchen equipment lost in transit and exploding creme
Thanksgiving 2015
When people ask me if I feel deprived on my “diet” I just look at them like they’re nuts. Why would eliminating dairy, gluten, most nuts, all major allergens, processed foods, low nutrient histamine foods and oxalates bother me when nature has so much left to offer? Like my first tarte tatin! 40 years on
Moist zucchini cake gluten and egg free (paleo)
I fell asleep last night dreaming of a cake so moist that forks would slide through it like warm butter. Not sure why anyone was eating butter with forks in my fantasy but it seemed to make sense at the time. I often have intense sugar treat dreams when I’ve been exercising intensely or having
Warming plant protein rich soup
You’ll notice there’s some ingredients here that are on some lists as high histamine. I talk quite a bit about how abandoning the low histamine/histamine intolerance diet is what I believe is helping me heal. But that doesn’t mean I’ve thrown all caution to the wind and am permanently out to lunch at Taco Bell.
Autumnal garden vegetable soup
The leaves turning various shades of orangey gold means heralds the arrival of soup season. I adore soup. It’s my first choice for lunch and often dinner. I remember being very excited on learning that the mast cell stabling and antihistamine quercetin is leeched from onions, green herbs and other healing foods, into the cooking water in
Gluten free vegan pakoras
When I sit down to create a recipe for folks with histamine intolerance or mast cell activation I ask myself what I can do to make it something that can be enjoyed by an entire family. Because really, is it fair to restrict the diet/enjoyment of others in our household? It’s certainly not fair on
Gluten and dairy free tigernut flour pancakes
You may think – “Well, I’m cutting histamine out of the diet, I really can’t get rid of anything else!”. So, you might not have to, many of us don’t have to, but we chose to, simply because wheat is inflammatory, specifically triggering inflammatory pathways related to mast cells . In my view there is
Going egg free for histamine intolerance and heart health
Eggs are a valuable source of protein, vitamin B12, iodine and riboflavin. Most importantly, for those taking certain anti-histamines and anti-cholinergics who are worried about their potential link to Alzheimer’s, they provide a good amount of choline. On the flip side however, there’s been a definite rebound from the insistence that eggs do not affect hearth health.
Red cabbage rolls w/creamy veggies
I’m moving away from animal protein for a while, something I try to do regularly. I’m not going to argue for either side here, it’s just a choice I make now and then. In all honesty, if I could take more supplements, and had a good amount of time on my hands to really experiment
Kholrabi (or zucchini) noodles with steak
I’ll be traveling for the next few weeks with little access to a kitchen, so I thought I’d share a recipe from my latest book Man Food, that I’ve been craving. These can be made with kholrabi, zucchini, carrot or butternut noodles, any veggie really, as long as you have a spiraliser, also known as