by Eyton Shalom | Apr 11, 2012 | Ayurvedic Recipes, Dietary & Nutritional Counseling, Eating with the Seasons, Eating with the Seasons Recipes, Kapha, Natural Food Recipes, Pitta, Seasonal Recipes, Spices, Winter
Curried Quinoa Super Food: Pacify Kapha in Late Winter/Early Spring The ancient grain of the Incas, Quinoa has a delicate, nutty, slightly bitter flavor and the lightest texture of all grains. This combination of bitter taste and light texture make it an ideal grain...
by Eyton Shalom, M.S., L.Ac. | Feb 16, 2012 | Ayurvedic Recipes, Chinese Medicine Recipes, Diet and Nutrition in Chinese Medicine, Diet and Nutrition in Chinese Medicine Recipes, Dosha, Eating with the Seasons, Eating with the Seasons Recipes, Living with the Seasons in Chinese Medicine Recipes, Natural Food Recipes, Plant Based Recipes, Seasonal Recipes, Spices
Cooking Methods in Chinese Food Medicine: From Warm to Hot to Very Hot One of the aspects of Food Medicine we pay attention to in Chinese Medicine is the cooking method itself. Each method of cooking adds relative values of heat to the dish being prepared. Steaming...
by Eyton Shalom, M.S., L.Ac. | Dec 23, 2011 | Chinese Herbal Medicine, Diet and Nutrition in Chinese Medicine, Eating with the Seasons, Green Living, Natural Food Recipes
Fresh and Freeze-Dried Nettles When I was a teenager, I was enthralled by the story of Milarepa, “Tibet’s Greatest Yogi,” who, spent twelve years in the cold high mountains, meditating and living only on soup made from Nettles and herbs. This is one...
by Eyton Shalom, M.S., L.Ac. | Dec 22, 2011 | Eating with the Seasons, Eating with the Seasons Recipes, Green Living, Kapha, Wellness
Sea Vegetables for HealthWild vegetables grow all over the earth and in the water. Dandelion greens, nettles, burdock are a few of the valuable and highly nutritious land vegetables that are easy to grow most anywhere.Sea vegetables also grow both North and South. I...
by Eyton Shalom, M.S., L.Ac. | Dec 13, 2011 | Ayurveda, Ayurvedic Recipes, Eating with the Seasons, Green Living, Natural Food Recipes, Pitta, Seasonal Recipes, Spices, Vata
It seems silly to buy canned cranberry sauce with a ton of sugar and the bonus of toxic Phtalates, when it is so easy to make it homemade. Takes literally minutes. Boil water, add cranberries and sweetener. Simmer 15 minutes. Voila! Ingredients1 bag cranberries....
by Eyton Shalom, M.S., L.Ac. | Sep 2, 2011 | Ayurveda, Ayurvedic Recipes, Eating with the Seasons, Eating with the Seasons Recipes, Living with the Seasons in Chinese Medicine
Lassi is an Indian drink based on yogurt and water, especially drunk in hot dry weather (some people in India do not eat Yogurt much at all during rainy season, as it is considered heavy and building to Kapha, which builds climactic ally during the monsoon. This is...