“Stay home. Cook your own meals.” Immune up. The ideal immune-boosting, detoxifying, warm and comforting meal, is Kitchari, and this one is loaded with Spring’s vibrant beauty. Continue reading
Spring Loaded Kitchari + Immune Enhancing Tips
Category Archives: Recipes for Winter
Vegan Popcorn + Book Giveaway
Brought to you by the inspiring Katie Farina, who teaches plant-based cooking in San Diego, and has just come out with a book full of her gorgeous, extraordinary recipes – Katie’s Healing Kitchen. Continue reading
Asian BBQ Tofu with Homemade Hoisin
Plant power: Tofu with a healthy, easy-to-make hoisin sauce that is not the typical commercial sugary bomb, but rather a sweet digestive aid. Continue reading
3 Favorite Winter Soups + A New Year Reset
Let’s not call it a cleanse… Rather a delicious approach to self care. Continue reading
Coco Almond Butter Cups: No Bake Ojas
“Optimum ojas is the key to perfect health, balanced and blissful emotions, and even the unfolding of inner spiritual development. Ojas promotes longevity and is an internally generated antidote to aging…” Continue reading
Kitchari Pt 2: Crunchy Kitchari Bites & Dumplings
In a playful effort to make Ayurveda cooking tasty and accessible, I give you Kitchari Dumplings and Coconut Crusted Kitchari Bites, made from the everyday cleansing Kitchari with broccoli, celery and leafy greens featured in the last post. Continue reading
Everyday Cleanse: Kitchari & Greens, Pt 1
Ayurveda’s most purifying, everyday staple, boosted with the detox power of cruciferous and greens. Continue reading
Seriously Sumptuous Celery Soup
All the healing benefits of celery in the creamiest, most delicious bowl of soup for Spring. Continue reading
February Foods: 8 Favorites
What to eat in February? 8 reader’s favorites, including Fruity Baked Oatmeal, Easy Breakfast Crepes, Cauli Tacos, Kitchari Burgers, Sunshine Soup and Rose Petal Truffles. Continue reading
Moon Milk + Foods to Help You Sleep
In the womb of the night we reset, recover and repair. Unfortunately, electric lights, technology and piped entertainment keep us from going gently into that dark night, from listening to its rich silence, and enjoying its deep stillness. We pay for … Continue reading Continue reading
Winter Harvest Soup: Broccoli, Butternut Squash Noodles, Baked Tofu in a Ginger Miso Broth
In the cold months we need warm, digestion-enkindling, tissue hydrating, sunny meals… Continue reading
Holiday Mendiants
Sumptuous, gorgeous, and so easy to make! Continue reading
Fruity Baked Oatmeal + New Dosha Quiz
When Vata is high we often don’t have time or the inclination to cook. But that is when we need it most, and this recipe amkes it easy. Its sweet nourishment gives you warm energy – and it bakes while you get started with your day! Continue reading
A Spread For All Seasons + A *Super* Giveaway
If you have carrots, miso and a bit of broth, you can make this right now. You can serve it as your mash instead of white potatoes, you can serve it as a party dip, you can smear it on toast and you can spread it on a sandwich instead of mayo. You can add rice vinegar and sesame oil and it’s a terrific dressing, or add more broth and a drizzle of olive oil and it’s a sauce. Continue reading
In Brodo: Making Autumn Meals Sing
Replacing sauce with broth in late autumn and winter dishes demonstrates the artful way Italians have lived so beautifully in harmony with the seasons and with nature, and from that living wisdom have cultivated an art… Continue reading
Sahara Rose’s Shepherd’s Pie
Sweet Potato Lentil Shepherd’s Pie from Sahara Rose’s new book, Eat Feel Fresh is easy, Vegan, Ayurvedic comfort food. Continue reading
Make Your Own Bath Fizzies
Homemade is always the best gift, and these Rose Beauty Bath Balms are a beautiful gift of love, ease, comfort. Continue reading
Make Your Own Roti {Video} + Book Giveaway
I have been in the forests of the baby Himalayas, near Dehradun, in north India, working with The Ayurveda Experience on a new rollout for their Ayurvedic skincare line Ajara. It was a beautiful experience, especially because we all lodged … Continue reading Continue reading