Indian food is perfect for lesser and greater yin. The spices are so warming that you can eat vegetarian, although this recipe contains chicken stock. This is exactly as Puck wrote it. If you can’t have liver building food, […]
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 […]
Since I need cooling food I have never tasted this lesser yin lemonade. However, I have made it a number of times for gatherings both small and large. I can tell you this, no matter how much I make […]
We watched golfers pass through the back yard while sipping this tea at our last lesser yang potluck. This is the ultimate refreshing drink. Even one hundred degree weather will not cause you to lose your cool. Thanks to […]
My Grandmother use to make bread and butter pickles that were delicious. However, like most other recipes I’ve found they contained sugar, onions and mustard seeds. These are completely cooling and ideal for lesser yang. In addition, they are […]
Roasted grapes:
1 lb. red, seedless grapes removed from stems
2 Tbs. olive oil
1/2 tsp. Balsamic vinegar
1/8 tsp. dried basil
pinch of salt
Preheat oven to 450 degrees F.
Toss grapes in a medium bowl with olive oil, vinegar, basil and salt. Place […]
Apple Walnut Spinach Salad with Mock Caesar Dressing (Lesser Yin)
Salad:
6 cups baby spinach leaves, washed
1 apple thinly sliced
1/2 cup crumbled goat Feta cheese
1/4 cup slivered red onions
1/4 cup chopped walnuts
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Arrange walnuts on […]
This Lesser Yang salad is totally dependent on the quality of the tomatoes. You can use either cherry or regular or heirloom. It doesn’t matter. Just make sure that they are vine ripened and at their peak and you […]
I made this Lesser Yin salad for some friends recently and they loved it. I just happened to get both beets and fennel in my CSA produce allotment that week. This is the time of year that even those […]
From “Noodles Every Day” by Corinne Trang. I didn’t change a thing in this recipe except for omitting the salt. Somen are Japanese wheat noodles that are round and very thin. If you are gluten intolerant substitute the thin […]
