These nourishing recipes focus on simple, healing foods that draw upon the deep wisdom and traditions of ancestral cooking. They feature nutrient-dense ingredients like grass-fed meat, sustainable seafood, raw milk, and seasonal vegetables.
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Recipes for Fermented Foods
Recipes for Fermented Drinks
Whether it’s water kefir, jun, or beet kvass, these fermented drinks are teeming with beneficial bacteria and are marvelously simple to make.
Recipes for Fermented Vegetables
From fermented hot sauce to sauerkraut, these fermented vegetable recipes are easy to make and support gut health and immune system function. All you need is fresh vegetables, salt, and a little patience.
Recipes for Broths, Soups and Stews
Recipes for Bone Broth
Bone Broth is a nourishing, protein-rich drink that you can sip on its own or add to soups and stews. Its wide variety of amino acids help support gut health and the immune system while providing deep nourishment.
Recipes for Soups and Stews
Brimming with seasonal vegetables, herbs and slow-simmered broths, these simple recipes for soups and stews are both easy to make and deeply nourishing.
Recipes for Herbs and Herbal Remedies
Recipes for Simple Herbal Remedies
Whether you’re brewing a mug of nettle infusion, tossing herbs into a jar for Fire Cider or making your own CBD oil, these simple DIY herbal remedies bring both joy and gentle medicine into your kitchen.
Recipes for Properly Prepared Grains and Pulses
Recipes for Sourdough
Sourdough bread is steeped and a deep history that spans millennia. This ancestral tradition delivers loaves of bread that taste amazing, with an airy crumb and crackly crust, and it also delivers food that is better for you than modern bread.
Recipes for Whole Grains
Ancient grains, like einkorn wheat, are delicious whether you make them into savory dishes like mushroom risotto or sweet recipes like this einkorn banana bread.
Recipes for Beans, Lentils and Chickpeas
Pulses are edible legumes and include dry beans, lentils and chickpeas. They’re rich in prebiotics, and made more nutrient-dense by soaking and sprouting.
Recipes for Meat, Poultry and Fish
Recipes for Grass-fed Meats
Holistic management means that grass-fed meat is more nutrient-dense. Check out some of our favorite grass-fed meat recipes like beef goulash and braised steak with red wine.
Recipes for Pastured Poultry
Keeping turkeys and chickens on pasture means more flavorful, nutrient-dense and delicious meat. But they can also be tougher, check out our favorite poultry recipes like slow-roasted turkey and chicken curry.
Recipes for Sustainable Seafood
Seafood, like cold-water fish and fresh oysters, are some of the most nutrient-dense (and delicious) foods you can include on your family’s table.
Recipes for Seasonal Vegetables
Recipes for Seasonal Vegetables
Vegetables are the foundation of a deeply nourishing meal, with their plentiful and vibrant vitamins, minerals and antioxidants.
Recipes for Grass-fed Dairy
Recipes for Yogurt and Kefir
Cultured dairy, grass-fed milk and butter provide a deeply nourishing source of many nutrients including healthy fats and minerals like calcium. You can make raw milk yogurt easily (and we even have tips to help you troubleshoot your yogurt).
Recipes for Natural Sweets
Recipes for Natural Sweeteners
Whether you’re using honey, coconut sugar, jaggery or maple syrup, these naturally-sweetened dessert recipes mean that you can still satisfy your sweet tooth with delicious treats like chocolate custard or a slice of harvest cake.