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
Cardamom Rice Pudding
Tag Archives: Pitta reducing
Birthday Kale
Yesterday was Bhava’s birthday. He chose True Food Kitchen for lunch. It’s a place we wanted to explore since it opened and we are so glad we did! Continue reading
Summer Kitchari
It has been such a busy summer here, that by the time August arrived and we had a chance to slow down, all I wanted for a few days was my staple comfort food… Continue reading
Six for Summer
Summer is Pitta Season, when we want to be careful not to overheat. Offering you a few good ways to keep cool, here is my list of Six Best Practices for Summer. Continue reading
Sipping Sattva: Rose Fennel Tea
The ingredients are simple: Fennel, Rose, Mint. Together they create a gentle medicine to balance summer’s heat, with a delicate, subtle taste that makes you want to Continue reading
Avocado Dressing
Last week I promised you an Avocado Dressing that goes especially well with refreshing salads loaded with purifying bitters like arugula, radicchio, spinach and Continue reading
Refreshing Red & Green Salad
Short, frequent travels have kept me on the road, on the go, on point, all the more present to 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
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
What’s Your Dosha?
Are you air, fire or water? Is your best season Autumn, Winter, Spring or Summer? Are you more dynamic, focused, or nurturing? Ayurveda sees our bodies as microcosms of the macrocosm – the universe within each being. This means you, … Continue reading
Minty Mediterranean Salad
When the world seems like it’s coming apart, friendship and food can be inspiring comfort ~ and our Summer Ayurveda Class on Sunday was just that. We sipped Watermelon Smoothies while talking about Ayurveda, Nutrition, Doshas, Summer needs and Summer … Continue reading
Summer is for Juicing
We started a “Juice Reboot” this week, inspired by the upbeat documentary with the downbeat name, Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead. My husband, who gets an idea and then award-winningly executes it before anyone can say, “What a force of … Continue reading
Anatomy Of A Craving
Do you ever have cravings?
Is that a stupid question?
So, what are yours?
I’ll tell you mine… Continue reading
Summer Beans & Greens
I find it peaceful to write and so was relieved to finally have the time to write on Ayurveda & the Summer Season and get it published to my Blog. It is full of tips for maintaining balance in what … Continue reading
Cucumber Cool
It was that perfect summer day: sunny, clear and hot enough to urge you to the beach, windy enough to get you offshore fast on a Hobie Cat soaring across breezy waters toward the promise of endless horizon. The sailboat had … Continue reading
Summer
SUMMER Have you ever wondered why it is hotter in August than June when the sun was closer and the days were longest? There is a simple principle in Ayurveda that states: “Heat accumulates.” Wherever there is fire, and water … 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
On Suzie’s Farm
A week ago, we took our Yoga Teacher Training to Suzie’s Organic Farm. Some 20 of us descended upon their 70 acres in the Tijuana River Valley where we were like bees to honey ~ Yogis abuzz in fields of bliss, … Continue reading