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Thyme for Coriander & Asparagus
I’ve been eating asparagus every week for the past 6 weeks and I am still loving it! With minimal prep and cook time, whether sauteed or steamed, these slightly sweet and astringent tasting spears are topping my spring list for the easiest green veggies. They’re so tasty too! Rich in the earth and air elements, foods with an astringent taste, like, asparagus, can bind...
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Guide To A Beginner’s Meditation Practice
Imagine living with less fear, regrets, anxiety, jealousy, greed, and anger. Imagine instead living with more compassion, self-acceptance, understanding, selflessness, and peace. Does it sound like a dream? Does it sound like an impossibility that sounds great in theory, but can never become a reality? I am here to tell you that it is absolutely possible. In fact, many people now, in the past,...
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5 Spices to Heat Up Your Spring Pantry
It’s time to fall out of autumn and leap into spring! Soon, flowers will be blossoming to express the new season. A gentle, quarterly reminder from Mother Nature to start shifting lifestyle choices and harmonize with her spring energy. Generating heat and movement internally will support balancing the cold, wet and heavy qualities she exudes in the spring. While helping to prevent common spring imbalances such as congestion,...
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It’s a Rose-Mary Citrus Party
Citrus season is in full swing in California. Local markets are filled with an abundant array of varietals, from juicy tangelos—don’t you just love the ring of it? To sweet ruby reds and blood colored oranges. On a cold winter’s day, walking through the citrus aisle warms the heart like a gorgeous sunset. The vibrant colors and invigorating scents activate the sluggish winter mind, while their sour...
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Creamy Quinoa Khichadi with Cumin Ghee
There’s something comforting about a rice and lentil porridge that just makes me holistically feel good. I think Naram (creamy) Khichadi (khitch-ri) is infused within each of my cells. If a month goes by and they haven’t gotten a taste of some khichadi,they begin radiating signals and I begin to crave for it. If you’ve seen my Instagram posts, you know I make khichadi quite often. Per your...
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Digestive Fire: Keep it Kindling with Fennel Seeds
Fennel—a tall, aromatic plant with bright yellow flowers that grows wild along the California highways. It’s bulb, stalk, fronds, flowers and even the seeds are…edible. Many cultures consider fennel to be a digestive aide and acknowledge it as an herb that gives longevity and strength. Some would say, that in fennel’s ability to helps us digest, we can absorb, assimilate and eliminate effectively. Thus, we become stronger and live longer, healthier lives.
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Golden Omelette: Sauteed Onions, Asparagus & Turmeric
Okay, so you are looking at this and thinking, this is not an omelette, it’s a frittata. Well, you’re right…sort of. In my world, this is called an omelette. It’s on the thinner side, like an omelette, but the ingredients are beaten in, like a frittata. Maybe its should be called an omeletta? I am not sure why most S.Asians refer to what so obviously doesn’t...
