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
This is less about making stock and more about where to get your stock bones. It’s a question I get asked over and over, and unfortunately there never has been one great answer—until now! At least that is if you live in the Bay Area.
Meet Chris the owner of Marin Grass-Fed Meat Company. He sells [...]
Tags: dietary advice, experiments, health care, Recipes, soup, stock
It seems a bit early in the season to be writing this blog, but San Francisco is experiencing a heat wave. If you work in the heat or you are out enjoying the sunny weather, there are simple things you can do for yourself to keep from overheating and keep your system cool while you [...]
Tags: headache, nourishing fluids, Recipes, summer heat
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 [...]
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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