Archive Record
- Publisher
- Quantum Digital Publishing
- Imprint
- Quantum Digital Publishing
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2026
- ISBN, eBook
- 978-1-967405-46-6
- ISBN, paperback
- 978-1-967405-47-3
- ISBN, hardcover
- 978-1-967405-48-0
About the book
Jessie Keener, N.D. learned to cook at her mother's elbow. Don't stir that hard. Beat it like this. She calls those her first lessons in alchemy: raw things went into the bowl and something else came out, and then came the real reward, which was faces around a table.
Decades later she had health problems of her own, and she did the obvious thing. She took the recipes she already loved and rebuilt them: lower carbohydrate, gluten free, anti-inflammatory, and simple enough that a twelve year old can cook them.
So this is a keto cookbook written by a naturopathic physician, which means the recipes arrive with reasons. Why these proteins and not others. Why she asks you not to drink with your meal. Why legumes get a twenty four hour soak. You can ignore every reason and just cook, and the food still works.
It is dedicated to her children, who she calls her forever taste buds, for their honesty and their patience through every experiment and every occasional kitchen surprise. Every image in it was made for this book by John Joseph Stone.
Who it is for
- You want to eat keto and you are tired of recipes that read like a chemistry set.
- You would rather be told why a rule exists than be handed the rule.
- You cook for people who do not care what the diet is called, only whether it tastes good.
- You have a kitchen, forty minutes, and no interest in specialist equipment.
- You have been meaning to start and keep not starting.
What is inside
The ketogenic foundation
What the keto diet actually is and what changes when the body stops running on carbohydrate and starts running on fat. Plain language, no evangelism.
My rules about meals
Forty years of her own research, eating, changing and healing, condensed into rules about when you eat as much as what.
About the proteins
Which proteins are in this book and why, including the ones most cookbooks quietly leave out.
About beverages
Her clinical reason for asking you not to drink with your meal, which surprises most people who hear it.
About legumes, and the twenty four hour soak
Why extended cooking turns some proteins and vegetables into starches, and what the soak is for.
Keener Kitchen pantry essentials
The stock list. Having the right things in the cupboard before you need them is what turns cooking from a chore into something you look forward to.
Before we start preparing our food, prepare ourselves
The short chapter on what you bring to the kitchen. Coming from a naturopath and mystic of four decades, it is not decoration.
Breakfast
Basic breakfast patty, breakfast sausages, the bacon and veggie frittata, Thai-stuffed omelet, yucca hash browns, scrambled tofu, golden milk, no-crust quiche.
Salads, dressings and condiments
Arugula with lemon dressing, Asian cucumber, butternut squash, herb butter, two Italian dressings, classic pesto, Texas pesto and the easiest guacamole.
Soups, sides and appetizers
Jicama fries, Asian-style butternut squash, and a chilled borscht.
Legume recipes
Tex-Mex black beans and a black bean salad, both built on the soak from chapter five.
Lunch and dinner
Texas chili, gumbo, spiced ground lamb, keto seafood chowder, burgers, meatloaf, creamy garlic scallops, baked salmon with asparagus, crock pot beef stew and a whole crock pot chicken.
Recipe index, by meal type
Every recipe again, sorted the way you actually look for one.
Now go make a mess in the kitchen
The closing chapter. You may burn the first one. The second will be better and the third will be good enough that you get a little smug about it.
How to use it
Read chapters one to seven once, before you cook anything. They are short, and every recipe after them assumes you have.
Stock the pantry first. Chapter six exists because the difference between cooking and not cooking is usually one missing ingredient.
If you are making the legume recipes, start the soak the day before. Twenty four hours is the recipe, not a suggestion.
Use the recipe index at the back when you are hungry and the contents page when you are planning.
Burn the first one. She says so herself, in the last chapter, and she is right.
Available editions
About the author
Jessie Keener, N.D.
A Doctor of Naturopathy writing at the meeting point of body, mind, and spirit: keto living, cortisol regulation, trauma recovery, and a channeled guide to ecstatic union. Six titles across wellness and spirituality.
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