Category: Cooking for Healing
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Summer Garden Squash Fire Recipe
Hello, tender friends! In the words of Nelly, “It’s gettin’ hot in here.” The summer heat has arrived in Southwest Virginia. But we’re continuing to crank the heat up even higher…by eating hot peppers. I’ve been looking forward to that slightly painful beginning of season burn on the tongue, and it hasn’t disappointed! We have…
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Free Collagen Source!
Hello, tender friends! Beauty. Health. Collagen provides both these things. I try not to promote healthy things as “beauty treatments” because the health benefits are more important. But the truth is that your skin is a good indicator of your overall health. (As are the eyes and tongue and many other things). While we’re conditioned…
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Creamed Swiss Chard/Beet Leaves
Hello tender friends! Anthony has been saying, “I just don’t like cooked greens!” for long as I have known him. I can eat green swamp water for health benefits, so my opinion isn’t probably worth much. But you know that this recipe is good, because even Anthony said so! As usual, this left me elated.…
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Kitchen Creations Part 2
Hello, tender friends! Thank you so much for your feedback on my initial “Kitchen Creations” post. I loved reading your comments and following along with the recipes you’ve been putting up on your own blogs! It’s still Swiss chard season, so please join us on the Swiss chard train as we rejoice in the food…
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Swiss Chard Soup Delight
Hello, tender friends! It’s Swiss chard season here in SW Virginia, and every season makes me aware of my ignorance in seasons past. Here is my confession: the only thing I used Swiss chard for last year was juicing, as a wrap in place of bread for my chicken/veggie combos, and in salad. This feels…
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Kitchen Creations
Hello tender friends! Remember when Sheryl Crow crooned that the first cut is the deepest in 2003? That song had been done and redone by many before her, but I was in my last year of high school at the time and thought she had written that song to describe my recent failed love. I…
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Why I’m a Fermenting Fool
Oh tender friends, this confession is embarrassing. I wish I could claim to have been on this train early, but I wasn’t. But this has a happy ending, as one of the lessons learned is that inspiration for self-improvement is everywhere, even in chance meetings at the park. Why ferment? Fruits and vegetables have naturally…
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How My Mom Beat Cancer Without Chemo
Hello tender friends! Imagine if getting a massage- a relaxing, enjoyable massage- could be part of your healing from cancer. It’s such a contradiction to the grueling methods we typically imagine, but that was part of how my mom beat cancer. Cancer does not have to be a death sentence. Multiple healing modalities exist that…
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Keto Mac and Cheese Substitute
Ok tender friends, this culinary discovery could get wild and is likely to even be a little controversial. Please allow me to preface this by stating that even renowned naturopaths often disagree about what the ideal diet is. This recipe is paleo and keto-friendly, as well as gluten-free. But it’s deliciousness is predicated on eggs…
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Simple Winter Scrambled Eggs
Hello, tender friends! I’ve been thinking about poor Mick Jagger. Did he ever solve that problem of not being able to get any satisfaction? I don’t know, but he might have if he’d eaten my squash scrambled eggs! Also, maybe then he’d have smiled a bit more instead of doing the whole brooding rockstar thing.…
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