Archive for the 'Food for Yoga' Category

Anjum Anand’s Sweet and Sour Dal

I just got British TV chef Anjum Anand’s book Anjum’s New Indian, which is a great read for both inspiration and recipes. I love browsing beautiful cookbooks, bookmarking dishes I want to make in the future. (I may never get around to it, but that doesn’t seem to take away from the enjoyment.) Anjum has an interesting recipe for [...]

Quinoa with Black Beans and Ginger

I love coming up with new and healthy one-pot dishes by throwing together a combination of a whole grain + vegetables + protein. Add a few flavor components like herbs, spices, garlic, ginger, oils or coconut, and dinner is ready! This week I had some red quinoa I needed to use, as well as a [...]

The Clean Dozen

We all know we should eat our veggies, but what if eating them also adds pesticides and toxins to your diet? I always try to buy organic produce, but it can get expensive. Where is it okay to choose conventional instead of organic? I recently received a review copy of the book Clean, Green, and [...]

Millet and Mushroom Risotto

I’ve been wanting to cook something with millet for a while, an ancient grain rich in B-vitamins and iron. These days I try to cook dishes that my 8-month old can eat too, and millet is great baby food. It is also gluten-free, so if you can’t eat wheat, millet is a great option. I [...]

Goji Berries and Chia Seeds

I’ve been on an oatmeal kick this winter, usually mixing in flax seeds and canned pumpkin. It’s been hard to find canned pumpkin this side of Christmas, so I needed to find something new to add to my oatmeal. Recently I feel like I’ve been reading about chia seeds and goji berries everywhere, so I [...]

Santa Lucia and Sunday Home Practice

Today is Santa Lucia-day, and for the first time I attempted to make lussekatter, the traditional sweet saffron buns. I’m not a big fan of saffron, so I substituted cardamom. Before chowing down lussekatter we did about an hour long home practice, with the baby watching from a blanket wondering what on earth we were [...]

Organic, Fresh, Vegan–and Raw?

This winter a new vegan restaurant called Thrive opened in the Ravenna neighborhood in Seattle. I love their menu of healthy dishes made with fresh, organic ingredients. And everything is…raw. Which in the raw foods movement means that no food has ever been heated above 118 F (48 C). Can it still be good? Actually, it can [...]

10 Nutritional Super Foods + Recipes

First of all, happy new year! I spent December in Norway and India, but I’m now back in Seattle, happily resuming everyday activities (like blogging!). This time of year has a way of making everyone think of what they need to improve about themselves. Exercising more, dieting, being more efficient at work, saving money, etc. I [...]

Upma with Green Peas

This past week was really busy, and I survived mostly on microwaved frozen vegetables and brown rice tortillas. But you can only eat so much frozen broccoli in your life, and over the weekend I started looking at some cookbooks and food blogs for inspiration. I came across a great blog called Aayi’s Recipes, which [...]

Warm Beet and Chard Salad

I know it’s not really the season for warm salads, but since the farmer’s market is full of fresh chard and beets I couldn’t resist. I never liked beets growing up (this was the pickled variety), but once I tried using it as a fresh vegetable I discovered that it’s really good in salads and luckily tastes nothing like [...]