Nutrient Rich Life

Sometimes I feel unproductive.  Then I look at my jar collection. Ah.  Today, I have a BIG JAR of Kombucha brewing.  I should probably still avoid this as Kim suspects I have a candida growing in my gut, but Ladson can taste-test and enjoy!  I have a MEDIUM JAR of purple cabbage saurkraut fermenting on my counter. It keeps oozing out the lid, but that's normal, so I keep it by the sink. And, the new-comer: a normal-size JAR of lacto-fermented "pickled peppers".  My parents brought a big bag of jalepenos from their friends' garden, so I had to experiment.

I'm on the GAPS diet. My husband, Ladson is joining me in solidarity (and because he is this best friend ever). We are adventuring in all things fresh, fermented and grass-fed. I think I owe it to you all to share my adventures in the kitchen as I travel this journey to health. Here's the back story: At only about two years old, I was diagnosed with asthma and various allergies. My mom was a healthy California native so she had breastfed me for a year and transitioned me to solid whole food diet. At four, my little body had become so accustomed to taking inhaled medicine, that I became immune to its effects and was hospitalized for a severe asthma attack. Over the course of the next 16 years, I visited pediatricians, pulminologists, allergists and the like, and took inhaled and swallowed steroids almost daily. I was diagnosed with allergies to dairy and corn, and then soy, and then nothing.  Hay fever season was the worst, and two years of allergy shots only took a l...