Category Archives: whole foods

Water ~ Have a cuppa bone broth or chai

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Cozy up with a cuppa bone broth or chai tea.  How did you come to know and love tea? I grew up with a mom who always created an herb garden wherever she has lived and helped me develop a taste for herbal brews early on starting with spearmint sun tea and catnip.I learned so much about tea in the town I lived for medical school – Portland, Oregon. They actually have tea shops and tea shops within Chinese gardens. My Chinese Medicine teachers always packed their traveling suitcases with tea and spices. The ah too true joke with them … Continue reading →

Soup Cleanse – Shopping list

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Use this shopping list for your Nourishing Soup Cleanse.  You can shop for the complete 7 soup cleanse to support your entire 12 organ network (meridians) or just one or 2 of the soups to support specific organs. As available shop local or our farmer’s market. Spoiler alert:  you may just find a favorite new soup. Base for 7 soups: Onions: sweet, white or yellow – 7 medium Garlic: 2-3 heads Extra Virgin Olive Oil Alternate base: Bone broth, Vegetable stock. favorite tea bags: chai, ginger, etc     7 days of soup (Fresh Vegetables) Lung/Large Intestine 1/2 head Cauliflower … Continue reading →

Earth: Limit raw foods

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Element Wisdom Cards offer wellness tips that support your five element constitution & seasonal well being Earth: Limit raw foods  To bring balance and wellness to the organs ruled and expressed by the Earth Element, we focus on how to optimize digestion and personalize nutrition, regulate blood sugar and strengthen the muscles during Late Summer as well as the 18 days around each equinox & solstice. I am a huge fan of fresh food.  I am more skilled at chopping than cooking. I love to chop, so food prep is super fun for me and therefore a strength. I am … Continue reading →

Roasted Rosemary Sweet Potatoes

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Post thanksgiving through Christmas, I live on a steady diet of one Christmas movie a night, beginning with the sappy, modern hallmark types and ending with the classics. I simplify my personal meals during this mini season between gatherings, events and celebrations.  Simple whole food sides are a form of self love and sometimes a full mono meal. I bring a simple, whole foods dishes to gatherings.  They are time savers, stress reducers and super foods! Believe it or not, it starts a lot of conversations. One of my all time favorites is Roasted Rosemary Sweet Potatoes.  ONLY 2 main ingredients 1. … Continue reading →

Return to Earth

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Clicking the grey ‘follow’ envelope above will deliver weekly health and wellness tips to your inbox via our weekly cultivating wellness blog. We are dynamic beings.  We change.  We change under influences such as the seasons, life situation, and our current physical, mental, emotional and spiritual states and even the aging process.  Typically we have main constitution element and a secondary constitutional  (which may be the same or different as the main element). As we become more and more self aware and heal our imbalances, we will manifest and move more freely from one elemental state to the next during the natural generative … Continue reading →

Herbal Vinegars starring Pepper Sauce

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HERBAL INFUSED VINEGARS starring pepper sauce on greens! For centuries, healers and households relied on vinegars to both preserve foods and supplement diet and medicines.  Vinegar is a household staple as a health tonic with multiple medical uses. It is used as a treatment for allergies, flu, sore throat, acid reflux, gout, and other ailments. Some of the more common uses include: Antiseptic Vinegar is an antiseptic that is used to treat a variety of infectious and noninfectious conditions including the treatment of boils, acne, and minor cuts, scrapes and burns. Since it is antibacterial and antifungal, taking apple cider … Continue reading →