~ ~ 2025 ~ ~
My recipe creating started out in 2014 (see below) as a “Mom on a mission” to help my youngest daughter alleviate some GI issues she was having after high school. We started creating Paleo recipes to help her feel better–and it helped so much. Fast forward to now, over a decade later, and her body is thriving, she is married and living an amazing life. While the recipes I create are about 60/40 Paleo at this point, most are “real food” forward made with “better for you ingredients” and full of comfort. Be that from generational family recipes, new tasty creations or straight up indulgent treats. I love creating comfort food forward recipes that can help you feel better on the inside. Over 400 recipes, two cookbooks later plus two “Back Porch Paleo” branded products with two amazing brands, I couldn’t ever have imagined her feeling so horrible would lead me on such an incredible food journey! Welcome, hope you find something delicious to make soon!
One of my favorite quotes: “Work is love made visible” — from Khalil Gibran was a quote my Mother in law, Patsy, had hanging up in her kitchen. She was the epitome of working in the kitchen creating recipe/meals for those that she loved. I can still hear her telling me about how that motivated her…in turn, it’s become my constant motivation. Feeding the people I love is key to what makes my time in the kitchen so enjoyable. So, if there’s a recipe you may be looking for and don’t see a paleo/gluten free version already posted here, please send me an email! I love recreating beloved recipes into a version that can be enjoyed by someone that might be facing the reality of having to “enjoy” food through a different lens. Food is a language we all speak and for me food = love!
Because my blog is essentially a journal via recipes of the last decade or so, I like leaving the original text of our “about us” when my daughter and I started creating recipes to help her feel better. She and I have both come a very long way!
~ ~ the Original “About Us” text 2014 ~ ~
The truth of it is, our lives have been full of healing miracles involving real food and real things that were put on this earth to keep us healthy and happy along our mortal journey. Join us as we continue to pursue the path our sweet angel momma and grandmomma put us on so many years ago. She’s there in the black and white picture to the left. Her name: DeVona is all anyone needed to hear and know about her. She had a health radio show for nearly 25 years. Always on the cutting edge! She’ll be tagging along in spirit, as she was abruptly taken from her earthly journey, on nearly the last second of 2012 on December 31st. Fireworks blasting as she made her entrance to Heaven. It was only fitting, as her presence was that significant here on earth and could only be heralded the same upon her exit. She’ll be guiding Makenna and I, reaching out to us from her Heavenly home, as she does so very often. We’re all about our family, our faith, healing foods and finding happiness in each day that we’re blessed with. ~Michelle
