Chocolate Chocolate Chip Muffins

Chocolate decadence. Chocolate overdose. Chocolate chocolate. This recipe is my new favorite. I made it yesterday as muffins, but you could also bake it like a cake in a 9 x 9 pan. I topped mine with fresh whipped cream, raspberries, strawberries, and blueberries and served it for dessert. It could have been serve all [...]

Blueberry Lavender Scones

1 cup GWF Baking Mix (sweet, salty)
1 cup rolled oats (generous) (sweet)
6 TBS chilled salted butter, cut into squares (sweet)
1 beaten egg (sweet)
1/3 cup cream, buttermilk or soy milk (sweet)
3/4 cup dried blueberris (sweet, sour)
1 TBS edible lavender flowers (pungent, bitter)
About 1/8 cup oat flour for kneading (sweet)
Greek yogurt (optional) (sour)

Heat the oven to 375 [...]

Strawberry Rhubarb Pie

All you Garrison Keillor fans out there have heard his commercial about Rhubarb Pie. You can hum along as you make this one. Its delicious and sour and sweet, and a perfect summertime dessert.

3 cups of sliced strawberries (sweet, sour)
3 cups of sliced rhubarb (sour, sweet)
2 TBS powdered stevia (sweet)
2 TBS of arrowroot powder
Almond Flour [...]

Coconut Rum Ice Cream

This ice cream will cool you off and awaken your taste buds.

2 very fresh eggs (sweet)
5 tsps stevia powder or up to 3 droppers of stevia liquid (flavored if you have it, to taste) (sweet)
1 can of coconut cream (no sugar) (sweet)
2 cups heavy cream (sweet)
2 TBS rum (sweet)
1/4 cup chopped candied ginger (pungent)
Toasted coconut [...]

Hot, Warm, Cool, Cold... Foods?

Traditional Chinese Medicine often includes dietary changes to affect disease or discomfort. What you eat can affect your body’s reactions and can either make you feel better, or make you feel worse. If you have a migraine, cooling foods like cucumbers and most leafy greens and lettuces will help lower the temperature of you body [...]

Greek Salad for a summer day

Summer started here in Virginia a few weeks ago, with temperatures soaring into the 90s and plenty of humidity. If you are outside for part of your day, you know by now that staying hydrated is really important. Now that summer is officially here, try adding more foods that hydrate and keep you cool, vegetables like [...]

Blueberry Muffins

My Grandmother had several blueberry bushes in her backyard, along with mulberries, rhubarb, strawberries, and a huge vegetable garden with corn, beans, lettuce, tomatoes, carrots and everything else you can imagine. When we would visit, she would send us out with big bowls and tell us to fill them up. My favorite was the blueberries. [...]

How to eat your soup: learning the 5 Flavors

A week of practicing the 5 Flavors will bring up your awareness of how you eat and how you feel after you eat.  Sometimes just learning the flavors can bring this awareness and allow us to focus on foods that make us well. Here is a plan you can follow that will train your taste [...]

Flatbread with Leeks, Capers, and Asiago Cheese

In the springtime, add leafy greens, onions, leeks, and other early vegetables to your meals. Looking at Food as Medicine in Traditional Chinese Medicine (and maybe just by common sense?) eating seasonal foods is the way to go! The foods that arrive in the spring, tender green vegetables and herbs, provide energy as directly [...]

Irish Soda Bread

Saint Patrick’s Day always included Irish Soda bread when I was growing up. Sometimes my sister even made it green with a few drops of food coloring.  Here’s an adaptation that even the greenest leprechaun in your house will love, and it will love him right back with plenty of protein but without the sugar [...]