The Blog

an archive containing hundreds of articles, recipes and other resources for implementing AIP and living well with autoimmune disease

The Blog

an archive containing hundreds of articles, recipes and other resources for implementing AIP and living well with autoimmune disease

Coconut Creamed Greens

This AIP Coconut Creamed Greens recipe is a hearty and rich side for any special occasion or holiday meal. Its a twist on creamed spinach which you find around the holidays. This version uses a mix of hardy greens rather than spinach and more intense spices like ginger, gathoda powder and turmeric. What is ganthoda powder used for? Ganthoda powder is used as a ground ...

Jesse’s AIP Kitchen: How She Manages Ulcerative Colitis in Virginia

  AIP Kitchen Tour is a monthly feature in which we profile a member of the AIP community and their kitchen setup in hopes that it will further inspire us to get our kitchens organized and set up for success! We’ve interviewed folks who are making the AIP lifestyle a reality in everything from college dorms and small city apartments, to large households with non-AIP family members, and everything in between. Through these ...

Pork Skillet with Shallots and Marjoram

Skillet meals are your very best friend when it comes to preparing breakfast on AIP – or even if you find yourself with an egg sensitivity after reintroductions (like me!). I love this combination of pork, sweet potato, a little umami flavor from mushrooms and coconut aminos, and a flavorful surprise with the marjoram. As with most skillet meals, this one is super adaptable. Feel ...

Bringing Culture Back Into the Kitchen

With a scrape of a knife against the bamboo cutting board, the gloppy remnants of what was supposed to be xiao long bao — thin, translucent flour shells with pork and vegetable steamed to perfection — slid with an unsatisfying thump to the bottom of the rubbish bin. Then, I had myself a good, cleansing cry. The afternoon had been spent gathering ingredients to try ...

Calamari Salad with Mint Cilantro Dressing

Squid or calamari? Are they one and the same? Or are they different? If you google this, you will come up with conflicting answers but the most common answer is that calamari is simply the name of the dish you make using squid. This explanation sounds plausible enough so I decided not to do a lot of digging. Anyways, all that is not important… what ...

AIP Stories of Recovery: Nick’s Recovery from Reactive Arthritis

AIP Stories of Recovery is a success story series about regular people from the Autoimmune Protocol community who are changing their lives using the protocol. Each month a new person is featured and readers have the opportunity to discover all the different health challenges that are being overcome by folks just like themselves on the same path. At Autoimmune Paleo we hope you’ll be inspired by, ...

Butternut Apple Slow Cooker Soup

  I love a good soup! I’m always looking to add a good soup recipe to my repertoire. This butternut apple soup was birthed out of a desire for something comforting and satisfying to warm up to on cooler days. Whether you’re looking for a more plant-forward dish idea or a sophisticated starter for your Valentine’s (or Galentine’s) date night in, this butternut apple soup ...

On Community Care

About four or five years ago I began to notice that in the health and wellness field of which I am professionally a part, there seemed to be an incomplete understanding of a frequently used word. That word was “holistic.” What does “holistic” mean? Holistic, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, means “characterized by comprehension of the parts of something as intimately interconnected and explicable ...