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.
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Vegan Maple Pumpkin Custard Recipe
VEGAN MAPLE PUMPKIN CUSTARD RECIPE I love this recipe for pumpkin custard! Quick, easy, tasty, healthy. Boom. My recipe was developed for the Natural Health Expo in the fall with the intention of having a healthier holiday. I wanted to make a no-bake vegan pumpkin pie...
Spiced Lentils Recipe
Let's talk lentils. Easy and quick to cook (20-30 minutes and don't need soaking like other beans and pulses), lentils are the short cut to more plant protein in your diet. Nutrient dense, they are also rich in fiber, folate, and other nutrients. They are low...
Cashew Cream Recipe
Would you like a recipe that can, in one fell swoop, transition you joyfully to a more plant-based diet? Cashew cream just might be that recipe. It is a fantastic vegan substitute for dairy cream and creamy cheeses like ricotta or cream cheese. It makes a killer...
Obey Food Rules Lightly – Lemony Kale Salad Recipe
My Ayurvedic brothers and sisters may balk at a raw lemony kale salad (though acid in lemons does “cook”) in winter, but how much I love this salad in this season reminds me that we do need to hold food rules more lightly than hard-and-fast. In Ayurveda, winter is the...
Peanut Ginger Coconut Spread Recipe
Peanut Ginger Coconut Spread Recipe Sometimes you want something a little bit more or a little bit different than peanut butter on your apple. Here's a spread that is sweet and gingery and delicious - Peanut Ginger Coconut Spread. Use it on fruit, with raw or blanched...
Summer Black Bean Salsa Recipe
Summertime! While we may be having a little taste of what I call winter-summer (it has been freaking freezing this week...I remember we had a summer-winter in the Shire last year), I trust that warm weather is on the way. This is one of my favorite recipes - light,...
Minted Snow Pea Recipe
Food fresh from the garden doesn't need much help to taste great and nourish you deeply. Our fresh peas often don't make it into the kitchen because we snack away right in the garden. Here's a simple recipe for snow peas with mint. Minted Snow Pea Recipe Ingredients...
Vegan Red Lentil Stew Recipe
Here's a nice thick nutrient-packed vegan red lentil stew or soup for a warm winter infusion of tasty goodness. Coconut and tahini make this rich & satisfying. Vegan Red Lentil Stew Recipe Ingredients 1 large yellow onion, chopped 5-6 medium carrots, cleaned and...
All Recipes
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
Updated: 6/10/2024 So easy. So tasty. So healthy. Make this lovely Lemon Violet Chia Pudding for a 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...
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...
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,...
Elderberry Ginger Cider Recipe
Updated 11/30/2023 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 of fire cider. For this one, I relied on ginger and honey as a base and kept it simple yet...
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...
Plant Medicine
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
Updated 12/13/2023 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...
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...
Overwhelmed by Darkness? Time to Join Ensparkleation Nation
Vieques PR is an island about the size of Nantucket. One difference between these beautiful islands is that 50 years ago half of Vieques was cleared of long-term and indigenous residents and used as bombing target practice by the US military. Another difference is...
Save a Few Seeds
As the end of summer rolls around, saving a few seeds connects you with the rhythms of nature and gives you an opportunity to know more than one generation of a plant. I loved my white cosmos this year, and they can be hard to find early in the season. So, I've been...
How to Use Herbal Preparations Safely
This month in the newsletter I wrote about putting summer's bounty by for colder months, and I also wrote a brief piece on how to use herbal preparations safely. Herbs, herbal tinctures, flower essences and other botanicals can be wonderful allies for healing, but...
Plant Initiation Rituals
Updated May 17, 2023 Rituals add meaning to life. Over the past several years I have been participating in plant initiation rituals. They connect me more deeply and more coherently with nature than I have ever been. As I write this, the wheel of the year approaches...
How Do You Really Feel About Nature?
Last year when I went to my plant spirit teacher's retreat in Vermont, to the land of nature - outdoor showers, sleeping in bunks, and composting toilets, she asked us: How do you honor your indigenous self? After a couple days of crud, I felt her - my indigenous...
Praise Pam Montgomery – Plant Spirit Healing
This growing season (April - October) I apprenticed with herbalist and "spokesperson for the plants" Pam Montgomery. I'm so very ready to sing the praises of my teacher and what I've learned about our plant allies. It has changed my life for the better. Pam's approach...
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