Warming Longevity Noodles with Chicken and Mushrooms
Warming Longevity Noodles
It’s just after January 1 in the West and I’m making plans for the Solar/Lunar new year. This is the calendar or Bazi I use to diagnose Sasang […]
Cooling Longevity Noodles with Water Chestnuts & Snow Peas
Cooling Longevity Noodles
It’s just after January 1 in the West and I’m making plans for the Solar/Lunar new year. This is the calendar, or Bazi, I use to diagnose Sasang […]
Zucchini Bread with Walnuts
Zucchini Bread
This is a simple warming recipe for the end of the season zucchini, when you feel like you’ve just had enough but there’s more to come. Maybe what you […]
Healthy and Cooling Zucchini Chips
Zucchini Chips
These oven baked zucchini chips are a healthy alternative to corn chips for so-yang and tae-yang. They take just 10 minutes to prepare and you’ll have time to finish […]
It’s All About Local
“Local” Signs
These days it’s all about eating local. Many restaurants prepare and advertise “Farm to Fork” food and even grocery stores have labels on the shelves indicating that a certain […]
Caldo de Pimenton (Red Pepper Soup)
This pepper soup recipe comes from Joyce Goldstein’s “The Mediterranean Kitchen”, one of my favorite cookbooks. Joyce claims that this is one of her favorite soups. So that is two fans in favor of this recipe for starters. The […]
When Did Candy Become The Latest Health Food?
I’m old enough to remember health food stores in the 1960’s. There was very little processed food in those little stores and the bins were filled with things like beans, nuts and whole grains.
Now, in […]
Gluten-free Mango Raisin Muffins
In this recipe it is important to use “sweet” rice. The rices does not actually taste sweet but contains more starch than regular rice flour, which helps these gluten free muffins to hold together. Also remember that most oats […]
Stuffed Squash, Warming or Cooling
The total time for preparing this dish is 1 hour and 40 minutes, with the actual cooking time being an hour and 15 minutes. This is a meal in a bowl AND you can eat the bowl. The proportions […]
What’s Wrong With Eating Bananas?
Here in Northern California the concept that healthy food is local, organic and seasonal food is well known. It is both a relatively new and a very old idea. Of course, before air travel most people ate what […]