Recipe: Vegetable Curry Cutting out packaged + processed foods is the KEY to restoring, maintaining and building health. We call this "Clean Eating"! The best and only way to know how clean your food is... is to make it yourself. Listen. You don't have to be Martha Stewart or Chef Boyardee (wait, please don't be Chef Boyardee).... [...]
Recipe: Sleepytime Casserole As we fall back into the darker days, we want to mimic this new pattern of the sun. Yes, this means more sleep! 🐻 Whether it's stress, work schedules, technology, insomnia or other sleep disorders, 1 in 3 adults are sleep deprived. The numbers are even worse for kids due to their school schedules, homework, activities... don't get [...]
Recipe: Coq au Vin It's harvest time! 👨🌾 Now's the time to reap the rewards of well tended crops and projects of this year. We can literally celebrate by fermenting these fruits of our labor from the vines 🍇 and the fields 🌾. Fermenting fruits and grains into alcohol goes back as far as ancient times. This not only made use [...]
Recipe: Mushroom Stroganoff Life happens and we're constantly and rapidly producing new cells... Like 2 MILLLION per second- go us! In our modern world, we're flooded with toxins, stress, exhaustion, and normal every day metabolic waste. Cancer (abnormal division of cells with no apoptosis) has been in our world for a long time, but never to the degree and frequency [...]
Recipe: Celery Caesar Salad Celery is a tried and true ingredient that goes into EVERYTHING! It's part of 👩🏻🍳 the French Mirepoix (celery, onion, carrot)👨🏻🍳 the Cajun Trinity (celery, onion, green pepper) and 👩🏽🍳 the Italian Sofrito (celery, onion, carrot, garlic, parsley). It also plays a key role in our favorite protein based salads like 🐔chicken salad, 🐟 tuna salad and 🥚 egg salad. But today... [...]
Recipe: Blackberry Cilantro Whole Fruit Margarita Fermenting grains + fruits into alcohol has been a traditional practice for thousands of years, just like fermenting + pickling vegetables! It was a way to utilize excess crops and for preservation.Further, it was discovered to have pain relieving abilities, brings heat to the body to fight off infection or fever, is antiseptic, and used medicinally [...]
Recipe: Black Bean Tacos Herbs and spices are Mother Nature's medicine cabinet! If you're not cooking with them already, it's time to spice things up and get herbaceous with your cooking... especially this spring! Culinary herbs + spices are not only healing, but they add incredible flavor and zest to your cooking! Herbs are so easy to grow at [...]
Recipe: Mexican Shakshuka Did you know that eggs have a season? It's true! Chickens naturally begin to slow down egg production as the daylight diminishes to less than 14 hours per day. They go in to "rest and restore" mode for the fall and winter- just like we do! Come spring, when the daylight returns, their feathers molt (aka shed) [...]
Recipe: Winter Buddha Bowl It's a dream come true! We're giving you permission to eat bread! But, we also encourage you to think outside the loaf! There are so many amazing grains available (with or without gluten) and we don't want you to limit yourself! These grains have been around for thousands of years and serve as [...]
Recipe: Carrot Cake Oatmeal Let's get this straight... Sweet is a flavor too! Just like salty, sour, bitter, pungent and savory/umami!They're ALL part of our biological human senses and need to be FED, especially in Winter.If you've been feeding your sweet cravings with refined sugar, it's time to phase that out (most of the time) 😜. Refined sugar will send [...]
