Kitchen Wisdom

Do you think tomatoes are deadly or wicked?

It’s up to you and your health practitioner to discover which are the best foods for your body, in the environment where you live, and how often to eat them.

Using culinary herbs as food and medicine!

Understand how herbs and spices can be highly effective for many healing and preventative purposes.

Do you have a favorite summer herb? I do!

Basil, like many other culinary herbs, contains volatile aromatic oils that are uplifting and healing.

Are you too busy to cook? Try this quick recipe.

We need to take time to nourish ourselves with great quality food otherwise we won’t have the energy we need to keep up with our very busy lives.

Menopause Ease Tea

The nourishing tea blend below helps support menopausal women in many ways.

Use these essential herbal remedies for menopause treatment

Here are some of my favorite herbal allies for transitioning through menopause with ease instead of angst.

Have you prepared fish stock? Here’s why you need to!

We all know that bone stock is all the rage these days. But, have you been incorporating fish stock? It’s vital!

Do you know how to gently cleanse your liver?

When you take your car in for a yearly tune-up, it just makes it run better. So, let’s tune up your liver.

Cleansing Beet/Apple/Fennel Salad

This is one of my favorite salads to gently cleanse the liver and support proper functioning of the digestive system.

Do you eat these healing mushrooms?

Some of my favorite ways to take mushroom medicine is as food, but you can also drink it as tea or coffee.

Do you eat starchy carbs?

Over the past decade, carbs have been demonized. Especially, by the Paleo, AIP and Ketogenic communities. Here’s what they don’t know…

Do you crave umami?

The umami flavor has a neurocognitive effect on the brain and satisfies the body on a deep level.

Silky mushroom soup with crispy shiitake bacon

Ever since I was a little kid I’ve loved cream of mushroom soup. Mushrooms are powerhouse sources of nutrition. They are rich in selenium, b vitamins, and copper, plus they are great sources of fiber and protein. In this yummy recipe I used cremini mushrooms for the base and shiitakes for the garnish. Shiitake mushrooms…