GUTSy Performance Nutrition89 recipes
Clinical Nutrition for Digestive Health + Endurance Performance
“Healthy” versus Healthy For YOU
Is this kale salad healthy? Yes. Is it healthy for YOU? That’s individual. Eating Right For You A common Ayurvedic proverb states that “When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use. When diet is…
Beet and Banana Pancakes
Pancakes. A food I had a love/hate relationship with for many years. But after realizing they don’t have to be glorified breakfast cake or particularly even eaten at breakfast (which also isn…
Broccoli Rice Bake
And a tip for taking care of digestion during the holidays and beyond Before I get to the recipe below, there’s one little nutrition tip I want to share today that just about every one of us …
Buttercup Squash + Creamy Black Bean Tacos
I frequently share with nutrition clients about the connection between mental and physical health, particularly between the gut and brain, but also just a reminder that it’s all connected. We…
Pumpkin & Berry Muffins
A few years back, I lived in a college house with three other girlfriends. We cooked together often, had friends over for elaborate dinner parties, and pooled all the grocery shopping expenditures…
Cornish Pasties
“Hungry, are you.” “Starving,” said Harry, taking a large bite out of a pumpkin pasty… “She always forgets I don’t like corned beef.” “Swap you…
Black Bean & Vegetable Grain Bowl
I am a sandwich person. I willingly strive to eat a sandwich every day for lunch. Every single day. Mind you, I never make the same sandwich twice. I enjoy making my own bread, experimenting wi…
Grapefruit, Parsley & Cucumber Salad
Lately, some of the most amazing salads have been shaping up in the kitchen. A couple weeks back, Power Foods, a new cookbook (that I’ve had my eyes on) randomly showed up in the mail, with …
Sweet Potato Spread meets Date Bread
Sweet Potato Spread is a favorite fall treat. It’s nothing like you’re thinking, I’m sure. It reminds me of sweetly spiced pumpkin butter—gone rebel. With its peanutty tang, nutty sweet brown ri…
Country Potato Bread, from the pantry
I’ve been experimenting with potato bread for a while now. It’s my go-to item for leftover mashed potatoes. But with all the recipes I’ve attempted, I’ve never been quite …
Quiche with Beet Greens
Sometimes, you stumble across a good thing. And you keep making it randomly here and there as convenience allows. Over and again and each time tweaking a bit here and a bit there. And each time i…
Shaved Beet Salad with Herbed Ricotta Salata
There was a blur of commotion, stretching the last few weeks. During the final days, I simply went into auto-pilot, waking up early, working late into the night, barely coming up for air. Checkin…
Smoked Gouda Bacon & Turnip Frittata
It was one of those days when I arrived home, had nothing planned for dinner, opened the fridge and proceeded to pull out everything edible. It resulted in turnip bacon frittata. A winter delig…
Honey Balsamic, Kale & Sirloin Salad
We decorated her hair with kale and magnolia blossoms outside Shari’s restaurant on a lovely spring day, a group of barely teenage 4-H girls, excited to be traveling, and poking fun at a frie…
Rhubarb Granola & Vanilla-Orange Rhubarb Sauce
I did not grow up in a family of cooks. My favorite cooking memory with my grandma involved making pumpkin pie with the recipe from the back of the Libby’s can. She advised me to cut the sp…
Recipe Redux: Apricot & Roasted Hazelnut To-Go Oats
My mother and I have an arrangement. She gives me jam and pickled beets and the like, and I return the empty jars to her for the next go round. Except when I don’t return the jars and begin to us…
Peach & Rosemary Cornmeal Cake
I have two confessions. One, I’ve been eating these Beet Burgers for at least one meal a day for the last five days. Mostly because I’m too stubborn to downsize a recipe and/or freeze l…
Autumn Bean & Sausage Acorn Squash Bowl Soup
When W and I first became engaged, back in the winter of 2011, I was dreaming of an Autumn wedding. Every vision for the day included a leafy branch framing the splendor of the season, billowing in…
Irish Vegetable Soup
There are experiences that move you. There are moments when you know. There are times when you take a leap and jump into the wide unknown beyond, certain you will be forever changed. On a particula…
Turkey Sandwich with Carrots, Kale and Dukkah
Back when I ate gluten and cheese, sandwiches made their way into my life every day. Sometimes more than once. I don’t mean I ate a normal PB&J or ham and cheese. Instead, a cheesey-gooey…