Every year I get requests for soups and questions about what I cook for my family. So I thought I’d share my favorite site for recipes, Simply Recipes. Enjoy!
Tags: appetite, experiments, Recipes, soup
There is one food that I consistently peddle in my office and that is stock—beef stock, chicken stock, pork stock, lamb stock, fish stock. Stock is one of those amazing foods we’ve unfortunately forgotten about. It’s packed full of minerals, calcium and gelatin in a digestible, absorbable form. If everyone consumed their homemade stock, there [...]
Tags: appetite, dietary advice, experiments, health care, pregnancy, soup, women's health
Breakfast is one of my favorite meals of the day. It’s usually one experiment after the next. I get to wake up and ask myself, what does my appetite want this morning? And if I pick well, I feel great, have more energy, regular bowel movements, and snack less later in the day.
Unfortunately, I’ve noticed [...]
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There’s no polite way to discuss this next subject, so if you are squeamish about bodily functions, this is not the post for you—unless of course you suffer from this particular problem.
In my office experience thus far, the number one reason for diarrhea (and this excludes the stomach flues that are passed around in [...]
Tags: appetite, cold, dietary advice, experiments, health care
Soup. I love soup and encourage patients to eat soup. Clear broth soups are easy to digest, serve to nourish the body fluids, tonify the digestive function of the stomach and colon, and strengthen the appetite.
Try eating soup for one week solid, for two meals a day and you will see how sharply your appetite [...]
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How I managed to live without a crock-pot, I will never know…but that is a digression into life before cooking.
Winter days are for hibernating, contemplating, and in general slowing down. Seasonally this is the time to eat warming, grounding, slow-cooked foods. The crock-pot was made for winter, and it truly makes winter dining [...]
Yes, it’s quite possible to become excited about kitchen appliances. One of my essential appliances is a fuzzy-logic, rice cooker with a manual button for rice porridge.
For one thing, the rice cooker ‘thinks’ for itself. So if I’ve added too much water or not enough, it will adjust temperature and heating time to create rice [...]
Winter soups are one of my favorite foods, this recipe in particular can be made with vegetables that need to get used now or thrown-out tomorrow. Winter foods are slow cooked and include vegetables that are traditionally stored to survive winter (think root vegetables, potatoes, and squashes). When you eat winter foods, notice how it [...]
This is a first in a series I will be presenting on experiments in the kitchen. In Chinese Medicine, we see food, the stuff we chew, swallow, and digest as the first and most important line in medicine. What we eat has a cumulative effect on our overall health, so it’s important to [...]
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