This delicious gluten-free buckwheat olive oil cake uses whole food sweeteners and the flavorful Chinese Five Spice blend to celebrate whole food baking in the Fall, Winter + Early Spring Season.
This luscious peach smoothie deliciously evokes the best of summer flavor with stunning texture . Vegan, plant-based, dairy-free and ingredient combinations follow Ayurvedic food combining protocols to support proper digestion and dosha balancing in the summer season.
Looking to enjoy the best of the Summer season? Check out this blogpost I wrote for the incredible KiraGrace women-owned and operated Women’s Yoga and Activewear company. These five Summer recipes are sure to inspire your seasonal cooking and keep you well-hydrated and juicy all Summer long.
Shopping at your local farmer’s market is a choice that extends far beyond what you put in your basket and bring home into your own kitchen. When you make a choice to directly support the livelihood of the farms in your region, you are choosing to participate in the local food economy rather than outsourcing to big companies who are outsourcing and then outsourcing some more. By the way, do we really need to move industry to Mars? I’d like to give Mr. Bezos his next assignment —not to another planet —just to his own backyard and kitchen —yes, I truly think that will do. Can we all take a collective moment to imagine him humbly growing some kale? Thank you.
Wow, February has flown by so fast…In between the chocolate and red fruits of Valentine’s Day, it’s been sweet potatoes and golden spice blends in my kitchen. Come take a look!
Winter season’s in full swing…so it’s the time for powerful immunity boosting foods and simple recipes that soothe the system.
It’s all about that Cranberry + Orange Combo this month…Plus my Top 10 Tips for Health Holiday Cooking + Eating. Enjoy!!
We are nearly half-way through August and I really want to make the most of Summer!! So I've been staying close to the farmer's markets and cooking with the season! My favorite way to do this is to simply shop the market and see what inspires me. I like to choose two or three vegetables and one or two fruits per week that I want to really enjoy and appreciate. From there, I play with the ingredients and come up with simple recipes that showcase those items. This way, I stay in enjoyment mode instead of going into overwhelm --this is key!
When I think of community eating, I usually think of a summertime bbq where the weather is warm and people are enjoying the food, the day, and each other. Nothing says “community food” to me like summer melons and summer corn. Why? Because to me, melons just beg to be shared, they're too big to be eaten solo (although I've done it), and corn is one of those foods that's just more fun eaten in community, especially when it's corn on the cob and everyone is enjoying it one moment, and then trying to get it out of their teeth the next. That's just fun community eating, if you ask me.
How is Summer everyone? So far, the summer season here in Berkeley CA is absolutely delightful. The seasonal fruits in the farmer's markets seemed to arrive all at once. All through Spring it was weeks of strawberries and then one Tuesday in late May the market was bursting with the first wave of summer fruit: cherries, blueberries and an amazing variety of stone fruits -peaches, nectarines, apricots, apriums... I was caught by surprise, emotionally swooning over the crates of cherries and blueberries, and then quickly rushing over to the stone fruits to collect bounty from the "bruised and imperfect" selection. The figs are ripe now too! Hello! Time to enjoy this Summer abundance.
This is my answer to granola and it's grain-free granola. It's also sugar-free with added superfood ingredients. In recent years I've had to admit/accept that regular toasted oat granola doesn't really work for me and my digestive system. Yes, those days of shopping for/sampling granola from the bulk bins in my college years are over... But the good news is that using lighter ingredients that are easier to digest can still yield a delicious and satisfying granola.
Ah, Beautiful February, that short little month that lets us know for sure last year is definitely over and the new year is rolling swiftly into being... And of course it's Valentine's Day where mainstream mass mind images of romantic love get plastered all over consumer culture. We can become blinded by that cultural image or use the endless HEARTS and XOXO signs as divine reminders pointing us towards whatever heart intentions we are holding now. Chinese New year is also celebrated mid-February (two days after V-Day), with the lunar calendar. So, by many, February is considered to be the true entrance to the new year, marked with its own unique energy cycle. No matter how you view it, February holds rich opportunity for us to recalibrate the heart by making peace with the past and practicing steadiness in embodying the intentions we have for our growth to come.