What are you cooking up to celebrate the holiday? Here are some of my easy-to-make favorites to add refreshing color and taste to your celebration. Continue reading
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Six Reasons to Celebrate with Chocolate
How do you feel about Valentine’s Day? Best day of the year, or commercial imposition? Invention of the Hallmark industry, or a wonderful reminder to love, love, love? However you see it, most of us seem to agree ~ the … Continue reading
Cardamom’s Divine Delight
Calling all foodies, bloggers, wizards and mermaids, adventurers, lovers, dreamers and inventors, Buddhas, Sages, Sadhakas and Yogis! Inside of you is something eternal and infinite; something as great as a mountain, as vast as an ocean, as beautiful as a star, … Continue reading
Tis the Season: Yam Fries
It is what we call Ymas Season around here. Ymas as in Yams spelled dyslexically. Which I am, so I can. Yam I am. Ymas stands for Yam Mass. As in celebrating the divinity of Yams. As in Yam Heaven! So … Continue reading
Happy Thanksgiving + Roasted Vegetables
Have you ever been asked, “How do you prepare a Vegetarian meal? What do you make? Isn’t it hard?” We get that question a lot. I love it. Because if you stand to the side a bit and take a … Continue reading
Tuscan White Bean Soup for Sophia
In Yoga, as our revered Dr. Frawley teaches, the feminine divine possesses three primary aspects: power, beauty, knowledge. Through the worship of these energies as Mahakali, Mahalakshmi and Mahasaraswati we worship Shakti in her cosmic dance of transformation, prosperity and … Continue reading
For Fathers I Am Grateful
In our household, the World’s Best Dad Award goes to my husband whose devotion to his son proves that dads can do just about anything. He loves coconut, so we are making him this Live Coconut Cream Pie for tonight’s … Continue reading
In Praise of MA
I am dreaming of being with my mother today. We would sit amongst the “darling buds of May” in her garden, the one designed and created by my sister Julia, who would be there, too, with her children. My extraordinary 96-year-old … Continue reading
Easter Eggs & Spinach Strata
A really gorgeous, spring green, easy to prep, oven bake, Sunday brunch for friends and family, from Heidi Swanson. Continue reading
The Taste of Love: Chocolate Pâté
Think about something you love for a moment. How does that thought make you feel? If you could taste it, what would be its flavor? Sitting in an Emergency Room earlier this week waiting for my husband to be wheeled … Continue reading
Eggless “Egg Nog” Lassi
Your belly will say, “Thank you,” when you complete your meal with Lassi, a yogurt-based drink that keeps your digestive fires blazing and your immune system strong. Seeking a Vegetarian response to Egg Nog, I stirred 1 cup of fresh Yogurt, … Continue reading
A Vegetarian Christmas
I wanted to share with you our Christmas Dinner Menu, in case you are still looking for ideas. Feel free to print out this menu – just double click on it for print version. I have attached links below to … Continue reading
Winter Greens
In Ayurveda, we seek to include all six tastes in our meals in an order that matches the process of digestion and ensures optimal breakdown, absorption, and wellness. I have seen many clients and students overcome chronic digestive discomfort simply … Continue reading
Chestnut Porcini Soup
I found this recipe in Edible San Diego, a wonderful new magazine about local farms, markets and restaurants. It is featured in a profile of Patrick Ponsaty, Chef de Cuisine at Mistral, a restaurant overlooking San Diego Bay. The original … Continue reading
Buche de Noel
Morgan and I love to bake, so yesterday he invited friends over and we had a holiday-treats-baking-party. Morgan is creative, adventurous and very clever. Ask him what he wants to be when he grows up and he will tell you, … Continue reading
Vegan Gravy
Yesterday I made this Brioche Stuffing with Chestnuts and Figs for a holiday gathering with friends. It was delicious with steamed carrots, celery, fennel, and a hot gravy. Veg gravy is fun to make, but it does require your attention, so … Continue reading
Brioche Stuffing With Chestnuts and Figs
This Sunday we are going to celebrate the opening of our friend’s new Yoga Studio in Old Town Temecula. The studio will be called “Sacred Journey” after the sacred journey of healing our friend experienced in Yoga Teacher Training. As … Continue reading
Brother Mike’s Apple Pie
For Thanksgiving this year my mother made Aunt Mary’s traditional “The Frost is on the Pumpkin” Pie with spiced, frothy cream. It was light and delicious. My mother is a great cook – and knows how to craft inspiring beauty, … Continue reading