Abigail Marie the Chef with IBD
Professional Chef with IBD helping you navigate food, lifestyle, new IBD research, and patient advocacy.
Happy first day of Spring! With warmer weather and outdoor activities just around the corner you’ll want to have this strawberry limeade all season long! Bright tart citrus cuts through sweet and ripe strawberries creating the perfect combination of Spring goodness. Complemented by cool mint humming in the background and floral honey tying it all … Read more
Happy St. Patty’s Day! Celebrate all things green with these festive and tasty key lime cookies. Grain, refined sugar, and artificial color free you can feel good about serving these! Bright, zesty, and tart key lime comes through the soft dough, while the smooth icing provides sweetness and a velvety rich finish. If you can’t … Read more
This easy salmon recipe with creamy dill and lemon sauce is ready in under thirty minutes, nutritious, and packed with protein and flavor to spare. The perfect ode to the coming season of Spring, you will want to remake this recipe all the way until Summer comes! Try to get wild caught salmon instead of … Read more
Growing up in the cold Midwest winters, meatloaf was one of my favorite comforting meals. I wanted to play on those fond memories, but make the recipe my own. After several attempts to make the ketchup just right, and achieve the right texture and flavor for the meatloaf, I’m proud to say this recipe is … Read more
Happy Valentine’s Day! These strawberry cake pops are the perfect treat for yourself and your valentine. Fun to make and decorate, these cake pops are great for making with the kiddos too. Grain-free, refined sugar-free, and artificial color-free you can feel good about serving these festive cake pops. Soft, fruity, pink cake is encased by … Read more
In early December when we would decorate our Christmas tree as a family, it was always tradition to drink eggnog and admire our work when we were done. You could find a carton of eggnog in our fridge basically until New Years as we would enjoy it all month long. Wanting to still participate in … Read more
Something I always looked forward to as a little girl around the holidays was seasonal peppermint ice cream at the grocery store. As soon as Thanksgiving was over I would anxiously walk down the frozen dessert section wide eyed just waiting for this year long anticipated treat with each grocery store trip. Once it arrived … Read more
Happy Holidays! Nothing says Christmas to me quite like the classic combination of orange and cranberry. I love having these scones with my coffee on Christmas morning, and this recipe is so good I think it may become tradition! I don’t know about you, but in our house Christmas morning is always a whirlwind of … Read more
Ever since I can remember sweet potato casserole on Thanksgiving was always one of my favorite dishes. I looked forward to it every year, and would always go back for seconds. Who could blame me? This magical creation somewhere between a side dish and dessert was sweet, gooey, crunchy, creamy, and comforting all at once. … Read more
Beat the heat this Summer with this refreshing watermelon salad tossed in honey lime dressing! Not only is this salad cold and full of replenishing electrolytes, it takes only minutes to make, and requires only eight ingredients! I don’t know about you, but when the heat of summer hits I’m always looking for easy and … Read more