All my recipes are easy.
All my recipes feature whole foods.
Keeping ingredients to their simple essence and light preparation maintains food’s health and taste.
It’s 2 pans max for me (mostly). I test my recipes at least twice before posting. I aim to make them intuitive and foolproof – and flexible enough to easily switch in your favorite veggies and flavors.
If you try one of my recipes, please let me know how you liked it.
Thanks for checking out my easy healthy recipes and Bon appetite!
Breakfast
Breakfast Salad Recipe
This summer I was breakfast salad crazy - in the garden, knee-deep in some wonderful greens, and the vegetable bowl craze just pointed to making more breakfast salads. Yum. Now that the weather is just beginning to cool, my breakfast salads are warm. The garden is...
Egg ‘Poached’ over Wild Mushrooms & Sweet Potato Recipe
A chef from Kripalu taught me the egg over veggies trick. It's quick, easy and satisfying. You can substitute any vegetable for the mushrooms and sweet potatoes in this easy breakfast recipe- try spinach, onions, tomatoes or your favorite blend of vegetables. Let's...
Lemon Violet Chia Pudding
So easy. So tasty. So healthy. Make this lovely spring breakfast or not-too-sweet dessert right now. If you have violets in your yard, here's a whole new way to enjoy them. Violets are filled with antioxidants, so are health promoting in all the ways so many herbs and...
Cherry Turmeric Spicy Shot Recipe
Spicy shots! I love 'em. A couple of years ago Free Fire Cider, based on a folk recipe, popularized by herbalist Rosemary Gladstar, and trademarked, with great controversy in the herbal world, but a group in WMA, had its moment in the sun. Here's my fire cider recipe....
Cantaloupe Walnut and Cilantro with Lime Recipe
Here is a simple recipe for a healthy summer breakfast. A quick and balanced breakfast for one. My excellently smart and organized VA Kate Tilton likes simple recipes. She'd prefer three ingredients, but Kate, this one's for you and I hope you like it. Four...
Apple walnut quinoa with kale
My go-to breakfast is a pastured egg over greens with a slice of sprouted grain toast. But the winter chill came to call in the Shire this week, which got me hankering for a warm bowl of what my husband loving refers to as gruel. What's a low-grain gal to do? Quinoa...
Strawberry rhubarb compote recipe
Who needs refined sugar, anyway? Nobody, really. With just a bit of effort, you can enjoy naturally sweet foods and kiss foods with added sugar (and the rollercoaster of hunger and overeating they cause) goodbye. If you need convincing, here's a recipe to get you...
Warm Weather Breakfast – Smoothie Savvy
It's been hot on Nantucket this week, so anywhere else it must be nasty. I have a longtime smoothie habit, and have gotten into adding crushed flax seed to my morning blend. I knew that coffee grinder would come in handy someday. I've been re-evaluating the benefit of...
Lunch & Dinner
Lemon Violet Chia Pudding
So easy. So tasty. So healthy. Make this lovely spring breakfast or not-too-sweet dessert right now. If you have violets in your yard, here's a whole new way to enjoy them. Violets are filled with antioxidants, so are health promoting in all the ways so many herbs and...
Asian Slaw Recipe
Everyone should have a vegetable-based recipe or two that takes (snap!) that long, that serves as a quick meal or snack. This raw Asian slaw recipe has been a mainstay of my 3pm-give-me-carbs attack for years. It works. The heart of the recipe is savoy cabbage and...
Wild Mustard Asparagus Soup Recipe
Please resist the temptation to spray weed-killer on your lawn as it is filled with nutrition free for the taking. Eat your "weeds" instead! Wild garlic mustard, for example, is considered an invasive weed but is also a nutrient-dense green with a spicy garlic flavor....
Tahini Dressing Recipe
Most commercial salad dressings, I am sorry to say, are filled with chemicals. Choose them carefully, and consider making your own. It's easier than you think. Dressings and sauces are an opportunity to perfect and balance vegetables with nutrient-dense oils,...
Roasted Vegetables – Healthy or Not Healthy?
Roasting vegetables - baking them with a drizzle of olive oil until they have a toasty color and flavor - is a mainstay of my fall and winter kitchen. I give my tomatoes and onions a light roast before pureeing them into soups and sauces and love the sweet roast...
Deliciously Easy Lentils Recipe
If you have high cholesterol and don't want to go on medication, beans are your friends. Studies have shown that eating beans a few times weekly can help lower LDL (the blood cholesterol most closely associated with heart disease). Actually, if you want to control...
Potato Cauliflower Mash Recipe
Potato head? Me too. Will work for mashed potatoes. While I think white potatoes have been much maligned in the era of glycemic (the degree to which foods act like sugar) awareness, many of us will overdo them left to our own devices. Enter cauliflower, that healthy...
Spicy Corn and Black Bean Soup Recipe
I love black bean soup, and this recipe loves me (and you) too with nutrient dense vegetables, lime, nutmeg, pepper and chili for a touch of heat. And of course black beans, a fiber-protein power combo. This recipe makes a flavorful thick soup perfect for a snowy day....
Asian Chili Beef Recipe
Asian Chili Beef You won't find many beef recipes on my site, but my Asian Chili Beef is a good one! Red meat has been independently associated with an increased risk for cancer. But if you choose a clean high-quality beef, like grass-fed tenderloin, for an occasional...
Coconut Peanut Chicken with Sweet Potato
COCONUT PEANUT CHICKEN WITH SWEET POTATO Just completed the first draft of a book proposal for easeful whole-food eating. YEAH! So, I’ve been reading the amazing food meisters around the net to hear the consensus for quick & easy weeknight dinners. I agree with...
All Recipes
Garlicky Leek Soup Recipe
This Garlicky Leek Soup Recipe was inspired by my love of potatoes. While there is only a little potato in it, that certain creamy potato flavor is there. The combination of potatoes, leeks, and garlic are more than the sum of their parts - they were made to sing...
Breakfast Salad Recipe
This summer I was breakfast salad crazy - in the garden, knee-deep in some wonderful greens, and the vegetable bowl craze just pointed to making more breakfast salads. Yum. Now that the weather is just beginning to cool, my breakfast salads are warm. The garden is...
Herbal Water Recipe
I finally got a glass pitcher with a cylinder in the top so that I can easily make herbal waters - cold water sun infusions. These are really the perfect alternative to soda or even to sparkling water in plastic containers. Why Drink Herbal Water? With herbal waters,...
Pork Tenderloin Cauliflower Curry Recipe
If you live in New England, this has been a chilly - OK freezing - spring. Our minds are thinking of fresh herbs and lightening up, but our palates crave warmth. It's an excellent time for a fresh curry. Here's a favorite: Pork Tenderloin Cauliflower Curry. You have...
Hungarian-inspired Mushroom Soup Recipe
I never met a mushroom I didn't like, and I've had the pleasure of quite a few. If you ever get the chance, take a mushroom walk with the Boston Mycological Club(or your local club). They are a perfect collection of culinary, botany and sensation-seeking enthusiasts....
Gwen’s French Carrot Soup Recipe
Gwen Gaillard was the belle of Nantucket's culinary scene for years. We have a tattered cookbook filled with Gwen's recipes from her heyday. This carrot soup is one of them, with a little of my own updates and thoughts. Carrots, turnips, potatoes and onions are really...
Egg ‘Poached’ over Wild Mushrooms & Sweet Potato Recipe
A chef from Kripalu taught me the egg over veggies trick. It's quick, easy and satisfying. You can substitute any vegetable for the mushrooms and sweet potatoes in this easy breakfast recipe- try spinach, onions, tomatoes or your favorite blend of vegetables. Let's...
Lemon Violet Chia Pudding
So easy. So tasty. So healthy. Make this lovely spring breakfast or not-too-sweet dessert right now. If you have violets in your yard, here's a whole new way to enjoy them. Violets are filled with antioxidants, so are health promoting in all the ways so many herbs and...
Cherry Turmeric Spicy Shot Recipe
Spicy shots! I love 'em. A couple of years ago Free Fire Cider, based on a folk recipe, popularized by herbalist Rosemary Gladstar, and trademarked, with great controversy in the herbal world, but a group in WMA, had its moment in the sun. Here's my fire cider recipe....
Asian Slaw Recipe
Everyone should have a vegetable-based recipe or two that takes (snap!) that long, that serves as a quick meal or snack. This raw Asian slaw recipe has been a mainstay of my 3pm-give-me-carbs attack for years. It works. The heart of the recipe is savoy cabbage and...
Plant Medicine
Rosemary for Remembrance
Remembrance of Rosemary Who doesn't love the piney scent of rosemary? Aromatic rosemary has been a beloved culinary herb since ancient times. Its integrative medicinal and spiritual uses may be less well known, yet are certainly just as compelling. Rosemary helps you...
How to Receive the Gifts of Plants (and Life)
Receive. Receive what comes to you. My plant spirit teacher taught me that plants that will heal me will come to me. All I need to do is receive. Receiving - coming into relationship and taking that in, however - takes a little preparation. Those of you who read my...
Cherry Turmeric Spicy Shot Recipe
Spicy shots! I love 'em. A couple of years ago Free Fire Cider, based on a folk recipe, popularized by herbalist Rosemary Gladstar, and trademarked, with great controversy in the herbal world, but a group in WMA, had its moment in the sun. Here's my fire cider recipe....
Let's Get Coherent
There's been talk in the integrative wellness world about coherence, so here's a bit about that. It's about vibration and the waves created therein. Some scientists say that all communication comes down to vibrational waves - light, sound, movement - how animals and...
Elderberry Ginger Cider Recipe
My boon of elderberry enabled me to, in addition to making tons of elderberry syrup, make elderberry ginger cider - a variation on fire cider. For this one, I rely on ginger and honey as a base and kept it simple yet strong. It's delicious and I'll use it the way you...
Ashwagandha Sesame Oil
Tis the season to begin to think about making my fall batch of Ashwagnada sesame oil to warm our way through the fall. Bows to my colleagues in the Kripalu School of Ayurveda (KSA). Several years ago I got to sit in on part of their training for Ayurveda Health...
Hail Tulsi – Green Mahadevi
My garden right now is filled with the sweet green goddess known as tulsi. Tulsi is a type of basil that originated in India. There are several types, like sisters in a family. If you 'do yoga', love botanicals, AND you haven't met tulsi yet, I'm happy for you. Your...
Elderberry Syrup Recipe
I've been a smidgen obsessed with elderberry this year and it has heard my prayer. Not only did my husband gift me a beautiful elderberry bush for our yard, but a neighbor with a gorgeous mature bush gave us the green light to enjoy some of his bounty. So, I've been...
Plant Alchemy: Energy Hygiene
Updated: 5/16/2023 How many of you, when you look at how I describe myself, say to yourself "What the heck is plant alchemy?" Come on now, I know you do. What Are Alchemists? Alchemists were the scientists of the 16th century. They were a fascinating lot - a little...
Herb Pesto Recipe: Wild Plant Medicine
Pesto is a base recipe for food as medicine. The herbs you use for pesto are concentrated sources of health-enhancing nutrients. Through the seasons, you can make several batches for use on cooked vegetables, grains, really anything and everything. Pesto is...
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