Nourish Me Kitchen Cookbook Set – It’s been quite awhile since I’ve provided any recipes for you, and I realize that while intellectual knowledge of the causes of migraines is valuable, sometimes people just need to know what to eat.
So today I want to highlight an incredible resource available to you, that I think will be a huge assets in your kitchen, giving you fresh ideas for wholesome foods to cook at home – but also, new ideas and inspiration for how to take care of yourself in this busy crazy world. This cookbook set is called the Nourish Me Kitchen book set. It’s a two-part set that contains a volume on health wisdom and another full of tasty recipes.
The book was written by someone I admire, the naturopath Erika Siegel. She studied both Eastern and Western Medicine at the National University of Naturopathic Medicine and has a practice in Portland Oregon.
What I love about this book set is that it is super comprehensive. It is like a reference manual for healthy living. The book is beautifully laid out, full of vibrant pictures, and teeming with new ideas for how to feed your family in a healthy, tasty, and inspired way. But it’s not just about food.
The volume on Essential Health Wisdom contains a comprehensive outline of guidance and practices for achieving optimal health, with advice on topics ranging from breathwork, to sleep hygiene, to graceful aging, to cold therapy, to creating beautiful spaces in the home, to using essential oils for immune health, to hormonal balance, to helping your kids navigate screentime. Dr. Siegel even has a section on pronoia – the practice of understanding that the universe is fundamentally friendly and is conspiring in your favour.
This volume on health wisdom is an incredible ally to anyone who is trying to navigate the difficulties of modern life and wants to get reconnected to themselves, nature, and the forces that can keep them centered, nourished, and healthy for years to come.
The recipe section of the book will be especially valuable to migraineurs who have food sensitivities and want to find creative solutions to gluten free or unprocessed foods. Because migraineurs tend to be especially triggered by condiments and shelf-stable foods, the sections on dips, spreads, and sauces will be especially helpful to spruce up basic dishes with flavour without triggering a migraine.
I like the Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme white bean dip, as it provides a blast of healing herbs with a good dose of prebiotic fiber. The Cilantro-Pecan Pesto, Thai Pesto, and the Tarragon-Hazelnut Pesto are great pesto options because they don’t involve parmesan cheese, which is a potent migraine trigger. This section is also great because dips can be eaten as a healthy snack along with veggies, so that you don’t end up caving in to unhealthy migraine-triggering snacks when your blood sugar gets low. Some of the cracker recipes and gluten free bread recipes also provide a tasty and fresh twist on foods that are normally not that supportive to migraineurs.
Of course, you’ll have to adapt some of the recipes to leave out migraine-triggering foods (like cayenne or fermented foods), but nevertheless the recipe book offers up many basic recipe templates that are already migraine-friendly, or can be easily adapted to a low-histamine, low tyramine, low glutamate diet.
In short, this book set is like a little health encyclopedia, but despite its broad scope, it is shared in a personable and accessible way. It makes you feel like you have a naturopathic doctor living with you in your kitchen to inspire you to new levels of health. The recipes themselves are largely plant-based but not exclusively, and there are many accommodations made for people who avoid gluten or dairy.
This book set is a great new addition to my kitchen, and I wanted you to know about it too!
The Nourish Me Kitchen set is not just a reference book, and it’s not just a cookbook; it is the foundation for new life within you. Dr. Erika Siegel has stepped in to be your tour guide to the sensual voyage of being alive and engaged with a nourishing world.
—Zach Bush, MD