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Category Archives: Healthy Treats
A Few Ideas for Breakfast
A few of my favorite things to start the day. Continue reading
Cardamom Cookies
Gorgeous, delicious, cardamom-speckled cookies to warm a wintry heart. Continue reading
Ojai Valley Inn’s Gingerbread Cookies
These classic cookies are lovable, cheerful, and actually almost good for you… Continue reading
Cardamom Rice Pudding
This Rice Pudding makes a delicious breakfast, snack or dessert. It is especially Vata-reducing – great for children, anyone recuperating, and anyone needing a pick-me-up. Continue reading
Banana Coconut “Half Domes”
These are the dog days. Here in Yosemite it is 100 degrees. Hot. Dry. Dusty. Our rustic, little cabin… Continue reading
4th Favorites
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
Healing Apple Sauce
Apples are great for a cleanse. With so much pectin, they help clean out the intestinal tract, while fortifying your body with phytonutrients, and a cooling action that reduces any lingering Pitta from the heat of the summer. If you … Continue reading
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
Sesame Bliss: Energy Balls
Last night we had dinner at home with four wonderful, conscious friends. One of them, Ninh-ji, who began his life in Vietnam, brought the dessert. It looked at first like a delightfully simple silken tofu warmed in an electric pot. Indeed, … Continue reading
To Eat the Sun: Pêches Aux Nuages
After our Zen Mountain Retreat earlier this month, Jen Carpenter, a recent graduate of the Deep Yoga Mastery of Life Yoga Teacher Training, continued with her own Retreat in the Sierras. When she returned she shared with us this beautiful experience of … Continue reading
Glorious, Guilt-free Dark Chocolate Pudding
A couple of weeks ago I asked, “What do you crave?” Across the vast interconnected web of planetary health-wizards and cultural creatives came the resounding answer, “Chocolate!” Why, of course. Chocolate is a stimulant, so it is not surprising in … 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
Tapioca Tribute
Yesterday I made a Tapioca Treat for my Father’s birthday, which I have to share with you because it is one of those “too good to be true” desserts. I can’t say my father loved it. It has been a … 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
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