Nutrition

It's finally here! A probiotic-rich, fermented salad you can easily make in your very own kitchen! This Beet and Red Cabbage Sauerkraut boasts the good-for-you bacteria that we all want in (but are usually missing from) our diet. And I'm so excited to finally be sharing a friendly, approachable, and delicious fermented recipe with you!

As an Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, Spring is when I'm asked about detoxes and juice cleanses. When we're eager to reset food habits, slim down, and lighten the load on digestion, I know a five-day detox program promising a quick-fix looks tempting. But while detoxing makes us feel like we're doing something proactive for our health,.... 

In my group cooking and nutrition program, I share a recipe formula for a make-ahead refrigerator salad with a base of massaged purple cabbage or kale. Today's recipe, with purple cabbage, beets, and coriander seeds, is an extension of this refrigerator salad formula and an especially easy way to work those blue/purple foods we're often lacking into our everyday meals.

Happy New Year! If you're anything like me, you've had your fill of holiday fun and are ready to hit the reset button in the kitchen. But sometimes this good intention to reset comes from a sense of guilt and obligation, and we believe a diet is the only way to "fix" our body and recent indulgences. A reset isn't necessarily harmful, but.....

Whether you're feeling run down or wanting to take proactive steps to boost immunity and ward off colds, this is a must-have soup for your winter kitchen toolkit. It's bright from lime and cilantro, sweet from coconut milk, sweet potato, and curry powder, spicy from ginger and chili, and rich in green cleansing power from kale, cauliflower, and cilantro.

I get excited about Whole Nourishment recipes. To make it on the blog they must pass the "gut check". Are they...

Fed for comfort is eating well so we live with comfort in our bodies. And what’s more comforting than finding the foods we love and that love us back?

But what is best for our bodies? There’s an obesity epidemic in the Western world, so some may argue we clearly don’t know what to eat. But I argue we have a “seeking” epidemic just as rampant as obesity that misplaces our energy and focus. 

Hello! It's hump day, so I thought I'd offer you a bright platter of tasty goodness to get you through the rest of the week. 

This is a really fun platter to serve to your diners. It's both stunning to look at and fun to eat. There are many strategies I use to keep plant-based dishes exciting and appealing to all, even to skeptical meat-eaters. But the one in particular I always fall back on is making sure I build dimensions of color, flavor, and texture.

Humor me for a minute and think back to your high school science class. You'll remember learning about chlorophyll being the pigment that gives plants their green color and allows them to derive energy directly from the sun. And that eating these chlorophyll-rich plants increases production of hemoglobin, the molecule responsible for carrying oxygen in our blood. You probably were also told that oxygen-rich blood is the most essential element for cell energy because unlike plants, we humans cannot derive energy directly from the sun. Or can we?!

Would you believe me if I told you this bowl comes together in 6 minutes? Assuming the hummus is already waiting for you in the fridge, you can soft-boil the egg in five minutes, drop asparagus in to blanch the last two, and warm the beans while the egg is cooking. And after all that, there's still a whole minute left to peel the egg and assemble the bowl. Okay, maybe I'm exaggerating a little. 

When green smoothies are made mindfully, erring on the side of less is more, and sugar content is kept down they can provide a naturally energizing boost to your day. But in our smoothie-crazed society it's easy to overcomplicate the recipe, adding more ingredients and more complex combinations than we would otherwise eat on a plate in whole food form. 

I still crave fresh, crunchy salads in the dead of winter. What about you? But living in a cold climate, the light, airy, and cooling feeling I get from eating a salad does not usually satisfy me this time of the year. So when it's freezing outside and there's a fresh layer of snow on the ground, this warm salad is my answer.

My final recipe to wrap-up this month's cleansing series is more of a cleansing ritual than a proper recipe. But I wanted to share it with you and offer a few variations because I know I'm not the only person who enjoys lemon water. Lemon ginger tea (or some variation of it) is my morning elixir several times a week. 

This is a no-cook breakfast porridge. I'll keep it simple and say that it's a lifesaver of a breakfast. Whether you're bored of your breakfast routine, you've just run out of granola midweek and have nothing fresh in the house, you have an early start to work and need something made-ahead to grab and go, or you've been feeling sluggish and heavy from a weekend of indulgences (or a month of indulgences), this is what will save you. 

This chickpea flatbread (known as Socca) is my go-to choice when I want a quick bread to compliment soups, such as these previous two cleansing soups, or a saucy meal. It's a flatbread native to southern France that is traditionally cooked in a wood-burning oven and served as street food. Consisting of chickpea flour, water, and salt in it simplest form, it's a

Warm, blended, vegetable soups are the ultimate tool in my cleansing toolbox. They are like smoothies in that they expertly hold healthy fat, protein, fiber, and veggies all in one bowl without much effort. And they are salad's perfect winter counterpart; when you feel like something light that is still filling and will take the chill out of your body

Happy New Year to all of you! I hope you are enjoying a restful and peaceful start to 2015 and feel inspired with a renewed commitment to nourish yourself this year. I have a renewed  commitment to myself as well, and I'm excited to continue