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 is probably the question my Sasang Constitution clients ask me most frequently. They’re wondering whether a particular new product is warming, cooling, or whether it strengthens the lung or the liver, etc.
I try to include […]
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 […]
It seems that the word “raw” is connected to the idea of “unprocessed” in the raw food community but by strict definition it only means “uncooked”. Specifically, the temperature has not been raised above 104 degrees F. at […]
“Aspirin generally shouldn’t be used to prevent heart attacks or stroke for patients with no history of the disease.” This announcement was made by the FDA in May of this year (2014).
It seems that scientific facts regarding your […]
Diagram by Roberto Biasini
Don’t you believe it. You may very well be on your way to chronic bronchitis. You may even already have it. Chronic bronchitis causes permanent damage and scarring to the lungs and progresses […]
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 […]
