I love having a colorful array of red grape tomatoes, yellow pear tomatoes and orange cherry tomatoes on my plate. It's visually appeal...

Tomatoes, corn, cucumbers, zucchinis, melons, green beans, oh my! That's 475 pounds of produce from one day's picking from our commu...

What do you do when you are up to your eyeballs in fresh produce from your garden? You get busy making all kinds of concoctions with tomatoe...

I've made it through Phase 1 and part of Phase 2 of the Anti-Candida Diet (ADA) but I still crave dessert, not necessarily sugary desser...

Ch-ch-chia! I recently discovered that chia seeds are edible and incredible, and not just for Chia Pets, those clay pot designs that sprout...

For those of you who haven't visited my blog in awhile, I thought I should explain that my recipes have taken a new direction. I have e...

I recently invested in a new food processor, and I decided to go for the kingsize model. I learned the hard way that a small food processor ...

Cacao nibs and chocolate SweetLeaf liquid stevia are my two new favorite ingredients for getting my chocolate fix while on an eating plan wi...

I'm only allowing myself one serving of whole grains per day on the candida cleanse diet. I recently tried a recipe that was so good I...

It seems like very long ago that I was following a rotation diet but it really has only been three months. The rotation diet worked for me f...

A long ride on one's bike can be difficult at best when you are on a low-carb diet. Add in hot weather that leads to copious sweating a...

A friend's e-mail telling me she was sick with the stomach flu filled me with dread recently because I had been sitting next to her at a...

My poor little beets were too crowded in my garden. It was time to do some thinning this week, and the end result was a giant bag of beet ...

Candida is one tough hombre to beat but I'm hanging in there. Why? I've seen so many positive improvements in my health, both physi...

The community garden is going strong. Since the above picture was taken, the zucchini plants have produced baby zucchinis. I'm really e...

A vacant lot and a community with many people in need prompted my husband and I to start a community garden this spring. With the help of n...

I wish I could bottle this kind of happiness---a cat in a barrel of catnip. It was a dream come true for my cat, Pumpkin, when I discovered ...

Allergy season has arrived full throttle in my area, and my poor dog, Kona, started suffering as much as the humans. In the photo above, sh...

I guess you could say I am in the maintenance phase of a candida cleanse. My goal is to continue to minimize it and not allow it to take ch...

Just because I'm still doing candida clean-up duty doesn't mean I can't have a treat with chocolate for Mother's Day. I'...