Miso Glazed Salmon
I am not a great lover of fish dishes–which is fine as I don’t live near an ocean and sustainability is priority in my eating [...]
Hot & Sour Soup
hot and sour soup
White Bean, Leek & Butternut Squash Soup
This lovely is surprising simple, yet very hardy and tonifying. The flavors aren’t overly strong or powerful. Serve with nice crusty piece of molasses bread and you have a wonderful [...]
Baked Pumpkin Or Winter Squash
I use a lot of squash and pumpkin in my diet. And this is one of my favorite ways to prepare it, as I’m a bit of a lazy cook. [...]
Warm Autumn Salad
Winter squash are one of my most recommended foods, as they are staple for the healing and maintaining the Stomach and Spleen–the Earth element organs. Small winter squash start coming [...]
Lemon Chicken Orzo Soup
This soup is light and bright. The sour flavor stimulates the digestion and senses. You control the sour flavor here. I like my soup very lemony, so I usually use [...]
Bodacious Borscht
Vibrant in color and flavor, borscht is a classic middle European soup with nearly as many variations on the recipe as there are languages in Europe. Summer borscht is often [...]
Clara’s Favorite Five Onion Soup
I lucked out–my daughter loves onions. In fact it is her second most requested soup besides miso. The onion family is large and ranges in pungency and taste from delicate [...]
Chicken Salad With Cashews And Grapes
This recipe has saved us a number of times on volleyball weekends. Easy to double and triple it became a must-have in the cooler for one team. The salad is [...]
Basque Potato, Pumpkin and Leek Soup (Porrusalda)
Idaho has a large population of Basque and with it their delightful, flavorful food. This simple recipe makes great use of hardy vegetables, leeks, carrots and pumpkin. If pumpkin isn’t [...]